~Falkner Family~

Falkner Family get together

2008-10-19T20:43:00.000-07:00

A FUN FILLED SUMMER!!!!!

2008-08-27T22:22:00.000-07:00

It has been a great summer!! Things started a bit early when Brittany, Niel and the boys arrived the second week of May to stay with us for 3 months. Niel graduated from law school in Omaha and then came to Salt Lake to take classes to prepare for the Utah Bar. Yeh!! That would mean they would be living in Utah!!
It was so great that the whole family could get together more often. The grand kids really had fun when they would get together. Our first big adventure as a family was our annual trip to Escalante. It was awesome to have all nineteen of us there. I'm not sure the mom's thought that late at night when it was time to get the kids all to bed. (Did I mention we were camping) I didn't get any pictures :( But we did have a great time. The other great part about the trip was that we all of my brothers and sister were there and most of there families. I think we were only missing about 10 of our family members. So there were about 60 of us there not to mention all of my Aunt, Uncles Cousins, Etc....
The rest of the summer was filled with EFY, Girls Camp, Trek, and lots of Birthdays!!

Our two newest grand babies, Henry and Gracie

One of the many birthday get together's this summer. This one was my 39th :) Thanks family it was great!!

I saw this airplane teeter toter at Costco and could not resist!

Libby and Emmit at swimming lessons

This kid loves the camera:)

Britt's 3 boys enjoying a movie and popcorn, must take after there grandpa;)

We have defiantly gotten our money's worth out of this trampoline!!

Trip to the zoo!!

2008-08-02T10:38:00.000-07:00

We went to the zoo on Libby's birthday, it was a lot of fun. We had all the grandkids with us. Kim and Ben were on the forth year hike with Alie and since Libby's parents weren't home they wanted her to have a fun day and so we helped take care of that. :)

I love this picture because Mindy is always taking pictures this way and Libby wanted to help.

Friends Trip to Seattle!!

2008-07-18T23:58:00.001-07:00

The first part of May I went with my friends, Sue and Robyne to visit our friend Linda who moved to Seattle Washington about a year and a half ago. It was so great to see her and the Mr. They put us up in their new home and we each had our own room. We went to the ocean a couple of times. It was very beautiful there. We saw downtown Seattle during the day and then again at night. We enjoyed a tour on "The Duck" and a lot of other fun things. Thanks to the Watsons for such a great time. And if anyone wants to read more details of the trip visit my friend Robynes blogs. She did a great job telling about our trip:)

April Trip to Blanding

2008-07-18T22:32:00.000-07:00

In April Mark and I had the chance to go to Blanding to a Jeep Jamboree for work. We went to Arch Canyon. We towed the Jeep down with the Motor home and stayed in an RV park. Then the first day we went on a trail that ended up at some Indian Ruins. We were also able to see some awesome petroglyphs. It great to have a short trip together and enjoy the out of doors.

Our second day we had the opportunity to help a young couple, celebrating their first anniversary, out of the mud! They were stuck overnight, and didn't have any luck getting help from the forest ranger. He handed them a shovel and rug and said " good luck." We overheard that they needed some help while in a visitor's center, so we spent the next few hours helping them out. Here are a few pictures.

Fun with the grandkids!!

2008-07-18T22:15:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't posted forever!! So these are random, and hopefully they will work or I might totally be done with blogging. :)
This is Libby and Kenzie at one of our Sunday dinners. They all love playing with each other it is great!

These next 3 pictures are at the children's museum. I went with Libby, Teancum and my friend Jenny and 2 of her kids, we had a great time. I thought it was so cute when Chase just decided to climb up on the table and really get into playing with the cars and tracks.

Teancum loved this little tracker!!

I loved this when the kids really got into this Rub a Dub Tub, well it does say TUB.

Curious Libby!!

2008-04-12T07:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday while I was tending Libby and Teancum our neighbors were getting a new driveway. When I heard the cement truck I told Libby we should go and watch it. Kids always love that stuff! So we were watching out the window. Soon the cement truck finished up and left and then we watched as the men working on it start the finishing work. I pointed out to Libby that they had to use long polls and wear boots because cement is very wet and messy. Well she was intently watching so I went to make a phone call. The next thing I knew the doorbell rang and there stood one of the workmen and Libby! She had cement up passed her wrists on both hands and the front of her was covered from her belly down, and one shoe was missing. Ahh!! My first thought was When did you get out there! And then OH no you really fell in the cement! So I quickly got her clothes off and got her in the tub. So these are the after pictures, didn't have time to get the before shots. After she was all cleaned up I had a good laugh! :) What a kid! Got to love her.

These are the clothes that she came to Grandma's in, (the wet ones) luckily they cleaned up great!!

Baby Gracie!!

2008-04-11T22:13:00.000-07:00

This is Gracie one day old. Eye's wide open!!
What a cutie!!

Sam and his cute family of girls!!

Lyndsey with our four granddaughters!! Better not miss with that Libby!! :)

And this is all the grandkids living in Utah for now. Hopeing that will be changing soon and all eight will be here!!

WOW Grandbaby # 8 is here!!

2008-04-11T22:04:00.000-07:00

Our newest grand baby Gracie arrived April 8th at 6:02 pm. She weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. and was 20 inches long. Sam and Lyndsey are very excited, along with Kenzie and Kierra. These picture are just a couple of hours after the baby was born. She is a real cutie!!

Grandma Sid and baby Gracie

Grandma and Libby with Gracie

Aunt Alie holding Gracie

Kenzie was not feeling well the day Gracie was born so she wasn't able to hold her that day. So the next day when she came to visit she was very happy to be able to hold her new little sister!

Fun Family Night!!

2008-04-11T21:44:00.000-07:00

Our first family night this spring! The weather was great and so we went for a hike up Dell Canyon. Mark was hoping we would run into snow about half way up and would have to turn around but no such luck. Only a small amount of snow just enough for a few snow balls. It felt really good to get out and enjoy the out doors.

Like our new TERAFLEX hoodies!!

We also took Josie along with us and she was alot of fun!!

It is a bit strange to only have two kids home!! (most or the time)

Girls having fun making fishy faces. We had a great time!!

More Easter!!

2008-04-11T21:26:00.000-07:00

Teancum looking handsome for Easter, he wasn't into the eggs to much but loved being outside!

It was great to have Ian home with us for Easter! He and Mindy enjoyed seeing the kids having fun.

Kenzie excited about all the fun things she got!!

Yes Alie also made a pretty good haul. She was shaking all the eggs looking for ones with money in them :) It's always great to get the family together. We had a great day!!

Alie and Mark's Trip to Washington D.C.

2008-03-22T21:18:00.000-07:00

Mark has a tradition of taking each of the kids to Washington D.C. to give them the opportunity to learn about their National Heritage. This last February Alie was able to go. They went to lots of different places. This picture on the left is of the Vietnam Memorial. It is much different visiting D.C. today than it was years ago with Brittany and Mindy. They were able to go to inside the White House on a tour after waiting in line for a couple hours. Now it is much harder and takes a lot more preparing and planning to go inside the White House. One of Alie's favorite things to see was the Holocaust Museum. She has been studying that in school so it was neat for her to be able to see that. Other places they visited include; Capital, Air and Space Museum, all the main monuments, and the World War II memorial, George Washingtons house (Mt. Vernon). Alie was all museumed out after that so they continued on to a huge mall where she could satisfy her shopping needs. Alie experienced riding an underground subway. It was a great trip!

2008-02-15T19:51:00.000-08:00

Sid, went to help Brittany with the baby on the 11th of February and then Mark and Mindy tagged along a couple days later on Thursday. Today we all went to the Strategic Air and Space museum http://www.strategicairandspace.com. It was a blast and the boys loved it. The top picture is Emmit and Howard eating a sugar cookie that they made with Grandma Sid. The bottom picture is a picture of Howard, Grandpa and Emmit in front of the Black Bird SR71. Tomorrow our plans are to go to the Zoo!

stayin' alive.....stayin alive, oh oh oh stayin' aliiiiive!

2008-02-13T15:23:00.000-08:00

As many of you have noticed the fun fun falkners have been lacking on the blog posting thing. Well I finally decided to learn how to blog so I am getting the hang of things, I even gave it a shot at my own since everyone else is doing it (http://www.mindyfalkner.blogspot.com). Things in the Falkner house hold are going well. After 18 years we finally got rid of Ian. No just kidding we all really miss him but he has gone away to school up at Utah State. He is loving it there. Right now mom is in Nebraska helping Britt and Niel with the boys. Britt just had her third boy yesterday I believe as of now he is still name less. We will just call him Big Baby Lund until they chose a name, he weighed in at 10lbs 1 oz. 22 inches long. He is a cutie.
Alie and Dad just got back from a fun trip to D.C. a couple weeks ago. They enjoyed visiting lots of different places.
Grandma Sid continues to run a fast pace life with all the grandkids she loves so much. I think she just falls asleep whenever she sits down for more than five minutes. Dad and I have enjoyable experiences teasing her. We wouldn't do it if we knew she didn't love it ;) She is an amazing women and we all love her! She does so many wonderful things for our family.
Well those are just a few updates, we will post pictures later.......

2007-12-02T19:56:00.000-08:00

2007-10-07T19:51:00.000-07:00

This is Alie and Mindy when we went up to the canyon in between General Conference and we all took pictures!!!