Puerto Penasco

Peurto Penasco Christmas 2007

Our Family at Thanksgiving 2006 made the decision as we would be all together for 2007 Christmas. 23 family members were too many for one household hence we made plans to find a childrens home in Mexico and we would have a true Christmas as one large family. Work progressed and we found the Esparanza Childrens Home in Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) Mexico. The family began to collect childrens toys and gifts as well as make fleece blankets for each of them. As the process proceeded Pajamas and shoes were also procured. Enjoy the pictures of our Journey of Love to those precious children of our Heavenly Father.

Halloween 2007

Bats and Ghosts bring in the spirit of Halloween...Booooooooooooo!

Halloween has always been Papito's favorite holiday.... yep the candy!
Halloween monster in his treasure chest. He hides himself so well....

The Monster is in the chest then all of a sudden he is out making one almost wet themselves.

The last minute little buck

The 2007 Deer hunt was one of great weather and ever so mighty hunters. Aaron, Ryan and Papito combed the hills around Kanab for the eleusive buck. Of course Ryan without a license had the first chance. Papito and Aaron were on a big hike and Popps had to be rescued by Ryan and the Rhino. Monday was a hard hunt with no bucks to even drool over. Tuesday Aaron chose not to shoot and let the old man have the first shot. Well Papito missed at close range. As Aaron and his family went back to Saratoga Springs, Papito went back out by himself Tuesday evening. He was home by 6pm as luck and convergence met with the last minute little buck. Papito did it the old fashoned way with the 1940's model Marlin 30-30.

The 3 little boys during nap time.

The Bentley Bichon Family

The Bichon's are quite the family. Grandma Gracee does all she can to avoid the puppies...Momma Jewels is mostly tired of nursing them but is still watching her brood very carefully. The puppies are now 6 weeks old and will hopefully be finding homes in a couple of weeks.

A reminder that there really is a world out there...lets go enjoy it!

Jenn and some smart alec at the kings court on the Island of Kona, Hawaii

Puppy Time

Sunday, August 26th, Jewels went into labor....Natalie called and she informed us Sophia Kay was also on her way.... The puppies came first then we were off to Provo to be there for Sophia's arrival.

Miss Sophia Kay Frisby 8/27/2007

Crawdad--- that is no treasure... Piute Resevior 7/2007

Digging to see if they can reach China

Grandma and the Theuson Boys treasure hunting

Gra

The Thueson boys at the Coral Pink
Sand dunes...GeoCaching...We found it!

Paint balling 7-24-2007

The day started with a bang on the 24th as Ryan planned a paintball outing. The guys were all decked out in camo and protective gear. By days end there were some pretty good welts but you know boys will be boys.

The Hunt For Lowder Creek

The Hunt for Lowder Creek Saturday 7-7-7 we loaded up our picnic and fishing gear and to the north we went. We stopped at Panguitch Lake and got bored real quick. We decided to see if we could find a little creek we fished on when we were college students at Southern Utah University some thirty years ago. In the mind it could be visualized but how to get there exactly was not clicking. We took a few side roads but nothing looked right... We finally got to Cedar Breaks and in the Visitor's Center we found a National Geographic map that showed it. The Park Ranger guided us a little a off course but we found a beautiful little creek but it was not Lowder Creek but we had fun and caught a few beautiful little brookies.

East Fork of the Sevier River

The widely known Puddle Jumper Heaton had left his key on and the Yamaha Rhino had to give him a pull to allow him to have some ATV fun.

Quake Lake Montana

Looking at Mountain Goats above the Quake Lake observatory

Virginia City, Montana

Peggy Sue and John Donnelly... you'd think he had just saved her from another asthma attack! I wonder if Scott got a hug like that from Suzanna?

I didn't get my candy bag......

Josh and Darci with their cache of candy. It was $27.95 at this point. Ryan, Natalie and baby Frisby in the foreground.

The kids following their visit to the candy store. There is gold in them thar bags.

Off to the left is Suzananna Donnelly... She already spent her paycheck in the candy store.

Maddy outside the candy store with her 1st sucker!

Look at those saloon girls and other pilgrims ready for the family photo!

The Bentley Bunch

Halee and Walter

Miss Halee caught "Walter" at the kids fishing pond in Virginia City Montana. She squealed like a little pig. But talk about proud and did she ever let her brothers know who was boss.

Halee and her fish "Walter". She was one happy 8 year old. Out fished her brothers and Grandpa caught 4 on the snake the day before that equaled this one.

Down River

Looking down river from the Big Springs bridge. The big fish lie right under where we are taking this picture from. The Gulls lay in wait for some bread or other treat.

A pix of Big Springs

Big Springs Idaho in Island Park Idaho. Here is a non-fishing area and the trout are huge. We come here each visit to see the big fish.

Yellowstone

A picnic lunch at Old Faithful Lodge prior to seeing Old Faithful blow his steam off. You know he is a real guy!


Tatanka.......In Yellowstone the Bison were abundant and the kids had a blast at getting this close to them.

Darth Vader & Hans Solo

Griffin and Caden got all rigged up and had the air soft guns. It was a perfect battlefield at the Lairds Cabin in Island Park Idaho.


AirSoft is not so soft.

Claire & Peppe

Well, it was Memorial Day Weekend and our 2nd week of taking care of our granddaughter Claire. One of her favorite things to do was go for a ride on Peppe with Grandpa Bentley. Grandma got some candid snapshots of the event.

Claire and Grandpa out for a little drive on Peppe our little mule. Claire thinks she is hot stuff when she gets to get on Grandpa's truck as she calls it. She would just sit back and look at everything when we were on our ride.

Claire has the look... Just wait until I get old enough to drive this thing....

Claire Bear

Grandma got Claire all bathed up and decked out for the day. So Miss Claire got all posed in her Monkey Chair Grandma had to buy. For sure she knows when the camera is out!

Claire and Jewels each trying each other to see if the word "tolerant" exists. They have had a time getting used to who is the boss. Jewels intimidates and but in the morning gives here kisses.