New basement - Rev 2

Upper left - Nook in bedroom

Upper right - nook at bottom of stairs

left - looking into bathroom

below - looking from storage room (by water heaters)







upper left - family room from bottom of stairs

upper right - family room from bedroom wall

left - family room looking toward nook










Here are some more pictures from our new almost completed basement. As of Saturday, June 17th they have most of the drywall down and will finish the bedroom early next week. Hopefully it will be ready by the time Angie and Jeff get here in July. Probably won't be by the time you are here this week.

Love ya all,
Dad

New Basement Pictures

Thought you guys might like to take a gander at our basement as it goes up. Should be done in about two weeks.

We are excited about it and are very pleased so far.

Dad

This is looking into the hallway from
the family room toward the new
bathroom

This is taken from the bedroom looking toward the nook and the new bathroom

This is the family room looking toward the bedroom

This is the bedroom taken from the bathroom

Sorry for the poor quality but I will get some more in the next few days.

Summer Schedule (July Mostly)

Can you believe it is the middle of June already!!? On our recent trip to Seattle, Mom and I were talking about the summer schedule and how hectic it appears to be on paper at least. I thought it would be good to get it down for everyone to see. If there are mistakes it is the mistakes of man, not of mom or me.

Sometime in June the basement in our house will be completed (hopefully) They have started on it and the framing is basically done and the electric will be done in the next couple of days. It is looking good so far and pretty much as we thought.

June 22nd - Jeff, Angie and Cal fly to Denver so they can go to Mark's graduation.

June 23rd - Mark's graduation from Residency. (big dinner and party in Greeley) He is now
officially a doc extraordinaire!!

June 25th (Sun) - Jeff and Angie and Cal leave to go back to Phoenix

June 28th - Mark and Liz leave for 10 days in Costa Rica. Much needed R&R. Joy and Grant
are with Mom and Dad and Meg

July 5th - Jeff starts his first rotation in Denver and Jeff , Angie and Cal start their month
stay at Mom and Dad's while he is doing that.

July 7th - Mark and Liz return from Costa Rica.

July 13th - Adam flies in from SLC, arriving at 6:30 P.M. Drew arrives at DIA at 6:57 P.M.
from L.A. Drew goes to President LaDuc's to get released and we all go home
and party with the Goose. Kristen will be there too.

Now it gets interesting

July 14th - Ty, Dana and Max arrive from Seattle and the fight begins for the new bedroom
downstairs.

July 15th - We are thinking about a reception for Drew for his freinds to welcome him home.
My mom arrives from Denver to spend a month up here. She will be at the Haags
most of the time as our house will be filled to the brim. We also want to get a new
family portrait done on this day if we can.

July 16th - Report to the High Council, Drew talks in church, Ty blesses Max with all of us and
Dana's folks there as well, the Foster Boys sing in sacrament meeting

Week of July 17th - JAC, TDM, Addie and Goose all at our house. Hopefully we will see a lot
Matt and Wendi this week also. Mark and Liz getting ready to move
to Wyo. Ty in training for Lockheed Martin for 3 days. On Monday
July 17th, Addie returns to Provo to work.

July 22nd - Ty's 10 Year high school reunion for Chatfield. (Unbelievable!!)

July 23rd - Leave after church to go to Skalla Ranch with everyone. Kristen will join us. Adam
joins us from Provo.

July 26th - Return to Denver and Ty and Dana and Max leave for Seattle that evening.

July 29th - Jeff, Angie and Cal, Drew, Kristen, Mom and Dad and Megan leave for Iron Springs.
JAC go to Phoenix as Jeff's next rotation is in Tucson, I believe.

August 4th - Dad, Drew and Kristen return to Denver from Iron Springs. (driving)

August 10th - Margaret and Meg fly back to Denver from Iron Springs.

Sometime in early August Mark and Liz make the move to Worland and Mark starts work on August 14th I think.

Wow!! It makes me tired just looking at it but what a wonderful month it is going to be. I hope you are all looking forward to it as much as we are. The house will be crowded but with the new bedroom it should be a bit better for all.

We have to crank in some time for a family counsel while we are all together and look at everyone's schedule for the coming year, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. Be thinking about all of that kind of stuff as well. Would love to get in a temple session or two while we are all here as well. Lots to do and great times.

Please check this out and let me know if there are mistakes or not. (I'm sure you will all be most willing to do that!!)

Love you all,
Dad

Mom is up and running

While we were up here in Seattle, Ty and I got Mom signed up on the Blogosphere. She is linked to the Forever Fosters blog and now all we have to do is to get her comfortable with using it.

We now are all officiallly linked except for the Goose and we will have to wait on that one.

Dad

Sunrise or Sunset? The Future of the Family Blog

Is this a sunrise or a sunset over the Forever Fosters Blog?

This is Mark here, and I'd prefer to think of this as a sunrise, the beginning of a bright new blogacious day.

Since we've all had a couple of months to acclimate to the blogosphere, I think we're now in better shape to know what we want from this website and from our own individual websites. All kidding aside, I see this blog (and our appendaged individual blogs) as wonderful tools to keep us all in close contact, to provide a universal, instantly accessible venue for communication, and a clearinghouse for the dispersal of important information.

It has become abundantly clear that the current management of the Family Blog, a.k.a. the Grandmaster Blogger Dad, needs some assistance and some clarification of his duties. He also needs the reins pulled in a bit, as in an unforeseen power grab he changed the password to this website so as to exert sole dominion over its contents. However, he was foiled in his nefarious scheme as he promptly proceeded to forget his new secret password, and he had to come to me to bail him out. Now humbled, he has agreed to relinquish some of his sought-after power, placing it back into the collective hands of you, the Foster democracy. I will email the new password to each of you later today, so that you can once again help carry this Family Blog forward towards its full potential.

Here's what I propose for the contents of this site:

1) All Fosters have equal access to posting information on this Blog, but the Mick and the Marge are chiefly responsible for its content.
2) Appropriate postings for this Blog could include:
---pictures of cute kids
---pictures of family events/reunions, etc
---general family announcements
---general family discussions
---declarations of love and harmony
---and, importantly, Mick, a monthly family newsletter summarizing important events in the individual families lives.
3) Inappropriate information would include:
---opinionated diatribes
---personal musings
---controversial debates
---any information that would be best left to your personal blog.

That's what I think. What do you all think? Please, everybody that reads this place a comment, as this should be a communal effort, not Mark's or Mick's or anyone else's individual project.

Is the sun rising or setting on the Family Blog? If rising, what does this bright new day look like for you?