Introducing Layla Victoria

It was a long wait and many days of starting contractions and stopping. Natasha was getting desperate and even did stairs to try to get Her in labor. But as they say "Babies come on their own time" and sure enough she did. Dec 7, @ 12:15, 7 pounds 8 ounces and 19 inches long. Black hair, long beautiful nails like her great grandma Walker. Seriously her nails look as if they are painted a mauve color. We are so blessed to have her in our family and of course Taylor loves being a big brother.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Yes the first real snow of the season. We woke up to four inches. Now it is really looking like December, cant wait to get the snowmobile out. We live on the mountain, therefore we can really have fun with it.

Christmas with UCMT

Every year the company I work for has a Christmas party at the ALpine Golf Club, We do secrete santa and played games and had wonderful food. This year I got Bryce's name and found a Dallas Cowboy snuggie on ebay, he was estatic about the snuggie, even though we all make fun of them. He had to wear it around the office on friday because he knew that when he got home his wife would take it. It was a great party, I won an IPod with Itunes gift cards. HURRAY!!!!

Waiting for Christams

The christmas shopping is done, the gifts are all wrapped and the house is decorated. OH MY GOSH IT ISNT EVEN DEC.1st. WOW, I am amazing to have all my shopping done, and wrapped so I can sit back and enjoy the holiday shows, parties and concerts.

The pictures are of Natasha and Taylor reading new christmas books, and Taylor sitting by the tree and train around the tree. Taylor loves christmas and we love enjoying him.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Ali and Amanda came on THursday and we had a great Ham dinner and went to the movies. Friday we all went our seperate ways and shopped, then met at Gloria's, it is an Italian place, downtown Provo. We then continued with our shopping and had our turkey on Friday evening. What a wonderful night of famiy time. Saturday we went and got out massages, had lunch, then relaxed until dinner. Dinner consisted of the best steak and drinks and a very modern restraunt in Provo. We had double raspberry martini's (non alcholic), and then we went to a comedy show. We came home and enjoyed reminissing of the kids jr high and high school days. I love to find out just what my kids did in high school. I would ask them...."and where was I when this happened?" Almost instantly the kids said..."asleep". So just because you think your teenagers are home, asleep and safe...think again, hahaha

Best Husband

Seems as if we get into our same routine over and over, we forget to tell our significant other the way we feel, how much we love them and how much we appriciate them. Gerry and I have been debating if we should buy him a new computer or get his old one fixed. I wanted to fix the old one, he wants a new one. So it really was never decided. One of my late nights at work, I called him and asked what he was doing. "I am at the mall". I am thinking to myself.....uh oh, he never goes to the mall. So come to find out, he found out that a jewelry store was having a RESETTING event. So he took my Marquise, from a previous marriage, and had it set in a beautiful penant necklace. WHen I asked him why he did this and not take the money to buy a computer, his response was "I need you more than a computer" How sweet he is....always thinking of others.

Layla's nursery

Finally....We have Layla's Nursery finished. I painted the picture on the wall with her name written in Farsi and then Natasha put a frame around it. We made all the bedding, James painted, and Grandpa put in the chandelier. So I guess you might say it was a family effort.

Halloween at work

Some of the students dressed up for the halloween fun. We also had a great bake sale and Taylor surprised me and came as spiderman,

Beautiful Sunsets

These are some sunsets taken from our back yard. Living above the valley gives us great views of the Utah lake and the western mountains. They are great, and every night we love our sunsets.

Halloween

Hagrid was dressed as a clown and Taylor loves our dog, They had a blast together in the front yard, waiting to go trick or treating in the neighborhood.

We went to my school for a trunk or treat party, and a halloween party for Taylor. He dressed up as Spiderman, he is so fun, and loves loves loves Halloween. His parents took him with a group of neighborhood friends and he would run to the doors and yell TRICK OR TREAT as loud as he could. He really got into it. Love that boy

Labor day weekend always seems to be the weekend to do some canning. With a three day weekend it is a great oppertunity to get it done. So this weekend I canned tomatoes. I am proud of myself for doing 122 pints. The cost of the tomatoes were 28 per bussel, but that makes it only 63 cents per bottle. That is cheap, and I might add that they are better tasting than the store canned tomatoes.

Mount Timpanogus Story Telling Festival

The Mount Timpanogus Story Telling Festival is a family tradition. It is just as the the title calls it...A story telling festival. It runs for three days and nights, and we always go to the last night of the festival. It is called "Laugh Night" and they get about 8 story tellers to tell funny stories. Some will sing with their stories others are just telling the story.

It has become a tradition for Gerry and I to attend it. THe Ireland family is the family that introduced us to this so of course we always sit with them. So the photos are of Gerry and I being silly, and Debbie Ireland, also a silly girl.

They said that there were about 5,000 people attending that night. It was awesome and it is cheap, so I would highly recommend this activity for everyone.

Family Reunion

Yes these are my silly kids, and yes I do claim them, Mine are actually the silliest, yes the two in the middle, the other two are my son and daughter in law,

Natasha, James and Taylor at Macks Inn resort

Part of the newest generations of the Thornton's

The older of the younger generation,

Ali and Taylor on the Macks in resot river, they had alot of fun.

It is always fun to get all the cousins together and this year we had about 60 show up. None of the original Thorntons are here anymore, but we are trying to keep up the tradition of the reunion. It is always great to see everyone and be able to see the new generations and how they grow so fast.

Class Reunion

Some old friends

After 30 years of seeing class mates on and off, I finally went to a reunion. The commitee did a great job on organizing and getting as many there as possible.

I feel bad that there were so many that I didnt recognize, however, it was great to find out how well we are all doing and find some old friends that live within just a few miles of me. I was also surprised that there were so many that had passed away. It is scarry to think that we are such a young class with many class mates gone.

I wish that more had shown up. The locals are the ones that didnt show. Others came from Florida, Utah, Arizonia, Iowa and Canada. You would think the locals could have shown up. Oh well they missed alot of fun, and we missed them. Here's to the next class reunion, I hope to go to in 5 years.

We did it

Well we finally moved to Montana or is it Alaska, we have said we would always retire in one or the other state, and we found a house to buy on the corner of Montana and Alaska. So I guess this is our retirement home.

Taylor is always the little helper

Mother's Day

Natasha and Taylor took me to the Harley Davidson store for Mother's Day for lunch. Taylor loved all the different motorcycles, although he calls them "Suicycles" I am training he right and starting him right with the love of Harley's