Day 3 BOW

Well by day 3 I was exhausted, but so not ready to leave! We got up for breakfast and then had our last seminar before heading out. I did Turkey Talk, which taught us all about turkey hunting, tracking, calling, etc. I even can tell the difference between male and female turkey poop, which is a skill I am sure I will have to use for the rest of my life! :) My instructors were great, and we started off in the classroom for a little demonstration, supply list, watched a video, and practiced our turkey calls.





Then we moved outside for a little turkey trailing and some hands on lessons.




They talked a good deal about camo and how important it is that everything, guns, shoes, bottoms of your shoes, face, etc. be covered because turkeys have like 10x greater eye site than humans. In the middle of them talking to us about this, not 10 feet from me, this guy jumps out of the brush hollering, in full camo, and I proceeded to wet my pants. It scared us all to death that he was that close to us, and we didn't have a clue. Here is our masked bandit....


Last but not least was a little lunch with new friends and tons of memories to take home. :)

BOW-Day 2

Day 2 of the Becoming and Outdoors Woman Seminar, I took the BASS Class and Riflery. They were both awesome. I started out that morning with the BASS Class. We met down at the pool to practice with some lures specific for catching BASS so we could see how they moved. That was pretty neat, because some of the underwater lures I have used before, I had no idea what they looked like in the water.





Then we went out on the pontoon boat across Weiss Lake to a private pond to try out our new skills. It was a little chilly still, but we had a great time!






My second class was riflery which was so neat. We learned all about different types of rifles and then we had our own personal instructors to teach us different techniques and stuff. My instructor was really good...I ended up winning the TOP GUN award which was the best shooter in my class. We started out going head to head with each person in our class on shooting targets accurately and quickly as well. Plus you had to factor in the occasional gun jam which was quite frequent. So we did a bracket style competition and then at the end I was the winner. My instructor was so proud! Plus they get bragging rights to all the other instructors if their student wins.








We finished out the day with a little story time by the fire with Hugging Bear....I stayed until 8:15 and then went to bed! :)

The Best Weekend Ever!! (minus when I married David) :)

Where was I this weekend???? With 100 other women at the 4-H Center in Columbiana, AL learning how to become an Outdoors Woman. For all my Phi Mu girls out there, try not to turn up your noses too much please...they just might stick that way! :) If you have never heard to BOW, which I hadn't until about a month ago, you are missing out. It is the most awesome event ever! You learn EVERYTHING about the outdoors, hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, crafts, etc. that you could imagine. It is a 3 day seminar and it absolutely wonderful. The classes I chose were: Intro to Fishing, BASS Class, Riflery and Talkin' Turkey. I will break down my post with pictures of each of these classes because there is so much to tell! So let's begin with Intro to Fishing.....

In this class we learned basic fishing techniques, knot tying, bait selection, etc. They started us out with our rods and some plastic fish that we had to catch. You had to throw your "bait" almost perfectly to catch the fish which was challenging but really helpful. If you look really closely, you will see the bright colored fish at the bottom of the hill in this picture...


After a few tries, I caught mine!!


Next we learned about fish identification which was really neat. In Alabama we have tons of species of fish that you can catch...

Next they taught us how to clean the fish....when they asked for a volunteer to do the next one, guess who's hand shot up!


Should have brought a ponytail holder...




So now I know how to clean a fish, which really isn't that hard, I had just never done it before. That night, we had activities which consisted of eating way too much and then we learned how to shoot a bow. I have never done that either and it was awesome. Stu-baby was my teacher and he was great. We first had to determine whether I was right eye or left eye dominant....


Next came the instructions...




And boom!! BULLS EYE!!


More to come tomorrow!!

Shower Time!

Last weekend was super busy! On Saturday morning after pancake breakfast, I headed off to one of my dear high school friends, Amy Woodruff's, wedding shower. It was wonderful getting to catch up with all the high school girls and see what everyone is doing. I also got to see some of my former elementary school teachers which was really nice. We also have our 10 year reunion coming up in September, so that was the topic of conversation amongst our group at the shower. Anywho...enough of my rambling...here are the shots from the day!

And the Winner's Are......

Drumroll please!!!!



From Meg: ball ball ball ball...gotta get the ball...ball ball ball


From Kevin: Really....He chose Vienna?


From JC: Now we're going to be late to party, told you to leave early..."

Congrats to all our winners! Leave your email address in the comments of this section and I will contact you to get a mailing address for your giftcard!!!

Pancake Day!

For those of you not from around here, Pancake Day in Decatur is like a national holiday. Everyone gathers at Decatur High School in the wee hours of the morning until 6:00 on Saturday night. You literally will see everyone you know, and it is a great place to catch up with friends. Oh, and did I mention the pancakes....yeah, they are all you can eat. AMAZING! This year, we made The Daily's photo's for Pancake Day and fortunately, I was not stuffing my face with pancakes when our photo was taken.

***Oh, and in case you missed it, my previous post is a photo caption contest...so, leave your captions and you could win a Target giftcard! The cutoff is Wednesday at noon!***

Free Target Giftcard Giveaway!!

Yes that is right folks....the Higginbotham's are having a giveaway on our blog! The photo's below were shot this weekend and are in desperate need of a caption. You can either put a caption on one, or all three, whichever you would like. The captions can be funny or serious, your preference as well! So, leave a comment with your caption ideas and on Wednesday we will announce the winners. Each caption winner will receive a $10.00 Target giftcard. WAHOO!!! :)

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