Just an update

Hey all, It has been a couple of months and I haven't had anything exciting to tell so I haven't felt the need to say anything. But the past month has had some news for the Bentley family. Lowell since he has been over in Iraq has eliminated 2 medications from his daily regiment and has lost some weight with working out every day and using GNC products to help. He found out that they might extend him until March instead of coming home in January. He is so upbeat and sees people from church all of the time. Our friends JR Norris and Ben Magleby just went over there at the beginning of August. Something funny about the people he sees over there is that my OB/GYN that I had when I was pregnant is now his doctor in Iraq. So they get to talk and he gets to show off his baby girl to her. She didn't get to deliver Danika she was deployed on my actual due date and since Danika was late she missed that beautiful day. Danika now gets to wear shoes when she wants to which she loves to do all of the time. She is growing rapidly and wears some 18 month clothes and some 12 month, but that is a stretch. She loves to play outside in our yard and all of the yards all around us. Because we live in a Duplex community area she thinks that our yard is your yard and your yard is my yard. She will go to someones house and if they have chairs she will climb up in them. If they have kid toys or balls she will try to play with those too. She loves pushing things with wheels if she is strong enough. She has actually pushed the lawn mower at least 3-4 feet if not farther. She loves to take baths and she is like me and only takes about a 10 minute bath and then tries to climb out which is her way of saying I'm done now. I am now in the cub scouts at church. I am the bear assistant cub master. We have about 3 boys that show up regularly and probably 5-10 that are on the list. I am still making sure that the missionaries get fed every day of every month. I still don't get to go to Sunday School because Danika isn't old enough yet to go to Nursery, but when she is she is going to love it and I know because I filled in for the nursery and she came with and had a blast. The Laurel class at church made the ladies whose husbands are deployed dinner and dessert the other week and it made me feel like someone was thinking of us and noticed that we needed something. That is all that is new with us. Here are some pics from Iraq straight to you. That's what is going on in our world and we hope that everything is good in your world. xoxo