411 The Walters Bunch

He tried to play in the snow until every last drop melted. One of the gifts in my stocking was 5 tickets to go see an Elvis impersonator at the nearby casino.  My youngest son, who absolutely loves Elvis, was super excited about this. It was a little weird taking the kids through the casino floor to the convention center. You would have thought that there would be a door directly from the outside entering the convention center, but alas there was not. The kids had to tromp through the slots and blackjack tables to reach the entrance to the show. Luckily, they weren't the only kids seeing Elvis, but it was still weird walking through everything, though to be fair their was a "women and children"s bathroom among all the slot machines so I guess taking kids to the casino isn't that uncommon.  We had a fantastic time and the kids want to see another show there, preferably a magician.  It reminded me a lot of Branson shows, except with a few more kids.  In Branson, it

Merry Christmas!  Christmas has once again come and gone.  We all enjoyed it so much. Everything was kept low key and we just had a wonderful time visiting with our families.  We hosted my husband's family on the 24th for a yummy mexican dinner, which consisted of us just picking it up from the local restaurant since we were trying to keep everything as easy and stress free as possible.  We played games, laughed together, and basically just really enjoyed our evening together.  Later that night, of course, Santa came to visit and left the kids their annual clue hunt to find their gifts.  I made the kids stay in bed until     6:30 am  and then they were allowed to come out and open presents. Afterwards we went to my parents house for a yummy breakfast. Our Christmas couldn't have been better (except maybe having some members who weren't able to come be there).  We enjoyed a nice relaxing holiday weekend, which was good because the next weekend was going to be rough