411 The Walters Bunch

  We took L shopping for her birthday. We hung out on the benches while we waited for her. I can't believe that 3/4 of my kids are now adults! While I LOVED raising them and enjoyed every picked flower and loving note they gave me (I have a whole wonderful box of them) I am also excited about what life has in store for us in the coming years. It will be different for sure, but I look forward to it even though I miss the bedtime stories and couch snuggles from their little kid days. Since A had to work, L wanted to have lunch by A's work so she could celebrate with her. The hardest part of our lives has been the past 6 months. L has put us through a lot and while we did enjoy celebrating her birthday with her and had several glimpses of  the old her throughout the last 6 months, overall she didn't want to get better and you can't help someone who doesn't want help. Having her here was unfair to my other two kids still at home. They have been nothing but stellar human

So proud! They worked really hard and it was great to see them get a reward for it. This year everyone one of our club teams (except the freshman team) won gold! This is a huge accomplishment not just because it's hard to win gold, but because it's extra hard for our team. We don't have a home gym so we rely on churches to allow us some practice time and on using the court that one of our teammates has at their house. Yes, some of our teammates are very well to do and do in fact have their own basketball court inside their house, right next to the movie room, complete with water fountains, but having the entire team over for practices all the time would be asking a little too much so we use them as an emergency back up if the church isn't available. We also don't have access to a gym with weights so therefore most of our players don't really spend anytime in the gym lifting weights, which means most of our team is on the smaller side so being able to compete wit

  T had fun with Grandpa! His sole mission is to beat Grandpa at Madden one day....this was NOT that day!🤣 We have had a crazy busy week trying to get everything done we need to get done before we leave, plus L had a set back this week so we also had to deal with that. It's only Tuesday, but this feels like the LONGEST week! We attended the annual banquet that D's work has every year. We thought we were just getting a dinner out, but to our surprise D won an award! We weren't expecting that, but it was a fun surprise. He works hard and it's nice when it's recognized. However, the pics of the guys who have been there 15+ years seriously needs to be updated! There was one guy who's pic had crazy amounts of hair and when he went up there he was pretty much grey and bald! D's wasn't too much better, but it least it still obviously resembled him. They had a nice buffet with turkey, potatoes, and cobbler. Since I had to eat Gluten Free and wasn't sure wha