Wednesday, June 29, 2011

It's been awhile...

Well it certainly has been a long time since we last posted on our old blog:

http://thefosterfamily.tumblr.com/post/7043989236/its-been-nearly-a-year

and by now most of you know that the Foster Family of two is soon to become a family of three!

Life in the past year has been full of adventure and surprises along the way. For our first year of marriage the term busy is an understatement. We have been through a lot of changes, but the Lord has provided for us along the way in ways that only He could.

Last July I was beginning my career as a first grade teacher at Thales Academy and Micah was quitting his part-time job at T-Mobile to become an intern at our church’s new North Raleigh campus. Serving our church during that time was so awesome and it has been amazing to see how the Lord has grown and equipped the North Raleigh campus. In October of last year in the midst of his internship, Micah was moved by the Spirit to quit the seminary life and go back into Finance and landed a job at Credit Suisse as a “Derivatives Analyst” (…? if you don’t know what that means…i’m not too sure what that really means either :) ). Leaving seminary to pursue a career in the Business World may seem backwards to some, but we really believe that God wants us in our careers to impact the Kingdom for his name. We prayed through this for months and months, and it wasn’t until February that Micah got the job. So the months in between were tough…we had to scrimp by on my teaching salary and who would of thought we were wonderfully surprised to find out we were PREGNANT in January!!! This was stressful but awesome news to us. God provided for us once again though and Micah found out he got the job at Credit Suisse literally at our first ultrasound appointment!

In the past year we have become aunt and uncle to our precious nephew Kade…spent our first Thanksgiving and Christmas as a married couple together…went cruising in the Western Caribbean (this was honeymoon take 2)…moved from our 1 bedroom apartment into our two bedroom two and a half bath townhome…spent our first anniversary in the gorgeous mountains of North Carolina…spent the week in the Outer Banks with my family…and now we are soon to become parents to our precious baby boy, Ariston!

In the weeks to come I will be posting some more pictures about our journey into parenthood. With updates on the nursery and pictures of my seemingly ever growing bump! I’ll also update you on the little things in our lives…I can’t promise you it will be way exciting, but we hope it will bring a smile to your face :)

ps-I’ll also let you know how teaching 3rd grade goes this year! I am way excited to start that new phase of my life as well!!!