This one's for Annabelle! :)
As most of you know. Annabelle is one of my best friends. When I first met Annabelle this is pretty much how we looked at each other. We actually hated each other and we did in fact play soccer against each other. Not to mention the first time we met we literally got in a fight in a pool. Plus one of her friends at the time was paying Annabelle to not be my friend. It makes for entertaining stories.
When we met we weren't actually as old as these girls in this photos. She was more about the age in the picture below. (she's the one with the blue shirt on) I do know I was 6 years old when we met.
Haha I love this picture and this family. I grew up with them and met them probably a year or so after this picture was taken...Back to Annabelle :)
So I grew up with Annabelle and we only became friends because I pretty much lived at her house for a good 2 years. I don't remember the specific events that made us friends other then you were there the time I got in a bike wreck, broke my arm, fractured 3 ribs, and my spleen. Not to mention the other times I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia, a broken thumb, and Adam was nailed in the bed with a gold club. We are so blessed that your Mom was my doctor and your family is full of doctors and nurses.
Annabelle all grown up!
On to the stories!!!!!!
One cardboard box, one cane, one old woman and one scared little girl... PRICELESS
There are many many times that I had close call death experiences. This is one of them. Except I need to make a correction from the picture. I was a little scared but I definitely wasn't crying. This is what happened.
For a while growing up during the time I pretty much lived at the Fosters house there Grandma moved in to live with them. She wasn't your average kind, sweet, and gentle Grandma. She was large, crazy, a perfectionist, and in charge (I asked one of the Foster kids how to describe there Grandma? This is the response I got "scary, psychotic, social service handful, walking death, OCD nazi, creepy doll collector, and rapture queen!" She was determined to get those kids disciplined and if you were a friend visiting it didn't matter you became of one the kids. There are stories of her hitting, slapping, and yelling at us. Plus so much more. So when I was over there we turned it into a game. We'd challenge each other to run up to her door bang on it, run away, and be the quickest person to get out of the path of destruction (I assure you I rarely lost at that game). If you got caught the result was usually a slap or a punishment sentenced to cleaning.
During one particular night almost all the foster kids were there. They had a lot of dogs and those dogs had a LOT of puppies. They were cute, loud, and we loved playing with them. The Fosters happened to have a HUGE box in the middle of an empty room that was right next to the Grandma's room. We had the brilliant idea to bring the puppies in the house, put them in the box, and climb in the box to play with them. It was really late at night so naturally when there Grandma heard us she came out yelling at us with her hair in curlers, cane in hand, and no teeth in. We ran away as quick as we could, laughing, and her yelling at us to go to bed. The puppies were still in the other room in the box. So once she went back into her room naturally we snuck back in the room and in this huge box there was only one hole on the top to get in and out about the size for kids to get into. A few times she came out to chase us away and each time a different kid would be stuck in the box. She would whack the box with her cane and yell "you git outta dare"(with her no teeth). I remember in specific Cody and maybe Jacob getting caught as we were all hiding and watching. She gave us warning that she was going to beat us if she caught us. So finally the last time I was like okay lets all get in the box this time. They put me in first and it wasn't two seconds later that she came storming out of her room. Everyone took of running for there life's. She was yelling "some one is in that box! (while hitting it with her cane) she's yelling COME OUT RIGHT NOW!" I was dead silent and all you could hear were the puppies scampering and whimpering. After she left I some how managed to climb out of the box and ran to get the guys to get the puppies out of there so we could be safe. We were all scared and laughing so hard at the same time. She was a force to be reckoned with. Maybe you just had to be there. Plus we have other memories of her putting a chain and lock on the fridge so we couldn't eat and times where she made us sit in the living room for about 3 hours. Each time she left we'd disappear to sneak into the other building to play dodge ball. We'd get caught every time. At least there was 5 or 6 of us in the three hour time out.
When he older twin brothers got there drivers license a whole new world of craziness opened up before us. We were about 13 and 14. As long as we game them has money we could go where ever we wanted. One night we were having a sleep over and her brother Joe had just gotten a bikini top Jeep. It was so nice. On the way to there house we took a lot of back roads. He'd go about 80mph and we'd stand up on the back seat with the wind in our hair holding on to the upper bar that goes to the back. I remember having to hold Seren in so that she wouldn't fly out of the car but it was awesome, dark, fast, and furious! I lived off of adrenaline. How we are still alive, only God knows!
Annabelle was there for a lot of firsts. First time spewing grape juice out from laughter out all over her and staining her new cloths (I guess that's what she gets from being so funny). First time I ended up in the hospital for a billion reasons and many times after that. First time I had a major life crisis and broke down. First time I needed to have a best friend to have my back when people were talking behind my back at school when I moved away (she got them good. They looked up to her so when she stood up for me and proved them all wrong it rocked there world and made mine awesome!). First friend I've ever heard of screaming in the middle of a class just to get reactions from people and to see if she could get away with it...she totally did :) ENTERTAINMENT! First time someone told me they can't eat apples because they didn't want to keep the doctor away, because the doctor is her mom. First time we stole a parents car and hog tied Janae in the back of it. First time I did some of the worst things of my life and the best. First time I know the church was true and was converted. First time I learned how to stand up for myself. First time I knew I could trust someone as much as I trusted myself. First time I had a friend that would do anything for me, she has my back ALWAYS!
Seriously Annabelle is such a good friend! When I was 15 I moved to Sandy, Utah to live with my Aunt Kathy. I was going through a hard time because I had Mono. That didn't stop her. She called my Aunt and planned the perfect surprise. She bought a plane ticket herself and showed up on the door of my Aunts house on the day of my 16th Birthday. When she opened the door I had been in the kitchen. I looked down and saw her at the bottom of the stairs. I didn't even think, I jumped and cleared all the stairs landing at the bottom, gave her a hug, and then started laughing because I was in such shock I didn't know what to do with my self.
I can't find a picture of Annabelle and me but I found one of her and Janae :) Hehehe EVEN BETTER!
This is a picture of me and Annabelle's 2 kids (From left to right: Kali, Maleah, and Me)
Here is Annabelle and her Kids, so cute! There eyes are all AMAZING! There are 8 kids in her family and all 8 have blue eyes. It runs in the family.
Here is a more recent picture of the Foster family children. They definitely look different since the last picture that I found. (Try and find the twin brothers...)
One of the first times I went over to the Fosters house I was about 7. Micheal was about 15(the one in the picture with the white shirt, he is the oldest sibling). He had an old truck to drive around there property since they have about 70 or so acres of land. Me and most of the boys got in the back of the truck as he floored the truck and sped off over hills trying to get some air and do three sixties. We were all in the back of the truck being flung around having the time of our lives. When all the sudden the truck took an unexpected sharp turn. Josh (the one with the suit on in the middle) had been caught off guard and was going over the edge right in front of the tire. It was my instant reaction to try and save him. I managed to get a hold of him by his boxers somehow and pulled him back in the truck. He wasn't wearing a shirt but he was literally saved by his underwear. I don't remember much but making fun of him for getting the biggest wedgie of his life when in reality he was just about slaughtered. Josh was another one of my best friends growing. I haven't talked to him in years but if you want to hear someone tell funny stories of me growing up he'd be the man.
I hope you enjoyed that Annabelle! This was done at your request. There is so much more I can add and maybe I will but for now enjoy!
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