411 The Walters Bunch

Since Orlando is so far from our house, we decided to do a stop over in Pensacola, FL, on both the way to and from Orlando.   This proved to be a great half way stop. It took about 12 hours to get to our first campsite, Ft Pickens. This was with very minimal stops. The actual driving time was about 11 hours, which seemed like forever since we not only left at 2:30 am, but only pretty much had pine trees to stare at for several hours, who knew Florida had so many pine trees. Ft. Pickens was beautiful. The white sand looked like snow everywhere. We toured the naval aviation museum on the first stop over, and then toured Ft Pickens and played at the beach on the second stop over.  The naval museum was really neat. It also allows the kids to touch pretty much everything so there was no worry about the kids getting fingerprints on everything. We spent the whole day there and were too tired to tour the lighthouse across the street or Ft Barrancas. We plan to visit them on our ne...

It has been a crazy six weeks.  We decided to make a huge Universal trip to Orlando and stop off in Pensacola. The planning for that length of a camping trip has been very involved. We are super excited though and cannot wait to visit Harry Potter World.   T working on spelling at the board. The cat lives on...21 in April! We also visited my grandmother in law at the nursing facility that cares for her in order to celebrate her birthday. Thankfully, she was having a really good day and recognized her husband and one of her daughters. It is sad she doesn't remember her grand kids or great grand kids anymore, but it is heartbreaking when she forgets who her husband and kids are.  She was such a kind hearted woman, who always put others before herself, and learning to see her with severe dementia has been hard for everyone who loves her, but especially her husband. He has handled it with wonderful grace and love and I can only hope that if I am ever put in the pos...

We had a wonderful time during the holidays this year. I pray each and everyone of you have a great and wonderful new year. In keeping with tradition each of our children was allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve after church. T opened his ninja outfit the girls got him. He looks cute doesn't he!  The kids actually slept until 7am this year! Yay! T received Star Wars themed gifts from us, though D has informed me the movies were mostly for him!  My sugar addict daughter asked for the large Jelly Bean mix. It came with 40 different flavors. She was ecstatic. My oldest daughter has become obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. I have no idea where she picked this up since I do not watch any of her stuff, but the blanket is very soft and she loved it. Every year Santa hides clues for the kids to find their last present. They love the treasure hunt and look forward to it each year. They have said that it is there favorite part......I doubt that. They love everything a...

Wow, I am sorry it has been so long  since my last post. We have been very busy getting ready the holiday season. First, T has been losing teeth left and right. Seriously, he has lost 3 teeth THIS WEEK and has more loose! I told him if he loses anymore we will have to buy him baby food to eat. T's new toothless grin! T just moved up from his white belt to his gold belt in karate. I was very proud of him because of his entire group he was recognized in front of everyone as having the best form. I usually do not take him to karate so when I went to watch on belt test day I was very pleasantly surprised to see how much better he had become in the past few months. Way to go T! T getting his new belt! I had been working on Indian shirts and a turkey shirt for Thanksgiving. My wonderful husband was willing to let me make him a turkey to contrast our Indians. We wore our outfits to the park for pictures and made more than one jogger smile on turkey day. We spent the day wi...

Merida, Good Witch, and Harry Potter Straw curls were super bouncy! My baby dressed in his super cool snuggie....that in itself was commented on a lot! The kids had decided about two months ago what they would be for Halloween.  L picked a good witch, T was going to be Harry Potter, but without glasses and a wand (I guess those were deemed too hard to trick or treat wearing) and A was going to be a medieval princess. The day before Halloween A decides she rather go as Merida (princess from Brave). Okay the only thing we need is orange hair paint so we are able to do that. We decided to try straw curls to get Merida's super curly curls. Yep, you read that right curls set with straws. We took slightly damp hair and used about 40 flexible straws and tied them in her hair. We waited about 6 hours and then "set" them with a hair dryer on high for about 5 minutes, then we proceeded to take them out. Much to my surprise and amazement they made very bouncy and ...