The Russo's

 We celebrated Mom's birthday at Jamie's house. They grilled hamburgers and hot dogs.  We worked at Up in Smoke for the 4th of July.  It was Hudson's first time working as a stocker Jennifer and Mario took the kids to a few of the Rougarou baseball games  Mom and Doug took Hudson fishing in Delacroix. They stayed one night at the camp. He caught a few fish and had a good time. 

Jules had her 8th birthday party Papa had all the families make homemade butter at their house Father's Day at church Josh cooked steaks at our house for the dads. We are so thankful to have Josh. He is a hard worker, provider and great cook too!  Bowen was dedicated on June 29th. He has been doing so well and growing.  We all enjoy visiting him and getting to hold him

Jennifer wanted to meet up In Laurel, Mississippi for a girls weekend. We went the weekend of May 30th. Jamie, Gianna and I rode together in my car. We got there at lunch time and went straight to eat at Cafe La Fleur.  After lunch, we started to walk around a little We stopped in Lee's Coffee & Tea  An old man was playing music in there We walked to a park area in the middle of downtown and went in a few shops We went to check out the Air bnb house. It was very nice. We ate at a pizza place that night.  The next day we ate lunch at their popular Pearl's Diner They serve southern soul food and it was pretty good We walked around to the shops and took pictures by the murals  Got some sweet treats at Shug's  We went to The Loft for dinner that night. The next morning we went to Starbucks for a quick breakfast and headed home. It was a great weekend, wished it could have been longer! 

Entergy had a family day on May 3rd at Adventures RV camp ground in Robert, LA There was a crawfish boil  They did a BBQ cook off. Josh entered to do ribs and chicken. Derrick was his teammate.  They won 1st place in chicken and Josh got this nice plaque.  They had a cinnamon roll breakfast at church for Mother's Day. Josh brought me a coffee from Starbucks. Mom was out of town on that Sunday, so we took a picture the week before Hudson sliding Cason down the stairs  Josh boiled crawfish for his mom that afternoon. The kids gave me a pedicure gift certificate. I am thankful to have godly mothers in our life and for being blessed with our children! Working on the 4 wheeler together  The Flourish conference was in Pearl River this year. Gianna & Grace wanted to come for the first time. We stayed in Slidell at the Wingate hotel.  I was a little hesitant that the topics wouldn't be relevant for the girls. Seeing Gianna in worship was worth it and she enjoye...