The Russo's

The girls had dress rehearsal for dance. I went on the Thursday class on the 6th. We got to see a preview of the dances.  Hudson had his first driving session on February 10th. He has to do 8 hours of driving with 2 hours being at night. I waited in the parking lot until he left. We did pretty good waiting while he was gone, but we kept checking Life 360. He said it was fine, I thought he was a little nervous. Afterward, he said it was no big deal. I guess we shouldn't be surprised, since he has been driving off road vehicles since he was young.  We spent Valentine's Day at home and made pizzas.  My birthday was on a Friday and I had work. Josh surprised me with an orchid for my desk.  I had lunch with some of my family at Albashas. Dillon was in town for something else and was able to come to lunch.  We celebrated our 19th anniversary by going to The little Big Cup in Arnaudville.  The food was really good. I had the crab cake and eggplant stack and Josh h...

We signed Hudson up for driver's ed at Jennifer's Driving School. The classes were January 11, 12, 18 and 19th from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. He had to have a TIP card before starting the class. It is hard for me to think that we are already here! I was tearing up in the DMV 😢 He did good in the classroom and passed the written test with an 80.  We had some really cold weather around the 15th with freezing temps. We put a warming light bulb in the chicken coop. One day our neighbor texts us that the coop is smoking. It was on fire! He put the fire out. The light had fell and was touching the wood. There was damage to one side, but were able to fix it and still use two nesting boxes.  what was left from the light  There was a chance of snow, but in Louisiana you never know what to expect. We woke up to a lot of snow on January 21st. We received 7 inches of snow! The temperature at it's lowest was 7 degrees. We had prolonged periods of subfreezing temps, so it was a rare event!...

 The Russo Christmas was at Uncle Mike's house. We had gumbo. The kids did a white elephant game and the adults did too.   Our candlelight Christmas service at church on the 22nd That night we went Christmas caroling around Port Allen Christmas Eve at Nana & Papa's house It was fun watching Cason open his gifts Papa loved his Hunting Buddies shirt  Nana had games for the kids to play Christmas morning we read the Christmas story  and then opened presents Hudson got a hunting saddle and platform for his big gift Gianna got a vanity and chair for her big gift We had lunch at Nana & Papa's house Hudson must have been worn out from Christmas  Jennifer and her family came after Christmas, so we waited for them to do our Christmas together. We had dinner at our house with Daddy on the 27th. He made his famous shrimp stew.  We went to brunch at The Ruby Slipper and shopped a little We had Christmas with Mom at Jamie's house on the 28th. The kids did a...