Faliveroops

Recently some of our good friends, the Olivers moved back to Arizona. Our families have been good friends for a long time! We have been blessed with having some very good friends! A few months ago, Melissa, Brooklyn, and Hayden decided that because our families are so close that they named themselves the Faliveroops after all of the last names (Falter, Oliver, Shoop). It is so nice to know that with our families that will we always be friends no matter how many years go by and how often we see each other. I'm so grateful for them!

Here are a few pictures that have at least part of Faliveroops in them from the past few years...

Daneah, Melissa, Hayden (this is the usual-Hayden in the middle of all the girls), Isabella, & Kimmie getting ready to go to the formal church dance in Elma. (Dec. 2010)

Maleah, Melissa, & Brooklyn going to the Elma formal stake dance the year earlier, Dec. 2009

The next few pictures are of our families all together (missing, Dixon, Kylie, & Lauren) eating dinner at our house the week of helping the Olivers get packed up and ready to move to AZ. I loved having everyone over!
Feb. 2011

One of the fun things about the Faliveroops is besides being the parents being the same ages, we know a lot of the same people from childhood, but didn't know each other until we were adults. Sandy & I have known each other since '93, (when Ray & I moved into the ward) and we barely missed each other in our youth. I moved from Rochester, WA (Centralia -Chehalis stake) in 8th grade & she moved to Chehalis a year or so after I moved away. So we know a lot of the same people.

Leslie & I just barely missed each other, too. I moved again to Lacey just 2 weeks after I graduated from HS and she moved away from Lacey just a week or so after graduation. I met Leslie when she moved into the ward in 98 or 99.

Here are some more random pictures of some of the Faliveroops from the past few years (in no particular order):

Above is Melissa & Brooklyn back in the "clubhouse" days. Meaning when the Falters lived in their tiny house at the Park and the kids played in the clubhouse to that community alot! See Melissa & Brooklyn have always liked to play dress-up! These 2 girls have never not known each other!

Another dress-up picture of some boys.. Keagan, Austin, & Adam.

Brooklyn was with us when the kids got their pictures taken & we had one taken of all 3 of them, we had one taken of just the girls, too. All in their old navy shirts.

Joy school graduation

6.12.2000

Hayden, Andrew, Brett,

Melissa, Maleah, & Brooklyn

Keagan & Landon as babies- I think this at the Thurston Co. fair.

This is one of our favorite joy school pictures!

Maleah, Brett, Brooklyn, Jenna, Melissa, & Hayden

I could add lots more pictures, but you get the idea, we have lots of fun memories of these 3 families & will continue to have more! I love my Faliveroops family!