The Foster Fam

Remember that one time..

2011-06-02T19:36:00.001-07:00

My little peanut turned ONE!! I seriously can't believe it! Chloe is such a fun little girl and i have not blogged about her nearly enough! She started walking about a week before her birthday and has been on the move ever since!

Things she loves:

Climbing: On any and EVERYTHING!

Talking: This girl is one chatty cathy! lol Seriously though.. she even talks in her sleep!

Blowing kisses: Yes, she's a total ham.. trips to the grocery store are a riot! We can never just make a quick trip to the store because people are always stopping to "chat" with her.. and without fail she sends them off by blowing them a kiss

Her Daddy: She's a total daddy's girl.. and has him wrapped around her little finger

Bubbles: Need I say more

Being outside: On rainy days she literally looks out the back window longing to go outside.. i have a picture to prove it!

Words she says:

Momma, Dadda, Brie (my sister's name), Hi, Thank you (although she always says it when she gives YOU something lol), Bye-bye, Uh-oh, Whoa, BOO

Words she signs:

Food, drink, cracker, please, thank you, more, all done, milk, dog, fish, cat, outside, sleepy, owie

We were able to have an awesome birthday party for her at a place here called Monkey Bizness. There were a little over 60 people that RSVP'd so my mom came out to help..and of course to celebrate Chloe turning one. Her party was such a blast and I am so thankful for so many people coming out to celebrate with us! Here are some pictures of her special day..

Chloe and Grandma Owens.. Chloe absolutely loves her grandma!

Megan and Jared drove 4hrs from St.Louis just to come to Chloe's party and turned around and drove back 4hrs! Seriously love you guys!

My sweet Russian neighbor's mom made this cake for Chloe and it was the most delicious cake we have ever eaten! I keep trying to convince her to open a bakery but she hasn't caved yet!

One Year Older and Wiser Too

2011-05-20T18:19:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU MY LITTLE ONE!!

2011

2011-03-27T21:35:00.000-07:00

All right folks... here's a rundown of our year so far!

January:

Blizzards Blizzards and MORE BLIZZARDS!! We got hit hard this year with the snow.. In fact, the state of Missouri and city of Kansas City was declared a "state of emergency"- which meant shut down highways, roads, and most importantly NO SCHOOL!! So needless to say, January was a fun month for us filled with sledding, Sunday dessert/game nights, Super Bowl parties, and tamale making... We thoroughly enjoyed getting to spend extra time with Ty and took advantage of EVERY snow day we could! Living in cold climates actually does have some benefits!! Here are some pics of our January fun!!

My two good friends Chersti (in the middle) and Sara (on the right) and I went sledding.. well I should say, Chersti talked Sara and I into sledding the "Cleveland Hill" ..which is a huge, very steep hill at the chiropractic college our husbands go to. We decided the girls would go first and then we would switch and let the guys go.. they weren't too interested in taking their "before" pics though :P

Don't be fooled by the "excited" expression on my face... pure fear.. On the other side of that mound is a straight drop..

Sara and I were super apprehensive about going but Chersti showed no fear!! She owned those hills! When you get to the bottom of the hill you are going so fast and there are huge jumps that will throw you off the tube so you have bail by the "tuck and roll" technique (that Chersti so gracefully demonstrated for us) so you don't fly into the street or hit a pole and bruise your femur (like Ty did) or come down off of a jump and hurt your arm/wrist/shoulder (like Sara).. yep that's right, injuries on both the guys and the girls trip! It's just that steep and bumpy.. but SOOO much fun!! Thank goodness Sara's married to a great Chiropractor! And I'm pleased to report they have all fully recovered from all sledding injury's ;)

On another one of the snow days, the girls and I decided we were going to tackle tamales! It was about a 5 hour process just to put them together.. it took another 3hrs to cook them! It was really fun to hang out with the girls all day, but probably won't ever make them again! LOL

Sara put together a fun Super Bowl party! It was packed with food and lots of fun!

Oh and P.S. That's not a real cupcake Chloe's eating.. she kept putting this plastic cupcake top in her mouth and sucking on it like a pacifier! She had it with her the ENTIRE night! She would actually take out her pacifier and replace it with the cupcake top! It was really funny watching her crawl around every where with it. She a silly one!

*Special thanks to Sara for capturing all these great pics!!

FEBRUARY-MARCH:

February 1st was Ty's birthday. He had another snow day so he was able to sleep in while I made a BIG breakfast (his favorite meal of the day). I got a great recipe for biscuits and gravy and accompanied it with eggs, ham, cinnamon rolls and OJ. He was pretty excited. Later that day we had little birthday get together for him over at Sara's house. We had dinner and cake and decided we were gonna get all the kids to bed and then come back and play games since we knew school would be called out again the next day.. but as we were leaving Chloe started projectile vomiting ALL OVER ME!! Thank goodness I was holding her and it didn't get all over Sara's coach or floors.. but still.. it was pretty awful. Anyway.. that was the start of it all. February 1st. The vomiting only lasted until 4am the following morning but she wouldn't eat or drink anything for about 2days and she stopped having wet diapers so we had to take her in to get hydrated. Since then Chloe has been to the hospital 7times in the last month and a half. She went from the stomach flu, to an upper respiratory virus, to a "Virus" (they weren't quite sure what she had but it consisted of vomiting, diarrhea, and us force feeding apple juice and pedialyte to no avail) to an ear infection that turned into a blood infection (but don't worry- they thought at first she had a UTI so they sent us to the hospital and put in a catheter only to find out she didn't) and then trips back the hospital for iv antibiotics and more blood work.

Her immune system is shot at this point so if anyone even breaths on her wrong she picks something up.. last week it was croup.. this week, low grade fever and rubbing ears and mouth so we're thinking it's just teething. Which stinks too.. but we're just glad it's not hospital worthy!

The poor girl is totally traumatized by anyone who even looks like they could be a doctor or nurse! We are just praying that the warm weather brings better health and a stronger immune system!!

Out of Touch

2011-03-17T11:46:00.000-07:00

Where do I even begin... We have been living in the dark ages all of January and February due to a switch in internet provider nightmare.. Long story short, AT&T sucks and kept cancelling our order and not showing up to appointments so (after a long drawn out 2 months, probably 40 calls to AT&T, and multiple visits to there actual store) we finally bit the bullet and went with a more expensive but more reliable internet company. Needless to say, I feel COMPLETELY out of touch and have a lot of catching up to do!

Let's start in December:

This was a really busy month (as always) because of my sisters wedding but also it was the year for our family cruise (woohoo!!) So Chloe and I were home for 3 days the entire month.. basically to repack our bags for warmer climates, kiss Ty and wish him luck on finals, and head back out! We were supposed to have a little more time at home but the night before we left Utah Chloe spiked a fever of 104.5 and ended up in the emergency room.. which postponed our leaving Utah a couple days. Little did we know, this would be her first trip of many in the next couple months!

Anyway, Chloe and I met my mom, dad, and baby sister Blake out in Florida and got to do some shopping and hang out before the rest of the Foster/Owens/Barrett crew met us out there.. and let me tell you.. It was a BLAST! It's always so fun getting together with my siblings, but even more fun now that we have Ty, Chris and Gustabo and everyone is such great friends! I just can't wait until we are ALL living out in Utah at the same time! 2 more years.. just 2 more years..

Here are some pictures from our cruise:

Chloe started crawling on Christmas Eve.. on the cruiseship! In this very spot! Such a little sweetie..

Classic.

First day out at sea.. soaking in the beautiful sunny weather

Baby sis Blake and I soaking in some sun in Grand Cayman

hehehe.. laying out

Chloe and daddy

Chloe and Mommy

At one of the shops in Honduras

Chloe just woke up from her nap, so 2011 updates are still to come!

Chris and Summur Berrett

2010-12-13T15:39:00.000-08:00

On December 4th my big sis got married in the Bountiful Temple. It was such a beautiful, perfect day for the most beautiful bride! I think I cried more at her wedding then I did my own!! She and Chris have waited so long to find each other it was so awesome to see her so amazingly happy. Here are some pics from their wonderful day!

Wave Hi!!

2010-12-13T15:03:00.000-08:00

Here's a video of our little Chloe for your viewing pleasure!! When we took this a week or so ago Chloe had just turned 6months.. She's been saying... Yes, SAYING hi for about a month now but the wave is a recent thing... as you can tell in the video from Ty's reaction LOL

The Buzzzz

2010-11-07T19:05:00.000-08:00

Chloe was a bumble bee this year for Halloween! This was our first year participating in Trunk-or Treat at our church and boy did we have a great time! Chloe didn't get any candy this year (mommy and daddy are on a diet) but she did participate in the parade, help pass out out candy, and even got a little snooze in! She's one busy little bee! Here are some pics from Chloe's first halloween..

Can"t wait for next year!!

4 month Update and Pics

2010-09-14T20:22:00.001-07:00

Chloe turns 4 months next week and I haven't blogged about the little sweetheart hardly at all! Chloe has been such a joy! She LOVES to smile and has the absolute cutest laugh! She is also a HUGE chatterbox. She loves people and tries to make friends with everyone she meets! Chloe likes to end her days with her daddy giving her a nice warm bath and her mommy reading her stories and singing her to sleep.

I am so fortunate to have a good friend who is extremely talented at taking pictures, and lives right across the street! She was SO sweet to (at 8 1/2 weeks pregnant) take these pictures of Chloe. They all turned out so amazing it was really hard for me to only pick a few to post. We haven't done any editing with them yet, but I just couldn't wait to post them so here's a little sneek peek...

Blessings

2010-08-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

Here's some pics I took of Chloe in her blessing dress. We actually blessed her in PA when she was 4 weeks but with everything going on that day we forgot to take pictures! I finally decided a couple weeks ago I needed to dress her up again and take pictures before she doesn't fit it anymore! Unfortunetly, I loaded all the pictures onto our desktop computer and it ended up getting a virus so i need to find a way to pull them off, but I was able to salvage these two photo's! As soon as I figure out how I did it, I'll get the rest!

On the move

2010-07-07T17:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a more recent pictures and video of baby Chlo...and some pictures I took today of my ADORABLE nieces! I can't get enough of these girls!

More Pics

2010-07-06T19:55:00.001-07:00

First Family Photo

Grandma Owens and baby Chloe
Can't help but kiss those cheeks!!

Chloe Rae Foster

2010-06-21T09:17:00.000-07:00

Our little Chloe Rae is here and I finally have a minute to blog about it! Chloe is already 6 weeks and weighing in at 10pounds 2oz and 23in long!! She has been such a sweet baby (despite her all night partying ways) and has brought so much joy and love into our lives. She is a very alert baby and is already preparing for the Olympics, rolling over at 5 weeks and trying to push off every coach she's laid on. We have to keep a very close on this one, she's a very mobile baby already! Here are some pictures of our life so far with our little Chloe Rae...

Labor Pains

2010-05-19T07:53:00.000-07:00

Suck. I haven't even gone into full blown labor, but if this is what I have to look forward to..I want out!! I've been getting contractions off and on for about 2 weeks now, but nothing close enough together to go into the hospital. Last week I was dilated to a 3 and after my doctors appointment had contractions 5 mins apart for a half hour. We finally decided we would start getting ready for the hospital.. and then they slowly start going away. Annoying. I would have much rathered her come on her own but the little stinker is just too comfortable in there! I go in tonight to get induced and they tell me she should be here sometime tomorrow. By tomorrow, Ty and I will be parents...Crazy. I'm still having a hard time believing it. In fact, my sister jokingly asked me yesterday if I was emotionally invested in this whole baby thing lol. I guess she and my mom think I'm way to relaxed about the whole thing. For some reason I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. She's been inside me for so long I just can't imagine her... well, NOT inside me :) Don't get me wrong though, Ty and I are both SO excited to finally get to see her and kiss her little cheeks and hands and feet that we've been feeling through my belly. It's amazing how much we love her already!
Well, stay tuned for some awesome pics in the next week or so. We have two camera's plus the video camera all ready to go! Wish me luck!

Triple Three's

2010-03-04T21:24:00.000-08:00

It's 11:25pm and I really need to get to bed, but I couldn't let one more day pass without blogging about our triple three's. Yesterday Ty and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary on the third day of the third month! Pretty cool huh? Okay, so maybe not that cool to you guys, but we thought it was pretty awesome.

I won't go into detail tonight about what we did to celebrate (I'm way to tired) but I will say that I feel really lucky to be sealed to such an amazing man and to my absolute best friend.

The Reveal..

2009-12-30T08:18:00.000-08:00

YAY!!!!

Introducing....

2009-12-21T19:02:00.000-08:00

Our little Angel

Ty and I are so excited to be parents. We do know the gender of the baby but we can't release that info until Christmas morning when we tell our families :) Any guesses in the mean time?

Little Monsters

2009-11-07T15:17:00.001-08:00

How could you not love these beautiful little monsters!!

Halloween

2009-11-03T18:43:00.001-08:00

I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend!! Ty and I started off the weekend with a Bunko Date night that some friends in the ward put together. It was a blast! There were about 13 other couples that came so we were able to meet a lot of people we hadn't met yet. Ty and I also ended up winning the couples award for earning the most points for different things throughout the night which meant we went home with a Haunted Gingerbread House kit.... Ty was pretty excited! LOL.

Halloween night we had some friends come down from Independence with their three kids and we were able to go Trick-or-Treating. It really made our Halloween! It was so fun seeing them so excited in their little costumes! They couldn't wait to knock on those doors!

We hope everyone was able to have a fun Halloween and is as excited as we are for the Holiday season coming up. The next two months for us are going to be crazy... every other week from here until Christmas we will be out of town or the country. With that said, I will try very hard to get on here before the new year but I can't make any promises! Happy Holidays!

Fall Lovers

2009-09-27T21:12:00.000-07:00

All the football you could ever ask for, light jackets, beautiful leaves, open windows.... it doesn't get better then this... at least until Spring!

I'll update soon.. I promise!

Summer Travels

2009-08-05T20:11:00.000-07:00

I can't believe summer is almost over. Ty and I were walking through Walmart today and it was filled with back to school stuff! UNBELIEVABLE! With that said, we have some serious vacationing to catch up on! Since Ty has almost a three week break in between trimesters we've decided to take a trip out to provo. On the way we plan to stop and visit some good friends in Denver and my brother in Cedar City. We may even stop in Vegas and pick up some of my fam. We are SO excited for this break I can't even explain. It is much needed!

In other news.. Ty is studying like crazy for all of his prefinal- finals (which consists of so many exams, there isn't possibly time to study for his finals) but he is taking them like a champ. The lowest score he's gotten so far has been an 80% and the highest 100%. I've been so proud of him!! He still has two more weeks, but so far so good!

We also just started moving into our new place. Although we are extremely excited to only be 7mins away from school (instead of 45) it's been hard finding time to actually move. We've decided to start taking a couple things down everyday so it'll be interesting to see how long it actually takes us!! My sisters are coming out for a couple weeks and I think I'm gonna have to put them to work!

We have a very busy August but I think it's finally gonna feel like summer! If anyone will be in Utah, Denver, Vegas, or even Idaho between August 21st-30th let us know!

The Only Thing I Could Have Asked For..

2009-06-09T20:21:00.000-07:00

Was to have my family out here on my birthday. After a 3:30am wake up Friday morning and a 8hr round trip drive to the St. Louise Temple, I came home to the best and sweetest surprise my husband has ever given me.. my mom and dad waiting for me in my living room... on my couch... in my house!!! I had NO idea they were coming and still have NO idea how he pulled it off, but I knew it couldn't get better then that. But all of you who know Ty know he didn't just stop there.....
Later that night, he suggested that we go to one of our favorite restaurants out here so my parents could check it out. Well, we arrive and the host asks "Are you Ty? We reserved the whole patio for you." (which wasn't weird to me because we know the owner and he always takes care of us) So we walked out onto the patio and before I had time to digest why the patio was totally filled when they just said they reserved it for us, I hear a chorus of HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Yeah... it's a good thing I have a nice, strong heart. The whole patio was filled with all our friends out here! And to top it all off, I finally got a wii fit!! We've been searching for it since my last birthday (not very hard, but still!) and a couple weeks ago they just decided to put a whole bunch out. YAY!!Needless to say, on Saturday (my real birthday) we played the wii fit for hours. It was a blast watching my parents! They're so much fun!
Although we originally planned to have a day of volleyball and grilling in the park that day, we were instead able to just relax. We went to breakfast/lunch at this new place we've been hearing great things about, then went to a movie, then Liberty jail and a couple of other church sites, then to the farmers market to pick up some fruits and veggies, then had a little bbq on our porch and played some more wii fit. It was the best birthday ever!
Thanks so much mom and dad for giving me such an awesome birthday present... YOU! And thank you Ty for all your sneaky planning and for being the coolest husband EVER!!

The New Do

2009-05-17T21:11:00.000-07:00

I cut bangs and highlighted my hair almost a month ago now.. it's almost time to cut again! Ty's been wanting me to post this for a while but lets be honest.. I'm not the best blogger. Anyway, here's the new do....

More Pics...

2009-05-17T20:35:00.001-07:00

We got to spend some time at the DC temple and it was AMAZING! I really love this temple. We were able to meet up with my good friend Danielle and Ty's FBI friend Rich. It was so much fun getting to hang out with them for the day!

We went up to Ty's mission on Cinco de Mayo and they had a really fun festivities!

My dad shredded the ligaments in his arm playing basketball and had to have surgery, so he wasn't able to participate in bowling, but he was a very good sport and cheered us on from the side lines :)

Vacationing...

2009-05-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

One really awesome benefit of working at the school my husband attends is that we get time off at the same time. This allows us to do what we love most... TRAVEL!! Tyrone was able to go to Florida for a week and then we both went to PA for 10 days to see my family. It was such a blast! We were able to go to the DC temple and get some of Ty's family names done and meet up with some good friends. We were also able to go see my amazing Grandmother in New York and visit Ty's mission in Harrisburg! One thing I love about home is how close everything is! We were so busy, the trip went by way to fast and I of course didn't get near enough time with my little nieces! They are so grown up now, almost like little girls instead of little babies :( I took my camera and got a ton of pictures so I hope you all enjoy!!

Ty on his way to Florida

Ty and me on our way to PA

Pictures of the little peanuts....Giselle has orange hair holders and Dominique has the blue

So Confusing!

2009-03-01T17:38:00.000-08:00

The weather out here is SO confusing. This past week we've had weather in the 60's all week. It's been amazing! A much needed change from the 19 below weather we had been getting a couple weeks ago (yeah, that's right...19 below). Anyway, Friday was a little chilly but nothing to crazy. We met up with some friends that night, and I only had my lab coat on over my clothes (from work) and Ty didn't have a jacket at all. We were both pretty cold, but again, nothing crazy.. with a jacket we would have been fine. I say all this to give you an idea of how surprised we were to wake up Saturday morning to the worse snow storm we've seen so far since we've been here! We couldn't even see out of our window it was snowing so hard! We found out that they don't plow our neighborhood so we weren't able to get out in our little focus and the run errands that we needed to, but we were still able to have some fun. These days really make us ready for some little ones to play with!!

Valentines Day

2009-02-15T19:35:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day and were able to show the ones you love (whether it be a husband, wife, father, mother.. or just a great friend) how much you love them!

Valentines Day for us was pretty low key. We mostly celebrated on Friday so we could avoid the crowds on Saturday. We did go out to Breakfast at Ty's favorite spot, The Crackel Barrel, and that's when he surprised me with THIS!....

A NEW CAMERA!! I felt a little sheepish, because I had only gotten him a cowboy's hat.. but the camera was much needed. He said he was tired of me not posting because I didn't have pictures. So now I have no excuse :)

I'm still trying to master the different features but these are some pics I took this morning of some of the flowers he bought for me..

It's been really fun to play with, I just hope that I can remember to bring it places!

Birthday Fun

2009-02-15T17:16:00.000-08:00

The first week in February brought lots of birthday fun! I had the chance of celebrating the birth of three of my favorite people all within a couple of days of each other! I have to first give a birthday shout out to my wonderful, beautiful mother. She has always been such an inspiration and example to me! Thank you mom for your love an support through all the years! I love you!

The next B-day shout out goes to my oldest besty Tiffany! Thanks for always being there for me through out the years Tiffy!

And last but not least, my wonderful husband Ty. We've been married for almost 2 years and I couldn't ask for a better man to be married to. Through all the ups and downs, I feel so lucky to have you by side. I love you, for all the little things you do to make my life just that much better. I love you sweethart.. for time and all eternity.

The Munchkins

2009-02-06T21:00:00.000-08:00

Here are the latest pics of my adorable nieces.. I miss them SOOO much!! Dominique is the one with the giant purple bow on her head and Gizelle is the one with the even bigger pink bow. Only the cutest babies ever could get away with those bows!!

My mom said their eyes have finally made the switch from blueish green to straight up green! They are now the exact color of their dad, so hopefully they will stay that way!

More Pics from Florida

2009-01-27T21:20:00.000-08:00

The Biggest Loser

2009-01-19T09:47:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure how many of you watch The Biggest Loser but Ty and I are pretty big fans, so you could imagine our surprise when we saw Tyrone's friend Felipe on the show!! We are so excited for him!! He and Ty served their mission together and we haven't been able to see him since he came out to our wedding. Tyrone talked to his mom and sister last week and they gave us the scoop up until last week... I won't give anything away, but I will tell you that he has been teaching the gospel to a girl on the show and she has committed to baptism! Pretty freakin cool huh? That is just a little taste of the awesomeness of this guy. Felipe, we wish you the best and can't wait to see you!!

Cruisin'

2009-01-05T18:56:00.001-08:00

We started off the day in Jamaica nice and dry in the hot sun!!

And ended up like this!!!

At the waterfalls in Ocho Rios, Jamaica

After the 3hr Waterfall climb we were all REALLY tired

All "the kids" at the comedy show

The fam, getting the game plan together for our treasure hunt..

Holiday's...

2009-01-05T07:04:00.000-08:00

I would like to start off by apologizing for not updating in so long!! We have been so busy in our new little lives here, but being honest with myself, there were many times when I could have blogged and didn't. So for all of you who have been anxiously waiting for an update for the last 4 months here's a quick recap of what we've been up to!

September:

Ty started his schooling and was studying day in and day out. We rode to school/work together most days but every now and then he would have to go in earlier or visa versa. We live about 35mins away from the College when there's no traffic, so it's quite the commute. Most of the time we leave when it's still dark and come home when it's dark. The most exciting thing for the month was that I got to go home and see my beautiful baby nieces and Ty and I were asked to be Giselle's god parents.... which we of course excepted!!

Now I know everybody thinks that their babies are the cutest... but these little girls really truly are! They have these amazing blue/green eyes and olive skin and dark hair. They are very very talkative.. obviously I have no idea what they're saying, but they have a lot to say... and laugh a lot. I have short little videos of them on my phone so as soon as I learn how to get it off my phone and on my computer I'll post it on here!

October:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

It was starting to get a little chill in the air here in Missouri and the weather became just right for football games, miniature golf and camp outs! My mom and little sister came out to visit and my blessed mom braided my hair for me so I wouldn't have to worry about it in the mornings!We didn't get to dress up for Halloween but we were super excited for trick-or-treaters! That night we didn't want to go out and miss them so instead we invited our friends over and ordered pizza an pasta and played guitar hero as we anxiously waited our trick or treaters. no one ever showed up.. but we had a really fun night anyway. Here are some pics from our adventures...

Okay okay.. so we didn't actually camp OUTSIDE. We didn't really know where to go, so we decided to make our tent indoors, rent some movies, order Chinese food and roast smore's over the stove instead!

November:

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope all of those who we did not get to talk to had a wonderful Thanksgiving and remembered to count all of their many blessings.

We had a very fast month of November. Before we knew it it had come and gone. Tyrone and I were able to go back to PA and spend Thanksgiving with my family. This was the first time Ty was able to see the twins and he fell in love just as I had. Most of the time one of us had a baby in our arms.

The next weekend the Chiefs and the Saints were playing at the Chiefs stadium and since my sister knows one of the coaches for the Saints she got us sideline passes for the game. I was just getting over bronchitis so Tyrone took his friend with him. They didn't stay for the whole game but they did get some great pics of the players on the while they were on the field.

December:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This is by far the best time of the year! We were very glad to be out of the cold for most of the month! We spent one week here in Missouri and the rest of the time we spent in tropical weather. Our second week in December we spent on a 7day cruise to Jamaica, Grand Cayman Islands, and Cozumel. It was a Christmas present from my parents to my family!! This was BY FAR the best cruise we've been on! It was so much fun going with my family and needless to say no one wanted to leave! The next two weeks in December we spent with Ty's mom and brother in Orlando. The weather ranged between 70-82 the entire trip. We were able to go to the beach a couple times and take walks at night. We were in heaven. I was wondering if I would miss not having a white Christmas.. and then the missionaries (who were using our house while we were gone) called to tell us our pipes had frozen and burst. No water had gotten anywhere, thank goodness, because they shut it off just in time. Our landlord was able to get everything fixed before we came home but the experience really made us love the warm weather even more!!!

Christmas day we mostly spent eating the HUGE meal Ty's mom had been preparing for two days. We opened presents around noon.. which was very different from my family's usual 6am present opening, but kinda nice to be able to sleep in a little.

We were able to bring in the New Year with Ty's mom, mentor and his awesome family. We went up to one of David (Ty's mentor's) homes... one we hadn't seen yet.. and played games,had sandwiches, and took a tour of the amazing house! I wish I had pictures! It is exactly what I want my future house to look like. We left there around 11:15 so that we could make it back to Ty's mom's house before midnight. Once we got there we made virgin margarita's and danced to music until the ball dropped. It ended up being a pretty fun night!

Tyrone and I both hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we wish you all the best for the year 2009!!!

We're Home!!

2008-09-10T09:11:00.000-07:00

After some long drives, packing up our stuff in the middle of a tropical storm, and having to find a house in a day, we are finally here and settled in our new home!! I must say..... we LOVE it here! We found a really cute 3 bedroom townhouse- with a deck and garage :) - that we moved into the 2nd day we arrived. I ended up getting a job right away working as a Chiropractic assistant at the Chiropractic College Ty is going to, so we are able to all car pool into school/work with Ty's old mission companion and 2 other guys from the ward. Tyrone started his classes last week and has really enjoyed how they relate everything he learns to chiropractics. It's made his work load much easier for him because he actually enjoys what he is learning. One of our biggest concerns was finding affordable insurance but my new job completely covers me and I can add ty for an extra $120 a month starting the 1st of next month! It's been really amazing finally being settled and feeling like we are starting our little family. We have really seen Heavenly Father's hand in our lives so much over the last few weeks and are so grateful for His tender mercies!

I don't have much time to write but I know we were way over due on an update! I hope everyone is doing well! Please call and email us, we love hearing from everyone and miss you all so much!

Gizelle's Homecoming

2008-08-21T09:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics of my sweet little niece Gizelle. She got released from the hospital yesterday and we are hoping Dominique will be home in the next couple days!

Missouri here we come...

2008-08-20T23:40:00.000-07:00

The time has finally come! We are somewhat excited for our move in two days, however we're really starting to feel a little anxious. Ty and I keep having to reassure ourselves every morning that we can make this final move. We are usually pretty good movers and can usually adapt where ever we are, but this move is a scary one for us. I think it's because even though we've moved 5 times in our short year and a half of marriage, we've always been fortunate to have a lot of friends or family around... or friends who feel like family. This time we only know one family. One great family.. but one family all the same. It's also been hard saying our final goodbye to Utah. This summer out here has flown by so fast it seems like we didn't get nearly enough time with everyone!! It just gives you all an excuse to come out and visit us though right?
For all of you who are wondering, here are the Foster's plans for the next couple weeks...

Friday morning at 6:45 my little sister Brie and I will fly to Tallahassee. We have a 5 hour wait at the airport if we are lucky (we are flying standby- so a lot of you will probably get a call from me). My dad is meeting us down there Friday night some time and then early Saturday morning we will pack up the van we rented with all of the stuff we have in storage and at friends houses out there, go visit with my grandad for a little bit, and then start the 18 hour drive from Florida to Missouri.

Tyrone will leave after he drops us off at the airport Friday morning around 5am and drive straight through to Missouri. He plans to get to there sometime Friday night and stay at our friends house that night. Saturday he is going to look at all of the houses, townhouses, and apartments we've been looking at over the Internet the last couple of months and hopefully find one for a great price in a great neighborhood that we can move into by Sunday when my dad, Brie and I get there with the rest of our stuff.

Exciting huh? But wait... there's more..

We'll then have 3 days to help Tyrone unpack all the stuff and get our place set up before I leave for New York/PA for two and a half weeks. Why am I leaving my husband to fend for himself for 2 1/2 weeks?

Two reasons:

1. I got a call today for a baby nurse job in NY for 5 days and since I don't have a job yet in Missouri the extra $1000 will be really helpful. I keep saying I'm not going to do these jobs anymore because it's to hard to be away from Ty for so long... but the money keeps sucking us in.

2. My little nieces just got released from the hospital today (they are finally a little over 4 pounds!) but my mom will be going out of town and so my sister will need help with the babies while she's gone.

You can't imagine how excited I am to hold and kiss my little nieces!! Only one more week! I just feel bad I won't be there on Tyrone's first day of Chiropractic school and feel like I won't really be seeing him much this next month. It might be good though that he won't have me there to distract him for his first two weeks of school :)

Well, we will miss all of you and hope you can come visit us soon!

Wish us luck!!

YIKES....

2008-07-17T18:43:00.001-07:00

Okay, so I am the worst blogger EVER!! It's been over a month since my last blog and I have hardly any pictures for this blog!! I would say that I will be better, but with a broken laptop I can't make any promises!

Wow, where do I begin... well I guess I'll start with the most exciting thing. My little sister had her twins and I am for the first time and AUNTIE!!! For those of you who didn't know- my little sister Blair was pregnant with identical twin girls. She had to do an emergency c-section 2 1/2 months early, which gave us all a scare, but the babies are doing amazing. They were only 2 1/2 and 2 pounds and both a little over 15inches, so they look like little aliens. (hehe) Poor little things! I still think they are super cute. My mom just sent me pics last night....

This is my little alien Giselle

For some reason Dominique's picture won't post so I'll have to try later, but she looks just like Giselle only has a pink hat on :)

Anyway, I have to give a shout out to my sister Blair who has been such a trooper through this all. She just got out of ICU yesterday (6 days later) but has been in such great spirits. We found out today that she has Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. It is a rare form of congestive heart failure that develops either in late pregnancy or in the first five months after delivery. It typically involves the left ventricle of the heart, which is enlarged and not pumping efficiently. This has caused a lot of fluid in and around her heart. It's not curable, but it is treatable and can be kept under control (by my mom reminding her to take her medicine everyday :) ) The biggest downfall was that she can't breast feed the babies and she can't have any more kids- which I think was the most upsetting thing- to which she said, "Well at least Heavenly Father blessed me with two." Amazing. She's had such a great attitude this whole time and keeps reassuring everyone that everything will be okay. My parents and her husband have had a lot of sleepless nights in the hospital the last week, but we are all kind of feeling a sense of relief finally.

Moving on to less intense news :) Tyrone and I are still loving it out here in Utah. It's been so fun getting to spend time with so many of our friends out here. Tyrone is liking his job at Gold's gym and I am counting down the days to graduation (29 days!). I think we are both pretty ready for our move to Missouri- mostly just to be able to get settled somewhere for a couple years with no more moves for a while. It'll be nice to finally get some stability.

My mom, little sisters, brother, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law's sister all came out to visit us a couple weeks ago and we had a ton of fun. My sister's made us go to Cafe Rio about 4 times in the week they were here. I never thought Ty and I could get sick of Cafe Rio, but I think we came really close that week! It was really great seeing so many family members and made me even more excited for graduation when the whole gang comes out!

Well, like I said, I will really try to get better at this! I am really glad we started a blog (Thanks Megan) and have really enjoyed reading all of yours!

Baby Showers, Birthdays and Personal Chefs!!

2008-06-15T20:26:00.000-07:00

I don't have much time to write, but with finals coming up and my little sisters coming into town, I can't imagine I'll have time to write for a little while!! These last two weeks have been such a blast! I swear the month of June is always the best. The weather in Utah has been just perfect and being here with all of our good friends has made it even better!

We pretty much started our month partying! My friend Megan had her baby shower on that first Thursday, and it was a ton of fun! I met some really fun people and she got such cute things! It makes me excited for when Tyrone and I finally decide to have a baby :)

The next day (Friday) was my birthday and so we went out to Tucano's with a bunch of friends and then afterwards went back to our place for some cake and ice cream. It was really great seeing everyone, and Tyrone totally surprised me with a Wii!! I couldn't believe it! I think he was just as excited as me to play!

After such a great birthday I definitely was not expecting anything more from Tyrone, so I was totally shocked the next day when he told me to dress up nice because he was taking me out for a romantic dinner. Once we left the house, he told me we may have to wait a little bit before we go to the restaurant because they were getting everything "ready" for us. We drove around for a while and until he suddenly realized he "forgot" his wallet, so we went back to the house and he told told me we'd just wait there until the restaurant called us. At this point I was thinking "Man he's really got a hook up at this place!"
Anyway, we get to our front door and he knocks on it, so i start laughing at him and go to open the door... when all of a sudden the door opens and there is a chef on the other side!!
He hired a personal chef to come and make us dinner!!
The chef (Moroni was his name) was amazing! He did a great job transforming our apt into a little romantic restaurant- from the music to the candles and "champagne" glasses to the three course meal... it was all amazing!!

I seriously have the best husband ever!!

Our camera was out of battery so we took pics on Ty's cell phone. The pictures don't really do the night justice, but here they are anyway!!

Utah!

2008-06-13T23:13:00.000-07:00

Here is our first post! We are excited to get our blog started! We are in Utah, going to school and working, but having fun too! We went up to the Chase's cabin for Memorial Day...and have done many other fun things! Check back often to see what we are up to!