Happy Thanksgiving From Gean & Family

new family member

Early Thursday morning Daisy Renee was born. 8 lbs. and 4 ounces 20''. Parents are Shaun and Liz Hill. Each is GREAT blessing.

Congradulations, to Colton and Amy on the birth of their new son born this morning. Not sure of the other info. Must learn. Just happy he is here.

Isom Family

Love to all Beechers from the Isoms!

Happy Valentines Day 2010!

KSL TV Spot about Trial

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6842875

Memorial Day Fun in Brigham City

We Do Have a Wonderful Family!

We are planning to go up to Brigham City on Monday, May 25th. We are hoping to have as many family members as can come in attendance. We are meeting at the cemetery at 11:00 and visit our parents' grave and both sets of grandparents. Please come and join us...everyone! After we leave the cemetery, we'll go to the park and the men will go pick up lunch. We'll eat together and then play games, watch the little ones enjoy the playground, and visit. We hope to see all of you there! You know, someone might actually smile down on us all, look at her sweetheart and say, "Don't we have a wonderful family?"

Richs back in the USA

I don't think I have posted anything since we have moved back which means it has been a very long time. Here are some pictures of my family post Japan.

Ben decided to take advantage of his "free time" to experiment with his hair.



My baby turned 1 last month, the baby stage goes by so fast. This is the cake I made for him.



Here is the updated (but not for long) Beecher Bunch from around the holidays.

We really miss Japan but it has been so much fun to be around for family events! It is great to see everyone again.

One of My Favorites!!!

This has become one of my favorite pictures. We are all up in Brigham City on Memorial Day in 2008. We are on Mother's turf--the park right behind the street where she grew up. We have just been to the cemetery, put flowers on Daddy's grave, then on Beecher and Morris markers, also. As is a custom for that day, we are at the park enjoying one of the first spring days. We have wandered to the building behind us in the picture. It is Mother's grandfather's headstone business that is still family owned--we peeked in the windows since it was closed for the holidays. Oh, it made Grandma so happy to be there doing so much with so many of her family. We stopped long enough to take this picture. As I remember, someone set their jacket on the grass for Grandma to sit on because it was a little damp. We all gathered around her which makes her right in the middle. Some of the people are missing from this picture--mostly moms with babies and others who stayed on the other side of the park to keep one another company. After this picture was snapped, the kids--young and old--started rolling down the hill. When they started getting tired of doing this, they walked off to go join the others. Grandma was one of the last on the hill and she actually got down and tried to roll down it, just like she used to as a kid. Scott quickly took a picture of her and she didn't know it. (He posted it here with his remembrance of her within days of her death.) Aren't we all SO GLAD that we took the time to do as much as we did with her? I will always be grateful that I did! Of course, I could have done a lot more BUT I could have done a lot less so I take comfort in knowing that we had many good times like this. Thank you all for taking time to do many things that meant so much to her. Love, Karen

Yvonne's Birthday

Yvonne's Birthday

To all Vern's Rubies. As most all know today is Mother's, Grandma Beecher [Atwood]
whatever endearing title apply's, birthday. She would have been 86 year's [young].
She will ALWAYS be foremost in our heart and thoughts.We all know today is yet another
great day for her. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. All our love to you.

Yvonne Morris Beecher Atwood

Here are some pics everyone will love. These are another find from Gramdma Beecher's

photos:

Our Newest Beecher/Francom Family Member

I want to introduce you all to my newest grandson, Noah Beecher Francom. He was born on December 7, 2008. We were anxiously awaiting his birth and were happy to see that he made it very convenient for us all by coming on a Sunday. His older brother and sister came to our house at about 9:00 am and he was delivered by 11:00! He was 9lbs 1 oz. and 22 inches long. He is the biggest we've had! As you can see, he's going to be well cared for! All is well and you all can see him at our next family reunion OR if you stop by on any given Sunday!

Last night, we braved the weather and went to Lillian's Christmas Dance Recital. It was all very cute and we enjoyed all the dances, especially Lillian's. She knew every step and was right in time with the music. We also brought her pink flowers--a very important part of any little dance recital, we are finding out. We give Scott credit because he has been her transportation to all her practices--he took her to class, he took her to the dress rehearsal, then he was there for the performance. Yes, he saw it all many more times than a dad should have to so he's going above and beyond since Melissa is at home with Noah--just ask him!

Like Lynn, I also want to thank you all for all your sharing of memories of Grandma. She would be so thrilled to think that you all cared enough to take the time to write about her. She always wanted to be important to us and she now knows that she was a major player in all of our family doings. In her later years, I think her mere presents led us all to do so many of the things we did do. I hope we all continue to find reasons to be together for her sake. In her later years, as I learned to serve her, I often thought of my father smiling down on me as I would go out of my way to do what she asked or spend extra time and go into her condo when dropping her off. Now, as we all continue to try to do what is right, I hope to see both my mother and father smiling down at us and know that we are all trying to become that eternal family that is so very important.

We are not just part of an eternal family--I think we are part of a very important eternal family. When our dad died at such an early time in our lives, I think that he and Heavenly Father knew we still needed special help to become the family we would have been if our father would have stayed. I really KNOW that we have been blessed, above and beyond what we have been capable of. As I look at all six families, I can see things that could have been so different without our Heavenly Father and our dad watching over us. How grateful I am to have been given special attention and amazing blessing as a member of our family. What a responsibility we all should feel to continue to feel the help that is there for us all if we seek it. Everyone, please know that you are so important and we need to make the time to be together as often as possible. If you are in Salt Lake City during the holidays and would like to go to Grandma's condo or be part of anything the six kids are doing--we're all only a phone call away!!! I love you all!!! Karen

Looking for...

Hi Everyone,

I am wondering if anyone has used the PAF program from the church web-site to do our family's geneology history? If you have could you email me a copy of your file? I am just learning how to use the program and hoping I can get a head start from someone. Thanks!

Linsey

Grandma Atwood's Funeral

I would like to thank Mindy & Justin and all of the Grand kids, also the Great Grand kids for your kind word and love that you gave to Grandma Beecher. As grandma would always say "we sure have a wonderful family" and Mindy your thoughts are thoughts that this family all share about grandma. I love each member of this special family. I would like to share a couple of thoughts I did not have time for in my talk at the funeral, because of time. In my Patriarchal Blessing it tells me, "for you have been blessed with good parentage and this you should consider as a special blessing to you. When you study your ancestral line you will note that you have come of good parentage and that the Lord has been mindful of you in giving you good parentage and you are here now in the world to work out the potentials which you had in your pre-mortal existence when you were chosen to come into the world under good parentage and to be born in a good land. I bless you that you shall honor your parents; your mother and also your father who has passed on and that you shall be a dutiful son and not give your mother or the members of your family anything to worry about". Well I am truly blessed to have a father and a mother that taught me well and expect me to carry on their example. I would like to tell you how grandma helped me on one occasion. I was standing in front of our house on 14th street. I was about 14 or 15 years old when a car stopped and asked if I knew where a girl lived. There were four guys in the car and I said that there was no one by that name that lived around here. I probably said it in some smart tone that they did not like. One of them reach in the glove box and pulled some thing out. Well I found out real quick that it was a knife. Two of them got out of the car and came running at me with the knife in hand. I knew I was in trouble. I turned and started to run my self. The home on 14th St. had a porch with four stairs. I jumped onto the porch and could feel that one of them was real close. On the porch I turned and saw him leaping to the porch, I kicked and knocked him off the porch and that's when I heard someone coming out the door screaming at these two guys to stop right now and leave. I was so glad that they did what they were told. I looked and it was my mother that came and saved me from I'm not sure what could of happened. Grandma did have some real spunk in her. I am really starting to miss my mom and want each of you to know that I love her with all my hart and will always honor her. Thanks again for each of you and your kind words and love of grandma.

Lynn

Thoughts

I feel so grateful that Heavenly Father chose to "transplant" me into this family by marrying such a wonderful man. There have been countless blessings in my life by becoming a member of this family and His Church. One of the largest blessings I have received is through knowing Grandma and seeing her wonderful example. I would have much difficulty thinking of a more Christ-Like example in all of our lives. Justin and I have had the opportunity to have her for Easter, Fourth of July and most recently sharing my baptism day with her. What a wonderful way to end! Then I remembered that just a few short weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet her with Weldon and Gean at the last session of General Conference. It was such a great session....as a granddaughter in law, I will be eternally grateful for sharing this special time with her. I will miss her wonderful chip mix (with peanut m&m's) that she would bring for the grandchildren at every family function. Most of all, we will miss her sweet smile and amazing spirit!

Pictures of Grandma II

Various Pictures of Grandma