Bucket List

 

I've always had dreams. I've always known what I want to do and be when I grow up. A teacher, a wife and then a Mom were on the top of my list. I've accomplished so many of my dreams and if I live to be 100, well then I still have a long way to go...so I better keep dreaming. There is so much I still want to do. I love life. I love my family and I am so glad I have them to experience all the joys of life with. 

I thought I should re-evaluate my dreams, goals and life long list of things I want to do or accomplish. So this is my ever changing and always growing bucket list. It never stays the same for very long. It mostly just keeps getting longer and longer.

Some of them are silly, others I am passionate about and have dreamed of doing for as long as I can remember. Some are already in the works and I get giddy thinking about them...some mayor may not ever happen...but a girl can dream right?!?

They are in no particular order. (Except the first 3....I did do those 3 in that order.)

Married in the Temple
Earn a Bachelors degree 
Give birth
Become a teacher 
Be in a musical
Take a French cooking class
Take a trip to Lake Powell
Sleep in a hostile 
Attend an Olympic medal ceremony
Write a missionary 
Eat escargot
Go skinny dipping 

Dress up like a Disney Princess
Perform in the Hill Cummorah Pageant 
Teach a kids cooking class
Visit the Sacred Grove
Sleep under the stars
Milk a cow 
Direct a choir
write a missionary
Ride on a segway
Be quoted in a newspaper
Shake hands with an Apostle
Fly in a small airplane
Sing in General Conference 
Attend a midnight viewing of a block buster hit on opening night

Fly in a helicopter
Experience a tornado
Go cliff jumping 
File my own taxes 
Back packing trip to Havasupai
Visit the Nauvoo church history sites
Perform a song with Lydia 
Feel an earthquake
Take Lydia to the ocean 
Own my own preschool
Read an Conference talk every day for one year
Grow a vegetable garden
Visit Marie in France
Take Lydia to Disneyland
Buy a Mac (with cash)
Grow a beautiful flower bed

Spend an entire day in the Temple
Volunteer in an orphanage 
Learn to do hair 
Pay for a new car with cash 
Tour the Aushwitz Concentration camp
Be fluent in another language 
Own an DSLR camera 
Watch a movie be filmed

Order food in a real French cafe

Visit Prince Edward island
Eat at World Famous Restaurant
Visit the Neuschwunstein Castle  

Ride a bike around Bear lake
Find and take my own names to the Temple
See the musical Wicked
Visit the Redwood National Park 

Take a cake decorating class
Ride on an elephant 

Learn to play every single hymn in the book

Write a children’s book
Spend a day helping people
Visit Bryce Canyon 
Learn to play the violin
Spend a week on the Farm with Lydia 

Take an art class

Paint a picture that can hang in my home

See Newsies the Musical
Be published in a church magazine 

Host a Book of Mormon read-a-thon

Grow an over sized pumpkin

Take a makeup class
See Les Mis the musical on Broadway

Be an extra in an awesome movie
Take a cake decorating class 
Take Tyson to Hawaii
Win a prize out of luck 
Make pumpkin pie with real pumpkin 

Can my own food

Go Para-sailing 
Make my own family recipe cookbook 
Become a lifelong collector of Children books  
Sew a beautiful dress for Lydia

Live by the beach

Take a fishing trip to Alaska with Tyson 

Rescue an animal
Make small kits for Homeless people

Visit the Grand Canyon 
Get a deep tissue massage 

Go to Jerusalem
Sell something that I've created
Live in a foreign country 

Take Tyson on a trip to Lake Powell

Give birth to twins
Visit Niagara Falls (Canadian side)

Attend an Olympic event
Have an avocado tree in my yard 

Enter a photo contest and win
Learn a new word everyday 

Breed a dog and have puppies to play with/sell

Hand quilt a bedspread
Take Lydia to a rock concert 

Have a craft/project room of my very own 

Learn how to make apple jelly
Turn my blog into a book
Give away a Christmas Jar on Christmas eve 
Take a ride in a hot air balloon 
Teach a Zumba class 
Be debt free
Start a unique toy collection

Write 365 thank you notes in one year
Be a sports photographer
Pass down a family heirloom 

Grow fruit trees in my yard
Start a Geocaching location  

Be in the Hill Cummorah pageant with my family
Visit New York City
Ride a horse on the beach 
Visit Mount Rushmore 
Sew something I can wear

Visit an Ice Castle

Cut down a real Christmas tree  
Go to a Taylor swift concert
Learn to play simple songs on the guitar
Stay in a 5 star hotel

Make my own bread
Write a Primary song 
Go one year without something
Go on a church history Pioneer trek

Have a six pack
Take a trip to Australia 
Ride in a hot air balloon

Visit Harry Potter Land in Florida 

Sit on the front row of an NBA game (with Tyson) 
Read a book a week for an entire summer
Learn to surf
Cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner by myself 
Start a dinner club with friends

Have a mother/daughter book club 
See lots of Broadway shows

Swim with dolphins
Solve a Rubiks Cube 

Go on a cruise

Win a cook off or baking contest
Take a trip on a small boat 

Live somewhere where can see the sunset everynight 
Go sailing

Go to Guatemala 
Travel Europe 
Plan a surprise vacation for my husband

Leave a waiter a 100 dollar tip
Create my own recipe

Visit Anne Frank’s memorial in Holland
Send Tyson to an NFL game

Swim in my own pool 

Make my own cheese 
Hold a baby tiger or panda

Take a trip to Washington D.C.
Serve a mission with Tyson