Saturday, August 9, 2008

Wonderful Memories


I just wanted to take a moment to tell everyone about my great dad. His name is John. My dad had been fighting Cancer for some time now and unfortunately this summer he passed. Some of you may not know this yet. I am sorry for that. We were fortunate enough that Michael's command sent all four of us home to North Carolina the week after school let out in June. We were able to spend a little more than a week with him. I am so glad we were able to be there and visit with him. He passed on July 2, 2007. We had also spent about a month long visit last year for Thanksgiving and left right before Christmas. He was able to get in as much grand kid visiting as one could handle. The picture here is one from that visit.

New Beginnings


Hello everyone. It has been a long summer for the Fosters. Harder for me I think because I have the hardest time with change. This summer was the biggest Military rotation I have gone through since moving to Hawaii 5 years ago. I would say that at least half of the people I talked to on a weekly basis moved. Some of them were very dear to us as a family. This is the reason for this picture. I will tell a little story too. Some of you have heard this one too many times already but some of you have not. It is one of my favorites. Cedar loves it too.


It all started about six and a half years ago in a really nice hospital in California. A little boy named Dylan was born and about a week and a half later a little girl named Cedar was born. Unfortunately they would not reunite until almost two years later. It was on a beautiful tropical island in the middle of the pacific ocean called Hawaii. A very cute little bald girl moved into the end of a four plex house in a town called Pearl City. At the other end of the four plex lived a cute little blonde boy. This was the beginning of a wonderful friendship between two two year olds named Dylan and Cedar. To make a long five year story short. They grew to love each other so much and did everything together for so long. As we all know in the Military things never stay the same for too long. Dylan and his family had to move this summer back to California for a new adventure. They set off on August 1, 2007. Here is a picture of Aspen, Dylan, Cedar and Abby just hours before the flight.