411 The Walters Bunch

  The "wall" we're standing in front of is really just a curtain made to look like a wall! We had a fun week! We have been pretty busy lately. The kids got their wish and we went ahead and put our outside Christmas decorations up. I will put the indoor ones up after Thanksgiving, though I probably won't put the tree up until after the first week of December and it will come down in the evening on Christmas day. The cats will NOT leave the tree alone when it's up so they pretty much drive us crazy whenever it's up! I am not sure what the extra excitement about Christmas is this year, but I am happy they are so excited to do our Christmas traditions like making cookies, watching our favorite holiday movies, and looking at lights. T already told me that he's listening to Christmas music!  The kids have enjoyed riding scooters, playing Mario, shooting archery, and shooting hoops together. I am glad they are having fun together! They even went to see a movie th...

  My first baby turned 32 this weekend and to celebrate we all packed up and made the hour and a half trek to C and H's Bonham lake house. C had asked for me to make him a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. I just vaguely remembered that when he was growing up we would periodically have a red velvet cake. It took me awhile to find the the recipe, but I finally did and it turned out FANTASTIC! A said it tasted like her childhood.🥰 We went out to eat at a burger place C recommended, but we arrived about an hour before they closed and the line was literally out the door. I have never seen a place so crazy busy! There was no room to sit at the restaurant so we took our burgers to go and ate C's house. The burgers were really good, but the fries were just ok. I would definitely eat a burger again , but probably wouldn't get any fries. We had a great time hanging out with C and H and celebrating C's birthday! This was A's first time seeing the new house. She though...

  Marty McFly- Back to the Future  Since Halloween was on a Friday and A had to work we celebrated a little bit on Thursday with A while she was home and then T and I had our normal Halloween day. Halloween isn't a huge holiday here, but as a tradition we usually make our jack o lanterns, watch Halloween themed tv shows or videos, and make fruit pizza and regular pizzas. Lately we have been having pizza on Wednesday after we visit Aunt P, so we weren't really in the mood for regular pizza, but the fruit pizza is always a hit so that stayed! We carved our pumpkins while A was home and watched the cartoon Legend of Sleepy Hollow. We had been reading the book and it was interesting how close the cartoon stayed to the book. I honestly can't remember a Halloween without watching the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I remember watching it as kid and now my kids watch it every Halloween. It's a fun little tradition.We also watch Hocus Pocus every year.  We still didn't have any tr...