411 The Walters Bunch

Home Sweet Home. We love Christmas in our household. In fact, on Thanksgiving Day it is a tradition to make our gingerbread houses and start decorating. All our shopping is finished and we just relax and take in the holiday by Dec 10. This year is no different. We finished shopping and wrapping on the 13th. Yay! Shipping caused a little bit of stress about our angel gifts arriving on time this year, but literally the day they arrived the kids and I set up a gift wrapping line and we had everything wrapped and at the church within an hour. Talk about stressful. We all take turns having Cookie the elf do different things each night. When everyone gets up the next morning we see what she was up too. Sometimes she has a wii party. Sometimes she wraps gifts Sometimes she has an accident. Sometimes she makes a mess.....I mean cooks. We all have fun seeing what Cookie does each night. We started our vacation on Dec. 11th this year and have been so busy each day so

It's tradition to make gingerbread houses on Thanksgiving Day. We had a fairly uneventful Thanksgiving this year. D had to work on the actual Thanksgiving this year so the kids and I stuck to our normal routine. We got up and took the day off from school. We enjoy a leisurely breakfast. This year L made Chocolate Muffins. She is turning into quite the little baker and I really enjoy her love of cooking. Mostly because that means I don't have to. After breakfast, in order to feel good about our serious plans to lounge around and eat all day, we did about half an hour of cardio. We then watched the Thanksgiving Parade because is it really Thanksgiving without watching the parade? The girls and I then watched what they wait for all year long to come on........the National Dog Show. I am not sure what they find so fascinating about this , but they love it.  We were disappointed the whippet didn't win. We grilled some steaks and tried not to eat ANY traditional Tha