Cousin Christmas Fun

We had all the cousins over for some Christmas fun!

Cute Taeler brought pin the star on the tree and a scavanger hunt, so thankful my big helpers are back in STG :)


We ate pizza, made some Christmasy crafts, baked cupcakes, and painted nails! all in a 3 hour period :P





We had a special visitor, making sure we were being nice :) Sophie was so excited the real Santa was finally here! All the kids were so excited "Sophie's Santa" came :)


Halle and Kade were the only ones able to sleepover and we had to keep with our tradition of a bubble bath, movie with popcorn and piling in the living room all together to sleep :)

I am so thankful my kids have such a fun relationship with their cousins, and I hope they all remember all these fun times, we sure love them all so much!

Holiday fun

We decided to have a family date night and go see Santa and then go out to eat.

We headed to the mall and while we were in line Sophie saw Santa, she was so excited! She was so giddy with excitement and was waving at him, she could barley wait her turn.

She walked up to sit on his lap, looked at him and said, "That's not Santa! He's a fake!" she would not even go sit on his lap, she was so mad. I was shocked since last year she loved him but apparently she knows the real Santa and the fake one just wont' do!

Rock-a-bye baby

When we got home from the millionth time trying to get a picture, Callaway ran to bounce on his horse, he loves this thing. All my kids have, it was mine when I was a little girl and I loved it :)

He was bouncing away and then in a split second wasn't, I go in the toy room and find him snoring away, fast asleep. So cute, then I realized he is snoring because he has a big glob of snot lol poor kid hasn't been feeling well and he rocked himself to sleep!!

So a good Mom would pick him up and take him to bed so he doesn't crash and hit his head on the cement floor, well.... I ran and grabbed my camera :P

Bentley Family Party

The annual Bentley family party, always good food, tons of family, and fun :)
A chance to dress up in your Christmas best

Candy bar game


White elephant gift bingo

Christmas Photo's

We are busy busy busy in this family, almost every night we have something and TJ works late 3 nights a week. I had penciled in a day to do family pictures the only day available in a 2 month period and guess who wakes up sick, TJ!!

I hadn't been feeling well but we all know Moms can't get sick so I was going to suck it up and not look as well in our pictures but he was looking really pasty, so I decided just to take the kids pics.

On the way Callaway fell asleep, he had started to not feel good either, he was being a pill so I decided to do single shots of each of them and try again later with Callaway.

I tried 3 other times and finally had to settle on this, the lighting is different he is by a lighter part of the rock but who cares its done lol

Then dang walmart chopped off all the sides even though the way it looked croped was fine, arggg I didn't want to re-do them
and come back so I settled :P

Merry Freakin Christmas from the Bentley Bunch is what I really wanted to put lol

Cards are all sent now.. .check
At least I got a few cute pics I just love my adorable monsters :)





these might be my favorite :P

Brielle's Christmas Party

The kids got to wear their PJs to school and party all day!

Nothing like a bunch of 6 year olds to make you feel like a Rockstar :) I walked into Brielle's class and everyone was yelling in excitement that I was there to party, I throw the best parties according to these 1st graders :)

We had a blast and I totally forgot my camera! This crazy season has made me lose my mind, but then again it was long gone awhile ago :P
We had 5 stations that each group rotated to: Decorate gingerbread houses, build a snowman out of TP and accessories, Christmas Bingo, a donut reindeer and milk snack and then my group made reindeer bags and magic food.

The kids loved it and we had a blast!!

Sophie's Christmas Program

For the last 2 weeks I have heard all Sophie's teachers say how cute she is when they practice their program, she sings the loudest, dances and is so cute they can't take their eyes off her.
So I have my video camera ready to catch this cute girl and what do I get, a shy Sophie!! She is hardly ever shy, she did smile the whole time and would sometimes sing and dance, and her part she had down "I see blue eyes looking at me" well see mumbled and put her head down and went back to her seat, she was so cute and I am sure will get use to performing in front of crowds :)

Future Tempest

Brielle and her friends Lia and Bailey attend a drill camp all week and then preformed at halftime for the Desert Hills High School vs Juan Diego basketball game.

Before their age groups number Brielle was on the sideline dancing away, her dance was way better than the routine they learned!



We are so proud of our lil Dancing Queen :)

First Term

First Term Stats for the kiddies:

Hunter got straight As, I am so proud of him, he worked really hard this summer preparing for his new school. I thought for sure he would struggle to catch up but nope, smart little cookie got straight As :) His teacher said he is such a funny kid, always happy and smiling, he is so nice to all the kids in his class and gets along with everyone.

Brielle got As and a A- she was upset she didn't get an award like Hunter but this is her first A- she missed an A by 2 points. I think its been a good lesson on working as hard as you can for her, she has never had to really study or practice. Her teacher loves her and says she is at the top of her class and is always happy and fun to be around.

Sophie is doing really well in Montessouri she has passed off letters C,M,A T,R, S and is working on numbers 10-20. She is one of the youngest in her class but is doing really well. Her teachers say she loves learning and works really hard in math and reading. She is the best singer in the class and is so strong in gymnastics. She is loving going to school 3 days a week!

Callaway is saying a ton more words lately, Dada, Momma, Bubba, Baba, Bumbum, Poopoo, Bye, Hi, No, to name a few. He will make a kissy face and smack his lips to kiss and waves hello and bye. He is getting too big and idolizes his Brother and Sisters. He loves any type of ball and we play catch every second of everyday lol. He also has started plaing with trucks and cars and makes a Brrrrrrmmmm sound, its hilarious! His new favorite toy is the bouncing horse, he really gets going fast! We love our Bubba

Gingerbread Houses

Traditional family gingerbread houses at Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Kens, it's a little tricky with all of us trying to make one house, lots of "be nice, share, she can decorate that way, you use it then pass it over, don't eat the candy, don't take it off, if someone already put it on" and other lectures repeated over and over during the process :) Still it's fun and makes me smile every time I walk past it :)








The finished product