Christmas Highlights

We wanted to share some Christmas highlights. We had a really great Christmas, and wish we were closer to all of you.


This was Lincolns new thing this year. We would wake up every morning to an undecorated tree. Linc would neatly place all the ornaments in a box during the middle of the night - we don't know why. The kids got used to decorating the tree again first thing every morning.



The famous Christmas Pageant. This year Cora, Israel, Levi, Brigham and Cecelia performed in an all star cast of the famous Christmas story. They practiced for weeks, so you can only imagine ... it was magnificent!


This is what Rick and I look like after not getting any sleep the night before. Cute Linc kept us up all night. We finally fell asleep around 5 a.m. and at 6 a.m. the kids gently reminded us it was time to get up. We still feel a little dizzy.




Even the dog got Christmas P.J.s this year. What luck!

We hope you all had a very merry christmas.

Merry Christmas from the Williams!

Dear Family and Friends,

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and hope you enjoy your holiday season wherever you may be.  We are spending our Christmas together as a family here in London, Ontario and will miss seeing many of you this year, so we have included the few recently rehearsed photos of our family and a handful of the candid moments that you just can't plan for.  For us, these are our happiest years in our 9 years of marriage as we see our kids grow and only wish we could be a little closer to family to share them this holiday season. We love each of you and hope your Christmas is memorable and sweet.

Love,

Zach, Mary, Kaitlyn and Liza

A FABULOUS SKI WEEKEND!

We had such a wonderful weekend at Keystone these past few days. I just had to share some pictures because we now have three kids that ski in our family, and each one loves it. Cora, Lincoln and Brigham all LOVED skiing. I think we were the most shocked by Lincoln, because we have never really talked to him about skiing nor has he really ever seen anyone ski. He could not wait to get on the hill and start. It was really exciting for Rick and I. It has always been our dream to have a skiing family, and look at us, well on our way. The other amazing thing is that if you look at these pictures, Linc will blow you away. He was so aware, and excited, and with us, that it just comes through in these pictures. Our own little Christmas miracle.

We were lucky enough to have Steve, Elijah and Israel come too. Thanks for coming guys!


MY FAVORITE SKIIERS

LINCOLN AND HIS AMAZING TEACHER, RICK

THE BOYS SKIING FOR THEIR FIRST TIME

BRIG DOING A SERIOUS SNOW PLOW

PROOF THAT LYDIA AND MARISA WERE THERE TOO

Merry Christmas

CHRISTMAS JOY IN THREES

As our

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Christmas in Tampico approaches our thoughts turn to

Family, Friends & Savior

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Precious grandbabies were born in our family this year

Marguerite Magdalene to Steve & Rachel, Aaron James (A.J.) to Dave & Karalee,

Joseph Christiansen to Kathy & Charlie

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 Precious grandbabies are due soon,

Kathryn Wendy to Rick & Marisa, Olive Annalee to Jim & Mandi,

Baby boy to Sharon & Matt

(name pending)

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Sons who were without work are now happily employed (Steve, David, Dan)

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Wonderful missions and consequently dear friends in

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Wonderful countries

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Reasons for the season

HIS BIRTH, HIS EXAMPLE, HIS ATONEMENT

With love, The Bentleys (Toney & Wendy)

Steve! Fix the BBB!

Alright smarty-pants computer boy Steve!  Can you fix the crazy bentley bulletin?  I'm angered about the spam e-mails but don't have the presence of mind to figure out how to block that from our blog posts.... I think you have the know-how though.  Any chance?  What do you guys want for Christmas anyways?  Think about it, I'm calling you this week. 

Hey ya'll so we are confused on what was decided for Christmas... did we come to a conclusion? We are all for the instate exchange because we were just talking about how its hard to come up with something for a family you don't see very often, especially with a $25 limit, plus shipping ends up being as much as the gift sometimes... just our thoughts... We could just start in next year since some people have already sent them... PLUS for the last few years all of us Utahns get together for christmas and do a white elephant or something, but we wouldn't have to do that if we could just exchange real gifts!!! Let us know... Love you all! Jimmy and Mandi