411 The Walters Bunch

L worked a total of 16 hours on her picture. This was our first real week off from school and we loved it. The weather cooled off a little and made being outside quite pleasant.  D has been quite busy with training season in full swing so it has mostly just been myself and the kids. A is crazy busy with school. She is trying to get far enough ahead to take the week of our vacation off. We are really excited about our first real trip in 3 years. I am a little nervous about getting the trailer through Houston traffic. I thought about going around, but 45 is the most direct route and we won't have to worry about tight turns and low bridges. Plus, we went through crazy traffic on our Chicago trip so we are just going to go and figure things out as we need to. We did take the one day off that D had and decided to do something fun. The kids are super into Downton Abbey so we went to see the new movie. It was a really great movie. D and I haven't really seen much of the show, but even

A is enjoying only taking one class at a time. It only takes a couple of hours out of her day. She needs to enjoy it because once she starts working in the spring she will be busy. It has been a long year and we are excited to get to go on a much deserved vacation. Unfortunately, gas to get back and forth to Galveston is costing us more than our entire gas budget for a 19 day trip to Chicago and back two years ago, when I thought $1.86 a gallon in Missouri was overpriced! I had told L if prices were above $5 a gallon that we would have to postpone our trip until prices dropped or go somewhere closer, even though Galveston is only 365 miles away. It looks like prices will be just under that mark so we are still planning on going, unless something crazy happens and they rise quickly.  Analyst are predicting $6 a gallon gas prices in Texas by mid summer which might play into T playing basketball next year. His team requires too much driving for me to pay $6 a gallon for gas. The price of

A got up before 7am to play ball for an hour with T before it got too hot. What a great big sis! As everyone knows by now, we put T on a select basketball team this season. It was a huge expense (as all club teams are) and an enormous time commitment. We spent multiple hours a week at practice, tournaments, games, and driving to games. The girls didn't get to participate in a lot of their things because we were so busy with T. T really flourished with his team and enjoyed being one of the stars. We are really proud of him for winning offensive player of the year. In fact, his coach said that T had more than twice as many points for the year as the next best player! He deserved his moment. He works really on improving his basketball skills all the time. He not only practices in the driveway, but also does workout routines to improve his vertical jump and be stronger. He has about an 18 inch vertical jump now.  He was a major part of his team placing 3rd at Regionals this year. He ha

All our pets are just weird. She even likes it when the sink drips. It's actually how we keep her quiet when we lock her up. Ok. Not Really, but I swear sometimes it feels like it. We have crawfish (like literally all over the yard and I can't get rid of them!). We also run a bunny brothel. We must have, no joking, 50 grown rabbits and this past week I have found 3 more nests with 15 baby bunnies! Now sadly, the horses took care of three of them. The bunny mama made her nest too far from the wall in the horse stall and well, I am sure you can imagine. However, I found one nest with SEVEN bunnies in it that had been laid in my onion bucket, which is 3ft tall and 3 ft wide so I really wish I could have seen super pregnant mama bunny jump in there to have them. She basically just had them on top of everything since the bucket has no grass for her to cover them with. Imagine my surprise when I started watering my onions the morning they were born and the bucket started to move and