It’s the most wonderful time of the year again: The BHP holiday edition! It's time to recap the end of 2018. Here we go!
Just as usual, the first major event in October was General Conference. However, with 2 new babies, I wasn't able to pay too close attention to the sessions. It was hard for me to get used to having 4 children, and so I was pretty ragged. But we loved watching our twins figure things out and how much that their sisters doted on them.
Thankfully, we had a lot of help with the babies via the ladies in our ward. They volunteered to take our older girls so that I could sleep, and loved to hold them on Sundays.
The end of the month soon came and it was time for Halloween. So we found costumes. Enna decided that she wanted to be a witch for the second year in a row, Aijah wanted to be Rapunzel using the dress-up dress we had. Dallin was a clown fish using a knitted tail and hat, and Celeste was a mountain climber (we just put her in her snowsuit and called it good). We then took them to the town square and the high school where the town holds trick-or-treat events. On the way home, we did the homes on our street. By the time we got home, they had a TON of candy. I knew that I would have to monitor it carefully or it would be gone pretty quickly.
A few days later, now the beginning of November, the kids and I took an adventure downtown for the annual reading kickoff that KUED puts on. As the girls are actually old enough to be interested in the books for their stories and not just their pictures, I thought it would be fun. And while it was fun, it was also extremely exhausting!! There were a lot of people there, so making sure that the girls were able to explore while keeping them close and safe took a lot of wrangling. I think that their favorite activity was creating air balloons. They used coffee filters, fruit baskets, and pipe cleaners to build balloons and then send them up multiple times in the provided air chamber. They were definitely entertained by that for probably 15-20 minutes.
The other favorite activity they did was the Lego room where the blocks were half as big as they were. Enna built a tower that was as tall as she was and then tear it down and build it up again. I could tell that she was having a ball. Meanwhile, Aijah busied herself climbing up and down the balcony in the middle of the room. Before going home, they begged me to allow them to ride the train. So we bought tickets and rode the train from the library back to our car. When we arrived home, I put on a show for them so that I could rest a bit as I was definitely worn out. I was glad they had fun though.
A couple of weeks later, we had the fun of watching Enna in her first primary program. She had a practice the day before the actual performance and did pretty well with her line. However, the next day in front of all the ward she had a little of a freak out. While she did say her line, right after she gave her primary teacher a hug as she was a bit scared. It garnished a giggle from the ward, but I was proud of her for trying.
Later in the month we had the fun of going up north to be with family for Thanksgiving. We spent the morning with my mom's parents and siblings that were in town and enjoyed some breakfast with them. There was actually quite a few family members there which made it extra fun. I was able to see some cousins that I haven't seen for years. As we had already committed with my aunt on my dad's side for the actual thanksgiving meal, we headed out to Ogden about lunch time. There was a lot of family there as well, so that was also a bunch of fun. There were lots of inside jokes shared and laughs at each other’s' expense (a typical Beach get together in other words).
November turned into December and officially started off the Christmas season. The first activity was our annual ward Christmas party. As Ryan had to work, I was on my own with 4 kids. However, the members of our ward were more than willing to help me out. At one point, all four kids were in the hands of different individuals so I had to keep track of multiple people. It was fun anyway though.
As we got closer to Christmas, it was time for the fun treat of going to the airport to pick up my brother Matt who I hadn't seen in a little over a year and a half. He was able to come over from Italy for a Christmas visit. The plan was for him to stay with us through Christmas morning and then head north with my parents.
After picking him up we had a nice chat and were able to spend time catching up on life. He was able to tell me all about some of the fun places that he had been able to visit overseas.
A day or so later, my parents came in from Virginia after driving for a long time and again a lot of the time was spent chit chatting about life and things that had been happening in our lives for the last little bit and playing a game or two.
Finally, it was Christmas Eve. We had the fun of hosting basically all of my family. The only ones that were missing were my sisters (as they were both on the east coast for the holidays). It was a bit crazy with that many people in the house, but we had a ton of fun playing games, eating food, and talking about life. That night, we put people in every corner of the house. We even had people sleeping in the kitchen! We made it work though.
The next morning, we spent about 2-2 ½ hours opening presents together. There was everything from the goofy to the useful, but fun was had by all.
With the gifts opened, we enjoyed some breakfast and then pretty much everyone took off. We decided to wait a day to go up so that we could spend some family time. It ended up being a good choice as some of us started feeling a bit ill. So we took time to rest and recoup.
The next day we headed up to spend some time with grandparents. As usual there was a lot of activity at both locations, but still lots of food and fun. As this was the twins' first Christmas, they weren't all too interested in presents, but that was OK. We had fun watching them attempt to open presents. I think they may have each opened one. :)
Finally, the month ended and it was time to celebrate the New Year. Ryan had to work, and I didn't want to keep kids up until midnight, so we stayed home and celebrated individually. It was so fun though.
Well that does it for this issue. We'll see you again next year!
Just as usual, the first major event in October was General Conference. However, with 2 new babies, I wasn't able to pay too close attention to the sessions. It was hard for me to get used to having 4 children, and so I was pretty ragged. But we loved watching our twins figure things out and how much that their sisters doted on them.
Thankfully, we had a lot of help with the babies via the ladies in our ward. They volunteered to take our older girls so that I could sleep, and loved to hold them on Sundays.
The end of the month soon came and it was time for Halloween. So we found costumes. Enna decided that she wanted to be a witch for the second year in a row, Aijah wanted to be Rapunzel using the dress-up dress we had. Dallin was a clown fish using a knitted tail and hat, and Celeste was a mountain climber (we just put her in her snowsuit and called it good). We then took them to the town square and the high school where the town holds trick-or-treat events. On the way home, we did the homes on our street. By the time we got home, they had a TON of candy. I knew that I would have to monitor it carefully or it would be gone pretty quickly.
A few days later, now the beginning of November, the kids and I took an adventure downtown for the annual reading kickoff that KUED puts on. As the girls are actually old enough to be interested in the books for their stories and not just their pictures, I thought it would be fun. And while it was fun, it was also extremely exhausting!! There were a lot of people there, so making sure that the girls were able to explore while keeping them close and safe took a lot of wrangling. I think that their favorite activity was creating air balloons. They used coffee filters, fruit baskets, and pipe cleaners to build balloons and then send them up multiple times in the provided air chamber. They were definitely entertained by that for probably 15-20 minutes.
The other favorite activity they did was the Lego room where the blocks were half as big as they were. Enna built a tower that was as tall as she was and then tear it down and build it up again. I could tell that she was having a ball. Meanwhile, Aijah busied herself climbing up and down the balcony in the middle of the room. Before going home, they begged me to allow them to ride the train. So we bought tickets and rode the train from the library back to our car. When we arrived home, I put on a show for them so that I could rest a bit as I was definitely worn out. I was glad they had fun though.
A couple of weeks later, we had the fun of watching Enna in her first primary program. She had a practice the day before the actual performance and did pretty well with her line. However, the next day in front of all the ward she had a little of a freak out. While she did say her line, right after she gave her primary teacher a hug as she was a bit scared. It garnished a giggle from the ward, but I was proud of her for trying.
Later in the month we had the fun of going up north to be with family for Thanksgiving. We spent the morning with my mom's parents and siblings that were in town and enjoyed some breakfast with them. There was actually quite a few family members there which made it extra fun. I was able to see some cousins that I haven't seen for years. As we had already committed with my aunt on my dad's side for the actual thanksgiving meal, we headed out to Ogden about lunch time. There was a lot of family there as well, so that was also a bunch of fun. There were lots of inside jokes shared and laughs at each other’s' expense (a typical Beach get together in other words).
November turned into December and officially started off the Christmas season. The first activity was our annual ward Christmas party. As Ryan had to work, I was on my own with 4 kids. However, the members of our ward were more than willing to help me out. At one point, all four kids were in the hands of different individuals so I had to keep track of multiple people. It was fun anyway though.
As we got closer to Christmas, it was time for the fun treat of going to the airport to pick up my brother Matt who I hadn't seen in a little over a year and a half. He was able to come over from Italy for a Christmas visit. The plan was for him to stay with us through Christmas morning and then head north with my parents.
After picking him up we had a nice chat and were able to spend time catching up on life. He was able to tell me all about some of the fun places that he had been able to visit overseas.
A day or so later, my parents came in from Virginia after driving for a long time and again a lot of the time was spent chit chatting about life and things that had been happening in our lives for the last little bit and playing a game or two.
Finally, it was Christmas Eve. We had the fun of hosting basically all of my family. The only ones that were missing were my sisters (as they were both on the east coast for the holidays). It was a bit crazy with that many people in the house, but we had a ton of fun playing games, eating food, and talking about life. That night, we put people in every corner of the house. We even had people sleeping in the kitchen! We made it work though.
The next morning, we spent about 2-2 ½ hours opening presents together. There was everything from the goofy to the useful, but fun was had by all.
With the gifts opened, we enjoyed some breakfast and then pretty much everyone took off. We decided to wait a day to go up so that we could spend some family time. It ended up being a good choice as some of us started feeling a bit ill. So we took time to rest and recoup.
The next day we headed up to spend some time with grandparents. As usual there was a lot of activity at both locations, but still lots of food and fun. As this was the twins' first Christmas, they weren't all too interested in presents, but that was OK. We had fun watching them attempt to open presents. I think they may have each opened one. :)
Finally, the month ended and it was time to celebrate the New Year. Ryan had to work, and I didn't want to keep kids up until midnight, so we stayed home and celebrated individually. It was so fun though.
Well that does it for this issue. We'll see you again next year!
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