Pickles!!!!!!!

So Sandy I are in charge of planning our staff Christmas party. We do it every year and this year we decided to have a suprise theme, PICKLES!!!!!!. In our shopping we noticed a lot of pickle ornaments and we wondered why, after some research we found this story:
A decedent of a soldier who fought in the American Civil War, John Lower (Hans Lauer?), born in Bavaria in 1842, wrote to tell about a family story that had to do with a Christmas pickle. According to family lore, “John Lower was captured and sent to prison in Andersonville, Georgia. ...In poor health and starving, he begged a guard for just one pickle before he died. The guard took pity on him and found a pickle for John Lower. According to family legend, John said that the pickle—by the grace of God—gave him the mental and physical strength to live on. Once he was reunited with his family he began a tradition of hiding a pickle on the Christmas tree. The first person who found the pickle on Christmas morning would be blessed with a year of good fortune.”

This story was by far my favorite of the pickle stories out there, I mean, how can you ignore the fact the "By the grace of God" this man was able to survive. Needless to say Sandy and I feel that it is important to share this Christmas tradition with our fellow staff members. Sandy picked up some pickle Christmas ornaments to send home with everyone, I found (pictured above) a yodeling pickle and little pickle catapults, I also found some pickle band-aids but for some reason couldn't purchase them. The yodeling pickle will likely be a prize for a coloring contest of this pickle http://www.gedneypickle.com/index.cfm/go/palooza.COLOR. And the catapults will be given away with our white elephant exchange.

I plan to make a few pickle dishes surgery dip (of course), and pickle wheels with cream cheese and ham, I also plan to have a few varities of pickles for sampling. If you know of any more pickle recipes you can let me know. After reading this i hope you all incorporate the Christmas pickle into your holiday traditions.

I'm Famous

See Here or on the lundboats.com website
Last May Lund Boats came and shot their 2009 catalog here at camp and on Lake Shamineau. It got down to the last day and they had one more shot they need and no models. So mike and I found ourselves being whisked away to our Island on the lake for a photo shoot and this picture is the result. All of you will now be able to say that you knew me when.

It's a wonderful life

So I definitely grew up a city girl, that is no longer who I am. I was talking with my friend Kelsey the other day and we decided that we just don't fit anywhere. I spent this last weekend hunting. It turned out to be a pretty easy weekend for me, I went out with my friend Dale we sat in the stand for 30 min I shot a deer and that was pretty much it. I got a little button buck, I have only shot a rifle 3 times in my life and I got a deer with each shot. Dale and I think I might have shot 2 deer with one bullet but we searched and searched and couldn't find the other one. Here is a picture of bambi.

So I also have a pretty interesting job sometimes. Today I had to figure out how to send a woman a case of breast milk that she pumped through out the weekend. I have decided that I don't want to deal with or even think about breast milk until I am a mother someday. Those phone conversations were a little bit awkward.

One month and counting

I haven't done laundry in a month or maybe even more. In the past when I have run out of clothes I have just bought more socks, underwear, etc... I can probably still last a week but this is getting ridiculous.

Motherhood

I really don’t feel like my life is all that blog worthy right now so you get to hear about the mundane. Yesterday I watched our Adventure Director’s kid during the day while I worked. It apparently was my responsibility to watch him because I had the audacity to schedule a group of 45 people for the ropes course on a Monday. It made me really glad that I don’t have kids yet, someday hopefully, but not yet. I gagged a lot, there were lots of boogers, smelly pea baby food, one really nasty diaper, very little nap time and very little work done. The kid is the cutest thing ever I just don’t think my stomach is ready for motherhood.

because I love you

I am not big on the blog games but I love my girls and they did it so I will follow suit. I was tagged by my friend Janet which means that I have to share 6 random facts about myself with you. At the end of the post I will not be tagging 6 other people who also have to post about their own randomness.. beware, it wont be YOU!
So here goes..
First, the rules:
1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Write six random things about yourself.
3. Tag six people at the end of your post
4. If you're tagged, just do it, and pass the tag along! (I wont do it, I know I’m a loser)



1. Most things make me gag and people go to incredible lengths to see this happen about a month ago I received a letter in the mail with toe nail clippings GROSS!!!

2. I have had my belly button pierced since I was 18, I went with our youth pastor’s Wife.

3. I have an annoying ability to find answers and solutions to really strange questions and problems, the more people find out about this ability the more random things I have to figure out.

4. In most pictures I take with people I am usually to the other person’s right. I don’t even do it on purpose.

5. I love pickles and I eat them all the time.

6. I play Sudoku all the time, this boy taught me on a random date while we sat in caribou, afterward we wandered around Target, 3 months later after he dated a friend of mine he ended up engaged to a new girl. They are now married living in her brother’s basement, weird guy.

Sad Day

It happens so fast. Life happens so fast, you don't realize how every decision you make will change you even something as simple as washing your hair. This week has been tough and sad and just plain hard. I am distracted and I am doing poorly at all of the jobs I have. When there is too much I just shut down, I'm tired. The one thing I have to cling to is that God is in control, He knows what he is doing and the end result can only be sweet.