Who knew I had a Green Thumb?!?

26. Grow a little garden.
Last summer I grew a bunch of Snow Peas and I had fun growing them, so this year I have quadrupled my garden! I started cucumbers, sweet peppers, lettuce, cabbage, romaine lettuce, sunflowers, basil, cilantro, chives and many more need planted. I bought a little green house to start them in, and once I am convinced that it wont freeze I will plant them outside!

Done and I feel great about it!

20. Finnish my associates degree in accounting.
I'm done, not sure if I will continue my education further at this time, I will see how things go. Just glad the weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

This is NOT going to make me RICH!

18. Learn to use a metal detector and actually find something.
I rented a metal detector in Hawaii and took it and my high hopes of striking it rich to the beach! Kamaole Beach Park III was going to make mama some big bucks. A million beer caps and $0.27 later, I was still having a good time! So my Hubby got me a Metal Detector for my birthday and I have found in 3 outings a total of $0.28 and a Ferrari. Okay, Okay the Ferrari was a matchbox car, but over 5 inched down in a sandbox at a local park and I got it! I have started geocaching and I may use the metal detector on those impossible caches!

Take Joe to Moose Camp

#16. My father has been going to the same area for moose hunting since the 1970's. Its a great area with little traffic. I started hunting there with my father and his friends about 2001 or 2002. I just love the area, I won't tell where it is, but its great! I look forward to it every year. The mountains and the cool crisp clean air are amazing. I love that it gets really cold at night, usually freezing, I like sitting out by the fire and shooting the shit then crawling into my tent into my nice warm sleeping bag. I'm not a morning person, so they don't bother me in the morning and I sleep an hour or so past everyone. My husband is a big hunter and I wanted to take him there, so I talked my mother in law into watching our 1 year old and off we went. We had a great time, I can't wait to go back!

Moosey moose

#6. Kill a Moose. After all the years of hunting and helping dress out moose, I finally shot one on my own. I got drawn for a cow tag near my home. For days my husband and I rode our wheelers from the house down the ATV trails in search of a cow. I shot the cow with a .300 ultra mag. it was the quickest and easiest hunt ever, I shot her about a mile from the house! And they say it aint easy! we cut her in half and rolled her in the pack rat trailer and rode home. we used the Engine hoist to hang her. it was less than three hours from the time I saw her to when we had her all skinned and cut up!

Joe's Familys Smoked Salmon

#4. Make Joe's smoked salmon.
I learned how to make this in July 2010. This was a fun process, we cleaned the salmon and cut it into strips of meat and soak it in the family's secret recipe then it goes in a smoker, once its smoked we start canning it. The smoked salmom is not dry or over oily, just perfect!

1. Learn to re-load riffle shells
2. Learn to re-load shotgun shells
3. Learn American sign language
4. Learn how to make Joe’s canned smoke salmon, it’s the best!
5. Visit a Disney resort, any of them, I have never been to one
6. Kill a moose
7. Make dried pineapple rings
8. Make a German chocolate cake, my mom’s recipe, all from scratch.
9. Road trip somewhere in the lower 48 states that I have not been yet
10. Crochet a baby blanket
11. Finnish my king size blue quilt I started in 2001
12. Fly fish and catch a rainbow on a fly I have made myself
13. Shoot 10/10 clays
14. Beat Ivory Joe at the “Half a Beef Shoot” (I have already beat my husband, dad and the rest of the men we hunt with that do this shooting event)
15. Finnish in the top 10 at the “Half a Beef Shoot”
16. Take Joe to moose camp, its absolutely beautiful there
17. Find gold while panning
18. Learn to use a metal detector and actually find something
19. Kill a bear
20. Finnish my associates degree in accounting
21. Visit country music hall of fame
22. See the Rocky Mountains
23. Photograph the northern lights
24. Learn to kayak
25. Paint a picture with acrylic paints
26. Grow a little garden
27. See a live armadillo
28. Crack open a thunder egg (rocks with the pretty gems inside)
29. Kill a Dahl Sheep
30. Make my family beaver hats out of the beavers Joe and I trapped
31. Participate in all the elections in my area (even the little ones)
32. Volunteer in my community
33. Sell some of my crafts at a bazaar
34. Finnish a diamond willow walking cane
35. Finnish my Christmas town cross stitch, its huge and I started in 2002
36. Hike the Girdwood to Eagle River trail
37. Teach a kid gun safety, I’m sick of hearing about kids shooting themselves while playing with guns, so I’m going to try and do something about it
38. Go snorkeling again (it was so much fun)
39. Hunt on horseback
40. Watch all the Star Wars movies (never saw them)
41. Read Lonesome Dove
42. Complete my wedding album
43. Complete my honeymoon album
44. Use my bread machine and make cinnamon raisin bread
45. Learn how to make a web site
46. Make a pineapple upside down cake
47. Finnish reading the Wagons West series
48. Complete 10 real push-ups
49. Be able to fit in my wedding dress till the end of 2012, unless pregnant
50. Make my own cross stitch patterns
51. Scan all my parents family photos and store them on a zip drive in a safe
52. Have fun at my 10 year high school reunion
53. Try Eskimo ice cream and not smell it and run away like the last time I got near it
54. Go watch a live NASCAR race
55. Grow Tomatoes
56. Learn to do embroidery
57. Visit a beach somewhere other than Alaska and Hawaii
58. Read the bible
59. Learn how to fillet a fish
60. Catch a large mouth bass
61. Visit Seattle, I have only been in the Airport
62. Ride a real roller coaster, not the dumb one at the AK State Fair
63. Go Parasailing
64. Go paragliding
65. Have someone tell me I’m the coolest mom with out bribing them
66. Make sushi
67. Send a secret to postsecret.com
68. Learn to Ski, I can snowboard but have never put my feet in a pair of downhill skis!
69. Run a mile
70. See one of my favorite musicians in concert
71. Climb twin peaks at Eklutna, last time I got close to the top and stepped on a bee’s nest.
72. Get certified in CPR and 1st aid
73. Climb the Butte in Palmer, never been up it.
74. Get a conceal carry permit. I know we don’t have to have it, but I want an expert to explain the laws to me, my dad says its very informational and everyone should take it.
75. Climb flat top in anchorage, never been up there, I hear its pretty
76. See the Grand Canyon
77. See the Florida Keys
78. Learn to drive a motor cycle
79. Learn to drive a boat
80. Learn to French braid hair
81. Start a family tree
82. Find fossils
83. Finnish my large horse needlepoint
84. Make a stained glass
85. Write short stories
86. Learn to play chess
87. Learn to play bridge
88. Make my own recipe book
89. Play a game of monopoly till the end without cheating, I was a bad kid
90. Catch a Burbut
91. Learn to knit
92. Read personal finance for dummies
93. Start investing for our retirement, other than my 401K
94. Start a savings account for the baby
95. Make a baby album
96. Learn to drive a stick shift
97. Do a fly in fishing or hunting trip
98. Visit Seldovia
99. Visit Valdez AK
100. Make a kite and fly it
101. Ride a train

All Things that I have completed are in bold!