411 The Walters Bunch

Merry Christmas! It is unbelievable that Christmas is less than one week away.  Today we started the two days of baking that we do each year in order to make yummy treats for our families, friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Now that the children are older and active participants in baking day, it goes by a lot quicker and happier. I was in charge of all the breads this year. I made 6 pumpkin and 6 banana breads. It took all day and now I think I may never want to see sugar or butter ever again, or at least until tomorrow. I mean how could I possibly resist that yummy goodness for more than a day? We have enjoyed our time off school this week and not only baked some wonderful treats, but watched several holiday movies/shows. We have yet to go drive around and look at Christmas lights, but we have a couple of days planned this weekend to do that. The girls have kept their word and Cookie has acted out a Greatest Showman scene on all of their nights to do Cookie. This scene is

As anyone who knows me knows, I absolutely LOVE Christmas time.  I am really big on creating family memories and having new experiences. Christmas is such a wonderful time for us to help bless others (though we do this year round also) and enjoy time together at the different festivities. We have already watched at least a dozen, if not more, Hallmark Christmas movies. Cookie, our resident elf on the shelf, has made her nightly appearances and we have our annual baking days coming soon so we may pass out yummy goodies to all of those we appreciate-family, friends, business associates, farrier, etc. We have exactly 2 days left of school and then we are officially on holiday. Yay! Last night we visited a local church that was having a streets of Bethlehem theme. We went to something similar a few years ago in Waxahachie, TX. It was by far bigger than this one and I highly recommend it, but this one was only 15 minutes away not 2.5 hours and it was really well done also jus

Happy Thanksgiving! We finally had a true fall week here in north Texas. The highs were in the mid-seventies and low's in the upper 40's.  There was no strong winds just beautiful weather.  We enjoyed the weather by riding our horse twice. It would have been three times, but the next cold front came through a little earlier than anticipated. For the first time ever, my husband and myself rode our horse. Granted, we each only rode her for about 5 minutes, but this was the first time we felt she was to the point where she is in shape enough for "normal" work. She wasn't exactly thrilled with her heavier weight load, but she did fine and we really had fun. Riding the horse is so much more fun than just leading the horse around with the kids. The horse is doing wonderfully with the new farrier and we haven't had any major issues.  My only complaint is if the horse and donkey don't see that I am awake exactly 10 minutes after sunrise then the donkey p