White Water Rafting Photos

Remember back in July, when we went white water rafting up in Cascade? If not, click here and here for the stories.
Anyways, I finally got the cd of pictures! Toby brought it home from work and I was able to check out the photos. Some of them turned out pretty good. It was such a fun trip and we all had a blast. Enjoy the photos!

Getting ready to go into the rapids
Our precious pirate flag! John was the guardian of the flag.
Toby got knocked out of the boat.
The boat crew
Trying to keep our flag safe. The other boat would try to grab it.

Golf Ball Prank

Okay, I just learned how to post videos. Here are a few that I think you will enjoy!

Kassie and Monsters

Momsense

Evolution of Dance

This is sooo funny!
I bet there are lots of you out there that have danced like this at some point in your life!

Photography Business name

I am really wanting to "offically" create my photography business. But, I cannot for the life of me, come up with a creative name. I know I can do the normal, Thornton Photography, but that's boring. I want something creative.

Any ideas??????

Tag, you're it!

I've been tagged by Kim, and so I guess I'll do it. I usually don't do "tags" but I'll make an exception.

The way it works: I tell 6 truths (sometimes embarrassing) about myself. Then I get to pick a few people to tell 6 truths about themselves! So, I pick.....Jessica, Elizabeth, Lauren and Ashley.

1. I hate peanut butter. When my cousin Summer and I were little, we ate a whole jar of it and then I puked it all back up. Ever since then, I can't eat it and I don't like the smell.

2. Speaking of puking--I was once the QUEEN of projectile puking. I used to be able to puke on demand (not really, but pretty close). Once I was in the back of my grandpa's rental car and I threw up all over the car and even into the air vents in the front seat. Gross huh?!? I usually can not eat anything ever again, if I've upchucked it. The only exception has been orange juice. I still love orange juice!

3. I would love to become a worldwide known photographer. You never know, someday it might happen.

4. I love Music. I always have it on in my house and lots of times, I can't stand to listen to the whole song. I am always changing it when we are in the car-there are just too many good ones. It drives Toby nuts. Unless I love the song, 30 seconds into it-I change it. Plus, I'm pretty good at playing name that tune. I can get most any song in 1-3 seconds. Pretty crazy stuff. Want to play? :)

5. I love Sour Patch Kids and I eat them until my tongue bleeds.

6. I am a control freak.....enough said about that! :)

Okay, there you have it. 6 things that you may have not known about me!

BSU Game with Andrew

On Friday, Andrew flew down to visit us for his 16th birthday. We had sooo much fun! Mom and Dad flew him down, and then Toby and I took him to a Boise State Broncos football game. We picked him up and went out to Red Robin for dinner and then did a little bit of shopping at the mall. He was so excited to be here for the weekend.

Saturday was the game. Toby and I had never been to a Broncos game, so we were excited to go with him. We went to a tailgate party (the Cath Lab always has one every home game) and ate some yummy hot dogs and then we went into the stadium. It's quite the site to see a blue turf instead of the normal green one. Everyone was dressed up for the game, Boise does have a lot of fans.

We had the best seats! We were three rows up on the 45 yard line. Can't get much better than that! Both Toby and Andrew have never been to a college football game and it was great to have such good seats.

The game was great-lots of passes and I even got a photo of a touchdown. I really love taking photos and got some great action ones that I'll use for my NY Photography Courses. Boise won and Andrew was on cloud nine the whole time. We went out to eat again at Texas Roadhouse and we ended up seeing Ian Johnson (he's the running back for BSU and also one of the best running backs in the nation--he's big stuff here in Boise, our own football star!) That was fun for Andrew to see him. Then we spent the night in the hot tub (not me) and watched more football on tv.

Overall, it was a fabulous weekend for all of us. We really enjoyed having Andrew stay with us. I can't believe he'll be 16 on the 21st of November. My little bro is sure growing up! Thanks for coming Andrew and we love you!

The Blue Field-They have blue turf towels like the Steelers' Terrible Towels. Pretty cute stuff. Andrew got one.
This looked like it hurt. The Cheerleaders did some pretty cool moves and tosses.

Love the line up. We were soooo close! It was great to be able to see where the ball was at all times. Plus the tackles were more intense too. You could hear them yelling and I swear you could hear how hard the players would get hit!

Quarterback getting ready to throw the ball

Everyone's in blue and orange! It still isn't my favorite college color combo, but it was awesome to see everyone dressed across the field.
We just had to take a photo of this guy....He looks like Troy Polamalu from the Steelers! Love his hair.

Touchdown Broncos! Pretty cool shot huh!?

We had a really great time with Andrew. Don't these two guys look cute???

Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween! Harrison Blvd (street by our apartment) had the coolest decorations and there were soooo many kids out tonight. It looked like a scene from a movie. Cops come and help with the traffic as well as hand out blinking reflectors for the kids costumes. Very neat stuff. The street is almost a mile long and there are some big big houses on it. They all decorated for Halloween and then that night----tons of people come out to trick or treat. I have never seen that many people out on a Halloween night in my life. It was awesome.

These pumpkin pictures are from one of the houses. They have a pumpkin carving party each year and this year, they had 50 pumpkins! I bet they have to bring them in at night, so the stupid kids don't trash them.

Hope your Halloween was great! Toby was in class, just like he was last year. I am looking forward to next year cuz we'll have a little kid to dress up! Yea!

Halloween with the fam

I went to Tory and Elizabeth's house to help pass out candy with Michelle. She was Disney's Nemo. Pretty cute too! I took some photos of her in her costume and then one of the family.

It was a fun night, eating candy and seeing all the kids in their cute costumes.

Concert was SO FUN!

The concert was SOOOOOOO awesome! I knew every song and James Taylor sounded just like he does on a Cd. It was such a fun night. At intermission, I was able to go backstage and meet him. I felt like a little girl! I was nervous and didn't know what to say. He was very polite and friendly and even a little bit shy! We were able to take a photo with him and he signed my CD cover for my Mom and Dad. I told him that they went to his concert when they were 18 and then they got to go again Monday night in Spokane and he laughed and said it was a good thing he had my family as fans. I told him my whole family liked his music.
I can't even say which songs were my favorite! I called Mom on his song, "You Got a Friend." That song always reminds me of her. I also loved "Sweet Baby James." He wrote that song for his nephew who is named after him. "Fire and Rain," "Copperline," "How Sweet it is," and "Country Road" were just a few of the songs he sang.
He sang 4 encores! After the concert was over, people just keep cheering and yelling and he came back 4 different times. I had such a wonderful night! It was a great concert!


This is what he signed for Mom and Dad. Hope you like it!

The photos were hard to get because the stage was so dark. These are the only ones that weren't too out of focus. (we weren't allowed to have cameras.....I didn't use my flash so I wouldn't get caught!)



This was my backstage pass. He even signed it for me. I love James Taylor!

This is his song, "Handy Man." It's a little shaky, but at you least you get the idea of the concert. It was wonderful!

This song is "You got a Friend." It's one of my favorites! Enjoy!

JAMES TAYLOR

I am SOOOOOOOOO excited! I am going to James Taylor's concert tonight. YEA!!!! Anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE LOVE LOVE James Taylor. I grew up listening to his music, and he is one of my all time favorite music artists. When I'm sad, I listen to him. When I'm happy, I listen to him. I have all of his songs memorized and they make me so happy. I swear Mom listened to him when I was in the womb---that's probably why I love him so much.

And the best part???? I get to meet him!!!! Some of Toby's friends from work have the inside connection. Paige (I took pictures of her twins), well her aunt is James Taylor's nanny!!! So, they had an extra back stage ticket--and she gave it to me! So stoked to meet him.

I'm sure I'll post tonight with pictures hopefully!!! Yea!

ps-Thanks to Toby for taking me. It was his idea to celebrate the new babe with taking me to the concert. I think it's a great idea! I love you, Toby!

Dodgeball Tournament

Oh the fun things Toby gets to do with the Cath Lab. On Saturday, he participated in a Dodgeball Tournament for the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho. What craziness! It was so funny to see adults getting hit by the balls. They all acted like little kids. The Cath lab didn't do so hot---they won 4 games out of lots. Still, it was great to see the hospital supporting the Epilepsy Foundation and having fun all at the same time.

The pictures below give a small glimpse of what the day was like. On one game, Toby was the last one standing and the other team (of course) pegged him with as many balls as they could. He got hit in the stomach and fell to the floor. It was quite funny!

PS-A small, small, small part of me wanted to play....then I remembered that getting hit in the stomach probably wouldn't be the best thing for the babe, and getting hit in the chest wouldn't be the best thing for me! Oh well--there's always next year.

Photo Shoot with the Alvey Family

I took the Alvey's family photos and they turned out pretty good. They have a 4 week old son, named Hunter. He did really good despite being outside for the photo shoot. It was fun to be back taking photos, I haven't done it for a few weeks. Enjoy and click here to see more!

ha ha ha

Ever feel like you've been stepped on?

2:35 am

2:35am every stinking morning, is when I wake up to go to the bathroom. I am soooo tired of doing this! I try to fall back asleep, but no, my bladder says "Get up now!" Hmph..... Then I get into bed and most of the time, I can't fall back asleep. This does not make me a happy camper.

Mostly every night, Toby will ask, "You okay?" I'll reply "no" and then he will ask how come.....Like I even have to answer that! He's a silly kid. I'm hoping this will go away in a few weeks. I know it will come back in the third trimester, but I'm almost to the second one. I just want ONE good nights rest before the bambino comes!!!

Ward Web Administrator

I'm the Ward Web Administrator along as being a Relief Society Teacher in our Singles ward. So, I have been busy taking photos and fixing addresses and what not for the ward. It's not that bad of a calling, it's pretty easy to capture what is going on in the ward because I love to take photos! We created a website (on myfamily.com) for the ward, and I post the photos and events on it. It's pretty nice to be able to get on and see what's happening in the ward.

We are enjoying the ward more. It's fun to see Toby on the stand. I am finally sitting by people instead of by myself! Being pregnant in the ward isn't that bad either. Some call the baby the "ward's baby." Don't know if we'll still be in the ward when the baby's born, but it's nice to know we are cared about!

Last weekend, we had a ward campout at a place that the Chruch owns, called Pine Top. They have girls/scouts camp and ward campouts among other things up there. It's by Idaho City. We were doing some service projects and got to stay the night for free. We played games and talked well into the night, then the next day we started on the ice-skating rink and a new roof. Here are the photos capturing our hard work.

The group that came. We had a pretty good turnout. We played indoor football and lots of games.

We were working on the skate rink-I convinced everyone to go and get on the hay bales for photos. Toby digging a hole for the new post. He helped build part of a new roof.

Laying the outskirts for the ice-skating rink. We will go back up in January to go ice-skating.

For FHE on Monday, we carved pumpkins. It's fun to go to a large FHE, especially since Toby is in class every Monday night. Here are our lovely creations.
pumpkin eating pumpkin

scary Asian man

Bishop's pumpkin

1/4 of the way done!

I am 10 weeks along now-that means I am 1/4 of the way done! Yea! Only 30 more weeks! That's such a long time, isn't it!?!? Being pregnant isn't so bad, most of the time. Hopefully it will get better and not much worse!

I was researching on the Internet about Pregnancy Brain (because I swear I have it) and here is what I found:

"Pregnancy brain is a condition that affects expectant mothers, usually during the first and third trimesters. Sometimes known as placenta brain or baby brain drain, the condition is usually characterized by short-term memory loss or forgetfulness. Some medical experts say that pregnancy brain is a myth, but evidence shows that many women have experienced this condition."

I knew I had it! Here are two recent examples......

1. I was shopping at Costco and had about $10 worth of coupons. I get to the checkout with coupons in hand and FORGET to give them to the lady. They were IN MY HAND!!! I didn't realize what I did until I was walking out. Then I turned around, went back and explained my situation. Luckily, they redeemed the coupons and I got my money back.

2. Just last week I was doing laundry and while in the kitchen I kept hearing this "thump thump" noise. I walk into the laundry room to see what the noise was and when I opened the washer---NO CLOTHES were in it! I was washing nothing. A whole stinking load of soap and water with no laundry in it. The noise was coming from my Downy ball that was being thrashed from side to side.

Hmmmmmmmmm..........Should I be worried?!?!?

Our Halloween Costumes

Comments????? :)

A visit to Spokane

I had a great week at home. Dad was out hunting (which he got an elk!) and Toby was left home to do homework. We had a lot of fun shopping and talking and just hanging out. I love to visit my family and Toby and I get to go home for Thanksgiving. That should be a lot of fun.