idaho trip

this past week we drove to idaho to spend some time with shawn's family and to see mountains and trees again! :) on the drive down our dog, denali, had a hard time staying in the back of my car and instead wanted to snuggle up to shawn. shawn had just got off a 12 hour work shift that morning and all he wanted to do was to sleep. having a dog that constantly wanted to sleep with him kept waking him up and he'd push denali away. give her two minutes and she was right back where she had been before.
we were down in driggs, idaho for halloween and so i grabbed all my wiggs before we left north dakota. i thought that they just might come in handy. and they did! shawn's parents got to go to a "trunk or treat" (where families will meet in the church parking lot and kids will trick or treat from car to car.) and halloween party. luckily, i happened to have all of my wigs and we had fun dressing gary and marlene up. marlene even found one of her daughter's old drill team hair pieces which we turned into a striking beard for gary. gary even won the award for the best adult costume!
our primary reason for going to idaho was to see shawn's grandma kay. she had had a stroke three weeks previous. she's doing great and making progress in recovering the use of her body. we had a great time spending time with her. :)
we also got to spend some time with shawn's nephew and neice - linkin and linlee. the kids love riding "horses" and drafted shawn to be their horse several times.
and here's my other wig that i brought. the kids thought that it was a lot of fun to wear. so here's linkin:
and linlee:happy halloween!

Fall has flung...

it's fall and i thought i'd up a picture of our back yard. the leaves took forever to actually fall off the trees and i was kind of excited to rake the leaves and jump in them. but i never did. for some odd reason having a dog takes away all that excitement - the possibility of landing in dog poop convinced me that i better not. ewwwh! so shawn was raked them up instead. anticlimatic.
early this fall (or was it late summer?) shawn decided to get his very first bow. he hasn't actually hunted with it yet but he has done some target practice. he's not bad! not bad at all!
we went and found a field that did not have "no trespassing" signs posted and found a hay bale for shawn to practice on. here he is in deep concentration.
i love all of shawn't facial expressions! here is his "giddy" face. i'll ask him to smile for the camera and so he'll give me a fake smile (which i can't complain because i have a hard time having a real looking smile when i'm told to smile - it's a deKay thing) and then i'll ask him to really smile for me. and then he'll pull one of these faces. i love it! when we took our engagement pictures everytime right before the picture took, shawn would chuckle under his breath to get that perfect smile. i thought it was just so darn cute!
and here we are together. awwwh! :) can you tell i'm freezing from the wind?