On our trip, a quick visit to Sun Valley for touring, lunch, and to watch a bit of the BSU game (as, oddly, no one had the Duck game on ;).
The Sun Valley Lodge! They serve a mean slider.
The sign for pizza. Hee hee!!
Tiny momma strolling around Sun Valley. She left her snow bunny outfit in the truck cause it was so dang balmy out. ;)
The first ski lift in the country! 
We went off on a girls road trip to the mountains!! Despite threats of inclement weather, the roads were clear! We stopped at the ice caves in Shoshone where I bought this tiny quartz steed and mom found this strange little puppy in the parking lot. Our road trip mascots! Done!
The views over Galena Summit were fantastic! The mountains have just a touch of powdered sugar on top!
So cute girls! Such a fun road trip!
Hee hee! The former Miss MacKay! 
Lucky for us, the parents' trailer was jam-packed with delicious treats, carefully delivered to our door!
Including these bee-yoo-tee-ful carrots!
Plus they brought this kim chee! Hee hee! No, canned blueberries, canned by...Dad!
Mmm...fresh salmon in a light mustard fry!
Mom's homemade chowder! Yay!
After dinner we fired up the wood stove in the garage to ward off the Idaho late autumn chill!
On our first day out, we headed over to the capitol! The capitol opened in January, so sister is the only other of our visitors who has toured the magnificence thus far!
I'm kinda smitted with this pic of the rotunda.
We had such fun playing around in the House....err...the Senate...err...one of 'em...
Dad....legislatin' and stuff.
Senator Mom callin' the place to order. This would have tickled Gram to no end.
Everything's covered in snow now, but it wasn't that long ago that the city was quite verdant!
The angles and light in the capitol are amazing.
We finished our informal tour with a tunnel photo shoot. The security guard in the back tried his best to slink out of the shot, but I got him. :)
The parents are here! The parents are here! They took advantage of their fancy retired lifestyle, hopped in their luxury RV, and toured across two states to come see us! Miss G was so pleased...
Their long long long trailer! :)
Lucky for us, this fellow on the right made the trip too...OK, at least part of him. He was tasty!
In light of his big catch, he was extra pleased to have thought to have put this T-shirt in his suitcase.
I'm not sure if this means your old friends give you the leverage to be extra stupid, or if by the time you consider them "old friends" you actually have some disposable income with which you can afford to do stupid things together. I am going to rely heavily on both notions when we are off to Mexico in early 2011 in celebration of our 40th birthdays!! WHOO-HOO!
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Mid-high school we dressed up and went to Portland to see a professional ballet. Goodness that's a lot of hair.
Grade 6, tarting it up for the July Fourth parade at the beach. Not sure what 13-year-old tarts have to do with Independence, but oh how I loved those red plastic jelly pumps! Sorry for that one, my Sister (far left). It's really no wonder you aren't a big fan of Halloween. ;)
I can't wait to see what get-ups we can come up with for south of the border!! Happy birthday my friend!! :)
A walk a walk a walk! Despite her age, Toot still loves a good autumn walk!
My high speed photography efforts yielded this mid-flight shot.
Wienerkind might not understand how a stoplight works.
Finally at the coffee shop! Why must the girl take so long?
Mocha for the boy. Cappuccino for the girl. A tall water for the Toot...
...And she's ready for the walk home!
This time I mean the season. Are the colors this fall more amazing than ever, or do I just have more bandwidth than I've had for the past three years?
Even the most dehydrated leaves are amazing.
Purple and lavender and magenta, oh my!
Like a big bowl of Fruity Pebbles.
Angry pavement, solitary leaf.
I can't believe this is still so pink!
While I loved the ease and convenience of vote-by-mail in Oregon, a return to old-fashioned ballot casting in Idaho has been fun too! The encounters with the (often) little (often) old (often) ladies who man the polling booths was not unlike the year I volunteered with my grandmother to man the Garden Home Community Center polling booth! Lemme tell ya, that is one long day of lookin' up names and listening to "BOB SMITH HAS VOTED!" every three minutes. About 85 percent of voters there knew my grandmother by name!
Last election I went to the county offices to vote, but last night we went to our polling place: the little theater by our house! My husband even voted, as evidenced by his fancy sticker! Oddly, while my name was called out after depositing my ballot, his was not... hmm... I hope his vote counted... after all, I spent a lot of time preparing his voting cheat sheet for him. ;) Hope your election day was fun! 