Zeke's 7th Birthday Party!

Here are some pictures of Zeke's Birthday party.

Zeke's Birthday cake. If you can't tell, it's a Pinewood derby ramp.

Here are he and his friends eating the personal pizzas they made. It was fun and so quick. They all seemed to like them.

Here is a race picture, they had fun. Boys and racing!

Sam did a scoring system with the boy's white boards it was a great idea.

Here are all the boys with their cars. The little boy just in front of Zeke in the red shirt raced Granny's car and won every time. It was sure cute! Thanks Granny!

Over all it was a really fun party. I had fun and I hope the boys had fun too. Now we'll have to think of another fun party for next year.

Another Malachi Story

Well...it finally happened! One of my children cut Eli's hair, I know you'll have a hard time guessing which of MY children would do it so I'll tell you like Zeke would...

M...A...L...A...C...H...I!

This is what happen when a mommy gets too sleepy!

But he's sure still cute!

But it was noticeable so I had do take some action...

Eli was not too sure about my action though!

It was so hard for me to do this, but people were stopping me in the store and saying things like "someone got the scissors" or "which big brother gave him a haircut?" I couldn't leave it like that.

He was pretty good throughout the haircut and only cried at the very end and only because he wanted down.

As my mom would say... "Did you learn anything?" and I would have to say yes. I'll never let Malachi watch Eli while I'm sleeping, ever again! *scouts honor*

Well it happened...Zeke turned 7 years old!

And we gave him a skateboard!

He looks pretty cool doesn't he.

He's just learning, but he's doing really well.

Thanks Grandpa Jeff for the books! It has been really fun.

He was really happy, but it was just such a funny face!

He is such a great boy! I love my Zekie boy!

Family pictures

So we had some family pictures taken in May and I thought you'd all like to see them.

Our little family. (is a family of 5 little?)

My Boys! Malachi! Zeke and Eli

Zeke! I love how happy he looks. He requested some fun pictures and his Aunt Drea accommodated.

This Kid CRACKS ME UP!!!

Eli, Sweet sweet boy!

Hope you enjoyed these picts! Thanks Drea! You da bomb diggity!

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My Boys and the Pinewood Derby

Last week (in march this is a little old, but such is my life) we had a really fun ward activity. It was a pinewood derby/chili cookoff. We had quite a few people show up (I'd say about 70, which is a lot for our little ward) and 28 cars register. Totally fun, but to back up a bit, a few months ago I was talking to Sam about getting the cub scouts excited about being cub scouts, he remimded me of a fun activity we'd had in our last area, a Pinewood derby for the whole ward. I thought it would be so much fun and we decided to combine it with an already scheduled Elders Quoram activity. Then came the realization that we did not have a track. I asked Sam if it was at all possible for him to make one, he said he'd look into it. A few weeks later we decided to just make one mostly because we have 9 years of cub scouts ahead of us. Can you believe that! 9 pinewood derby's with our boys in a row starting 2011! YIKES! From all that Sam read it seemed pretty easy so he went and got all the supplies... which cost a little more than we thought, but it all worked out and it was great!

Here are some great pictures.

Life is Good!

Well, I think my complaining email worked cause now I only have 1 calling... Primary President! Yikes! That will teach me! It is a challenging calling, but it's been really rewarding. I had fun at Girls Camp, despite being 5 months pregnant and my other callings worked out just fine! Life really is good. My Boys are crazy! Sam is Sam! Planning and all that jazz! He really enjoys getting me freaked out! Zeke is so correct! He is really enjoying 1st grade and loves that there are more rules. He gets so excited when he finishes his work before anyone and has tell me first thing! He is such a great big brother and is working hard on being an even better big brother because as he says he'll be the biggest brother so he's gonna have to be really good. He wants so badly to do everything just right, but being right is something he excels at! (or at least he thinks so;)) Malachi is CRAZY! I love being able to spend my day with him. He drives me crazy and then laughs and all the crazy is gone! He is quite the little guy. He loves being with me which is flattering. Zeke has always been such a Daddy's boy so it's nice to have someone who likes to be around me instead of tolerates me till Daddy comes home. And we are expecting another little boy. No name as of yet but the boys have put in their favorites... Yoda, Warrior, and Amalachia (even though he was a bad guy the boys think it's cool) and Malachi. Malachi really likes his name, he thinks it'd be good for this baby too! I have no pictures to put on this site because I've lost the camera, but I'll find it...hopefully! My boys are growing so fast. Zeke grew an inch over the summer so now Zeke is 44 inches and Malachi is 39 inches. Zeke weighs 40 lbs and Malachi weighs 39 lbs. They are so cute together...when they aren't fighting!! :0) They love Lego's and playing dinosaurs together. Yea for boys!

We bought a new home in March and it was a fixer-upper to put it nicely! We did a bunch before we moved in, but now are redoing the floor in the living room/dining - Kitchen. So quite the job, but we want to have the house finished before the new baby comes which is in 8-9 weeks! So it's crunch time!

Well that's what's happening at the Bentley home. Hope you enjoyed! I'll find the camera and put pictures on later.