Goldthorpe & Co

Birthday and Shower

2012-02-05T20:58:00.000-08:00

Steven's mother had her 89th birthday in January and Gwendolyn is shown playing with another girl in the ward. Marianne helped organize a shower for a mother in our ward and got a lot of help from other women to make it a very colorful evening. The theme was Dr. Suess.

Christmas Day Dinner

2012-01-02T17:56:00.000-08:00

Marianne prepared Christmas dinner for Steven's parents and later they came back to look at Hunter play with his new g-scale trains. G stands for garden scale trains. Ken helped me create extra shelving in the garage, to make room for the large train set.

5th Anniversary

2011-12-23T22:55:00.000-08:00

For our 5th wedding anniversary, we took a cruise in the San Diego Harbor. We noticed a statue next to the Midway aircraft carrier museum about that 'end of world war II kiss' in New York. The next day we visited the remodeled Mormon Battalion visitor center where Hunter and Gwendolyn got to pan for gold. Earlier in the week we visited a large Christmas tree in a local mall, which my sister Diane had told us about.

Christmas Party at Preschool

2011-12-16T20:52:00.000-08:00

Decorating the Christmas Tree

2011-12-04T21:50:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving

2011-11-27T19:26:00.000-08:00

We enjoyed having Marianne's family visit for Thanksgiving: Ken and Kathryn, Roy and Kathy, and Becky and Jim. We put together a fussball game and we had a lot of fun with it and with WII. We, Ken and Kathryn also went to the nearby Nixon Library where there were neat model train exhibits. Hunter loves trains and looked at them for about two hours.

Thanksgiving Feast at Hunter's Preschool

2011-11-18T21:24:00.000-08:00

Marianne and Gwendolyn got to attend a Thanksgiving Feast at Hunter's preschool.

Halloween

2011-11-01T20:41:00.000-07:00

We had a lot of fun on Halloween. Hunter's pre-school teacher dressed up as a ginger-bread man and Hunter dressed up as a lion. We had fun visiting family and trick or treating in our neighborhood.

Vacationers

2011-09-20T06:51:00.000-07:00

We got a visit from Frank and Fred's family on Sunday while they were here on vacation.

School Starts

2011-09-13T02:58:00.000-07:00

Hunter has now started pre-school, where Marianne takes him for 2 hours each weekday at 8:15am. Hunter is getting some speech therapy because his speech development is a little behind his average peer. When Hunter's tonsils were taken out in January, we learned that he had quite a bit of water behind his ear drums, which was probably a reason for his speech development delay. Ear drain tubes were added at that time.

Last weekend we were invited to a retreat for families at an education center near our home, put on by a county non-profit organization. While Marianne and Steven went to child development seminars between meals, Hunter and Gwendolyn were taken care of by volunteers.

Busy early August

2011-08-16T04:03:00.000-07:00

We got to go to Mormon night at Angel Stadium and Gwendolyn looks like she was studying the game for a moment. Kathy's sister, Cherie, came to a Single's Conference and visited a couple days. Marianne got to visit Kathy's family before the school year begins. Hunter will be going to pre-school this year. We had a visit from Steven's cousin Miriam and her husband Dave. Hunter's cousins, Anna Alise and Kate, are looking at a monarch butterfly.

Kelsey's Wedding and Lillywhite Reunion

2011-07-26T06:44:00.000-07:00

We appreciated staying at Frank and Amy's so that we could attend Kelsey's wedding. After Kelsey's reception we realized that we had a flat tire and appreciate Fred and Keith quickly helping us to change our tire. We enjoyed being outdoors at Zion with family. The last picture is Gwendolyn on a push toy on Steven's parent's backyard patio. She is holding a little pumpkin that a care giver grew in the back yard.

Birthday at the Beach

2011-07-10T20:47:00.000-07:00

On Steven's birthday yesterday, the ward had a beach party and we went to it. It helped us relax from our assignment of giving talks today. The waves at Huntington Beach are alittle stronger than other beaches, so they scared Hunter a little. Gwendolyn really got wet in that one wave.

Sqweaky Shoes

2011-07-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

Frank and Amy visited us and for fun we walked around Downtown Disney. We visited Steven's parents for Father's Day. Hunter is getting some weekly speech and swimming lessons. Marianne wanted Gwendolyn to have some squeaky shoes so that she would not get under foot in the kitchen. The video below shows Gwendolyn's first happy steps in the shoes.

Making new friends

2011-06-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

These are some of the activities that Hunter participated in at a center for early childhood development. Hunter was able to go there for a couple of months, to help increase his speech skills.

He's three!

2011-06-22T07:35:00.000-07:00

Hunter had his 3rd Birthday on June 8th. We went to Chucke Cheese and on the weekend had a pool party with his cousins Nicole's and Jennifer's families. Marianne made an owl cake from cupcakes. My brother Charles' family and sister Joan also visited from Cedar City, earlier in the month.

May

2011-05-23T21:08:00.000-07:00

National Train Day and Fathers&Sons

Hunter loves trains and Marianne learned about National Train Day on the radio being celebrated at the Los Angeles Union Station. We rode the Amtrak train from Santa Ana to Union Station, 50 minutes each way. That was probably the best part of the day. Also, Hunter and Steven got to go to Fathers & Sons for the first time together. Hunter is looking older and taller.

April and Easter Weekend

2011-04-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

Marianne found the children in some interesting situations, like eating cherry pie between meals. On Easter Friday we went to Knott's Berry Farm with Becky and Jim's family. On Saturday we had a barbeque, pool party and Easter egg hunt. Gwendolyn got a new swim suit and the front room was packed with children while Roy and Jim hid the eggs.

Trains and Knotts Berry Farm

2011-03-06T21:43:00.000-08:00

Marianne took a couple cute poses in February. Hunter has been very interested in trains the last couple of months and he got to ride in his first train yesterday at Knotts Berry Farm. He is saying 'train' as he rests his head on Gwendolyn. Knotts Berry Farm has a Snoopy Camp area where there are rides for small children.

Gwen's 1st Birthday

2011-02-10T22:35:00.000-08:00

We got to celebrate Gwen's 1st birthday in Visalia with Kathy and Roy and in Orange with Steven's family. Steven's mother is slowly getting stronger after her fall last month.

December and Holiday Fun

2011-01-02T22:32:00.000-08:00

December started with a visit to the Smith’s in Arizona for Brayden’s baptism. We got to visit a communities’ Christmas carnival and eat dinner at another communities’ lake.

On our trip up to Laketown for Christmas, we visited Sam and Pam Wilson’s family in SLC and learned about the Wilson family tradition of creating wax castles. Colored melted wax rises in a sink of cold water and Marianne’s first try looks like a lettuce salad. That night we visited Temple Square to see the lights. Hunter helped us make one trip into the hotel from the parking garage, by pulling our food cooler.

At Laketown’s yearly Christmas Eve party Santa Claus really looked authentic, but Gwendolyn did not get to see him. On Christmas day, most of the Lillywhites went sledding and got to ride on Frank and Amy’s snowmobiles. Hunter’s parka was not thick enough to prevent him from being tickled. Hunter also learned about a game from Kathryn, to catch a plastic bug under a cup before it is jerked from the table.

Yesterday on New Year’s day, we took a short hike on the Anaheim Hills ridge above our home. Recent rain had washed away most of the smog, so that we could see the pretty snow covered San Gabriel mountains really well, which are north of us. From the ridge you can also see our home, downtown Los Angeles and off shore Catalina Island.

Laketown Visit through Thanksgiving

2010-11-26T22:12:00.000-08:00

During our October Laketown visit, Kathryn helped us take this year's family Christmas picture outside the Laketown ward building. We also bought 6 trees in Logan, recommended by Roy, to plant on our lot at Last Chance. Ken helped Steve to plant them and protect them from deer with fencing. Marianne always enjoys carving a pumpkin for Halloween. This last week, Becky and Jim visited us in Orange and Marianne enjoyed going to Legoland with them for the first time. We celebrated Thanksgiving at Steven's sister Diane's house. We also got to see Phyllis' family and her youngest son Trenton, who just returned from the Tempe AZ mission.

Kids

2010-09-05T21:19:00.000-07:00

Gwendolyn is 6.5 months. She has started rolling over and is just beginning to crawl.

Guess What! We went to our ward's beach party last week, and found Becky and Jim's camera in the cup holder of one of our folding camp chairs. We called Becky right away to give her the good news.

Summertastic

2010-08-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

The Lillywhite reunion happened around Pioneer Day (24th July) so we enjoyed a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a small but impressive parade. The ranchers and farmers displayed large farm equipment and threw candy to the anxious children. Steven and I watched the parade as it came down the street by Grandpa Lillywhite’s House. Marianne’s sister Becky demonstrated how to make hair bows with ribbon Saturday afternoon we went to the lakeshore with family. There were a lot of cars and people and some of our group ended up at a different location. The kids had fun digging in the sand and making poop castles. When it got dark the younger children were excited to light sparklers, at the end they even roasted the last of Aunt Marianne’s Big marshmallows.

Back in Orange County, we had a 60th wedding anniversary for Steven’s parents and a get together of all of Steven’s family. We also enjoyed a visit from the Arizona Smith’s and Charles’ family at our home. We played in the pool and spa everyday, I do not think we ever got tired of playing pig and horse. After Charles’ family left, we went to Eisenhower park one day. Becky helped Marianne arrange a photo sitting at Target and even though they said the camera was malfunctioning we had success. I even made homemade bread with Becky. The last night Becky was here we paid Ethan to baby-sit so we could make hair bows.

A few more pictures from Ted's Visit

2010-06-25T21:20:00.000-07:00

We got to see Ted's family at the end of their Disneyland vacation and here are a couple more pictures of his family. Here is a video of Cole wanting to be a fireman and coming downstairs very quickly, laughing all the way.

Hunter's 2nd Birthday Party

2010-06-13T19:42:00.001-07:00

Hunter turned two on June 8th and we celebrated it on Saturday with a pool party and barbeque. Diane's family, Steven's parents and Phyllis, Ted and Jen's family, and Kathy and her boys were there. Ted's family is enjoying Disneyland this week. Hunter really like's playing with his cousins. He blew out the candle with one puff. Thanks for all of your gifts.

Gwen Cooing

2010-05-31T03:52:00.000-07:00

Fun at dinner time

2010-05-12T21:55:00.000-07:00

2010 Easter Weekend

2010-04-06T19:16:00.001-07:00

Gwendolyn's Blessing

2010-03-24T22:00:00.000-07:00

Parent Visit and Getty Museum

2010-02-21T19:13:00.000-08:00

Marianne's mother Kathryn could always interest Hunter into playing with bubbles. We went together to the Getty museum and saw beautiful paintings (including Rembrandt) and a view of Los Angeles. Marianne's father Ken drove down from Laketown to pick up Kathryn for the drive home. Hunter held Gwendolyn for the first time today.

Our Baby Girl has arrived!

2010-02-10T08:55:00.000-08:00

Marianne delivered Gwendolyn Mary Goldthorpe through a c-section on Monday at 4:31pm. Gwendolyn was 7 lb 15 oz and 21 inches long. Gwendolyn may have blue eyes and blonde hair. Marianne's mother Kathryn is here helping us.

Christmas Vacation 2009

2010-01-10T17:11:00.000-08:00

We had a nice Christmas vacation visiting Marianne's family and friends. We spent a week including Christmas in Laketown. Before Christmas, Marianne's family enjoyed Sunday together singing carols and playing chimes (see video below). We went to the yearly Laketown Ward Christmas Eve Party where Santa Claus comes and gives each child a gift. We then visited friends in the Denver area and Hunter got his second sled ride. We then headed for Becky's and along the way we did some sighteseeing in Santa Fe and Albuquerque New Mexico. We enjoyed good roads all along the way. I included a couple pictures looking down at Bear Lake and Laketown from the Sweetwater development.

2009-12-12T02:01:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2009

Update

2009-11-09T21:10:00.000-08:00

During the late summer we had visits from Becky’s family, Phyllis, Joan, and Steve’s parents. Becky gave Marianne vinyl lettering for her laundry room as a birthday gift and we had our first pool party. Thanks Becky.
In October we attended missionary reunions and visited Marianne’s family. On the way home we toured a bronze foundry in Alpine Utah owned by a friend. A lot of work and skill goes into each statue.
Marianne’s parents came to visit Kathy and Roy’s family for Lincoln’s baptism. It was also Halloween so we had a lot of fun. Kathryn and Ken followed us to southern California and stayed a couple of days.
Hunter is 17 months now and about ready to begin walking. Last Sunday I was released from my ward clerk job and now Marianne and I are nursery leaders. We are now looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Good Times and Bad Times

2009-08-30T16:49:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Steven’s 51st birthday and Marianne decorated the cake. Amy’s sister Ande and her friend Hillary were our first visitors in our new home and they recommended to us Mideval Times and we enjoyed their company in our home. While they were here, Hunter developed a bad rash on his legs and arms that lasted 6 days. Marianne took him to urgent care and was told the rash was due to a virus.

A couple days after the first rash was gone, Hunter got a second worse rash over his entire body. Another urgent care physician said that Hunter’s second rash was probably due to an allergic reaction to amoxicillin, which the first urgent care physician had prescribed for a coating on Hunter’s throat. The next day the second rash was still getting worse with a fever, so Marianne took Hunter to his pediatrician who recommended that Hunter go to the ER to rule out worse reasons for a rash (Kawasaki). ER drew blood for the lab and put in an IV, but gave no other treatment while the rash began to get better. Hunter is doing much better after a stressful two weeks for his parents.

Hunter had eye surgery on August 19th. He was a good patient and slept most the first day after the surgery. The picture of Hunter with the bottle was the day of the surgery. The pictures show Steven’s nephew Wesley, sisters Joan and Diane, and Hunter’s second cousins Analise, Tyler and Colin.

Steven's brother Charles' children came to visit this weekend.

Lillywhite Reunion July 2009

2009-07-13T20:57:00.000-07:00

On our way through Utah we visited Steven's sister Joan and Marianne's college friend Penny. In Bear Lake, we saw another friend Barbara. During our reunion we enjoyed golfing, fishing, camping in the backyard, hiking in Minnetonka cave, boating and digging for coins at the lake, great food and time with each other. My Dad made a great shade for the beach. On the 4th of July we had a Mexican fiesta which included fajitas, a pinata and fireworks after dark.

Our new house

2009-07-13T20:21:00.000-07:00

After a year of work and hope, our Lindenholz house sold in early May. Our big move to our new home occurred June 15th, that lasted until past midnight. On the weekend, Hunter wore himself out playing in his walker while we were assembling our bed.

Hunter's First Birthday

2009-06-25T22:41:00.001-07:00

Marianne made two turtle cakes for Hunter's 1st birthday.
We celebrated it at Steve's parents house and Diane's family
was there. Joan joined us on the phone to sing happy
birthday. Hunter was asleep when we arrived, but we woke
him up so that he could enjoy the celebration. He
was very interested in opening his first present.

Grand Canyon Vacation

2009-05-30T09:05:00.000-07:00

We enjoyed Memorial Day weekend at the Grand Canyon South Rim with a rented trailer. Becky's family joined us there on Friday night. We had great food. We were packed in like sardines in the trailer but enjoyed each others company. It drizzled some of the time and clouds in the canyon did not move out until the afternoon. The children had fun playing tag in a rock lined trail and adding to it. Elk were browsing on trees in the trailer park. We visited several of the beautiful south rim viewing areas. We got to visit a LDS Branch in the park on Sunday.

Thursday night we were locked out of the trailer upon our late night arrival in the rain, so we slept in the suburban. We were not provided with a key for the second door lock. The next morning we were advised to go in through a window so that we could continue our vacation as planned.

The picture of the blooming evergreen bush has round green buds which do not open for plants I have seen in residential areas in California, but they do blossom into flowers at the South Rim.

May 2009 was busy

2009-05-30T07:42:00.000-07:00

May 2009 began with Mother's Day and then Marianne's Birthday. Charles family visited California late in the month to also attend Daniel's Open House. We opened and closed escrow on selling our Lindenholz home during the month of May.

Road Trip to Visalia

2009-05-03T19:49:00.000-07:00

Hunter and I had a recent visit with Kathy during her last week of on-line classes for her teaching credential renewal. I saw Noah play T-ball. Lincoln was excited for Hunter to watch him play at one of his 2 hour baseball practices. We celebrated Kathy’s accomplishment by going to Mimi’s Café.

After visiting Kathy I was planning to go to a wedding in Oregon for Steve’s nephew but plans fell through at the last minute. I was tired of life in the fast lane with Kathy and was glad to come home and give Steve a hair cut.

Southern Utah Spring 2009

2009-04-02T19:54:00.000-07:00

Recently we took some cabinets out between our kitchen and family room to open it up and here are the results. We like it but we may renovate our kitchen later. In late March we went to southern Utah for Steven’s nephew’s open house.

Then we went to stay with Frank and Amy in St. George. On Saturday we enjoyed hiking in Snow Canyon. Later that evening Amy helped to give Hunter his first haircut. We had fun at a local park before we drove home.

Spring 2009

2009-03-21T18:42:00.000-07:00

To welcome spring we planted some flowers, tomatoes and sweet peppers. Hunter is wearing an eye patch on his left eye two hours a day to exercise his weaker right eye. Here are our most recent family pictures. Julie Goldthorpe also came to visit from Cedar City, after returning from her church mission in Germany.

Dinner Time at 9 months

2009-03-13T20:10:00.000-07:00

Buckeye AZ

2009-03-08T20:54:00.000-07:00

Baby Hunter

2009-02-10T15:02:00.000-08:00

Hunter is eight months old now. He is the topic of conversation wherever we go because he has alot of curly hair right now I comb it down but, if it gets wet it is back to curly. We have had people follow us in the mall just so they can touch his red hair. Anyway we are so happy he is with us and enjoy watching him grow and learn new things.

The 2008 Holiday Season

2008-12-29T06:25:00.000-08:00

We have enjoyed the 2008 Holiday Season including Christmas and hope that all of you have also. We were in Orange for Halloween and Thanksgiving and traveling in the California central valley the week of Christmas. We spent two days in snow covered Sequoia before spending Christmas eve in Visalia with Kathy, Roy and the boys. Marianne made a chocolate Christmas log cake (Buche De Noel) on Christmas day to share with everyone, which she learned how to make through Relief Society.

We then spent a couple of relaxing days with Phyllis and Greg's family (Steve's sister) near San Jose. Marianne bought a set of bread pans so that she can bake a bigger batch of bread. Below we first show Halloween and Thanksgiving pictures, then we show our initial pictures leading to the Christmas Holiday. Hunter is about 7 months old now.

Our Central Valley trip begins.

Bear Lake Fall and the Hunt

2008-11-02T18:47:00.000-08:00

Marianne had micro back surgery and her leg pain is going away. Hunter is five months old and beginning to eat rice cereal and pureed vegetables and fruits. We may wait a year or two to sell our home based on the health of the economy.

We enjoyed our Fall vacation to Laketown. Becky had a great idea to get us all together to celebrate my mother's 60th birthday and we will always remember it. It was great to see everyone. I had fun creating my first embroidered gift for my mother.

During our vacation we toured the conference center and ate lunch at the Lions House. No deer were brought home during the hunt, but Steve enjoyed the several hikes through the beautiful countryside and camping. We were thankful for the good weather during our vacation and the brilliant fall colors.

We visited Steve's last living aunt in Idaho Falls and Marianne's college friend Stacy in Boise. Grandma Wilson's station house in Lewiston now has a car size metal mosquito on the garage. We had fun shopping in Logan and visiting the cheese factory. We got to visit Fred and Sara's kingdom with the throne and all. We also got to visit Steve's niece Jennifer's family in Logan.

Steve's sister Joan came with us on our vacation and took home fond memories of Bear Lake. On the way up and back we visited Steve's Brother in Cedar City.

Vacation in midwest

2008-08-01T20:50:00.000-07:00

We enjoyed visiting St. Louis, Nauvoo, Far West and Tami Fielding's family in Independence Missouri.

Our newborn Son

2008-06-19T18:12:00.000-07:00

On June 8th, 2008 we were blessed with a healthy boy, Hunter Leland Goldthorpe (8 lb 13 oz, 20.5 inches). Mother and baby are healthy.

Spring Break 2008

2008-04-15T21:51:00.000-07:00

We got loads of family visitors at Spring Break.

Thanksgiving and Christmas 2007

2008-01-04T19:41:00.001-08:00

We had a wonderful time at Yosemite and its white blanket of snow. We spent Christmas Eve with Kathy and family. At home we visited apple orchards near the Redlands Temple and bought some apple cider.

We visited the Smiths and got to know their neighborhood. We had a great family outing at a mexican restaurant and then watched the new 'Enchanted' movie. We exchanged gifts and had a lot of laughs from our new 'Cranium' board game we received. We were there to see the arrival of their new sofa sectional. We highly recommend their king-size bed in their guest room with the 400 thread count sheets.

Marianne's family visited us for Thanksgiving and we had a nice visit. We went to Disneyland and got passports for the next year. Frank and Amy were kind to cook the turkey and we enjoyed Mom's homemade pumpkin pie which she made from squash she brought down in her suitcase. Dad increased the height of our interior doors for our bedroom shag carpet, helped assemble our crib (Marianne is expecting our first child in June) and fixed our sliding screen door. Frank took some of us to visit the Midway aircraft carrier museum in San Diego.

Friday we ate at Rainforest Cafe.

A Work In progress

2007-08-19T20:17:00.000-07:00

We were able to lay down our sod last Friday and Saturday with help from family and the missionaries. Then we had a relaxing Saturday evening with Marianne's family.
Becky surprised Marianne by having beautiful flowers sent in appreciation for taking care of her children while she and Jim shopped for a house in the Phoenix area.

We have been able to pick out our bedroom and living room furniture and are happy to have it before Marianne's family visits at Thanksgiving time.

Shortly after our honeymoon, we began our landscape project.

Here is an update of our curb appeal improvement project. We have trenched the front and back yards and are now assembling the sprinklers. We have finished planting all the landscape plants which we purchased through Roy. After all this work, today Marianne has been seriously considering installing fake grass.(Just kidding)