411 The Walters Bunch

Wow. Have we been busy this past two weeks. I am really big on making a gift for family for Christmas. We also buy store bought things, but I like to make at least one thing that shows I thought about them for awhile. This year my eldest daughter also thought of something she could make too. I won't ruin the surprise by saying what we made since we have not celebrated with everyone yet, but know we thought of you and I really put my back into it. Seriously, I killed my back, but I think they turned out nice and hopefully everyone likes them! After we finished making our gifts,  we went to Grand Prairie to see the lights. Since we were by the national cemetery for DFW, we went to visit Papaw and put some flowers on his grave. Almost a year later, it was still very emotional.  We had fun at the lights festival. Because of all the flooding this year about 25% was literally underwater.  We still enjoyed the lights and the rides. This is no joke the fastest carasel I have ever seen! T

It is finally here....Christmas break. I am so ready for a break...umm I mean the kids are so ready for their break.  We have big plans on doing all sorts of Christmas fun.  We have already been to see ICE at the Gaylord and watched the LIVE play, which was the WIZ this year, and decided not to go to Bethlehem Revisited. Well, we really wanted to go to Bethlehem Revisited, which is a really neat live reenactment of what life was really like in Bethlehem the night the baby Jesus was born. They set up the entire town complete with housing, stables, and market to look exactly like it should have over 2000 years ago. You even see Caesar's guards on patrol. We just couldn't bring ourselves to drive the 3 hr round trip drive so soon after we just got back from such a long trip, but we will definitely try to go next year. It was really neat last time we went and we would love to go again. We plan on enjoying building our gingerbread houses, watching lots of Christmas movies, and looki

Had a lot of fun at the Gaylord's Ice exhibit. We did it. We took three kids and one crazy out of control dog on a 1300 mile round trip excursion to visit family in Kearney, NB. We travel a lot, but this was our first trip with an animal. We usually leave our animals at home and hire someone to care for them, but our new shelter dog is beyond clingy and I couldn't even ask family to deal with that! We did discover she travels much better locked in her kennel than out loose with us. We took the Navigator and the third row just barely accommodated her kennel with room for one kid left over. Being able to freely get in and out of the car without psyco dog tearing everything up was great. The trip up was cold, but sunny and with limited stops took about 11.5 hours. We were treated to a snowstorm just in time for Thanksgiving. We spent great quality time with our family and had a blast watching 3D movies on their new movie projector. Our dog wasn't too bad and it helped th