Happy New Year

Here is a picture of the boys with their two favorite babysitters, Abbey and Sarah, on New Years Eve. Nick and I were able to sneak away for a delicious dinner at Porters Steak House! 2010 was a good year for us Walters. We already know that 2011 will be a big year for us because we found out in December that we will be expecting Baby Walter #4! On that note.........Happy New Year!

Christmas 2010

We must have been on Santa's "Nice" list this past year because Christmas 2010 was a great one! The best part of all is hearing the boys wake up early in the morning to see what Santa brought for them. I LOVE being a Mommy, especially at Christmas time! Here are some of our Christmas pictures for you to enjoy.

This is what Santa brought for Joshua! 

He was so excited to finally have a 4-wheeler just like his big brother Nicholas. 

Here is what Noah got from Santa.

 A tool bench just like PaPa!

Just FYI: I don't have a picture of Nicholas's gift from Santa because his present was TOO big to fit under the tree. The jolly ol' man brought him an adjustable basketball hoop!

Here are the boys opening one of many gifts.

A Nintendo DS from Grandma Violet and Grandpa Dan!

I think his facial expression says it all!

To infinity and beyond!

Christmas at Grandma Connie and Grandpa Bob's house is always a Great time!

Here are all the Walter Grandkids.

Me and my sister in laws.

Nick and his brothers and sisters.

The Walters.

Grandpa and Grandma

Me and my love!

Merry Christmas!

Snow!

Winter 2010 brought us lots of snow! It's every kid's dream to have a "snow day" off from school. Nicholas and Joshua got plenty of them. As a matter of fact, they got one whole week worth of snow days off in total for the school year! Here they are enjoying their day off by playing in the snow. Hooray for snowy days!  

Birthday Party #2

Every year, I let the boys pick put a place to have their birthday parties. This year, Nicholas wanted to have a laser tag birthday party and invite his friends from school. I agreed that this did sound like a great party. What boy wouldn't want to go to a laser tag birthday party? The only catch to this party was in order to play, one must be 7 years old and up. This meant we couldn't invite his younger cousins and friends, hence two birthday parties! The party was a great time. Even the adults joined in on the birthday fun!

Nicholas had a special guest come to his birthday party.

Tia Lala came all the way from Texas to celebrate his big day!

Here is the birthday crew getting ready to go in to the laser maze.

Birthday Boy Nicholas demonstrating how to work the laser gun.

Gearing up for a GREAT time!

Lets do this!

Time for Cookie Cake!

Happy Birthday to you! 

Happy Birthday to you! 

Happy Birthday Dear Nicholas! 

Happy Birthday to you!

Did you happen to catch the name on the cake? This was the first year he requested that I have Nick and not Nicholas on his birthday cake. I gave in ONLY because it was his "friend" birthday party. 

Yum! Cake!

Time for presents!

And more presents!

This little guy is always down for a good party!

Nicholas Turns 8!

We celebrated Nicholas's 8th birthday by throwing 2 birthday parties. Talk about one lucky kid! This year, Nicholas's birthday fell on Thanksgiving Day. I was little bummed out about that because I had to work on Thanksgiving Day therefore missing his big day. I think I made up for it by throwing 2 parties. His first party was a "family" party. We had a pizza party at one of Nicholas's favorite pizza places, Pizza Hut! Here are some pictures of the Pizza Party!

Birthday Boy Nicholas!

Cousin Sydney, Nicholas, Cousin Camryn, and Joshua waiting for the pizza.

Here are some of the party guests. 

........and some more guests!

I am not quite sure what's going on with this expression?#@!

Happy Birthday To YOU!

Happy Birthday To YOU!

Happy Birthday Dear Nicholas!

Happy Birthday To YOU!

Breakfast of Champs!

What is it about PopTarts that kids love? 

My boys, especially Noah, love these things. 

Personally, I don't mind the fact that I can get off easy with making breakfast! It's easy, quick, and the best part is that they eat it all. 

Here is Noah enjoying his Oreo PopTart and chocolate milk!

Halloween 2010

Every year Nick and I attend the Annual Queener Halloween Party. 

We are famous for waiting till the last minute to decide on our costumes.

We hunted our closet and came up with these homemade "costumes".

Here we are dressed up as a military soldier and a desperate housewife.

Not too bad for last minute!  

And here are the boys......

Chief of Police Nicholas Walter, Police Officer Joshua Walter, 

and Convict Noah Walter a.k.a. inmate 042408.  

Stick em' up!

Time to break out the clubs. 

"Make my day. I dare ya!"

Play Date At The Park

Over the past year, my boys have become very good friends with brothers Alex and Nickolaus Pritchett. Alex and my Nicholas were in the same 2nd grade class. Joshua and Nickolaus were in the same preschool class last year. All 4 boys get along very well and have so much fun together! On this particular Fall day, the Walter boys and Pritchett boys met up for a play date at a park in Swansea. They had so much fun running, swinging, sliding, and climbing on the playground together. We were even surprised to run into Tia, Jamison, and Gideon. They too were at the park for a play date! It was a day full of fun that's for sure!

Nickolaus, Nicholas, Alex, and Joshua.

Noah always has fun tagging along with his big brothers and their friends.

Look who it is.......Jami!!!!

And Tia and Gideon!!!!

Noah is always willing to take time out for a picture. 

He loves the momarazzi!

SAND: A little kids dream and a mothers nightmare!

Oh well, that is why we have a bath tub! 

Did You Miss Us?

I will admit that I wasn't quite sure if I was EVER going to get back to blogging! I have so many pictures to share and blogging is such a great way to do it. We have been a busy bunch and have lots of news/updates to catch you up on so stay tuned! For now we will start you off with a look at what we Walters were up to this past fall (2010).

Every year we make a trip to Eckert's Farm to go pumpkin picking. Here we are searching for the perfect pumpkin. Usually, we would go out to the pumpkin patch and pick our own. This year we "cheated" and picked one from the Eckert's Country Store. 

Joshua found the "Great Pumpkin"! 

Needless to say, we didn't buy this gigantic one. 

Noah's favorite thing to do was climb and sit on all the pumpkins.

Mommy and her boys!

Couldn't pass up the opportunity for a picture with a real tractor.

Nicholas found his perfect pumpkin.

The boys being boys. 

Do these two look alike or what? 

Joshua and Nicholas carving their pumpkins.

Digging out the pumpkin guts!

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it!