We had a busy week and had so many things happening all at once. As I was putting pictures together tonight I realized how much went on in just he last 7 days! Here’s a brief update on our life…
Desh, Beck and Keen all celebrated super hero day at school this week and got to wear their favorite superhero shirt. Deshs teacher is the best and always sends cute pics of the class and what’s happening at school.
Along with super heroes, I also have crazy faces from my kids that show up on my phone somehow, the amazing growth of “D Papaya” and major bed head some mornings. What do you do?
Beach day was a rainy soggy day and we ALMOST didn’t make it to the beach at all. Just as we were driving there it cleared up just enough for us to feel good about going and having fun anyway. We got drizzled on here and there but overall it was just a gorgeous night to be out. I know we said we’d go to a different beach every week, and we’ve really tried hard to do that. It today we opted for a close one and Playa Azul never disappoints. It’s one of our fav close beaches and super easy to get to after school pick up. That’s where we spent the afternoon this week. The boys passed the time playing flies up in the water and us girls just basked in the sunlight and warm afternoon :) Love our beach days!
Josh has been searching all over the island for these certain plants called Heliconia. We’ve seen them here and there in yards and such but have not been able to find a place that we can buy them from. Finally Josh got fed up looking :) and jumped online and ordered a whole bunch from a place in Hawaii. The box of Heliconia arrived this week and he got to work getting them all planted in their own pots. He has become quite the horticulturist since moving here and cares for every plant and tree in our yard as if they were his children. He’s constantly walking around the house in the early hours just checking on things and seeing how much a certain tree has grown or which plant needs a little more attention. He’s so great at making our yard look beautiful!
We’ve been putting together a list of “one hour projects” that we can work on each day and try and knock a few things off our to do list a little at a time. This week our project was painting the garage. Although it did take more than one hour, we taped and covered and prepped the garage and then got the sprayer out and primed it one day and painted it bright white another day. The prepping is by far the hardest part but once it was done and sprayed it was a great job to have done! It looks so nice and clean and fresh. Loved having this project done and behind us!
Other things happening around the Beutler house:
Grammie and Papa gave the girls their Christmas present early - an electric piano for the house here! They were so excited to get it! The reason for the early present is because the girls were both called as ward pianists in our branch and have needed a way to practice. So…grammie and papa to the rescue and merry early Christmas!
Keen and his tutoring class were able to read aloud together to a visiting puppy in their class!
Rhen LOVES her friends at school and had a great time on her field trip this week. She couldn’t tell me enough about how much fun it was riding the bus with everyone singing and laughing and having fun together. Love that she’s happy :)
Desh is getting long hair. Too long. Haircut time.
We have pumpkins growing in the yard! Want to know how? Two weeks ago when we carved pumpkins for Halloween, some of the seeds fell and were washed down the driveway and out the front gate. Sure enough, we have pumpkin plants growing now!
Ring worm made it to our house. I’m not surprised but now we’re working hard to rid it from poor Rhen.
And...the most exciting thing of all this week. We got our pool started!! Everyone is excited around here! Henry with Caribbean Pools has been working with us to get all the details finalized and now we're all ready. They came Thursday morning and started first thing digging the hole and taking down the wall behind that we're having replaced and rebuilt. They worked all day and dug the whole thing and hauled the dirt up the hill behind us. It was amazing to watch them work! Then Friday morning a whole crew showed up bright and early and placed the rebar inside the whole pool area and prepped for cement. I was sure that they were prepping it to have ready for another day, but nope. That same day a cement truck showed up and they started the cement walls and floor for the pool and the footings for the new wall. It was incredible how fast they worked! They used the coolest method to put the cement it. It was a big tube that blew the cement in and attached it to the pool walls and then someone came behind and smoothed it out by hand. They worked hard and fast and got the whole pool done and the footings poored by Friday evening. And just like that it was well on it's way! They tell us that it will be about 5 weeks to get the whole thing done and already they are making such good progress. It makes us so excited to see this happening. We can't wait!
Friday night for date night, Josh and I went to the FIBA world cup qualifier basketball game at the Roberto Clemente arena in San Juan. It's a game that we bought tickets to a couple months ago and we were excited to have it here! Puerto Rico played Columbia and all these qualifier games give them points towards their entrance into the FIBA World Cup which will be next year. It was SO FUN to be there and watch our team play. I loved being part of the crowd and watching live basketball. And...we won! So that's even better! Josh is a good sport for letting me drag him along to the game :) We had a great night.
Saturday was full of errands and yard work including a trip to Costco, the panaderia for fresh bread and a lunch date for Rease and Josh. We were out of water almost the whole day which was a bummer, but late afternoon Saturday it came back on and life was back to normal. Saturday night we had homemade pizza, watched Start Trek together and prepped for Uncle Greg to join us early Sunday morning. The girls moved their things downstairs and very graciously opened up their room for our guest. So excited to have him here!
The boys worked hard helping Josh put in a form for a platform for the garbage cans outside of our wall. There is so much cement coming and going from our house in the next couple weeks that we're hoping we can get this little big poured as well while they're here. The boys got that all ready just in case.
Sunday morning we got Greg here early with lots of hugs to go around! He had flown the redeye flight to get here and we couldn't be more excited to have him here for the week. So great to see him again after so long!
And...the most exciting thing of all this week. We got our pool started!! Everyone is excited around here! Henry with Caribbean Pools has been working with us to get all the details finalized and now we're all ready. They came Thursday morning and started first thing digging the hole and taking down the wall behind that we're having replaced and rebuilt. They worked all day and dug the whole thing and hauled the dirt up the hill behind us. It was amazing to watch them work! Then Friday morning a whole crew showed up bright and early and placed the rebar inside the whole pool area and prepped for cement. I was sure that they were prepping it to have ready for another day, but nope. That same day a cement truck showed up and they started the cement walls and floor for the pool and the footings for the new wall. It was incredible how fast they worked! They used the coolest method to put the cement it. It was a big tube that blew the cement in and attached it to the pool walls and then someone came behind and smoothed it out by hand. They worked hard and fast and got the whole pool done and the footings poored by Friday evening. And just like that it was well on it's way! They tell us that it will be about 5 weeks to get the whole thing done and already they are making such good progress. It makes us so excited to see this happening. We can't wait!
Friday night for date night, Josh and I went to the FIBA world cup qualifier basketball game at the Roberto Clemente arena in San Juan. It's a game that we bought tickets to a couple months ago and we were excited to have it here! Puerto Rico played Columbia and all these qualifier games give them points towards their entrance into the FIBA World Cup which will be next year. It was SO FUN to be there and watch our team play. I loved being part of the crowd and watching live basketball. And...we won! So that's even better! Josh is a good sport for letting me drag him along to the game :) We had a great night.
Saturday was full of errands and yard work including a trip to Costco, the panaderia for fresh bread and a lunch date for Rease and Josh. We were out of water almost the whole day which was a bummer, but late afternoon Saturday it came back on and life was back to normal. Saturday night we had homemade pizza, watched Start Trek together and prepped for Uncle Greg to join us early Sunday morning. The girls moved their things downstairs and very graciously opened up their room for our guest. So excited to have him here!
The boys worked hard helping Josh put in a form for a platform for the garbage cans outside of our wall. There is so much cement coming and going from our house in the next couple weeks that we're hoping we can get this little big poured as well while they're here. The boys got that all ready just in case.
Sunday morning we got Greg here early with lots of hugs to go around! He had flown the redeye flight to get here and we couldn't be more excited to have him here for the week. So great to see him again after so long!
That's our week in a nutshell. Such a good one.
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