Mrs. Thistle is a native of Colorado. She joined the Air Force in 2001, where she spent four years working on the B-2 bomber. When Mrs. Thistle left the military, she returned to beautiful Colorado and went to work for Lockheed Martin. There, she worked as a composite technician building spacecraft structures. In 2010 she left the aerospace industry to pursue a teaching career. Mrs. Thistle and her family moved to Loveland where she attended Colorado Christian University. In 2012 she obtained her degree in Elementary Education and became a licensed K-6 teacher.

Mrs. Thistle joined LCS in 2015, as a READ paraprofessional. In the 2015-16 school year she moved into a Lyceum history teacher position. She loves teaching the content using classical pedagogy to second and fourth graders.

Mrs. Thistle, her husband, and their two children enjoy spending time together in the outdoors, hiking, bicycling, fishing, and going to the park.