Almost time!

Welcome :) Countdown to destiny! :) Counting the days and hours until our dream is come true. YEA!!! Thanks for visiting! love to all, Alison & Chester (Read the latest news on my main site)

Sorry for not updating this site in such a long time. a lot is going on and as most of you already December 9th is the day Alison arrives in the States! :) I've kept my website updated for the most part so you are welcome to keep up with us there, just never mind the frequent theme changes going on with the site! ;) Feel free to contact us here by commenting on the posts or email; and be sure to visit our other sites too, Alison's blog and my website Garazon's Den. Alison has done a great job with her blog unlike her lazy fiance who is never updating anything! ;) Well I do play with my cell phone and post some odd bits to my mobile blog at times!

Whoooooo Hooooo! :)

It's Official! Our fiancee visa was approved today so we are on the fast track now to get things sorted and be together permanently! No more goodbyes on the cell or chats or at airports, only face to face kisses and love forever more! :)  Can you tell I am happy?!! LOL I AM!  love you Alison mou, my approved Beautiful Brit Bride XXXXX

I 129F APPROVED!!

It’s Official! Our petition for the fiancée visa was approved today!!!! YEA!!!!!! You cant imagine two more ecited or happier people than the two of us when we got the news  Our lives are all filled with highs and lows and we mark our journey through life by them. I can in all honesty say I have never been overcome by such joyful emotion as I was when I first got the news. And the timing really was coming at a point that some good news was needed. We both have struggeled trying to keep from getting down about it taking so long and so many hoops to jump through to just simply be together and share a love sent from heaven, as well as the worry with my mom being in the hospital ICU in serious but stable condition. 

Well I should start with getting the news. Both of us had signed up at the USCIS website to receive email updates about our case when any action was taken. Well there are only two instances of action in this particular petion, one is the receipt of it and the case pending, and the last one is the approval notice, we get NOTHING in between which only served to make us that more anxious waiting for word. Yesterday (I’m editing this a day after I made the post) was a busy day for both of us, with me working and then planning to go to the hospital after, and Alison at the time entertaining a friend for dinner at her house. With all the things going on with mom I have been keeping up with the family and friends by email a lot and have been in a habit of checking it on my phone a lot here lately. Well something told me to check it yesterday, one of those feeligs we get, and to be truthful I just thought it was someone wanting to know about mom or something like that. Well I knew alison was busy , but she still sends some kisses right often too 

Anyway being in the state I was I was sort of in one of those worried states and when i saw the name “CRIS” whch i recognized from signing up at the USCIS site, my heart just seemed to stop and turn 

iPhone inbox

180 degrees around! I never have felt so much jubilation as when I saw that notice! I stopped right then and sent Alison a text (I started to cal her but her cell has been going south for a while now and the battery goes very fast on voice calls unless she is plugged into the charger. Here’s the text I did send, excuse the French 

 

 Those few minutes of texting and then her trying to call and speak were like something I hvae never experienced before, both of us jumping up and down likely and telling everyyone who would listen! well everyone knows how badly we wanted this day to come,andnow its here and soon when she is called to go to the embassy there, she will have her visa to come!  We will have our Christmas together this year! :-) 

You know its seemed like an eternity waiting for this thing to be approved, and looking back now its was just 3 months, well i say just… to us it seeemd so much longer. From what i have seen though the average waitign time now is close to 10 to 13 months and I was so down we wpuld end up seeing another year go by, but somehow God and our angels pulled off another one and made us even happier than we have been   But its nothing will compare to that day she gets off the plane here and I hold her in my arms and knowing its for good! Love you baby! XXX

I-129F posted! :)

For those not knowing what an I-129F is, its my petition to the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to bring Alison to the US on what's commonly known as a K1 fiancee visa! :)  We have been working the last few weeks to get all the paperwork together and filling out forms to get ball rolling.

Today marks a very special day in that on May 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM the package was certified and now on its merry way to the Vermont processing center! :) Well I guess its not officially filed yet until it gets there and signed for(yes I sent it certified) , but this single step is such an amazing moment for us when all our plans are finally beginning to take some concrete steps. There has never been a doubt between us that we would be together, its just a long impatient wait as there are so many other factors involved in a move on this grand scale. I do feel a lot of anxiousness passed now as its been an ordeal just preparing the application. The main thing  was trying to make sure everything is done properly and nothing left out. I had this awful dread of forgetting something that would hold up the approval (I'm thinking positive that it's going to be approved and wont let any other thought in my head ) I have triple checked over everything and made one last check this morning, notifying of Alison by text of just about each step too! lol I just know how these govt people want things done and its silly things they sometimes want done where common sense should prevail, but what can we do but go along. Well I feel confident ours will be verified to be a genuine case of wanting to be together in the same country and married as soon as we can! Officially that is, in my heart she is my wife already :)  God joined us together and to me there is no higher authority!  ;)

They say this part of the process is the one taking the most time and work to get in order as of course with all that is going on in the world they are scrutinizing everyone and everything. Well it's been an anxious time for us trying to just decipher the instructions of the form and making sure we have everything without feeling overwhelmed. Our first time looking into all this that was the case for both of us I think, feeling overwhelmed. We still have a long way to go of course but this is the most difficult part with this petition and her getting the visa. Once its approved they will notify the American Embassy there in Nicosia and set up a meeting and interview with Alison and then she will have her own set of tasks to complete and prepare a package for them there. She will have to have a background police check done from everywhere she has lived. Since she is a Brit she will have to get a clearance from the Sunderland police where she was living there, and one from Limassol, Cyprus where she has been living since leaving the UK. Well she has applied already for both of them ahead of time so she is well in advance of getting things done. I know she already has all her papers ready, birth certificate etc.. and the only thing I think that she will really have to wait for after the initial interview is the medical exam to certify she has a clean bill of health for entering the US. Not sure why really as how many thousands of people a day fly into the US and come to visit and Lord know what some of them may be carrying! :o) well anyway its something has to be done. Well that should be a simple thing to get, just taking the time to set up the Dr's appointment at the physician of their choosing. And then once that is all done she will go back and they will issue her the visa. I *think* the visa is good for 6 months from then to use, and once she arrives in the US we have only 90 days to get married. Well we are ready today but it would be nice to have time to plan a nice wedding, and of course we will!! I can't wait for it! :)  but I feel its possible we may have to arrange a quick civil ceremony near her arriving to make it official per the terms of the visa. And then from there its still a matter of applying again for resident status and all the other things go with being a US resident, social security, drivers license etc.. well one thing at a time and we will get it all sorted. I just cant wait for the day my wife to be gets off that plane and into my arms! :) We'll keep you updated on the progress of things and where we stand as time goes by. Just send a prayer things go smooth and quick for us, we are sooooo ready to be together, you just can't imagine! :) love you baby! XXXXXXXX

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Terms of endearment :)

 

♥Alison Michelle♥ Beauty of Britannia, Mistress of the Med, Keeper of my heart	♠Chester Wade♠ My Handsome Americano One and only Valentine Star of my Dreams
my Cyprus Angel my Beautiful Brit my Geordie Girl my Sam my precious love my frisky angel my sweet my darling my crazy passion filled English woman my beautiful love my perfect match my everything my one true love My Fiancee	My Perfect Match Chester Mou ! my Old Man  ( ; My Everything Agapi mou My Love My Life My World The air I breathe ( : My Cowboy My Fiance

  This was something we had on another website we once started before we chose blogger for our purposes. Just getting ready  to delete the other site and saving some things :)

I love my Cyprus Angel :)

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In Memory of Susie Pratt

I don't normally post off topic from this site, but I wanted to pass on this sad news to any family or friends who visit here and knew Susie and haven't heard the news, Susie passed away this past weekend after a long hard battle with cancer. :( the full info is on my site, http://www.garazon.com

The Lilac

The Lilac - First emotions of love.. I BELIEVE :)
Two years ago this photo was taken. As you can see from the blooms its a purple lilac. April 2006 was the very first time since it was planted that it bloomed. To be honest at the time it was planted I had no idea of what type of bush it even was.

Happy Anniversary to Us! :)

Two years ago today this beautiful Brit living in Cyprus asked this crazy Americano if he would like to write sometime.... :) From that moment, a match long ago made in heaven was about to take us on a journey from sharing stories of our grief and loss , to falling in love, to travel 5000 miles to meet, to being engaged and to sharing a love that grows deeper still to this day. :)

It is beyond words to desribe and tell all the things we have shared and all the blessings we have been given. In many ways its not just the anniversary of our meeting, but more to the truth, its the anniversary of our birth into a different life, a new life, one full of hopes and dreams again, and one full of Love, true and devoted. Happy Anniversary my Beautiful Brit, I love you! XXXXX

Geordie Translator

whoohoo.co.uk Pretty cool tool that translates regular English into Geordie speak! Type what you want translated into the box below and click on the translate link! it will take you off the site to get the translation, just click the back button to return here! UPDATE the from box has quit working for some reason so I've removed it from here. the translator still is working ont he main site as well as a few more dialects to choose from. Enjoy

Two as One times Three!

Sometimes its the simplest things that make us smile the most. :) Its a hard thing to be so far apart, but we are always finding ways to just make us feel each other that bit closer, however we can. For Valentine's Day I slipped these three little hearts into the mailer with the cards I sent to Alison. I had kept three just like it here too and soon they will be reunited and we may have a lot of little hearts runnign all aorund then! LOL well by littel ones i mean more hearts of some form, I think the days of little Garazons and Candyflosses are near passed, but the days of giving these little treasures have just begun! :)



Now how is this for being in tune, well I set mine up here on the desk and though they are not in the same order as to whats written on them, they are pretty much situated in the same pattern!

I love you baby XXXXX

To My Valentine

As special as this day of Love is my Beautiful Brit, no holiday will come close to the happiness we have found in each other on these dates. From the 5th of April in 2006 to this very day each has been a celebration of love beyond compare and I thank God and our angels for you my darling. Your name was written in my heart a long time before April 2006 my love, it was written the day I was born! We have always been together, destined from time beginning, always loved each other and we will always will. Happy Valentine's Day my Beautiful Bride, I love you! XXXX
Chester XXXXX

Just for those curious, the dates are as follows:

April 5, 2006  the day we first met online via Mingle

May 19, 2006   the day we said I love you (yes we were very quick to know it! ) 

March 23, 2007  the day (and night) I asked her to marry me..by text!! ;) a nice story there 

May 11, 2007  our first time face to face when Alison came to the US to visit

May 25, 2007  the official day I prorposed and she accepted the ring! :) and a sub too ;)  lol

October 9, 2007  the day I landed in Cyprus to visit her

the first of Forever will be sometime this year, one way or another we will be together at last! 

Still here! :)

Well looking at the dates of the last posts one would think we had forgot about the site! Well we are still here and doing better than ever! :) We do seem to spend much more time now, since this last holiday together especially, trying every chance we can to get together for a chat, or to speak on Skype, and then there is still the mails we write each day. Oh the mails we have written!! It amazes me sometimes just to realize that every single day since April 5 of 2006 we have had at least one mail every day, and many times as much as a dozen a day! They say its hard work to maintain a long distance realtionship... well maybe... yes it is hard to be that far a apart, but never once have I thought of it as work! I hate work, ask my employer! lol But seriously it has been nothing but love and desire to be ever closer to my soulmate that I have opened every new mail with a smile on my face and in my heart just to tell her I love her. And its even harder now to spend one more day aprt now that we have shared our times together and seen face to face that we are meant for each other just as we knew. That was proably one of the hardest saddest days of my life to get back on that plane in Cyrpus to come back the US, and you know we have both seen some bad days. But still our love endures and it always will! Oh I'm getting a bit sugary here arent I?! lol well you should read our chats then if you think thats sugary! OH maybe not! ;) lol

WellI admit I am totally lost (and found) in love with this Beautiful Brit, and strange as it may sound to some, I alwasy have been. From the very first time we spoke I felt I had known her all my life and she will say the same. You all know our stories, and I will always believe it was a match made in heaven by God and our angels. Some things just dont happen, I dont care what anyone says. The things we have seen and felt.. incredible... I cant reason it, or begin to explain it, but know this, God has a plan for us all! Even if we don't believe it ourselves. Take it for what it's worth. :)

I have to laugh sometimes when I think back to the early days after we met and how some people seemed to act so surprised that we met online, and some were even shocked! Well in truth there were more positve response than any negative ones. But it surprised me when people would ask one of us , how do you know they are who they say they are? Ok I can understand it to a degree as there are so many stories you hear of weirdos and worse online, but think about it... Even in a face to face meeting, how can you be sure the other is who they say they are either? you can't! And God knows all you have to do is turn on the TV and see the crazy folks in the world who are described by friends and family as alwasy seeming nice and being known by them all their life, and then turning out they go on a shooting spree or some other mad horrible thing. You can still get the sense and feel of a person just as much from writing them as you can from meeting them. Maybe even more so as you are focused on their words more and listen to each other.. and it doesnt take long to see who is truthful and who isnt, Well I dont know the point I am getting to, just some things I wanted to say. Well everyone who knows me has seen the happiness in me now and the love too. And they are ALL happy fo me, for us! Most of all I am happy for us! :) ecstatically happy!! And looking forward to a future I know is going to be even more incrdeible that anything I could ever imagine. :) Oh that picture above is from a photo of us here in May that I worked on and tried to create a painting from. It is one of my favourite pictures. I look at it and it just seems to exude love and passion and a love beyond measure in that embrace and kiss. My every waking moment is spent in that sort of dreamy feel of a happiness beyond compare too. Well we all have days that things dont go right, or something happens, but you know what? Nothing can take the smile from my heart that Alison Michelle has put there, it gets me through everything! Love is all you need.. every thing else is just... fluff! I love you baby xxxx I do!