Hi there. Welcome, and congrats on your new discovery! And thanks for asking us to share.
My terrific and loving son is responsible for my kingsnake interrests in general. Being the pet keeper and breeder in my family, from about the time I could walk I have been interested in about any creature that comes my way, keeping and raising all types of small animals including New Zealand Red rabbits from champion bloodlines, and fish. You name it, and I have most likely kept one or more as a pet or part of a breeding group... many of the pets I brought in from outdoors as a kid were of course hidden from my parents 
Needless to say, raising my only son it was an absolute must that he and I enjoy ourselves by constantly going to pet shops, breeder shows, breeding facilities and such to pick out our next critters. And of course going to as many zoos as possible was a must! I still love doing that, although my son is now grown and a father-to-be himself with a strapping baby boy on the way to us soon, so I travel to zoos with my sweetie who is an animal lover and reptile keeper herself. She's the turtle girl in the family now and she is quickly becoming fascinated with our kingsnakes... she loves working with the babies.
A number of years ago, while my son was still quite young, we were making our usual rounds to all the coolest pet facilities when he spotted a beautiful Sinaloan Milksnake. Well... he just had to have that baby snake(and who am I as a good father to say no? lol!). Soooooo..... we promptly began doing our homework to learn all we could about caring for that baby Sinaloan, we gathered up all the necessary husbandry items and raced off to that snake facility and brought his baby snake home! Now, being divorced and my son living with his mother you can easily imagine how pops was responsible for caring for that baby snake when my son wasn't around. Time passed, and me being who I am, I fell in love with the kingsnake/milksnake keeping hobby and before we knew it we had ourselves a stable full of kingsnakes. I sure love that son of mine, we are like the best buds ever! 
Having naturally been interested in breeding anything I ever kept that was possible to breed, the next step for me was obviously to lay down a plan for a kingsnake breeding project. By this time I had done all my studies and kept about every kingsnake that interested me, and by far my ultimate dream was to work with thayeri. At last! My next animal breeding project! I had just gotten away from tropical fish and needed something... my son had found it for me.
So I took my time, determined who the very best thayeri breeders were and began building my dream thayeri collection to work with. And here I am! You should see the extreme joy and excitement on my son's face now when he pops in to see what's going on... and I wish you could feel the joy and excitement that I feel when he and I are together there. Life is very very good! 
Enjoy your new thayeri when they arrive Rose, you made a very good decision in both choosing thayeri to work with, and the bloodline of your first animals. You are in for a real treat indeed!
Mike Kochvar / central Illinois
Photos for fun! An alterna clutch of eggs from earlier this year, a hatchling thayeri from this year and her parents below.....
