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Over Memorial Day weekend Matt and I took a little mini-vacation down to Boise for to have our engagement photos taken by our fabulous photographer, Diana Palmer of Yan Photography.

We decided to make a nice little weekend of the trip, and stayed Friday night in McCall.  We stopped in Whitebird so Matt could do a nice little climb up the old highway 95.  A sweet road complete with cows.

The dogs and I tagged along behind him in the car, barking at the cows (not me, the dogs), and I posed for a picture with Nik at the top.

McCall was a place Matt and I were considering as a possible place for us to live someday.  While it’s a cool town, I think we’ve now crossed it off the list – it’s definitely touristy and therefore not really our vibe.  Beautiful setting though.

Saturday Matt and I took a detour on our way to Boise to stop and see the cabin my grandma and grandpa built.  It was sold soon after my grandma died 10 years ago, and I haven’t seen it since then.  Seeing it brought back so many wonderful memories and made me miss my grandmother so terribly.  I never appreciated the cabin as a kid, and now as an adult I feel so proud that my family built it for themselves and shared it with the rest of us.

This trip kind of turned in to the opportunity to show Matt where I come from, and I took him to the restaurant in Lowman where we always ate when we stayed at the cabin.  I made him take a picture of me in front of it (where I lost my glasses, because I was too vain to wear them for the picture, but whatevs).

People can say what they want about Idaho – yes it’s full of backwoods conservatives and some crazy laws and political stuff – but it’s my heart, it’s my home.  Idaho is so beautiful – so full of open spaces – and overflowing with wonderful people.  I miss Idaho a lot, and hope one day Matt and I can make a home there – somewhere.

Saturday night out photographer took us to a book store and an open meadow for our photos – I can’t wait to see them.  Also while in Boise I got to visit Anthro, Matt got to ride up Bogus Basin, and we got to eat some excellent meals together.  Boise is way hipper than I remember it – it has all sorts of artsy things and lots of young people and wholesome LDS folk and all sorts of outdoorsy stuff at its fingertips.  Plus it has jobs and beautiful old craftsman homes!  Maybe that’s where we should end up?

One last self portrait of us by the road, and the view that caused us to stop on the side of the road and take a self portrait.  Until next time, Idaho.  <3

Oh and one more.  A pug in the Element.