First Wedding Cerimony

The Reverend Benton Russell performed his first Wedding ceremony today. Makinze was the flower girl. The wedding was held at the city Convention Center. There was a big turn out. Good job Benton.

Valerie Holiday Russell

Here are a few photos of Valerie. She eats well and acts like a baby is expected to act. We are hoping she avoids Makinze's cold. Mak wants to hold her so bad but she is off limits until she shakes her bug. All is well in Richland.

BUBBLE FUN

Richland is paradise on earth. Only because the weather is stellar. Our new granddaughter is a doll, her name is Valerie Holiday. I think Rachel will be home tomorrow although her insurance allows a 4 day vacation at the hospital with a C section. Valerie is a very calm and content baby. Not much upsets her. Ben said he would post pictures. If not I will as soon as they bring her home. Val and I have been tending Makinze while Rachel and Ben do the new baby drill. So Makinze is getting all our attention. It's not all about new baby.

Happy Birthday Dad/Grandpa! (It's still your birthday in AK)

We Hope You Had A Great Birthday!

It Took Us A Few Tries...

But We Finally Got It...(as good as it gets...)

We Love You!!!!

White water chopsticks

Happy Mothers Day!

OK, so here is the deal. My little plan was to go through all of my photos an find one of each of us kids, individually with Mom. Can I just say that my old photo collection just sucks. Then I whittled my plan down to making sure mom was in the photo. So here you go, sorry to Bro Ben! I guess that is what you get for being the last kid, and having a s----y sister. Wait a minute, there are way too many different words you could make of s----y. Oh well! Oh, and Happy Mother'sDay, MOM! From all of us, F@#%ers!


wait a minute, son number#3 has arrived.

He's gone Airborne

Ian graduated from Airborne School at Ft. Benning last Friday. He spent three weeks training for jumping out of the big C-130's (I think...) on a static line. He said it was pretty scary, but he got used to it. He will continue to jump monthly and get jump pay (on top of regular pay). He was able to get this opportunity because when he moved over to the 4-25th, he was put in the P-FAR, which is Parachute-Field Artillery Regiment (277th). It is an Airborne Unit, so everyone assigned to that unit gets to go to Airborne school. (He is not an Airborne Ranger, he is an Airborne soldier....his sister was confused about that on Facebook, if anyone noticed.) He will not be jumping in Afghanistan..there are no Airborne operations in modern warfare, it's mostly still around to maintain and promote morale, kind of a fun thing to do, and a nice tab to have on your uniform. Ian acts pretty nonchalant about it, but I think it's pretty great. Even the Marines send guys to the Army Airborne School. It is kind of prestigious. I think he should be more proud of it than he is.