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• A Frustrating Day, But Also An Inspiring Day
  on May 12, 2013 in Fishing Fly Fishing
       Sorry for not posting in a long time. Not being able to be outdoors has given me a writers block. Today we were finally able to do some fishing again. I was excited to finally do some fly casting on the water! I was very...
• Anniversary Trivia Contest!
  on Apr 22, 2013 in Contest
       I still have a bunch of stickers left and a few paper bead necklaces left! Since tomorrow is our official one year anniversary (the paper anniversary), I want to give a bunch of paper away tomorrow! We're having a trivia...
• First Time Fly Casting
  on Apr 21, 2013 in Fly Fishing
       I decided to try fly casting today. First thing I noticed right away was stringing the line through the eyes of the rod. It took me several tries to get the line through they eyes because I wasn't used to the slick weigh...
• Tuesday In Our Anniversary!
  on Apr 20, 2013
  Our 1 year anniversary is Tuesday! I want to give a way a LARGE amount of stickers! Email (shutterbughilary@yahoo.com) your address and I will send you a sticker......or 2!
• My New Adventure
  on Apr 18, 2013 in Fly Fishing
       I have decided to start a new project. I am going to learn how to fly fish. I am both excited and a little nervous. A few weeks ago I asked our Facebook, Twitter and Google+ followers for some advice on getting...
• Girls In The Outdoors Day at John Martin Reservoir
  on Apr 13, 2013
       Last weekend was supposed to be our first camping trip of the year. Notice I said "supposed to be." My brother, sister-in-law and niece camped but our had a small issue so we were only able to make it a day trip. We started o...
• Some RV Orginazation Tips
  on Apr 7, 2013 in Camping RV
       Since camping season has begun for most people, I thought I would share some of my RV organization tips I have learned over the 3 years we have owned our motor home. I am always looking for new ways to make things easier in a...
• Celebrate Our 1 Year Anniversary The ENTIRE Month Of April!
  on Mar 31, 2013 in Contest
  Help us celebrate our 1 year anniversary! Traditionaly the 1 year wedding anniversary is the "paper" anniversary so we decided to have a Paper GITO anniversary! There are LOTS of ways to win some Girls In The Outdoors paper stickers or some Girls In...
• I Am Prepared For Almost Anything!
  on Mar 22, 2013 in Trail Riding ATV Gear Safety About Hilary
       I have talked about my day bag in several posts now so I thought I would share with you what the contents are and how I adapt it to what we are doing that particular day. I am always adding new items to my day bag that we dis...
• Spring Cleaning
  on Mar 18, 2013 in Camping Gear Fishing About Hilary
       This weekend we did some spring cleaning and went to buy our fishing license for 2013. The motor home has it's new custom spare tire cover put on and the new hitch cover put in (see the boat propeller?). Some other little thi...
• Paper Bead Jewelry
  on Mar 11, 2013 in Jewelry
       I promised to tell you about my paper bead jewelry and then I got busy. Sorry! I've been planning our 1 year anniversary celebration next month.      The paper beads may not look like outdoo...
• Homemade Fruit Snacks
  on Feb 24, 2013 in Recipes
     Recently I was on Pinterest posting some of my jewelry and looking for recipes and found this recipe for fruit snacks. I love finding recipes of snacks my family loves. You can leave out flavors you don't like, make extra of the flavors...
• Fishing Vocabulary: Types of Reels
  on Feb 17, 2013 in Fishing Vocabulary
       One of the main reasons I started this blog was to help educate women, and even men, on some of the basics of outdoor activities. Basic vocabulary is sometimes the most important information to know. Because everybody else kn...
• GITO Jewelry - Some Earrings
  on Feb 11, 2013 in Jewelry
      I have started making jewelry! I am having so much fun coming up with new ideas and it'sa lot of fun walking through sporting goods stores looking for jewelry making supplies. I am slowly loading what I have ready on...
• A Meal I Will Never Eat Again
  on Feb 2, 2013 in Fishing Recipes
       In 2010 we were night fishing at out local lake and we found a LOT of crawdads. We were with my sister and her boyfriend (now husband) so we had 4 people catching crawdads. My sister is the pro at catching crawdads, I might h...
• Guest Post: The Ice Fishing Addiction
  on Jan 22, 2013 in Fishing Guest Posts
       I am very excited to share our very first guest post and also a great post about ice fishing. I have never ice fished and never planned on it until I read this. Now, I kind of want to try it! Be sure click on the link to Rebe...
• Girl's in The Outdoors Christmas
  on Jan 2, 2013
  Want to know what a Girl's In The Outdoors Christmas looks like?     First, there's some ATV time with Aunt Hilary (I was informed by my little niece that the red one is the best one - heck yeah!!).     &n...
• Some Christmas Crafts
  on Dec 20, 2012 in Decorations
       Here are some of our outdoor themed Christmas decorations. In the first picture I have to give Pinterest credit for the idea...actually ideas, because it was 2 ideas merged into 1. I was trying to find a new and fun way to di...
• Bass Pro Christmas
  on Dec 8, 2012
  If you've never gone to the Bass Pro Shops Christmas village, you need to. This is the Denver store from the top floor looking down. They didn't have as much going on it seemed like. It was still fun though and I got in a fight with the camera s...
• Christmas Is Saved! We have a tree topper!
  on Dec 2, 2012 in Decorations
       This year when we took out the Christmas decorations, the Angel that has been on top of our tree for years had broken wings. I had that angel before I met my husband so I wasn't surprised they were broken. After searching for...

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