Our Shift from Married Couple to Family of Three: { LOVE }

My 101 Things in 1001 Days

My REVISED 101 Things to do in 1001 Days

My start date: July 21, 2009 (My 2nd Wedding Anniversary!) My end date: April 17, 2012

Working on
Completed

Travel

1. Go to Las Vegas

2. Go to Cancun/Chichen Itza (Or somewhere else tropical) Dominican Republic

3. Visit Yellowstone National Park

4. Plan a trip somewhere not in North America

5. Visit Jasper National Park (Or another National Park)

6. Mail myself a postcard from every place I go (3/?)

7. Go on an unplanned road trip

8. Visit the grandparents in Victoria

9. Visit grandma in Saskatoon

10. Visit sister in Wyoming

Adventure

11. Scuba dive as often as we can

12. Do something adventurous that you never thought you would do - Indoor Skydiving

13. Go horseback riding - Went on dune buggies instead!

14. Go on a cave tour

15. Go zip lining

16. Fly in a helicopter over Vegas

17. Go white water rafting

House

18. paint master bedroom

19. Paint master bathroom

20. Paint living room/kitchen

21. Paint main bathroom

22. Organize the basement for our office, entertainment area and my scrapbooking

23. Wire the basement - Working on drywall now :)

24. Put up extra shelving in master closet and spare bedroom closet

25. Finish garage

26. Create a proper paper organizing system

27. Sew new throw pillows and blankets for the living room and bedroom

28. Create my own art for the house out of my photographs

29. Make a real effort to keep the house clean

For me

30. Finish our wedding scrapbook

31. Finish our pre-wedding scrapbook

32. Finish our honeymoon scrapbook

33. Create blank cards and layouts to be used in a rush

34. Create a master list of layouts I love

35. Exercise every single day for 30 days in a row (5/30)

36. Get weight down to 135 lbs and stick with it (35/35)

37. Create a really good mix CD/MP3

38. Start and stick to a new 52 photo project (0/52)

39. Complete an alphabet photo challenge to be used as wall art

40. Resume using my Flikr account - Started using Pinterest and Instagram instead!

41. Make an effort to get ready even if I am staying home – get dressed up for me

42. Get a massage twice a year (5/6)

43. Take time for a hot bubble bath once a month

44. Buy myself flowers once a year (1/3)

45. Get a haircut or hair color that is just for something new

For us

46. Go on 50 real dates together (28/50)

47. Make time once a week for us time

48. Plan a surprise trip or event for my hubby

49. Spend an entire night stargazing

50. Go on a picnic

51. Have professional photos taken

52. Look at what it will take to move back to Lethbridge

53. Make a point of going on a vacation just the two of us

54. Turn off the TV 1 night a week

55. Have a board game/puzzle night once a month

56. Draw up Wills, EPAs and PDs

57. Go for a walk as a family at least once a week

58. Seriously talk about when we want to start having kids (Baby #1 is due July 23, 2012!!!)

For family, friends and strangers

59. Send a snail mail letter/card and pictures to each of the grandparents at least once a year

60. Host 5 dinner parties (2/5)

61. Start a blog so family can keep up with our lives

62. Update blog at least once a month

63. Create and update a full address/phone number/birthday list of all family and friends

64. Buy a good photo scanner and start scanning all photos that our families have (This is probably going to be in the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS!! I'll let you know)

65. Get caught up putting photos on Facebook

66. Research our family trees

67. Write a letter to our future grandchildren

68. Clean out our closets/house once a year and donate to charity (1/3)

Finances

69. Put a loonie in a jar everyday for 1001 days

70. Create a proper budget and stick to it

71. Pay off all our credit cards

72. Pay off our elliptical

73. Get $1,000.00 in our savings and don't touch it

74. Make all birthday cards instead of buying them

75. Search our house for things to sell on Ebay and then sell them

Just Because

76. Put a message in a bottle and send it out to sea

77. Spend an entire day at home and not use any electricity for 5 individual days (0/5)

78. Dance in the rain

79. Make an emergency kit

80. Create and bury a time capsule

81. Mail a secret to PostSecret

82. Volunteer for something at least once a year

83. Go wildlife watching

84. Learn the names and basic info of all the countries in the world for future travelling World Fact Book

85. Leave a nice note in every book I exchange or return, ask the next person to do the same

86. Jump in a lake with all my clothes on, see if I can get my husband to do it with me

87. Make a kite and fly it

New things

88. Visit a museum

89. See the Northern Lights

90. Watch more classic movies

91. Read and watch the Harry Potter Series and the Twilight Series

92. Try a new recipe once a month

93. Compile a binder of our favorite recipes

94. See a Cirque du Soleil show

95. Play 9 holes of golf on a different course

96. Visit a haunted house/location

97. Take a photography class

98. Set up an area in our basement for me to be creative

99. Take a cooking class

100. Visit 5 historical/educational locations in Alberta (1/5)

101. Go camping...in our backyard

Our Shift from Married Couple to Family of Three

Saturday, August 1, 2009

{ LOVE }

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