Well 4 years ago today at this moment, I was running around like crazy getting ready to marry the man I would spend the rest of my life with.
I married Charles Wade Foster this day 4 years ago. We had been dating for some time and engaged even longer (had to wait for that perfect day). What a journey it has been. At the time we met, I was in a state where I would go out quite a bit and my sister and brother n law were most likely in tow to keep me company and well to protect my heart. I wanted to go see a cover band who did covers of 80s and classic rock songs. Ugh, I can't remember the name right now but they were playing at Scout, a place back then I went to a lot to just chill. Anyway, my sis and bro n law had invited a certain someone to come along. I remember going outside of my apartment, as I was "patiently" waiting to head out, to meet everyone outside and there he was. In introduction, I don't mean to brag, I knew he was attracted me. He gave me a look that made me feel like I was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen! (agh, the tears are building up). I just happen to find some pics of the night.
Pictures From The Night We Met
We dated for quite a bit. It was a sort of back and forth relationship and we even went on a short break just because I wasn't sure if continuing a relationship was the right thing. I sure am glad we got back together. ;) We really enjoyed each other's company and he sure did love Deus and me. He happened to be most everything on a list I created for myself of what I wanted in a man. We had talked about getting married and we looked at rings and not short after, we got engaged. Unfortunately, I don't remember the date off the top of my head without some photo digging but I do know we set our wedding date almost 2 years later...more like a year and a half. I know people asked why so long at times but that was a good amount of time to really get to know each other and of course plan for the wedding. We went to premarital counseling and even did a Dave Ramsey class together and thinking back now...how wonderful and blessed I was to have a partner who willingly did these things. He totally let me have the wedding my way too, a wedding that was really "out of the box". He never made any negative comments and truly just let me run with it. It was not a "traditional wedding". I mean my wedding dress was eggplant and the wedding ceremony music was Danny Elfman.
Photos From Our Wedding
Four years later, we are raising our tween son (quite a challenge), purchased a home and now have a new beautiful baby girl. I love him so much and cannot imagine life without him. I cannot wait to see what else we accomplish as we live life and grow old.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Wow! It's 2013 and my last post was in 2011
I'm such a slacker! I created this blog to journal my family life and well, I haven't even written about it since um... I don't even know where to start to catch up :(
I'll start with end of 2011:
We decided to once again look for a home and get serious. With lots of thought, money moving, saving and budget changes, we finally got a home. It wasn't easy. It was very hard to find a home we all really liked. After looking at quite a few in our original pricing budget, we figured out that we would have to spend quite a bit of time fixing and time we didn't have. We had been talking about changing our price bracket and going to a neighborhood looking at one home and seeing another with a for sale sign that caught our eye influenced the idea too. Our awesome agent Gretchen Knowles, who never ever tried to push anything we didn't want, went ahead and arranged a viewing and guess what...all three of us loved it. The experience was crazy yet amazing. The previous owners, The Estes', were so great to work with and blessed us very much. We basically bought a fully furnished home even with things like a vacuum cleaner, mower and cleaning products for parts of the home. Here are the photos from HAR and what we saw before we moved in.
http://thefosterfamily2009.shutterfly.com/recentactivity/3
At least half of the stuff you see in the photos were left. We have made many changes the past year like changing the downstairs guest room to a NURSERY but I have so many ideas and things to add to our wonderful wonderful home that we have been so blessed with and very thankful for. Our neighborhood is such a blessing too. It's a small neighborhood, sort of hidden in the area and I would say 90% of the owners are the original owners back from the late 70's. Yes we are one of the few youngest owners and we absolutely love it. We also happen to be next door to a family in our same age range with kiddos for Deus to play with who we have greatly enjoyed getting to know. We have a total on top of things neighborhood captain too who I just love to visit with and so grateful to have someone like her head of our team to watch out for our neighbors.
So as I start getting back into this blogging thing, tons of stuff will come up with our home and the changes we make slowly but surely.
I'll start with end of 2011:
We decided to once again look for a home and get serious. With lots of thought, money moving, saving and budget changes, we finally got a home. It wasn't easy. It was very hard to find a home we all really liked. After looking at quite a few in our original pricing budget, we figured out that we would have to spend quite a bit of time fixing and time we didn't have. We had been talking about changing our price bracket and going to a neighborhood looking at one home and seeing another with a for sale sign that caught our eye influenced the idea too. Our awesome agent Gretchen Knowles, who never ever tried to push anything we didn't want, went ahead and arranged a viewing and guess what...all three of us loved it. The experience was crazy yet amazing. The previous owners, The Estes', were so great to work with and blessed us very much. We basically bought a fully furnished home even with things like a vacuum cleaner, mower and cleaning products for parts of the home. Here are the photos from HAR and what we saw before we moved in.
http://thefosterfamily2009.shutterfly.com/recentactivity/3
At least half of the stuff you see in the photos were left. We have made many changes the past year like changing the downstairs guest room to a NURSERY but I have so many ideas and things to add to our wonderful wonderful home that we have been so blessed with and very thankful for. Our neighborhood is such a blessing too. It's a small neighborhood, sort of hidden in the area and I would say 90% of the owners are the original owners back from the late 70's. Yes we are one of the few youngest owners and we absolutely love it. We also happen to be next door to a family in our same age range with kiddos for Deus to play with who we have greatly enjoyed getting to know. We have a total on top of things neighborhood captain too who I just love to visit with and so grateful to have someone like her head of our team to watch out for our neighbors.
So as I start getting back into this blogging thing, tons of stuff will come up with our home and the changes we make slowly but surely.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Deus determined to get me to play Little Big Planet with him...
I can’t even begin where to start about my now 10 yr old son that now wears all my casual skate shoes. I just keep thinking today of what happened yesterday regarding Little Big Planet. He absolutely loves playing Little Big Planet on the playstation. It’s an amazing game too. He always tries to get me to play with him. I’m not much on playing games but I’ve sat down with him a few times. It is definitely one of his love languages. I had promised him I would play with him when I got back from SBC Ladies Retreat this past weekend. Boy was he ready. He had you tube some hints to get certain costumes and accessories and it had to be done with 2 players which fit the bill for both of us to play. My job was to pull the lever back and forth so that he can jump across these moving blocks below. Once explained, it was pretty simple. However, once Deus got us our bonus accessories (a mini sack boy to carry around) he showered me with thanks and how he couldn’t have done it without me. I expressed to him how it was him, he had the hardest part yet he reassured me it I had a big responsibility and the timing had to be just right and without me doing it, we wouldn’t have gotten those sack boys. It just warms me up thinking of how sweet and encouraging he is. I love him so much! Not just that but just how this shows the way he thinks. It's amazing. God is amazing and what a gift he has given me.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Wow, it's been awhile...
I don't even know where to begin. It's been over a year that our new family has merged. We are all doing really well. Deus is now in the fourth grade. Wade has changed employers and has been promoted twice since. We just went on vacation to Florida to visit my brother Ben and his family. We had a great time. Now Deus in school and we are back to routine. I'm going to try to keep up with this now that I have an app to help with it all.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I Like The Way The Wind Feels On My Face
Awhile back Wade, Deus and I was at Wade’s mom’s house watching Corbin riding around on his bike. Wade and I then realized that Deus didn’t know how to ride a bike. I must admit I did have some though of what horrible parents we were, well me at least, to let their child go 7 yrs without knowing how to ride a bike. We have somewhat of a valid excuse, our area of residence isn’t quite bike friendly since we live off of one way streets and jerks like to speed and squeal their tires. It never occurred to me or Wade to run out and get him a bike. Deus had a radio flyer tricycle when he was small but really, that’s not a bike.
So at that moment, we knew we had to get him a bike. We waited till his birthday to get him one. That in itself was somewhat of a hassle. First trying to find out what size, training wheels or no training wheels and most importantly look and color. So on the day of his birthday party, Wade was on bike detail and picked out this pretty cool blue Huffy. It didn’t have training wheels but Wade bought some “universal” ones to add to it.
A few days later after getting the training wheels on which was after returning the first one, Wade and Deus ventured off a couple days for a couple hours to get the hang of it. About a week later we went over to the Coffey’s and he rode that thing for almost 6 hours straight I think. Every once in awhile I would go check him out and couldn’t believe how happy he looked riding down the street. He would get a little stuck turning around and those silly training wheels didn’t quite help. Of course I happened to notice that he wasn’t even using those stinking training wheels. After the long day of trailing on it, Deus tells us that he thinks he’s ready to have them taken off next time.
Another week later, he’s at the Coffey’s again and I’m talking on the phone with Tina about bringing his bike over so he can ride it with Brooke. We talk awhile about bike training and how when they tell you they want the training wheels off, then usually they’re ready. While all this talk going on, Tina realizes that she saw Deus riding a bike and it was Brooke’s bike which DOESN’T have training wheels. After verification, sure enough Tina confirms that yes he was riding the bike without training wheels. Well, that’s that. Deus now knows how to ride a bike three practices later.
I found out Deus was riding a bike without training wheels over the phone while Wade was on his way to pick Deus up from The Coffey’s. Sure enough, Wade drove up to a surprise, Deus riding away. I could imagine Wade’s excitement and both of them telling me when they got home. So I patiently waited for them to walk in the door and hear “Guess what?” I couldn’t describe the joy he had telling me how he can ride a bike and he says “I like the way the wind feels on my face.” We were so proud and hearing Deus say “I’m proud of myself!” made it ten times better. We went to Casa Ole for dinner to celebrate the big occasion.
So at that moment, we knew we had to get him a bike. We waited till his birthday to get him one. That in itself was somewhat of a hassle. First trying to find out what size, training wheels or no training wheels and most importantly look and color. So on the day of his birthday party, Wade was on bike detail and picked out this pretty cool blue Huffy. It didn’t have training wheels but Wade bought some “universal” ones to add to it.
A few days later after getting the training wheels on which was after returning the first one, Wade and Deus ventured off a couple days for a couple hours to get the hang of it. About a week later we went over to the Coffey’s and he rode that thing for almost 6 hours straight I think. Every once in awhile I would go check him out and couldn’t believe how happy he looked riding down the street. He would get a little stuck turning around and those silly training wheels didn’t quite help. Of course I happened to notice that he wasn’t even using those stinking training wheels. After the long day of trailing on it, Deus tells us that he thinks he’s ready to have them taken off next time.
Another week later, he’s at the Coffey’s again and I’m talking on the phone with Tina about bringing his bike over so he can ride it with Brooke. We talk awhile about bike training and how when they tell you they want the training wheels off, then usually they’re ready. While all this talk going on, Tina realizes that she saw Deus riding a bike and it was Brooke’s bike which DOESN’T have training wheels. After verification, sure enough Tina confirms that yes he was riding the bike without training wheels. Well, that’s that. Deus now knows how to ride a bike three practices later.
I found out Deus was riding a bike without training wheels over the phone while Wade was on his way to pick Deus up from The Coffey’s. Sure enough, Wade drove up to a surprise, Deus riding away. I could imagine Wade’s excitement and both of them telling me when they got home. So I patiently waited for them to walk in the door and hear “Guess what?” I couldn’t describe the joy he had telling me how he can ride a bike and he says “I like the way the wind feels on my face.” We were so proud and hearing Deus say “I’m proud of myself!” made it ten times better. We went to Casa Ole for dinner to celebrate the big occasion.
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