Filling the void and whole bunch of firsts!

As many of you know (or all, if you read the last post) my sweet baby Rusty has left us and I was left with a void in my heart. Not knowing how to fill it, I walked around my house repeatedly telling Jon I "need something to love" He would just give me the "Hellooo I'm right here, love me" look. But I kept explaining it was a different love. Like a motherly, nurturing love. So.... one Wednesday afternoon on my way to work... a sort of round about way to work.. I just happened upon the local animal shelter.

I decided to go take a look-see.. you know.. just to look.

Well if anyone knows me, they knew I couldn't leave empty handed after looking into the faces of animals who desperately needed love... considering I coincidentally had a fair amount of love I needed to give.

One pair of eyes particularly sold themselves to me.

It was like walking into a grocery store and seeing your favorite candy bar on sale, you don't just walk passed that.

Unfortunately when you're married, it's considered "appropriate" to make decisions such as bringing home an animal, only after you have discussed it, and agreed upon it with your spouse. So obviously I called Jon, disregarding the fact that he was working, I needed this precious pup in my life! like, now!

Well turns out I kind of get really excited about things and get super into it, and then lose interest after about a day... Jon is fully aware of that so he convinced me to sleep on it.

So I did.

I brought Jon on Saturday and we brought her home that morning!

I named her Lucy because she is such a sweetheart. Also this way I can say "Lucy I'm home!" whenever I get back from work. That was a good enough reason in itself, but it also fits her personality.

She is by far the best snuggle buddy ever. Except Jon doesn't like her in the house.. so we just save that for when he's gone :) shhh!

One thing that just melts my heart about Lucy is she reminds me of my baby Rusty.

Look familiar?

Jasper isn't too fond of her, but we decided he's not really too fond of any dogs...except the neighbors.. when she comes into heat. ;) ow ow

 (I opened the back door to clean out the car and they jumped in, after about 5 min of trying to get them out, I just let them stay there.. they did for about 20 minutes until they realized we really weren't going anywhere.)

ANYWAYYY

The next day was General Conference. We went to my parents house to watch it. It was wonderful as always, but wore some of us out.

Another thing that wore us out was the deer hunt! It was my first!











I wasn't overjoyed about going considering this was the temperature the first morning..

also it was like 4:30am ...
but it ended up being pretty great! Plus I had lots of firsts!

My first Moose sighting! They came way close to camp! (my zoom might've helped a little bit.)
My first sunrise that I actually watched... possibly that i've been awake for

Like usual, I won most of the games.


The moon was ginormous (zoom might've helped out a little bit here too...)

Lucy enjoyed it

Except for the being tied up part, turns out she doesn't really like that...

Plus I just got some good pictures.






This is an action shot of me roundhouse kicking the smoke.

Classic model shots...

woah.. don't know how that got there...

Welp!

Quotes from Jon

After a nudge from me while nodding off in sacrament meeting...

"I'm sorry! It's just so hard for me to listen to women's talks."

Jon: Hey look! I found some more Halloween decoration!
Me: That's just a bandana...
Jon: Yeah, but it's orange!

That's all folks! Thanks for readin!