This is old, but I still need to post it.

A Mon. night the first part of Oct. Aaron couldn't sleep, he was going to St. Louis for work and was worried about leaving me and the kids. I reassured him, we'll be fine. :) Tue morning before he had even landed we had a problem. I was helping one of the kids when I heard a loud thud in the kitchen, you know that sound of a head hitting somehing hard. Judd had been on the kitchen table helping himself to breakfast. He fell off and hit hard. I wasn't there to watch, but Levi said, mom, he almost did a back flip.

At first I wasn't too worried, but it got bigger and bigger. I called our Dr. They said "keep an eye on him" if he's acting abnormal take him to the ER for an x-ray. I called my good friend Amy for her wise opinion. "keep an eye on him" He's OK, I'm convincing myself. Then he's acting funny, I think I'm going to take him in, but I can't do it by myself. I've been to the ER lots of times with Gage, but not by myself with 3 kids, and our insurance has changed, and we haven't met our deductable, and... The doorbell rings. It's Amy! (she felt like she should come over). She makes the decision I couldn't convince myself to do. We're going. I decide on Primary's because I know it well and figure the insurance will work there. We make the long drive and I'm "watching him" the whole time. First he's crying weird, then he falls asleep, lethargic?... Once we got there I thought let's just "watch him" a little longer before we go in and rack up a big bill for nothing. He was moving a little gingerly, but smiling. We got something to eat at the wonderful (sarcasm) cafeteria and he was eating and happy and seemed fine so we drove home. Amy smiled as she dropped me off at home and said thanks for the call and the lunch date. (big smile). I'm so thankful for her friendship and her listening to the spirit and coming when I needed her help.

I'm also grateful he was fine even though he looked pretty rough for a couple of weeks. This pic was about a week after it happened. The goose egg is looking better in this pic, but the black eyes got even worse.

First day of School

Gage-2nd grade, Miss Berg

Levi-kindergarten,
Mrs. Ashworth
Claire-momschool

Cute Claire pictures

She's just so cute and hard to get a smile out of, but here are a few fun one's. Michelle did her hair cute and then had to take the fall pictures. She's posing for our neighbor Courtney who sells those cute dresses and hair accessories. It's fun for claire to be the model and Courtney needs a girl Claire's age.

summer fun

The Bentley family watching our 4th annual Orem Owls game. We love that tradition, love having traditions that we (and hopefully the kids) will remember. Of course we're right there so we do the Krispy Kreme donut tour after. Love it!!!

Levi, Amy, and Gage behind the Thueson's speed boat up Ogden canyon for a great Bentley weekend. We had learned that we can handle and really enjoy a day at the lake when we did it for the 2009 Bentley reunion.

Grandma Brown made arrangements for all their posterity to go to the newOquirhh Mountain Temple Open House. Claire was sick so Aaron, Claire, Judd, and I stayed home. This cute pic is all her other grandkids.

more fun

Gage, Claire, Levi, Kolby, Zack, Judd, and Troy are showing how they can be HAPPY!!!
Michelle was here and we took pics for a reverent book. It gave us something fun to do and they only whined about having to take pictures a few times.

Elders quorum presidency vs. bishopbric tug-o-war at our ward pioneer day party (it was Aaron's idea) I won't make public which team won :)

Cousin Haylee and Judd with their bottles.

other summer fun

My best friend Lise and her kids came to visit. The kids had a sleep over (no, they didn't sleep) and we went to the Bean museum at BYU.

Church history sites

We also went to a whole bunch of church history sites.

We stayed in Nauvoo for three days. It was a grand adventure. We stayed in a "cabin" along the Mississippi river. Grandpa Brown taught the kids to skip rocks on the river. We caught fire flies (both mom and I had that on our list of things to do before we die). It was a great place to go back to. And I was a little sad to leave, I could feel a little of how the pioneers must have felt leaving that beautiful, peaceful place.