I hope you all enjoy the movies. I am SO SORRY that I don't have everyone included in the movies!!! I had to go with the pictures I had taken this summer and I didn't have one shot of Elijah! Buddy, forgive me. All kids 2 and under... I will do my best to get to you, but in the meantime... parents, do your best! I am dying to do one of Mom and Dad before I loose all of my steam. For now this will have to do because I have completely ignored my children and my house, wholly consumed by my giddiness in making funny Monster Mash movies. I honestly don't know if Kaitlyn ate lunch, I know I didn't. Boy, get me on a project and everything else goes out the window. This is why I don't delve. It's too consuming. I take my hat off to all of you. I can't think of anything to report that won't take forever and since I have a 10 min. break to get back under control, I won't tell you any news. LOVE YOU THOUGH!!!
The top two pictures are of the cabin land. The bottom two show us hunting to include the spot the "Steve" shot the deer. By the way we started calling Steve Senior Juan Vallencia given in hunting garb.
Rick
Richard Bentley Family Land Barons?
After years of cheap talk about buying land for a cabin in Utah, it looks like it is going to happen. We will close on buying 5 acres in Tabiona in mid November. I have attached some pictures, some of which show our new neighbors who are selling the land to us. It will probably be about 5 or 6 years before we build a cabin, but until then, anyone who wants to go up can enjoy the family tradition of camping with no running water. A few notes: When Marisa and I went to look at the land we saw a huge bull moose. Jim caught 10 fish in about an hour in the nearby Red Creek Reservior.
Speaking of Jim.... We first went up to look at the land the night of BYU's loss to Florida State. We were going to go the next morning, but in our depression we decided to drive up to Tabiona and hopefully not spend a cold night in the car...for it could be no colder than the pain in our hearts given the football game.
We ended up finding a row of tiny cabins (Not hobbitville stuff; the doors were normal size.) We couldn't figure out where the management was, and it was really late, so we decided to just start trying doors on the cabins. The first one we tried opened, and we went in. After stripping down to our skivies and jumping into what could only be described as a one man bed, we tried to fall asleep. I think both of us had nightmares about someone kicking in the door with a shotgun and asking us our buisness.
It is hard to say if it would have been more embarrassing to be caught staying there illegally, or more embarrassing to have to explain why we were together in our undies.
We had to get up at the crack of dawn to see the land and still make it to the airport for my flight, so we left them some cash on the dresser along with a lovely note thanking them for a nice evening.
I am having photo problems. I put them in tomorrow.
xo,
R and Fam.
As much as R thinks he was helping put a poor innocient deer out of it's misery, shooting a doe when you have a buck license is well, illegal. Hah, think on that ;) Good thing I won't turn him in...S
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Posted By The Bentley Family to tHe beNtLeY buLLeTiN at 10/21/2009 08:00:00 PM
| As much as R thinks he was helping put a poor innocient deer out of it's misery, shooting a doe when you have a buck license is well, illegal. Hah, think on that ;) Good thing I won't turn him in...S |
A few notes associated with Steve's Apocryphal tale.
Firstly, The beast in question was a normal sized woman deer. Secondly, Steve did shoot the animal, but then failed to finish the job. The minutes passed as the animal made it's way for yonder wood. I looked up from my blind to see Steve in what can only be described as a "stupor". Harkening back to Grandpa Whiting's teachings that one should never let an animal needlessly suffer, I summoned the strength to finish the poor beast. Unlike my elder, the animal dropped instantly with my shot and now is in a happier place.
Richard
p.s.- Steve didn't include who did most of the deer dragging down the mountain in his tale.
p.s.s.- I really do feel like sort of a heal for shooting Steve's deer. I couldn't figure out why he wasn't taking a second shot over what felt like at least 20 seconds. However, looking back it would have been better to let the animal bleed to death slowly.
p.s.s.- I have another tale to tell later about Jim and I illegally staying in a hotel room, but I'll let it wait until I know if we own some cabin land near Tabiona.
I just talked to dear Aunt Bev. She and Uncle Bruce are extending all of you an invitation to Thanksgiving Dinner with them. Pete's and Eric's familys' will be there also. So if you need somewhere to go for a turkey feast you are welcome in Evanston.
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Aye, the mighty hunters have returned, and the blood of running deer runs true in the seed of Toney.
The tale begins on a cold, dank and dark night. Err the moon was as a fingernail scraping the backdrop of the heavens. Three great hunters, adorned in coverings of the warrior, break the silence of the night with the howl of the kill.
The strategy is foretold in the great book of the hunt, nodius 3, verse 2. " And they shall be mighty, fit to conquer the beasts of the forrest. They shall breath fire and smell as the hot sulfur springs of the gule waste. They take what they will and waste not much, but like the winter storm, they overcome and dwell in great places. All beasts must succumb to the three."
As the hunt began, the chore looked ominous. The four legged animals were scarce in this part of the realm. The three dawned their mighty firesticks and trekked to the unknown, high in the rugged backcountry. Many hours were spent spinning strategy. Then, mainly by luck, a tactical victory was discovered. A clearing, stood in the midst with sparsely covered aspen and high grass to disquise the mighty hunters. Not but 20 minutes transpired when out of the wood a pair of deerus animalus besought to cross the ill fated wood. A shot was fired by the eldest, fatally wonding the gynormous beast in the chest. Not to be outdone, the second of three, in an act of pure selfish, and egocentric self gratification, shot the beast to get the glory. In other words, RICK SHOT MY DEER. With a scream of triumph, the third brother ran to the scene of the hunt. With mighty shouts of exhuberation, the three began tearing at the flesh with their bare hands. Soon the beast was dispatched and mounted on a great beam for transport to the tent of the conquerers. With a great deal of effort and strain, the mighty hunters dragged the beast to their final destination. Knives were utilized to strip the beast of hide and hair, hanging the animal in a tree.
Prophecy fulfilled, the mighty hunters returned to their realm.
You're reading it right, we've just had a lovely Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. I successfully provided the entire turkey feast this year... it was exciting... the turkey was only 2 hours late to get out of the oven while the rest of the food was getting cold. That's at least an improvement over last year when the turkey came out totally dry because I added no fluid. :) You live and learn. We planned on 4pm for dinner so it wasn't a big deal to eat at 6. :) Zach's parents and grandparents drove out for 5 days and joined in the festivities so it's really felt like a holiday. Plus, it's supposed to start snowing any minute now. Very festive.
Since the cold is coming on strong, I've been a baking/cooking fool. Butternut Squash Bisque, pumkin pie(actually that was Zach), apple crisp, stuffed green peppers, bran muffins and Banana Pancakes. yum... I'm making myself hungry. I've decided that's my favorite way to show love... foodf, probably my favorite way to recieve it too.. Just like Dad. I don't know how the love language book missed that one, Dad and I are all for it. That's why I love the family cookbook so much. Thanks again to everyone and especially Marisa. Since I can't personally cook for you here's a great recipe I've found lately that isn't in the cookbook:
Oat Bran Muffins
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Hi everyone,
We haven't been very good about writing in the BB lately. Thanks so much to Mom and the other folks that do. I want to be better. We miss all of you guys so much. It's wonderful to have Zach and Mary and their little dumplings out here relatively close, but we miss the rest of you. I hope maybe some of you all will write something this month too to let us know what's going on in your lives since we're not good at calling due to time zone changes and crazy schedules. We keep Steve and Rachel's family in our prayers as well as all of the cute little pregnant aunts. Hope everyone is doing well.
As far as we go. . . Dave has really been enjoying his new job teaching at the College for Creative Studies. The only drawback was last week when his laptop got stolen. -ouch- Ah, the perils of working in a city like Detroit. The good news is that he's teaching fun classes: character design, 3-D environments and the Senior Studio. It's nice to be employed with a steady paycheck again. Happy days! Since this job is only for another 8 months it'll be interesting to see where we end up next.
Josh is liking 5th grade even though it has a beastly amount of homework. He is hugely into Bakugan right now and trades with his compadres at school. He and Maddie had a blast this summer with everyone, thanks again. Speaking of Maddie, she thinks 4th grade is. . .okay. She dreams of a school-free utopian existence where she can stay home and play stuffed animals with Josh all day. It's good that at least she has a buddy that can keep up with her imagination at recess. Jakey says his name is "Big boy." He is having a tough time adjusting to all of the craziness--suddenly Maddie and Josh are at school all day and Dad is gone to work, and all he's left with is a Mom who is postpartum nuts and has a baby dividing her attention. I think he'll adjust though. AJ started smiling and he's had two nights where he slept for 8 hours straight! Oh bliss! Of course they were followed by a night where he slept for no longer than an hour at a time. Ah well. We'll take what we can get.
Kid Quotes:
"Don't mess with the worms!" -Maddie [After reading Acts 12:23]
"They're like the spiritual assassins." -Josh [same]
And then when we were all going someplace in the van once Dave was talking about Steve's driving when he was a youth. I'll let Dave tell what he said specifically (I personally think Steve is a fabulous driver), but the conversation went like this afterwards:
Dave: Uncle Steve's a much better driver now.
MADDIE: Yeah, because he has a wife now that will get him in trouble.
Mom: Does Dad get in trouble with Mom?
Josh: Oh yeah, like when she whacks you with a pillow.
Hmmm. . .
Have a great month familia.
Love,
DKJMJ&AJ
SPOOKY OCTOBER
Happy birthday to:
Elizabeth Ivie Williams the 5th
Levi Aaron Bentley the 12th
Stephen Anthony Bentley the 14th
Violet Rachel Bentley the 15th
Marisa Lee Thompson Bentley the 24th
Grandma Bentley the 2th
