updates

Updates are coming soon! I've been having too much fun visiting family in Spokane to update my blog. :)

Ps-Linda, I FINALLY mailed you your photos! Yea!!!

Here's a sneak peak---

The Jaten's

Isn't this such a cute family? Ashley and Isaac have two of the cutest kids!

Sneak Peak for Linda

I took photos of Linda and the family when we were in Utah last weekend. We did four generations with Grandma, Linda, Ashley and Capri. We also took some of the whole family (minus Dan and Chris). I've been working away on them--I took almost 600 photos! It's hard to get the right one when you're working with 100% sunlight and two little kids. But, here is a sneak peak of the kids. I'll add more as I go. Hope you like them Linda! Emerson playing in the leaves.

Sweet Capri holding her Grandma's hand.

Such a cute kid!

Barnes' Photo Shoot

While in Utah, I did a photo shoot for my aunt Char's sister's kids. They were really fun to work with, but it was hard to have all three of them look at me all at once! I was hoping for a cloudy day, but of course-it was super sunny! Oh well, it was a fun photo shoot and I enjoyed taking photos on the BYU grounds. Want to see more? Click here!

What sweet brothers! I love how Kale is hugging Kade. Very cute stuff.

Brielle posing on the rocks

Kale

Kade

Baby update and puking

Baby--We went to the doctors today and everything seems to be going well. We got to hear the heartbeat and that was so neat! It was fun to hear our baby. My doctor said it was a good, fast, strong heartbeat and that the baby was moving all over the place since she had to keep moving the Doppler around. My babe seems to be the size of a peach and weighs about 1 1/2 ounces. We don't get to find out what the baby will be until January 3. I was hoping it would be at Christmas time, but oh well.
Toby uses Dopplers at the hospital and I get to bring one home to Spokane for Thanksgiving! That means that my fam will get to hear the baby. I am super excited about that. Hope they like it!
Puking-- I know that I was a projectile puker when I was a little girl, but I haven't puked in almost 10 years. Last night, I wasn't feeling to hot. I think it was the long car ride home (we drove home from Utah) and the fact that my headache was becoming a migraine and that I hadn't eaten too much. I was too sick to want to eat on the drive home.......
So, I made myself Ramen Noodle soup for dinner. Toby was at school and I was home alone. Soup sounded good and I thought that it would be okay in my belly. Well, it wasn't! I HATE to puke, it hurts me and I can't stand the thought of anything coming up and out of my mouth. I started to get really sick and my cheeks felt like they were sucking in. Too much saliva being produced. I called Toby to see where he was and he was on his way home. I put him on speaker phone and he tried to tell me to just wait till he gets home. He knows what a big baby I am (I was in tears-that's how much I hate puking). I hate being sick. All of a sudden I had to put the phone down because here comes brown soup and noodles! I puked and poor Toby had to hear it through the phone. It was SOOOO GROSS! I can't believe that I puked after so many years. I went straight to bed after I brushed my teeth. It was not a good night!

Good thing, I woke up feeling just fine! Hope I don't puke for another 10 years! I am glad I didn't puke because I was pregnant, just sick. Luckily, I have had a really good pregnancy.

Thornton Thanksgiving

We went down to Utah this past weekend for a early Thanksgiving dinner with Toby's family. All 9 kids and family were going to be there! Tory and Elizabeth had a doctors appointment for Michelle so that was the main reason why everyone got together. We haven't all been together since Tim and Kayla's wedding in 2004. It was so fun to be able to hang out and catch up on each other's lives.

On Saturday, we went to the Christmas Expo in Sandy, and then out to dinner. It was crazy to have 24 people all at the same place shopping! Then we went out to dinner to finish off the evening.

Sunday was Daniel and Rachel's Primary program and then it was off to Tim's for the big Thanksgiving feast. We had such a great time. I made the appetizers-spinach dip with french bread, cheese ball with crackers and a veggie tray. We had a big turkey, and tons of food. I am so glad I get two Thanksgiving dinners this year!

Since everyone was together, we wanted to get a photo. We all dressed in black (such a flattering color for a pregnant lady-there are three of us who are pregnant!). We set the camera up on a timer and tripod and then yelled for the kids to look at the blinking lights. I was so glad to get at least one decent photo! Not bad for no one taking the photo. Then, I wanted to get a photo of the original 9 kids. They haven't had a new photo of the family for quite some time. It was soooo cold outside, but I managed to get a few cute ones.

The Thornton Clan-all 11 of them! From left to right: Tory, Tallie, Tim, Tawny, Tawna, Tara, Toby, Tassa and Tom. Becky and Tom-aka Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.

Tara and Greg wanted me to snap a few, but Abby wasn't to happy about it! This is about the best shot I could get of them before Abby really started to cry. Daniel, Greg, Rachel, Tara and Abby.

I also got a photo of Tory and Elizabeth with Michelle. She did pretty good out in the cold!

Tim and Kayla and Maezlie look so cute! They were the easiest to get a family photo. Tawny stood behind me and made Maezlie laugh and clap her hands. She did a great job.

We even got Andrew to smile! I can't believe how blue his eyes are. Tallie and Isaac sure have a happy boy.

Alex is so dang cute! Tom and Alicia are expecting a baby girl this December. We are super excited to have another babe in the family!

Thornton Thanksgiving Feast

Here are a few snapshots of our Thanksgiving Feast. We had a great time stuffing our faces with lots of food! I wouldn't mind it if we had a Thanksgiving dinner more often. It was sad to see the the Colts lose. We watched the game and just sat around and talked. Then we ate yummy pies!

Isaac carving the turkey. It sure tasted yummy!

Tom with the turkey.

Setting the table with all the trimmings!

Taste testing the food. It sure was good!
Alex and Tawny. So cute! Our famous hold the camera out as far as you can photo. Good thing Toby has long arms!
What a handsome man! Isn't he just the cutest?

Rachel and Tim. He's acting like a pirate

Daniel and Andrew.

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.