The Foster Family

Jo at her cousin, Charlotte’s birthday party

reneefoster — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:27:51 +0000

Taekwondo Tournament at American River College

reneefoster — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:08:13 +0000

Jo at the Park

reneefoster — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:20:44 +0000

January Pictures

reneefoster — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:25:12 +0000

This is Jo with Nat’s dad. Jo’s surgery for her eyelid is scheduled for March 9th out in Utah. Please keep her (and us) in your prayers around that time! I’m terrified!

Good Stuff

reneefoster — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:37:19 +0000

Hi People… or should I say Carolyn (cuz I don’t think anyone else checks blogs much anymore). HA!

Since September… Nat and I moved to Folsom, CA. We are in a ward with my parents and two of my sisters. Another sister and my brother are within a half hour. I love it. I love the weather, I love the hills, and I love being able to take Jo to see her cousins whenever the heck we feel like it. Nat’s adjusting slowly, but he’s liking playing basketball and he’s been working like crazy, so he’s doing alright.

Jo talks a lot these days. I love it. She’s SO little, but today she said, “Look at this, mom.” with awesome pronunciation. So cute. She also says, “Oh cute” a lot. Here are some photos from the Sacramento Zoo.

We do miss the land at the cabin in Utah. It is really beautiful and Nat loves to fish there. Of course we also miss Nat’s parents too. They are so fun to be around. Speaking of, this Christmas visit has been fun. It’s been an adventure because it’s gotten down to like -5 degrees a few times and we lose power for a few hours every few days, and there have been two giant snow storms. We’ve played games by candlelight, drunk a lot of hot chocolate, and made creative snow people (snowmen, snow-women, and snow-children.) Jo likes the snow, but her boots hurt her so she’s conflicted about whether or not to go play in it. She has discovered how incredible Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses is, so that’s on her mind most of the time. She might be getting surgery on her eyelid soon, so I’m a little terrified, but also looking forward to having it over with. She’ll be able to see better and when she meets other kids, the first thing they say will no longer be “What happened to her eye?” So, that’ll be nice.

Anyway, life is good. I’m liking the winter wonderland around me, but I’m also looking forward to getting outside in California again. Happy New Year everybody!

Underwater Photos

reneefoster — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:40:23 +0000

It turns out underwater photo shoots are more difficult than I imagined. We got about 1 cool one of every 20 pictures. Maybe that’s true of most kinds of photo shoots though… especially when no one in the group is a real photographer.

The Latest… and cool photos

reneefoster — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:47:08 +0000

So, it’s been a busy month. Jo fell on the moving walkway at the Denver airport and cut both her pinkies pretty bad. We had to take an ambulance to the ER to get ‘em cleaned and stitched up. It was horrible. I think I cried as much as she did. We were on our way to North Carolina for Nat’s brother’s wedding. It was a great week. We were in a house on a really warm lake. Nat’s parents rented wave runners and a speed boat. Oh, and the wedding was alright too.

This week Nat got surgery on his eye. He’s been in excruciating pain for the last several days. He’s turned a corner today though. He’s reading Jo a book, and seems to be feeling pretty good.

I’ve put house hunting on hold. Most of the houses I called about, I was told would be rented before October, and we definitely won’t make it out before then, and it might even be later than that. Oh well. When the time comes to move, it’s going to be awesome to pick a house and have all our stuff in one place that is kind of our own.

Here are the marvelous photos we’ve taken recently (or semi-recently).

: This was at Nat’s brother’s wedding.

: This was at Newport Beach (part of our Disneyland trip).

: We didn’t mean to do this. It was a great surprise photo.

: Who is that, right?

: North Carolina… that’s me… cool, eh?

: Nat and his dad on their Wind Rivers adventure in July

: Hong Kong (that’s me and Nat’s sister, Alison)

: Also Hong Kong. Such a rad place.

Pictures of Idaho 4th of July

reneefoster — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:14:57 +0000

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Josephine’s 1st Birthday

reneefoster — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:53:07 +0000

Our camera was out of batteries, so we didn’t get many photos, but it was a butterfly theme party, and I made an awesome butterfly cake (actually in the shape of a butterfly!). Josephine was happy the whole time even though she hadn’t slept in since a morning nap.

In other news, it snowed here last night… a lot. Where is spring, eh?

Movies and Shows I’ve been Watching…

reneefoster — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:51:21 +0000

Shutter Island… I liked this movie! It’s dark, creepy, and pretty action packed. Nat hated the ending, but I saw it coming and it didn’t bother me. I actually thought it was kind of cool. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo were both excellent. The story was interesting all the way through, with some good twists.

Alice in Wonderland… I was afraid this movie was just going to be constant weirdness and Johnny Depp worship. It wasn’t! The actress that plays Alice was great, and the story is about her (not the mad hatter, as the posters might have you think). It’s not the same story as in the cartoon. She’s returning to Wonderland, and when she’s there the story moves along smoothly. The mad hatter is interesting and likable–rather than annoying and over the top. Same with Helena Bonham-Carter as the red queen. She’s funny in it. Overall, it’s much better than I expected.

TV-wise… We’ve been watching Friday Night Lights. We like it a lot! It’s about a small town in Texas where the high school football team is pretty much the center of the universe. It fallows the lives of the coaches family and a handful of the players, and it’s a little high school drama-y, but it’s also funny, suspenseful, and gets you caring about the people. If you have Netflix, seasons 1-3 are available on instant. Season 4 isn’t out yet.

I swear don’t watch TV and movies all day! I started taking karate again. I love it, but I have to drive 25 minutes to it through snow and deer galore… but my instructor (a woman whose about 5 feet tall and probably weighs 85 pounds) is a great teacher. There might be a tournament soon. If there is, I’ll throw some photos on here. So, look forward to that.