Our 2nd Little Caesars Grand Opening!

Well, the day that my parents, husband, brother have been waiting for for the last 6 months has finally arrived today! The Grand Opening of our 2nd Little Caesars Store located on Pawnee & Senneca here in Wichita, opened its doors at 11am this morning! I come from a very small Western Kansas town where I grew up having my first job at 12 years old....now, I was just a baby-sitter but hey, it was a job! My brother worked for local farmers in and around Dighton as young as junior high. We were both raised to work hard and work even harder then next day. Times have not changed!!! My dad is the hardest working person I have ever known. From the earliest I can remember, I have always known my dad to be a hard worker . I used love to go to work with my dad and watch him work. I was always fascinated with him working on his Oil Well blueprints or other random paper work. Going to the legion running around filling ice for him, putting place mats on the tables or filling the pickle jar. Maybe it was just being around my dad that I truly loved the most. Whatever it was I am who I am today because of him. So.... here we are 20 some (wink wink) years later and I still love to watch my dad do what he does best...WORK and build up his businesses. My dad bought into Little Caesars Franchise a few years ago, moved him and mom to Wichita and opened his first store. My brother soon wanted to be partners with my dad and help run the family business with him. A year later, Carver and I were married, we moved to Wichita and dad asked Carver to be apart of the business and be co-owner with Austin. My dad made one of the hardest decisions of his life to move from a town were he and my mom were both born and raised, take a huge chance, marry their only daughter and start a brand new business all in the same year!!! He always told me, "take chances Cherina, I don't ever want you to look back and wish you had tried or done something you knew you could have done." I live by those words from my father! Our first store on Harry & Hillside has been the # 1 Store out of 15 others that my cousins have though out the state of Texas since my dad opened it! I think he made a pretty damn good choice!! So, here we are today and the opening of the second store! In closing, I just want to say how PROUD I am of my parents, brother and husband. There are no words to describe it!! I am so blessed to have the family I have, the values, determination and the opportunities I have been given all because my dad took a chance to give my brother and I something to have and be able to do with what we want in life and our future when he is no longer with us. Family is the single most important thing in the world to me and I love mine more then life!!!

Happy 3 Year Wedding Anniversary

Well, today Carver and I have been married for 3 years!! It honelstly seems like yesterday I was planning and getting things ready for the big day. I guess that is a good thing I feel that way huh?!?! Hahaha...Just kidding! The last three years have been so wonderful and full of memories. In the last year so much has happend...Our biggest news was purchasing our first house. It was such a fun process for us!! We both loved spending the weekenda driving around going from open house to open house. Or having a beer, spending hours on the computer picking out the homes we wanted to go see. Saying we loved this, hated that, who would do that, oh I want that. It was so much fun. Then one day...there it was!! Everything we had been looking for all rolled into one huge house. We knew we loved it, made an offer, went and had a drinks and heard back the next day it was ours!!! It was such a great experience to share with eachother. So, we have been busy...Wait, I mean I have been busy painting and decorating this huge house that I just love!!! Being an Interior Designer does come with some really good perks but, Carver knows when I see something for the house like art work, furniture, rugs, or accessories there is no stopping me. We have had a lot of fun decorating our house and making it our home. The painting is coming along and I just have to stick with it. Dad and I need to finish our foyer and then put the stripes on. I can't wait to see it all finished. Other then enjoying our house, we are loving living in Wichita. We live about 2miles from my parents and my brother is close too. Having them just stop by on any day is the highlight of my day! It makes me feel like we live in a small town, the way Carver and I grew up. Our family business, Little Caesears Pizza is doing amazing and keeps Carver very busy. He love it so much, it is hard for him to be away from it at times....and other times...lol He gets to spend lots of quality time with my dad and brother and he loves that. So, other then loving life and enjoying being married to my best friend and the greatest guy next to my dad, our life is good. I hope yours is too!! Love you all!! The Ostmeyers

New On Here.......

So....this is very new to me and I am not sure what I am doing....so bare with me! I have a childhood friend that has one of these and she lives so far away that it is nice to go to her blog and read what is going on with her and her family and just "catch up" So, I decided I would start one for friends and family to go to and read all about our life and what we are up to. We live in Wichita, Kansas and have lived here for two years now. We both grew up in small, Western Kansas towns. I was from Dighton and he was from Quinter. Our towns were both so simple, quite and a place where you always felt safe. We never locked our doors at night, if you had to run into the grocery store for some milk you left your car running and kids were every where. It was a great way to grow up and we both have memories that we cherish. We grew up 45Min's away from each other, played sports against one another, and never met until our Junior year at college. What is meant to be, I guess. In 2004 Carver and I were married in Hays, Kansas where we had both graduated from Fort Hays State University. Carver with his Business Degree, a minor in Finance and a Certificate in Leadership. I, with my Bachelor of Fine Arts in In Interior Design. We had the classic "BIG" wedding with all of our family and friends. It was just perfect! We stayed in Hays one month after graduating, enjoying being married and our friends. I got a job offer with a Design company in Wichita, Kansas. It was where we wanted to be and move when the time was right and the opportunity came. My parents had moved to Wichita two years prior and they were loving it! My bother, Austin also had moved to Wichita and was attending Wichita State University. I took the job and in June we moved to Wichita! In January Carver and I bought into the "Morris" family business my parents bought two years before.....LITTLE CAESARS PIZZA Franchise! Yep, my parents left small town Western Kansas for city life and pizza....Austin was Co-Owner with my dad while he was going to college. The business was really taking off and was getting harder to handle with just the two of them. Dad offered Carver Co-Owner as well and he is now a Pizza Man!! And in the next two weeks they will have their Grand Opening for the second store!! My dad had a dream of a family business that he could pass on to his kids one day and his dream came true. There are no words to describe how it feels when he talks about it!! So, on to me I guess. I work for a firm in West Wichita and love it! I work with all guys!! I am a little on the spoiled side being the only girl there but these men have become like brothers/fathers to me! I have the 8-5 life style and and loving it! I guess that can catch everyone up to speed a little bit on Carver and I. We are just loving life and each other!! We have two babies in our lives right now..... a five year old Basset Hound, Frisbee and we just got our other baby a month a go. Her name is Carlee and she is a black lab!! Our dogs are our children and we adore them!!! In our spare time we love to try new restaurants, be with our families, go to the movies, out with friends, wine tastings, travel, and going to KU football and basketball games. I guess I will stop there with my very first blog. Hope you enjoy !!!
~Cherina