Life With the Thorntons

Fall 2009

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This fall was really busy hence the NO BLOG POSTS for over 6 months. Anyway here are of the few of the fun things we did!

Michelle's Baby Shower! Christina and I made our 1st Diaper Cake! It turned out so cute!!!Jack just hanging out at the shower!

Congrats Michelle we are so happy for you!!!

Halloween!!! Can you tell who Dylan is???? I'll give you a hint . . . . Gill is in the jar!

Wing night!! This has become Eric, McKay and Dylan's favorite boys night out tradition, however they made an exception and let us girls tag along this time!!!

Hang out time with Eric and Cynthia, We are so lucky to have such COOL Neighbors!!!

Hanging out with my favorite little people!!! Are they adorable or what???

August 2009

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My Birthday!!!

Lunch at Red Lobster with Andrew, Christina and my favorite little buddy Jack!

Yummy Birthday Cake, thanks to Christina!!!

Summer fun!

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This Summer I was so lucky I got to spend a lot of time with Tiff and the kids at the pool. (My very favorite summer past time.) Here are a few of the pictures we took.

I love you guys.

4th of July

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This year for the 4th we did things a bit different. We went to Idaho and spent time with Dylan's Aunt Gay, Uncle Joe and cousin Sheana! They had a TNT Fire Work stand and they let us come help them this year. It was really fun and we made some good extra money too. Here are a few of the goofy pictures we took. . . . .Thanks For letting us come up we had a great time!!!

Summer hair!!

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A few weeks ago now I was fretting over my hair and how it was boring and hot. Dylan said well why don't you cut it then. So. . . . I did! I love it, easy light and fun! What do you think?

4th anniversary

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I know it was more than a month ago but I took pictures so I could post . . . so I figured now is better than never . . . right??? lol

Dylan and I celebrated our 4th Anniversary on May 5, 2009. Our gift to each other was a little get away to Logan. We stayed in a bed and Breakfast and had a great time. We watched 4 movies including Dylan's new favorite movie of the year "Star Trek", and a few others. We ate Great food, did a little shopping, relaxed and enjoyed the beautiful drive up and back.

I will not get too mushy but I do want to Tell Dylan how much I love him. He does so much for me and I don't tell him enough how grateful I am for him and how much I love him. In our few short years as a married couple we have had a blast! I can say it has been the best 4 years of my life! I didn't say easy but any good thing you have to work at. Dylan thanks for all you do for me, I and so proud of you and hope you know I support you in all you do. I love you honey!

Tulips!

2009-05-20T22:51:00.000-07:00

For Valentines (I know it was a long time ago but it was so cute I have to blog about it.) Dylan had flowers delivered to me. Not only did he send me one vase of Tulips he sent me TWO, at different times during the day. How sweet is that? They were so beautiful I made him take a picture with me.

Tulips are my favorite flower and always have been. Every year aroud our anniversery Dyl and I take a drive up to Temple Square and wander the grounds Oohing and Ahhing over all the beautiful tulips. (Yes even Dylan Oohs and Ahhs). I always take my big camera, take too many pictures and usually do nothing with them. This year I just took our little point and shoot Nikon Cool Pix L5 due to the past years. However a few of them turned out really cool. I wish I would have had my big Nikon D300 to capture the detail better and had more control of my settings but over all I like them! So I decided to share a few below!!!

You always have to take a few sillys ones right??? The ones below are a little more serious.

Kittens

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CUTE!!!

My sisters cat had Kittens. I had never seen new baby kittens and they are so cute! Here are a few pictures!

Clifornia Vavation 2

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So after I stayed with Lisa and Doug I flew to L.A. for a few days to hang out with Gal Pals Rachel and Camille. We had a blast, talking till all hours of the night, shopping, eating great food, and much much more. Here are a few pic's!

shopping by the beach! I got a great dress at H&M, we need on here its' fab!

Great cupcakes! (they better be we waited in line for about 30 min)

I love a good art museum and this one was awesome! I wish it was closer it would be an awesome place to do pictures at!

Who doesn't love a FREE day at Disneyland. My moms cousin works there wan got me in or FREEEEEEE. Thanks Judy that was so fun!

On my last day we painted some furniture yellow, what a blast!

Rachel and Camille thanks for such a fun time!

California Vacation!!!

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So for Valentines Dylan gave me. . . . . A California get away with some of my Favorite people. Lisa my MTC Comp is now living in California with her sweet husband and adorable baby Joel. I was able to go see them for 4 days and had such a great time hanging out and seeing San Fransisco for the 1st time. Joel is absolutely the most easy going baby ever. He just sits and smiles or sleeps all day long no joke. I love this little boy so much it was hard to say good bye. Anyway thanks you guys for letting me stay and hang out I had a blast! The pictures below are in Lake County where they live.

The Golden Gate Bridge!!!

Our day in San Fransisco! What a cool City

One last thing . . . Cute baby Joel

Our cute Nephews & Nieces

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Colby Kaylee
Weston

Oakley

How cute are they!!!!

Colby & Oakley

Kaylee & Weston

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Ok, so I've been holding out on posting the pictures we did of my niece because I wanted Tiff to pick the ones for her announcement 1st. She has done that so I feel ok about posting a few that you will not see on her very cute announcement. ENJOY!

Honestly could she get any more adorable? Happy 1 month birthday on Feb 13th!!!

Our New Niece!

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Oakley Dawn

Is she BEAUTIFUL or what. Thanks goes out to Tiff and Shaw for giving us niece #2.

O tender moment. What a good dad to hold her hand through it all.

Mom of 4, Wow I admire you Tiff. You are a wonderful mom, keep it up!

Welcome to the fam, little Oakley we are so glad you are here safe and sound. O and did I mention that you are Gorgeous! We love you!

Christmas Time!

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This will be our 4th Christmas Married. Wow how time flys when you're having fun! This weekend Dylan and I put up the Christmas tree. We decided to do a grown up tree and bought all new ornaments. The talking star trek ornaments will have to stay in the box this year!

Below a little blast from the past!

Dylans new Eyes!

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Dylan got LASIK!!! This is right after his surgery!

He was told to come home and sleep, thats what he did. Take a look at the bug eyes he had to wear. ha ha

Now take a look at my man! What a HOTTIE!!!!

Last day in the Big Apple!

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I waited all week to go to the MET and when we got there found out it was closed. I was so sad. O well I guess that just means we have to come back!

We then stopped in at the COOLEST Candy store ever. "Dylan's Candy Bar". They had candy in the floor, the walls and on the ceiling. They had evet candy you could ever want. It is a childs dream come true! We bought Dylan a 2lbs candy bar all because it had his name on it!! He hasn't eaten a bite of it yet.

We packed up and headed to the airport. This was an adventure to say the least. We waled to the subway and from there to the air train and from there to the airport shuttle and from there to the airport. Lets just say next time I'll go in the middle of the night and take a cab. Suit cases and stairs and tons of people are not my idea of a good time. We made it home safe and sound!

We love the Big Apple, what a fun trip!

New York day 5

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Empire State Buliding, you could actually feel the building moving in the wind and there were so many people you could hardly see let alone walk anywhere.

A little shopping in time square, and lunch at Gray's Paya!
Central Park time!
We went to Strawberry Fields in Central Park. It was awesome, tons of chalk drawings on the ground and people playing Beatles music.

Day 4 in New York

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Saturday morning we went to the Manhattan Temple. When you get off the subway you can't even tell it is the building on the corner. It is really hidden but beautiful. In the picture on the bottom right corner that is the subway stairs, and through the trees is where the Temple is. We took some family names and it was a good experience.

Steve took the day off work to show us around for the day. He took us to this AMAZING pizza place for lunch called GRIMALDI'S. We waited in line outside for about an hour and I was worried it wasn't going to be worth it. However it was and I mean it. I'd wait in that line again and again and again. They don't make pizza like that here in the West. If you ever go to New York this is a must do. Great food, fun experience and it's in Brooklyn. COOL!

This was the coolest door and bike. I had a tone of fun shooting it and then playing with it in photoshop.

The Brooklyn Bridge was so neat. We walked across it and took tons of pics here are a few of my faves.

Marry Poppins was Awesome!!!!! The seating was really tight, so caution . . . . if you're over 5'8 forget this theater you'll never fit.

After the play we went to a Jazz Club by Steve's house called "Cleopatra's Needle". We ate cheese cake, humus, and french fries (ramdom assortment of foods I know).
The music was really good and the whole time I kept saying how they trumpet player was really outstanding. I was so impressed by him. Come to find out it was Wynton Marsalis! He composed alot of the music for the PBS series "The War" and has a tone of albums out. If you have never heard his stuff get on itunes and check him out. Dyl and Steve drinking Root Beer on the left.

STEVE thanks for a awesome day we had such a great time. Also THANKS for letting us stay with you!

Day 3 in New York

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The UN!

The General Assemble HallAnother really cool light post with UN & American Flags on it.

A cute little park by the UN. This lady was with out a doubt "The Brird Lady" Check out the outfit. Cool old Taxi
Rockefeller Center! COOL PLACE

FAO Schwartz, the big TOY Store. IT was so cool. We need one here ASAP!
This is for CHERYL, they had really cute cloths for really Cheap however. . . the line to try things on was out of control and I wasn't in the mood to wait so we looked and kept on going. I need to go back when i have a girl with me who also wants to shop and wait in line. HA HA. I love ya Dyl

I'm not sure what Church this was at but they had the most amazing stain glass windows. I wanted to take a million pictures but Dyl was a little weird about it so I only got a few this is my favorite!

Day 3 was tons of walking but we saw so many cool things. Everyone should go to New York it is GREAT!

More pictures from our New York trip!

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Day 2
Our 1st stop the Statue of Liberty!

Fire station across the street from from Ground Zero

Dylan in the subway on our way to the broadway show WICKED!!!

Wicked!!!

Wicked was AWESOME! Worth every penny, I'd even pay it again.

NEW YORK Trip

2008-11-03T20:55:00.000-08:00

I've been harassed since the min we got home about blogging about our trip. I have been so busy catching up with work since coming home that I have yet to post any pictures or story's. So I thought tonight I would post about day 1.

We got to the air port and was told that my Drivers License had expired. The airport lady gave me such a hard time about it I thought they weren't going to let me on the plane and I was in tears. However by now I'm sure you all know we made it but it was a bit of a rocky start and Dylan was not happy with me because I had no idea that it had expired at all. Lets just say that was on the top of my "To Do" list for the day we go home. We took a red eye flight to New York and we thought it was an OK idea. However. .. don't think we'll do it again. Neither of us could really sleep and it was HOT as Hates on the plane.

We arrived in JFK at about 4:30am and took a Cab to our friend Steve's house. He was nice enough to give up his bed and room to us for the whole week. We love you Steve, thanks!!! We went right to bed and didn't get up till about 10am. That was O so nice!!! We were then off to our 1st museum, the Natural History Museum. We had a fun time checking out all the cool stuff that s on the "Night at the Museum" Movie. Here are a few pics of us by some pretty crazy big statues.

After the museum we thought we'd check out Central Park. We walked around for about 2 hours and about 50 miles. OK not 50 but I haven't had sore feet like that since the mission. Man we did a lot of walking. Her are some of my pics from the park. O and yes Dylan loved letting me stop about every 10 steps for a photo opp that's his favorite thing to do on vacation. ha ha

After that nice long walk in the park we headed down to Time Square. It was so amazing. Big reminder of Seoul, it was really busy, and SUPER people watching!

That night we grabbed some pizza on our way home and went to bed!

Congrats Andrew and Christina

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Christina finally had Jackson last night at 9:34pm. He is so darling I can't believe it and NO CONE HEAD!!!
Isn't he so cute! I was able to be at the hospital all day with them and it was so awesome. Christina did a great job and was so brave. Thanks for letting me be a part of this special day!!! We love you Jackson!

Scary start to September

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Wow, 3 posts in one night, you all should be impressed!

September is a great month, the weather gets a bit cooler, the leaves are changing and it's FOOTBALL time. My little brother #54 is an awesome player for the freshmen Lone Peak team and I love to brag about him. Here are a few shots of his 1st game!

That's right, they won 38 to nothing, poor Payson. My brother Scotty turned 15 this last week and my dad took him and 3 friends to our family's cabin for a party weekend. However it didn't turn out to be such a party. Here is a link to the Channel 2 News Report on their weekend.

After this Dylan and I also got a CO (Carbon Monoxide) detectors and I hope this will help make you all aware of this real dangerl. This happened on a Saturday night and at about 12:30am there was pounding on our door. We ran to answer it and it was my mom and sister. On their way home from a movie they got the call from the hospital about the boys and my dad being poisoned. They came straight over to our house. We calmed her down and drove to Mount Pleasant to be at the hospital with them. It was a really long and scary night. What a blessing that it ended the way it did. It really makes you stop and look at how precious life is. It can be taken from you so quickly. I love my dad and brother with all my heart and I can't imagine life without either one of them in it. I love you guys! O ya and Happy Birthday Scotty!

August 2008

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August. . . . .

Jennie, my baby sister, turned 21! Wow she's all grown up. Next to her is her adorable boyfriend Mike, he also had a birthday in August!!! We love you!

After Dylan's new - old-found love for LEGOS, he decided it was time to get Colby our 5 year-old-nephew into them too. Colby came over for the day and they put 2 packs of Legos together. They had a blast and the best part was after they were all together they both played with them for about an hour. Dylan has a new best friend and Colby has a new favorite toy. I have a feeling this could get very expensive. ha ha

I manage a storage facility and one of the best things that happened this summer was getting a NEW GOLF CART!!! Bart our matenance guy is the best. Our old one had pretty much seen its last day about 2 years ago, so it was well overdue and very appriciated. Dylan and Colby posed for a picture to show off the new Cart!

Christina's aunt and I threw a baby shower for her (and Jackson). Her mom, grandma and sister came all they way from Oregon and her mother-in-law and other Grandmas came from Idaho and Colorado to be here for it. We had a great time and she got tons of cute stuff. I am so excited for Jackson to come, I'm sure I will be the favorite aunt.

Andrew, Christina, Dylan and I all went to the Jack Johnson Concert. He put on a great show. I have to say the best part was watching all the drunk people though. One lady came up to Dylan and wanted him to dance with her. He freaked out and just turned away from her like a shy little kid. His mom must have told him not to talk to strangers. lol

I had a great opportunity in August to try out Fashion photography. My friend Shannon referred me to her friend Carlene who just starting up her own clothing line. You should all check out her website Joncar Designs and let me know what you think! I was thrilled when she said she liked my work and asked me to do more for her. To be honest I loved it, it is now my 2nd favorite thing to shoot right after Weddings of course. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the shoot.

I also wanted to thank a few of my wonderful friends who came to model for me. Tiffany, Shannon, and Sasha, you are all beautiful! Also I want to thank Carlene for giving me the chance to branch out and try something new. I can't tell you how much fun I had and how much I loved every minute of it, although I was really nervous. I am getting a little obsessed about the new area of photography. In fact, you can ask Dylan. Everyone I see I ask him if they would be a good model or not, I'm now always looking for new poses, and getting fashion magazines to look at. Everywhere we go I'm looking for new places that the fashion shoot would work for. For my birthday Dylan took me to Salt Lack City and said I could do anything I wanted. You know what I did. . . . walked around for 2 days finding new places to take pictures. It was a great success and I found all sorts of awesome spots. Dylan is so supportive of me and my passion for photography. I'm also going to try to get my buisness blog started soon and I'll post a few of my finds from our weekend in SLC. I'll let you know when it acctually happens.

Speaking of my birthday I had a great one this year. It was more like a birthday month rather than just one day, but I'm not complaning. I spent a weekend in SLC with Dylan, and every week in august he gave me a presant. (i'm so spoiled, thanks babe). On my birthday I hung out with my mom we went to the pool, and made cards. She also set up breakfast with my sister Jen and brother Scotty and my other sister Tiff for lunch. It was a fun day thanks! We also had a birthday dinner at my parents' house on Sunday and my mom made ice cream cake, my favorite! The next Sunday we had a birthday dinner with my mother-in-law Cheryl, sister-in-law Kelsey, her hubby Murray, his mom Debbie and their nephew Gage. We ate Lasagna and after that had Bannana cake. Then we went to Red Robin for another birthday dinner with our good friends Andrew and Christina. I'm sad to now be in my late 20's but life is wonderful. I have so much to be thankful for. A wonderful family, great friends, awesome job, and so many things to look forward to in the future.

Ok, last but not least, FOOTBALL season has finally begun! My all time favorite sport might I add! One of Dylan's friends from work, Jason, got us season tickets with his wife and him in the student section. Guess where our seats are??? O ya, front and second row north end zone. The 1st game against Northern Iowa was a blast. We won 41 to 17. Thanks Jason and Heather for the great tickets. !

OK, one more monumental event from August. . . . our Bishop got released. Bishop Bartholomew has been our Bishop since we moved to Orem 2 and a half years ago. I know that may sound like a weird thing to blog about but this man changed our lives. He will never know all that he did for us and I just want to thank him. He has the neatest wife and I look up to her so much as well. I also want to thank her and her children for sharing their husband and father with us these past few years. I know that the Lord is aware of each of us and gives us Bishops to help us, lead us and support us. I know that no one else could have done for us the things this man has, and I know it is because of the Lord that he was able to do them. I have cried over this more than I thought possible. Bishop thank you from the bottom of my heart.

July 2008

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OK, I know I have been really bad at posting all summer, however we did tons of fun things and took TONS of great pictures. Where to start. . . . .

Top Left Picture: Jennie, Christina and I went to a Women's Expo in Sandy this summer. They convinced me to get a extension in my hair, a PINK one to be more specific. I've asked Dylan a million times if I could get one and he always said no. I don't know why I wanted one really but its that small rebellious side coming out in me I guess. Anyway I caved and got the pink hair. I loved it and come to find out Dylan did too. The day I had him take it out for me, he said I could get a new one if I wanted. As fun as it was I think it will be a while before I get any more pink hair.

Top Middle picture: Dinner with the Paxmans!!! Andrea and Nate are some of our favorite people. Nate grew up next door to our family in Orem. We have been friends for um. . . . about 18 years (since I was 8, that makes me feel old). Every year on the 1st day of school my mom would line us (all the neighbor kids) all up on the couch or the front step and take a picture. I wanted to find one of those pictures really bad to put on with this post but I can't fine one. I'll keep looking. We had such a great time eating and hanging out. All the kids are close to the same ages and had a ball playing together. Thanks for having us up!

Top right picture: Christina came up to Logan with me to shoot a wedding. What a great assistant she made. She had some awesome ideas and was really helpful. Althought we were pretty much soaking wet from the heat, I'd say we had a pretty fun day. Thanks for coming with me!!

Middle left picture: Dylan decided that it had been a long enough dry spell from the LEGO days and bought a kit to see if he still had the touch. What do you know 3 hours latter that is what I saw. He loves legos and now every time we go to the store we not only have to stop in the electronic department but the toy department too. I love you my little LEGO man.

Middle right picture: Dylan and I celebrated our 4th anniversary of coming home from our missions this month. The time really does go by so fast.

Bottom left picture: Happy Birthday to Cheryl and Murray!!! We went to Las Hermonos for dinner and it was so fun. They sang to them and they both danced and had a great time. We love you both so much!

Bottom middle and right picture: For the 4th of July weekend this year we went to our family cabin down in Fairview. My whole family was there and our good friends the Colman's came too. (well some of them, the cool ones) We took 4-wheelers, a canoe, games, the Wii, and lots of food. We had such a great time. It was so nice to be away from work, phones, and life. Dylan got so burned that he was red for about 2 months, it's just starting to go away now. (so sad, I hope our kids don't get that skin). We just wanted to thank Mom and Dad for a wonderful weekend away.

What happens when people get your camera????

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The other day I insisted that we take some "BELLY" pictures of Christina (my best friend, neighbor, co-worker, ward member and partner-in-crime). She and her hubby Andrew came over for the shoot all ready to smile, pose, and look beautiful of course. It took a while for Andrew to warm up to the camera but once he did we couldn't get him to stop. In fact I left the room for a min and he took over 50 pictures of the most random things. Examples below: I have to admit it was pretty funny and we got some wonderful pictures of feet . . . don't you think? We had so much fun, and after Andrew started we all jumped on the Crazy Train, the pictures below tell the story.

picture 1. Andrew telling Jackson (the baby) how much he loves him
picture 2. Ok we're done with Andrew taking pictures

picture 3. What Andrew's Prego too????

picture 4. The Sassy Snap (she does it well considering she is half-Latin and Prego)

This was fun, we'll have to do it again real soon!

Summer Time Fun!

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I love the SUMMER time it takes me back to my childhood. When I was growing up my mom took us swimming almost everyday. We had green hair and dark skin all summer. We use to go the the DT pool at BYU but this last year they took it out. It was a sad day for me.

Anyway . . . . Tiff (my sister) now has kids of her own and she has carried on the Lowry tradition of summer days spent at the pool. I went with them 2 days last week and we had a ball. Cloby 5 and Kaylee 3 can already swim all by themselves and Weston 1 loves to dunk his head underwater and blow bubbles. They are my pride and joy!!! (if that wasn't already very obvious) I thought I'd post some cute pictures of these sun baby's!

Grandma Thornton's Birthday!!!

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Pocatello and Grandma Thornton's Birthday!!!

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What a weekend!!! Friday night, we left for the beautiful metropolis that is Pocatello, Idaho. Why Pocatello you ask? Well, we had a very important engagement there. My Grandma Thornton was going to have her 80th Birthday Party (or as she learned from my aunt - we were celebrating the 10th anniversary of her 8th birthday).

Maybe I should back up for a minute. Earlier in the week, Emily started to not feel good. On Thursday, she even went to the doctor. I hadn't seen her this sick for a long time, so I was worried, and we started contemplating not going to the party. Well, on Friday afternoon, when it came time to head out she was feeling good enough to drive (thank goodness that it's only 2 1/2 hours up there).

On the way up, we stopped in Bountiful and met up with my Aunt Kathryn and cousins at Pace's Dairy Ann (I have absolutely no idea what a "Dairy Ann" is) to have Rainbows (a slush with soft serve ice cream in it - delicious). It was good to see them all - and my cousin Katy's cute new baby. Once we left Pace's and Bountiful, we cruised the rest of the way - due largely in part to the wonderful music of my "Guitar Hero" playlist on my iPod.

We arrived safely, albeit a little later than we had planned. We checked in and found our room (all 5 of us stayed in the same room). We saw everybody really quick, but Emily and I had to go grab something to eat because she was not feeling good at all (look at the photo in the slideshow). We got her some chicken noodle soup at WinCo and went back to the hotel room and she ate and we went to bed.

The next morning (Saturday) the whole family was invited over to Lee Riley's house for breakfast. My grandma worked in Lee's salon for many, many years. Once we finished up there, people went about their various errands in preparation for the party that evening. Emily, Murray, Kelsey, and I went back to the hotel room. Emily promptly fell asleep (remember she's been sick) Murray and I tried to hook up the Xbox to play Halo, but the hotel's TVs "don't do that." - Front desk worker. So, after a long 5 hour nap (that was plan B for us), we got ready for the party - and off we went.

The party was a lot of fun. We got to see people that I hadn't seen in years. It was quite entertaining - including an impromptu cheerleading performance by my aunts and my dad and a close family friend. There was delicious food, and the cake was stellar. Oh, and yes we did really light 8-0 candles (that's 80, one for each year - you know how that works). Grandma seemed to have a great time.

Emily and I love Grandma Thornton, she is the life of the party wherever she goes and keeps the family together. For her party.

On Sunday morning, we got up early to meet everyone for breakfast. It was good to chat one last time before we had to leave. Thanks to everyone for all that they did to make that party so great!

The drive home was somewhat uneventful - we made really good time. Kelsey slept most of the way - but I didn't (that wouldn't have been good). We got home safe and sound and now we can blog about it!

U2 Lazer Show

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Our good friends Rachel and Sean are here for the summer. Last weekend the 4 of us had dinner at the Red Iguana & went to the U2 Lazar show. The Mexican food was wonderful! I'm not sure how I've lived here pretty much my whole like and never gone there. Don't worry now that I know about it, they won't be able to keep me away. After dinner we saw the Lazar show and I was pretty impressed. My stomach flipped a few times, and I got a little dizzy(that's a good sign). The music awesome of course and we decided they can make a U2 version of Guitar Hero. After the show was over Dylan got a little excited about the gift shop and we caught him playing with all sorts of random gadgets. Still a kid at heart, o how cute!

Thanks to Rachel and Sean for a great night out, we are so glad you are here for the summer (or part of it at least).

Happy Fathers Day

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My dad and I have always shared a special bond and lets be honest I'm his "Little Princess"! Growing up I loved to do anything my dad liked, just so I could be with him. We shared lots of fun times and after a while I really did enjoy all of these things. . . . BYU football, drawing, trying to fix things in or around the house, fishing at 5am, shooting on Thanksgiving, yard work, even watching Star Trek or M.A.S.H. after the news at night. I always knew that he loved me and that he would do anything for me.
My dad is the kind of guy who would give the shirt of his back to someone he doesn't even know if he thought they might need it. He taught me how to work hard, never give up and follow my dreams. I sure love you Dad, thanks for all the fun times and great memories.

(This is now Dylan) - Em's Dad is a great guy! He has taught her to love some very important things in life, football definately being one of them. Like she said, he's taught her how to work hard and has been so supportive of us both.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

I also have a good father-in-law. We share the love for photography and he has taught me some pretty cool things. Thanks for all that you do! Happy Fathers day!

(This is Dylan - again.) My dad and I are alike in many ways. We like many of the same foods, some of the same activities (Wii!!!), and share many opinions. He has been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do in life, even if he didn't agree. He's a really hard worker, he always needs to be doing something - otherwise he'll fall asleep sitting straight up. One thing I remember is that when I was young, he used to love vanilla ice cream with "magic" shell (the chocolate stuff that you put on ice cream and it got hard) and he would sit down to eat it and watch Jay Leno, but invariably he fell asleep - and would always wake up once the ice cream had completely melted. Now when I sit down at night and the same thing happens (which it does - all the time) I know where it's come from. Thanks Dad for all you do for Emily and I. Happy Fathers Day!

BBQ

2008-05-29T13:48:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday we got together with Leslie, Tanessa, Devin, Mathias, Kelsey, Murry and Cheryl for a BBQ. We haven't hung out together for a really long time and we have missed them so much. We went to Leslies to eat dinner (we wanted to do the whole out doors BBQ but the weather didn't want us to for some reason, rude) Anyway. . . Leslie's house is so cute, she has always been a super decorator and gets an A on this one too. We had Devin and Tanessa's famous hamburgers and all the fixin's that go with it. We have a great time catching up with everyone and playing cars with Mathias who is sooooooo adorable. He is getting so big and so handsome. I just want to let you know how much we love you guys and how thankful we are to have you in our lives! Thanks for a fun evening. Lets be sure to do it again soon!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

2008-05-11T14:41:00.000-07:00

We are so lucky to have 2 of the best mothers in the world.

My mom is one of my best friends, we have so much fun together. We love to go shopping, to lunch and to the temple. We love making cards together, baking sweets and talking. She has always been my biggest fan. No matter what I'm doing she cheers me on and thinks I'm #1. I love my mom so much and look up to here more than she will ever know. She was always teaching us through her example. She is constantly making bread or dinner for someone else. During christmas even when we didn't have much she was giving to some who had even less. She is truly a selfless person. If there is one thing she does better than anything else its got to be being a mother. I love you mom!!!! Thanks for all you do for me.

Emily and Mom

I also have a wonderful mother-in-law. She treats me like I'm her own daughter. We also have a fun time together. We love to drag Dylan to girl movies and shopping on my birthday. She taught Dylan to be a great gift giver, the love for reading, great rock and roll and science fiction. I couldn't ask for better. I sure love you Cheryl, happy mother's day!!!

Dylan and Mom

Like Emily said, we really are lucky to have great mothers. They support both of us in all that we want to do and I don't think that we thank them enough. My mom has always been a great example to me. She's worked hard and has succeeded in life. As Em already wrote, my mom taught me to love reading. There were many, many nights growing up where she would have to come and tell me to go to sleep because I'd stay up reading. She's always supported me in whatever it was I did. She came to almost every one of my football games in high school (even the ones away). She taught me to love music. We both share really eclectic tastes (from classical to country - and pretty much everything in between.) Also, I have a wonderful mother-in-law. She cares so much about her kids, sometimes she even goes into what I call "Momma Bear" mode - (one example: when Em and I were first married, Em had to go to the ER. The doctor there told us that he felt that Em was faking being sick because they couldn't see anything wrong. Man, I will never forget Em's mom telling that doctor what's up.) She supports us in what we want to do. She even supported me when I decided that I wanted to be a teacher and earn the big bucks! I love you both very much! Happy Mother's Day

Happy Anniversary!!!

2008-05-05T10:23:00.000-07:00

Wow can you believe it has been 3 years!!! The time has gone by so fast. In the last 3 years we have had our ups and downs but the best part is that we have had each other to lean on through it all. Dylan is my soulmate, he knows more about me than I know about myself and loves me in spite of it all. Our friendship started in Jr. High over 10 years ago. We dated each other's friends and were always in the same group at dances but never each other's date. We were always close and our friendship never faded. After high school Dylan served a mission in California Spanish speaking. We started writing to each other every week and it continued even after I went on my mission. Those letters meant everything to me. It always seemed like his letters would come on a day I thought I couldn't do any more. He inspired me, encouraged me and most of all he truly Believed in me. After we both came home we hung out almost every day. I was going through a really hard place in my life and Dylan never left me. It took me a little longer than it took Dylan to realize that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him but he always has been the smarter one of us. It was the best decision I've ever made and it is proven to me every day when I wake up next to my Best Friend.
Dylan thank you for never giving up on me, for always being there, and for always loving me! I thought it would be fun to do a little Blast from the Past and see how far we've come in the past 10 years!

Jr. High: We met in 9th grade through our friend Camille. We were each others 1st kiss and after that never dated till after our missions. (we needed some practice in the kissing area. It wasn't so great! lol)

High School: We never grew out of the "Dress UP" stage I guess. We had a lot of good times in high school!

Us on our missions we wrote to each other every week without fail. Dylan Served in Cali and I was in Korea. He was an awesome missionary and really helped me have the desire to serve a mission.

Dylan came home 4 days after me and didn't know I was home yet. (I came home due to my health) He was so surprised to see me, it was pretty funny.

This was my 22 birthday. We were not yet dating but he sure hung around a lot (lol) At this point we were just best friends and nothing more (or so I thought). We did most everything together , I don't know why it took me so long to see how Amazing it would be to date my best friend!!!

Once I figured it out we got engaged Jan 5, 2008. Dylan brought me chinese food and inside the fortune cookie it said "Will you marry me"? It was so cute! We drove around all night showing our families the ring!!!

What a wonderful day! It rained, snowed, and even gave us a little sunshine for a min or so. We got married in the Mount Timpanogos Temple at 10am. We had a fun and busy day and then a great party that night. We danced till we dropped! Thanks to our parents for a wonderful wedding.

10 things I love about Dylan

1. He always believes in me even when I don't believe in myself
2. He can always make me smile (even if I'm crying)
3. He is the Best gift giver (way better than me, ask my mom or sisters they'll tell you its true. I have to thanks my mother-in-law and sister-in-law for that they tough him all he knows)
4. He sings to me in the car. (he even dances to it's a real show!!!)
5. He helps me on all my photo shoots (what a good sport)
6. He never complains when I don't have dinner ready for him when he comes home
7. He usually lets me be right
8. He's the 1st to say he's sorry after we have a fight
9. He never tells me NO
10. He puts my socks on at night when I'm too cold to get out of bed and do it myself

Happy Anniversary babe!

Weekend in IDAHO!!!

2008-04-24T23:39:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, Em and I had the chance to go to Idaho and visit my Aunt Gay, Uncle Joe, and my Cousin Sheena. We also were lucky because my grandma from Arizona had flown up there just a few days prior to our arrival. We also took wedding pictures of Em's "cousin" Andrea and her "darling" (Em told me to write that) new husband. We had a great time, and of course as our pseudo-tradition holds, there's a picture of us at the state line, letting the whole world know that, yes we did in fact go to Idaho. We seem to do that on every trip. When we went to San Diego, we must have been sleeping or something because neither of us saw one. (I really didn't mind, because I think it's weird to pull off the road to just take a picture with a sign.) We had a wonderful time up there, and as always - lots of great adventures (we're regular Indiana Jones types). We got to try out sleeping on a Sleep-Number Bed which I loved - but I kept changing my mind on what my number was (inflating, deflating, inflating, deflating, etc.) I even helped to take some pictures! I'm pretty proud of myself for that. However, we both were a little trigger happy and took over 1000 pictures in 2 days - ah the joys of digital cameras! If you want to see some of the pictures - keep checking Em's website http://www.imagesbyem.com/ for updates!

Four Eyes!

2008-04-24T22:54:00.000-07:00

I know it has been a long while since we have posted, however I have to remind you all that we are fairly boring people and don't do all that much that you would really want to read about. Anyway. . . After our trip to San Diego Dylan was SURE I had bad eyes. Every time he asked me to read a sign for him I couldn't read it till we were really close and by that time it was too late. Then one night watching the Jazz game I kept asking what the score was because all the #'s looked the same. Once again he said I should go get my eyes checked. I told him it was really no big deal. Then the last straw was one Sunday in church when I told him the Hymn numbers were blurry. After that he called Kelsey for me (his sister who works for an eye Doctor) and asked her to make me an appointment. I didn't really want to but I was not really given a choice. And . . .well as you can tell from the lovely picture of me above, I did indeed need glasses. To be honest now that I have them I am amazed how clear everything is. Its a world of difference. Mostly when reading signs, hymn # and the Jazz Score of course. ha ha

I couldn't resist putting the lovely picture of Dylan on also so as to take a bit of the attention off me. Doesn't he look like some one we all know and love???? O ya my dad. (love you to dad!!!)

Happy 22nd Birthday Kelsey Liane Tucker!!!

2008-03-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, March 25th, my little sister turned 22 years old! I have no idea where the time has gone! My sister rocks and is way cooler than I am, and here's 5 reasons why:

1. She put up with me constantly harassing her while we were growing up. She's still helping me look for "mah baseball" to this very day.

2. She loves the movie Multiplicity (yes I know she wrote that too) and she loves to quote it - especially sound bytes from #4 (if you haven't seen the movie, then watch it and you'll know what I mean.)

(#4 trying to remember...)

3. She got married to a great guy. Murray is awesome to her and she treats him well. They're just a cute little couple!

4. Even after all her ear surgeries growing up, she still has time to listen to me if I need to talk. It's great!

(Here's Kels after one of her operations - poor thing!)

5. She is one of the most caring people I know. She worries about everyone - even people she hardly knows. That's one of her biggest strengths.

I love my little sis and I'm glad to have her - Happy Bird-Day!!! (to quote "The Office")

San Diego 2008 Photos

2008-03-22T22:35:00.001-07:00

We decided on an impulse to visit San Diego during Spring Break.
We had a great time! In two days we visited SeaWorld (where Dylan was able to ea- I mean pet a dolphin), go to the beach (where Emily could read and listen to the waves crashing - how romantic!), The USS Midway (an aircraft carrier that we're sure was made with short people in mind - the ceilings are like 5 feet tall!), went to the San Diego Temple 3 times (2 on the outside - for Em's photos, and once to go through), and Balboa Park (where Dylan learned how to park in the lot farthest from the action!). In Balboa Park, we walked up a hill and found all the museums closed, but they looked great from the outside!!!

Highlights from 2007!

2008-02-15T14:27:00.000-08:00

January 2007 Happy New Year!!!!!

Tiffany (my sister) had her 3rd baby February 27, 2007

He is so Cute!

Dylan's 24th Birthday. Out shootin' with the boys!

In April, Dylan's Aunt Sue invited me to go to Maui for her Birthday! We were there for 9 days and we had a blast!

One of my best friends in the world, Lisa, got married on our 2nd anniversary!

She looked so beautiful!

Dylan got a scooter in June and he loved it! I didn't mind it either but would have picked a Harley! Ha Ha

Ok, so we don't have any kids to brag about but these are my nephews and niece. They are the cutest! This is us at the pool during the summer.

Happy 25th Birthday to me! I feel very old

Football the Best part about Fall! My little brother plays for Lone Peak and is Awesome! I am his #1 Fan and his personal photographer too!

In October we took a road trip to Arizona to see Dylans Grandma, Aunt and Uncle. We had a Blast! My personal favorite part was going on an all day Harley ride with Uncle Dave!

November 30, 2007
Dylan's sister Kelsey got married to Murray Tucker - it was a blast!

December 2007
We stayed home for Christmas and enjoyed being with family. Dylan got Guitar Hero and looks sexy when he rocks out.