The Walker Fam

What have I missed...

2011-12-18T07:07:00.000-08:00

Well what have I not posted in nearly 2 years...

-Eric and Cindy both graduated from BYU. They moved to Kansas for Chiropractic school. We miss them living close by. They sent us to Cancun for our anniversary. So fun!

-Mark and Lauren have both graduated from BYU and had a baby boy, Christian, who is now almost 8 months old. Super cute guy. We love being grandparents.

-And Holly is engaged and getting married in January. We love Phil our son-in-law to be.

Think I need to catch up on some major events? Oh ya!

Happy Birthday Holly!

2011-12-12T21:52:00.000-08:00

Holly is 21 today. Wow. I thought maybe I could catch up this blog as a birthday gift to Holly...and everyone else in the family haha. It's been more than a year since I've posted and SO much has happened. I will try and go back and catch you up. For today....Holly, I hope you had a fantastic birthday. Love ya!

NO WAY...SHE'S BACK

2010-06-06T16:51:00.001-07:00

Yes, I finally fixed the computer so I can re-join the blogging world. My first post is..., does anyone have this book? Especially my copy? I lent it out and now I'm planning a trip for my sis, mom and I (and maybe Dad if he'll come)... So if you have it, don't be embarrased just let me know so I can have it back to plan out our fun adventures. Thanks

2010-01-03T16:48:00.000-08:00

A new addition to the Thanksgiving Feast. Cindy made strawberry jello. Yum

Pumpkin Contest

2010-01-03T16:47:00.002-08:00

We always carve pumkins...can you guess who's is who?

2010-01-03T16:47:00.001-08:00

We had tons of fun!

Disney Vacation

2010-01-03T16:47:00.000-08:00

We all took a trip this summer to California to play at Disneyland

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T19:30:00.000-08:00

My new year's goal is to POST...since it's been way too long and we've done so many fun things that we haven't shared. I say we but really it's just me. I'll do it tomorrow so stay tuned.

Cancun $188

2009-08-10T18:58:00.000-07:00

Hey friends, Cancun is $188 r/t on Continental. Check it out. CheapCaribbean.com has package deals at pretty good prices.

How well do you know your geography

2009-08-08T19:47:00.000-07:00

So who can guess where we are?

Brothers

2009-08-04T20:50:00.000-07:00

Cute Little Boys

Still Cute

Get your name on the list!

2009-07-30T11:54:00.000-07:00

As with all things, this deal's over. We'll have to wait for the next cheap flight to come along. BUT...you should get on the list if you want to go with us. Where? Wherever it's cheap and fun, of course. How long? Depends on where we go but count on at least 3 days. Can you bring a friend? Sure. A daughter? Always! Your mother? That's up to you. Your spouse? Sorry, gotta draw the line somewhere. You should go with him when it's not a "Girls Trip"

ROAD TRIP

2009-07-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

Hey, anyone interested in a road trip? NYC is $129.00 R/T Let me know if you want in on this deal.

Mark & Lauren in Cancun

2009-07-21T21:32:00.001-07:00

Mark and Lauren get Married...June 12th

2009-07-15T21:05:00.005-07:00

Here they come...Yeah!

"The Girls"

"The Guys"

Walker boys help out at the reception...lookin' good

They're so happy

Gotta have the Fireworks

Off they go...

...Bye!

Holly Graduates from Provo High School

2009-07-12T11:53:00.001-07:00

2009-07-12T11:35:00.000-07:00

Seminary Graduation.

Yes, Oh Course! Holly graduates from Seminary and with a perfect score 4.0 - all 4 years...Seminary grades count too.

(L-R) Sarah, Holly, Steven, Kelsey and Amber

2009-07-12T10:13:00.000-07:00

They're Back!

They had a fabulous time in Cancun. Not crowded, perfect weather, perfect beaches, perfect resort. Couldn't ask for more...didn't even bring back the swine flu...

Eric and Cindy get married!!!

2009-05-02T18:00:00.000-07:00

Mr. and Mrs. Walker

The Wedding Party

Brothers

Cute Sister

OH YEAH

And off they go to Cancun...

Holly's Prom

2009-05-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

Holly and Matt

Check out the shoes!

There they go!

NEW YORK CITY TRIP

2009-04-10T12:13:00.000-07:00

Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange

The view from our hotel at the Marquis

Mark is Engaged!!!

2009-03-13T07:27:00.000-07:00

Mark and Lauren are getting Married!!! June 12th in the Salt Lake Temple. We are so excited. They got engaged February 13th...couldn't wait for Valentine's Day. Both boys will marry their sweethearts this year. What a fun time for us. We love our new daughters-to-be!

Moving to the Dorms...

2009-02-16T11:57:00.001-08:00

Holly will be living in the dorms this fall and needs your help...

She hasn't decided between Heritage or Helaman

so give your opinion to help her choose.

Accepted to BYU

2009-02-16T11:57:00.000-08:00

Holly has been accepted to BYU and received a full tuition scholarship!!!

She will be studying English...no surprise there.

Engagement photos for Eric and Cindy!!!

2008-12-29T09:53:00.002-08:00

A little Christmas fun

2008-12-29T09:52:00.002-08:00

Making a Gingerbread House

Eric is Engaged!!!!

2008-12-26T15:12:00.000-08:00

Eric proposed to Cindy Kooistra on Dec 18 in a horse carriage at Temple Square in Salt Lake City...and she said "YES" They plan to marry on May 1, 2009 in the Mt Timpanogos Temple. Once I get a new computer, mine crashed, I will post some photos

Sterling Scholar in the house!

2008-11-15T17:57:00.000-08:00

Holly was awarded the English Sterling Scholar Award at Provo High School. We're so excited for her. Now she prepares to compete for the state title. Good job Holly!!!

Men's Chorus Concert

2008-11-15T17:50:00.001-08:00

This is Cindy and Eric after his concert.

Mark's Homecoming

2008-11-06T17:50:00.000-08:00

Elder Mark Walker is home!

Please join us Sunday at church to hear about his mission.

Sunday, Nov. 9th at 10:45am...our chapel

Halloween Pumkin Carving

2008-11-04T08:14:00.000-08:00

Elder Walker is HOME!!!

2008-10-31T09:10:00.000-07:00

Here he comes with Elder Ince getting off the plane

2008-10-31T09:09:00.000-07:00

Embrace with Eric... 4 years is a long time to not see each other.

2008-10-31T09:08:00.000-07:00

Holly and Mark. She loves her bro.

2008-10-31T09:07:00.000-07:00

Here we are, Holly's the camera gal

2008-10-31T09:06:00.000-07:00

Heading to the car and home

2008-10-31T09:05:00.000-07:00

Max, Remember me?

You're still alive haha

2008-10-31T09:04:00.000-07:00

HOME!!!

2008-10-31T09:02:00.000-07:00

Together again

2008-10-31T09:00:00.000-07:00

It's over! The last sticker :-(

Eric and Cindy

2008-10-26T20:32:00.002-07:00

Eric and Cindy looking good at Murder Mystery

2008-10-26T20:32:00.001-07:00

Eric and Cindy at Color Me Mine

2008-10-26T20:32:00.000-07:00

Eric and Cindy at Carrabba's

7 Days...

2008-10-21T15:22:00.000-07:00

Mark comes home in seven days. Look for that banner and yellow balloons on October 28th.

Mark in Rosarito - 3 more weeks

2008-10-10T14:27:00.000-07:00

Mark Baptizes in the Ocean

2008-09-29T16:23:00.000-07:00

2008-09-29T16:20:00.000-07:00

More from Mark at 4 weeks to go

2008-09-29T16:14:00.000-07:00

Hey so this week was one of the awesomest weeks i´ve ever had in my life!! Let me just tell you a few parts because there simply will not be enough time to tell you everything. On Thursday we had Luis´interview for baptism (the 20 year old) because he was gonna get baptized on Friday. We had to make sure that the font was full because another ward in the zone was baptizing. Well the water ran out in the church or something weird so we had no water and no one in the zone was baptizing so we had no font ready... well we had one font ready... a very big font... the OCEAN! haha. so Elder Bolton asked permission and we got to have a super baptism in the ocean right by my house in Rosarito!! I didn´t baptize her but I got to get in the water because the witnesses have to get in too. so that was awesome... but even COOLER was that I came home the next day and we baptized Luis who is totally excited to go on a mission!! .. then on SATURDAY in my other sector in my district they had a baptism and i got to baptize him and in their branch they don't have a chapel and so they don't have a font either so we baptized HIM in the ocean too! and this time I DID get to perform the ordinance and i´ll have you all know that on Saturday the 27 of September 2008 I baptized in the ocean... but not just anybody, I actually baptized Jesus in the ocean.... yeah !! cool EH!!! Jesus is a cool dude. Kinda funny but i did his interview and then i got to jump in the ocean and baptize the guy. it ROCKED!! THEN i get home and Saturday and a guy from my old ward OLIVOS from Insurgentes calls the house... so anyway they are gonna come down and visit me here AND their whole family is getting sealed the 6th of December along with two other families that I have down in that ward. 5 families are gonna get sealed that day!! I´m so totally excited. It was an AWESOME week. And today we are gonna hang out in the flea market and see what there is to see. I´m so totally excited and i have the sweetest pictures. This week is conference i´m stoked!! And we are baptizing a guy who lives on the beach in a rad house. The waves even get up to his driveway sometimes! Cool eh. I haven´t tried lobster yet but this week i will i think. there is a lobster buffet right here close.. hah. Love ya.Elder Walker. :-D

Holly's Homecoming Date

2008-09-29T07:29:00.001-07:00

2008-09-28T20:23:00.002-07:00

Holly and Justin headed to the Homecoming Dance

2008-09-28T20:19:00.001-07:00

Eric's 1st concert in the BYU Men's Chorus this year.

2008-09-28T20:19:00.000-07:00

BYU Men's Chorus

2008-09-28T20:18:00.000-07:00

Eric coming in to the Concert Hall

Mark Shows a part of Tijuana

2008-09-22T18:18:00.000-07:00

This guy has a backyard full of Champion Fighters

News from Mark Sept 15th

2008-09-17T13:22:00.000-07:00

Well I guess i´ll break it to you slowly. I´M IN ROSARITO!!!! I´m SO stoked!!! you have no idea. My comp is rockin. He´s from LIMA PERU!! I´m the luckiest guy in the world. The lord blesses me so much. But i´m so excited... you have no idea. 6 weeks here in rosarito and i´m goin home. sigh....
Well I already met the bishop and he rocks. There are tons of american members here. They supposedly always are giving us help and stuff so thats rad. In rosarito we have a font so we dont baptize in the ocean but the other sector in our district is also ocean front and they baptize ... thats right. on the BEACH. so i´m giong to see what i can do to get myself in on that. But now its ultimate frisbee mondays!! ´you have no idea how excited i am. I´m ... yeah ! sigh well Its only 6 weeks so i´m going to make the best of it and try to memorize everything so we can take trips to rosarito and visit everyone here. I´m really happy about president, he ROCKs. ok, guess who my zone leader is ... elder Bolton HAHA. cool eh. so i was his zl and he was a dl in my zone and now he´s my zl and i´m a dl in his zone. check that out.. haha , cool eh. Well i´m going to go see that beach. I´m going to see what i can fill my suitcases with because there is a lot of cool stuff here. Tell bro. Joel Johnson that i´m going to eat lobster in puerto nuevo like he told me before the mission. HAH. that will be fun. Love you all so much i´m totally stoked and kickin butt! woo! Love you all. Saludos a todos.Elder Walker.

Walker Boyz

2008-09-16T11:25:00.000-07:00

Walker boys playing at Eric's place.

A little Guitar Hero

2008-09-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

This guy is a 5 time champion!

His name is "El Asesino" or "The Assassin"

BYU Men's Chorus

2008-09-07T15:09:00.000-07:00

Eric will sing in the BYU Men's Chorus again this year.
He will be singing Bass this time so listen for those low, low notes.
We're proud of him and look forward to their performances!!!

Mission Friends

2008-09-04T14:12:00.000-07:00

These guys served with Mark and are home now.

2008-09-04T13:35:00.001-07:00

Just a little kitten that fits inside my shoe.

2008-09-04T13:35:00.000-07:00

Cute little thing

All I want is a # 6 from Wendy's

2008-08-30T08:26:00.000-07:00

"I honestly just want a number 6 at Wendy's, its nothin against you Mom, but ....dang. I miss fast food. It's all mexican and chinese crud here that is 100% garanteed to be rat meat.

Marks mission pics July and Aug 2008 - Tijuana. MX

2008-08-22T12:39:00.000-07:00

Doors we Knock...

2008-08-22T11:30:00.000-07:00

Mark and Elder Bolton from Provo

2008-08-22T06:28:00.000-07:00

Time to Come Home

2008-08-22T06:12:00.000-07:00

Mark's coming home!!! Oct 28th at 4:02pm

Looks like it's time to get some new shoes. Two years wore those out!

2008-08-22T06:09:00.000-07:00

Holly's 1st day of school...as a Senior!

2008-08-19T16:18:00.000-07:00

Yes, Holly is a SENIOR. WOW! Can you believe she's that old. She's attending Provo High School and is so happy to be back in school. She loves to learn. I think she's taking 3 English classes...guess what field she's headed toward? She loves to read and write stories, poems, just about anything including text messaging with over 9000 last month. Good thing we have unlimited texts or...ya, she'd have a full-time job!

News from Mark

2008-08-17T18:54:00.000-07:00

Mark is currently serving in Tijuana, Mexico. He has had lots of success and met some very wonderful people. He lives in an apartment with his companion Elder Florez Gutzman and 2 other Elders. He's a little worried about his English or what's left of it since he mainly speaks Spanish.

Here's a post from his last email...

"Well. My story. today in the morning I left to go get my new companion and so i was going to bring my camera but I decided not to because I ... well i guess I just forgot. Anyway. We come home and my desk is like all messed up and i realize that... THEY BROKE IN A ROBBED ME!!! yeah. This morning. They simply opened the window and because it has bars on it they can't get in so they just reached in with like a crow bar and hauled my desk right over and grabbed all my money like... 10 bucks.. haha, and my camera.. : ( yeah. so I was all like ... NOOOO and then I see my little memory card sitting on the desk and i'm like.... oh thats right!! I replaced the card the other day and this one was sitting right here they didn't even grab it. haha. So I have all my pics and I only lost the baptizm pics from this saturday but thats fine i'll just have my old comp send me them. But now i'm without a camera. I kinda decided that I would just give it to the guy as a gift. I mean, If he needed it that bad I feel better giving it to him. I'm sure I can figure out how to get buy without it. I didn't lose pictures and i'll be sending the chip this week. I'll see what I can do with just the chips and copy pics from my comps. Its only like what 13 weeks or so. Money isn't really that big of a deal for us like it is for them. We can be humble and recognize that it comes and goes. Poor guy probably can't find a job right now. Its hard for people here."
Aug 4th

2008-08-16T07:35:00.000-07:00

Hey, Thought it was about time we joined the fun