Tonya's due soon...

Just wanted to let everyone know that Tonya is due very soon! She has a scheduled c-section on February 7th, so please keep her in your prayers. I will let you know how she and baby are as soon as I hear, if we don't hear from her fam first. Good luck Tonya! :)

Thank you Hills for the postings on Celeste. It is good news that she has options and solutions now available to her twins. You are in our thoughts and prayers as well Celeste. Hope you find some good books while on bed rest, hang in there!

Love, Nickie

Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley Passes Away

Gordon B. Hinckley, 15th President of the Church, has a great love and concern for all people. He has traveled all over the world to meet with the Saints and to tell them that God "will shower down blessings upon those who walk in obedience to His commandments." President Hinckley has dedicated more temples than any other General Authority.

He passed away around 7pm, Sunday January 27,08 at age 97. He was surrounded by his family and his death was attributed to old age. We remember him with great love!

Some Good News from Celeste and Kris

Hi again, here is an encouraging message we recieved from Celeste today and an update on their twin's situation:
Hey everyone! Just thought I'd give you all a little update on the twins. As most of you know, I'm on bed rest and am unbale to travel to Utah; like we had planned. We got some good news today! The doctors now think there is a sack division; which means, in addition to having twin to twin transfussion syndrom, they also have what's called "Stuck Twin". This is actally GREAT news! Both of these are conditions with possible solutions! To help with the "Stuck Twin" condition, they will withdraw a large amount of the amniotic fluid from twin "A's" sack, which should allow twin "B's" sack to expand and stop being compressed; it should also help me to stop going into constant labor! As for the twin to twin transfussion syndrom, there are several hospitals around the country who use different opperations to adjust both the twins cords, so that twin "A" can stop recieving large amounts of blood and twin "B" can start recieving more blood flow, which he needs. Thank you all for your supporrt! love you all! Celeste Kris and babies

An Update About Celeste and Kris

Hello all! This is Justin's wife Mindy. We were excited to let all of you know that Celeste and her husband were expecting twins a few weeks ago. Well, now they need your prayers. She is about 21 weeks and they have discovered that the babies (both boys) have something called Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. The babies are sharing a single placenta and thus blood circulation. As a result, it is possible for her to lose one or both babies as both are fighting over blood supply. We remain steadfast in the belief that Heavenly Father is watching over them. It is very possible that she will be put on bedrest ASAP and that the babies may be delivered as soon as 24 weeks. They will travel to Denver this week to see a specialist and gain further information about the condition and where to go from here. Please keep them in your prayers and I know they would greatly appreciate any emails or phone calls. Kris is away during much of the week with his duties in the military. As many of you know, pregnancy can be a difficult time even if everything goes perfectly. I can't image what this must feel like with your first baby or babies! Also our thoughts and prayers go out to the Rivera family and their baby. We continue to have all of you in our constant thoughts.

Happy Birthday, Dear Grandma.....

On Grandma's birthday, January 5th, Rick and I went to her place in the early evening to help her put her Christmas decorations away and take her out to dinner. Just as we were about to leave, Carie showed up with her two girls. She brought Grandma a beautiful bouquet of flowers and one of those new tiles with the saying on them. (I'm sure there is a name for them!) Carie's visit sure meant a lot to Grandma. Afterwards, we met Gean and Weldon in downtown Salt Lake at The Garden restaurant. We enjoyed the evening and we visited and ate dinner. In honor of her special day, she was given a big piece of chocolate cake that we all enjoyed--YUM! Grandma told us that this was the best birthday she ever remembered! She said many of you remembered to call her. She said her phone rang all day long--she was so happy! You know, it's not everyday that you turn 85 years young!!!

The following Sunday, we celebrated again with some of her grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Since Angie's birthday is January 3rd we had double the reasons to "PARTY!"

Elder Joshua Beecher coming home

Hi to all Vern Rubies family,

We have just recieved Joshua's return date and the Sunday he will be speaking in Sacrament Meeting. Feb. 20th he will be flying for two days, but all of the flying will be done on the 20th. He has been serving in the Marshallees Majuro Mission and has had, "The Other Side of Heaven" experience. The date he will be speaking is Feb. 24th at 1:00 pm. We would like to invite all to come an enjoy the day with us in Cedar City.

Mother, Grandma or Great Grandma, Happy Birthday and sounds like your birthday dinner was a lot of fun.

Everyone please keep June 14th open for Brigham City and the Beecher farm. I will be giving more details alittle later. One thing we will be doing is a picnic just above the Indian trail on second flatbottom. The view is incredible.

Thanks Lynn

Grandma Reaches ANOTHER Milestone!

Just a reminder....Grandma Atwood/Beecher's birthday is this Saturday, January 5th. Please give her a phone call and wish her well. She will be 85 years young. Last year she kept a paper and pencil by her phone and wrote down the names of everyone who called her. This should tell us that it means a lot to her. Her phone number is 1-801-483-2398. Thanks....it really will make her day!

Happy New Year 2008

We send greetings to everyone in this new year. We just figured out how to add to the blog, so we thought we'd drop a line. We had a wonderful Christmas and a fun New Year at Gean and Weldon's house with the gang. Ben, April, Derrin and I also went to New York a couple of weeks ago to have some fun time with out our kiddos. Other than that, it's buisness as usual. :) We love you all,
Nicole and Derrin

Happy New Year From the Hills

Many of we Hills are excited to be added as contributors of the Beecher Family Blog so look for some great new posts from all of us. We want to wish each of you a Happy New Year. Our hope is that 2008 has amazing things in store for us all! We were lucky enough to have Great Grandma Beecher and Great Grandma Hill included in our New Year's Eve festivities last night. With 14 Hill children ranging in age from 1 to 11 it was quite a celebration! Attached are a few photos of our fun night together! In addition, we learned on Sunday afternoon that our sweet Celeste and her husband Kris are expecting TWINS in June! We are all so excited and grateful for a double blessing of bouncing babies....this will add granchildren 22 and 23 to Weldon and Gean's collection.