Bucket List

a teacher gave an assignment for one of my classes to set 150 goals. they couldn't just be go to paris, go to london, go to scotland. they had to be goals a little more thought consuming. i was able to come up with more that 150 as well as add in a few extra "go to" places. The formatting messed up a little but thats ok. And some of them are silly goals that will help no one but me but thats the beauty of a bucket list.

Life Goals

Spiritual

-Get married in the temple

-Raise children
-Go to the Philadelphia Temple open house
- Visit every temple in Utah
- Couples mission with husband
- Contribute something tangible to the building of a temple
- Read the Book of Mormon in a week
-Do work in 75 temples

-Go to the temple every week for a year
- Support 3 missionaries
- Raise my children in the Gospel
-Volunteer for something incredible

-Work in the temple
- Go to the Kirtland Temple

Fitness

- Run a 5k in under 30 minutes
- Hike mount timp

- Run a half marathon

- Climb to the U
- Do aerial yoga
- Eat healthy

-Home cook my meals every day for a month

Travel
-Visit all 50 states
-Visit Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH

-Go to the Space Needle
-Visit Australia

-Go to Europe

-Tour Asia
- Go to Jerusalem
- Go to India
- Visit all 7 Wonders of the World
- Rent a glass igloo in Finland to see the Northern Lights
- Disney Parks in all the countries –Honk Kong, Shanghai, Paris, California, Florida, Tokyo
-Kiss someone on top of the Eifel Tower
- Buy a plane ticket on the next plane out, no matter where it is going
- Spend a weekend in a tree house

-Listen to jazz in the French Quarters, New Orleans

-Hike the Grand Canyon

-Explore British Columbia
- Visit Niagara Falls
- Visit the four corners monument

-Put a lock on the love bridge
- Take my husband on an adventure around the world.
-Fenway Park

-Go to Greece

-Get into Club 33 at Disneyland

Life
- Have a fulfilling career
- Spend more time with my mom
-Forgive more
-Fall in love

-Smile daily
-Live the gospel till I die

-Find something to be happy about every day of my life.
-Live in the moment

-Be positive

-Find the good
-Say yes to opportunities

-Have a good set of married friends when I am married

Fun
-Hold Disneyland season passes

-Go to a movie premiere

-Stand outside during the Oscar red carpet
- Hot air balloon ride
- Attend the Olympics
-Cook and entire Thanksgiving Dinner from -Scratch

-Sew an entire outfit I would wear

-Do hair for a movie
-Street perform

-Spend a weekend at a spa

-Throw an incredible surprise party
-Backpack and camp somewhere for a weekend
-Ride an elephant

-Ride a camel

-See the Spiral Jetty
-Kiss on a 50 yard line

-Attend the college football playoff game
-Learn to sail
-Times Square on New Years Eve

-Attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade

-Have a garden
-Win a big prize out of luck

-Get kissed in the rain

-Be in the middle of a real live lantern festival (like tangled)
-Chop down my own Christmas tree

-Create a recipe
-Be able to play 10 hymns on the piano

-Learn graphic design

-Write in my journal everyday for a year

-Take one picture every day for a year (not a selfie)

-Make someone’s dream come true

-Zip line through the jungle

-Learn to ski

- Go zorbing
-Send a letter to a random address and see if they write back

-Meet Taylor Swift

-Go on a helicopter ride

-Swim with dolphins

-Have a paint fight

-Attend the festival of colors

-Attend a masquerade
- Scuba dive

-Read 50 books in a year

-Swim in a fountain
-Design and sew a wedding dress

-Attend church in another country
-Bungee Jump

-Work at a Disney Park

-Find something to smile about daily
-Work for an airline

-Watch every single Disney movie ever released

-Parasail
-Bake the perfect cupcake

-Paint a picture I would actually display

-Learn a song on the guitar

 -Take tap lessons
-Learn to play the bagpipes

-Go without Internet for a week
-Do a color run

-Play golf at St. Andrews

-Go to the Masters
-Learn Archery

-Ride a mechanical bull

-Have an etsy shop

-Plan a family reunion

-Camp on the beach

-Keep my room clean every single day

-Be the favorite aunt
-Have 500 instagram followers

-Go to the Ellen Degeneres Show
-Learn how to work my DSLR camera

-Make a quilt

-Jumbo-tron at Utah football game

-Make a perfect Macaron

-Give Christmas away to someone who needs it

-Take Golf lessons
-Learn to surf
- Sky dive
-Work in the financial district in NYC

-Live in NYC

-Study abroad
-Get a Bachelor’s degree

-Learn French

Finance
-Own a house

-Own an Audi

-Have a great retirement fund
- Have a 6 figure income
-Invest in something

-Have stock
- Donate to charity
-Have $20,000 in saving by 30
-Contribute to my family’s income

-Work in Human Resources

Blog

-Have a successful blog

-Guest on Studio 5
- Get 1000 views on blog in one day by the end of 2014

the best day yet

saturday night was by far the best day of 2014 so far. i do not know why but somehow my friends and i have found ourselves at nickel arcades more than a few times lately. they are fun, bring out the inner child and cheap hours of fun. 

luke came and hung out with us and meg's best friend trevin (who was visiting) came too. we all grew up in the same ward so it was a lot of fun. 

 there was a time in our lives for about 4 months straight me and my other best friend kristin would go to luke's house EVERY single day to play dance dance revolution. we of course were not passing up this opportunity when we saw it at the nickelcade. we played on hard and it kicked our butts. there was once a time when even expert was easy for us. 

 our prizes included a chinese finger trap, 2 deputy badges, a fake cockroach, rubber popper toys, and a million fruities. i would say a great waste of money. 

 after we decided a sparkling cider toast was a must. 

 we also got frozen yogurt facials

 and we ended the night with a paper lantern send off. i have an obsession with these suckers. best things ever. i am aware i look a little too happy to be lighting this thing up.

the jazz game

i went to my first jazz game ever this year. gasp, i know. how do i live in salt lake and never go. to be honest, i just dont really care about pro basketball. however, i was lucky enough to get the most incredible seats in the second row vip area and of course luke came with me.

happy new years

                 

the tops of 2013
-new york city 2 times
-palmyra and the hill cumorah pageant
-the fair in wyoming/ashlyns reception
-october- everything about that month 
-philadelphia
-all of the adventures of ashlyn, rachelle, meghan and i
-my family getting together with everyone for the first time in years

new years this year was pretty dang fun. we had a group of 12 people and party hopped. we first went to a dance party at the institute and made our way down town to the concerts at the gallivan center. the concert was my favorite part. the band was decent and the firework display was a great way to bring in 2014.

we also went to our other friend's house after the ball dopped and then ended up at ihop. by the time we got home it was practically morning, but a fantastic way to bring in the new year. 

now i am not a huge fan of resolutions because i don't believe in fixing things that are not broken or focusing on the negative. i do however live by goals religiously so i love being able to start anew and set fresh goals to work towards. 

some goals this year that i have are:

-keep straight a's

-learn to cook chicken flawlessly

-read 25 books

-read 6 church books

-keep in touch with mission companions

-keep in touch with mission families

-journal every night

christmas part 4

Christmas is just not the same when there are no kids running around and not a whole lot of noise to be heard. i had to work on christmas eve but after my mom, meghan and i spent the morning at saving mr. banks. the movie was fantastic and i loved every minute of it. we decided to do something a little different this year than cooking at home so we had benihana's for dinner and then went to bountiful. 

 meghan and i have decorated gingerbread houses every year now for about 10 years. it has been our one tradition we have stuck to. this year i got the gingerbread men from costco for 4 dollars though so we added that to the mix so terry and debbie could participate as well. 

 gingerbread house fail. 

 terry had so much fun and got so into it...and then i accidentally broke his head off. i did manage to icing glue it back on and fix it and he didnt even notice. 

 i haven't had matching christmas jammies in ages but this year changed that. 

 meg and i did not want to spend a ton of time wrapping presents so this is what they ended up looking like. we think we are so funny. 

 later that day meg and i drove to green river to stay with my sister and her family. we played games that night with my brother in laws family.  

 the boys got a power wheel for christmas but cade was so excited to drive this little red thing around still. 

 words cant describe how much i love this nephew of mine. 

 while in green river i got to meet up with some dear friends. derek and i have been besties for quite a while now. we worked at the movie theatre and were fast friends. 

jamin visited from canada, where she is in a phd program. cori came in from missouri where she goes to school, and we had quite a few others meet up with us as well that we didnt get a picture with. jamin has been my very best friend for quite some time now and it is so hard not living near her but i am so grateful for the time that i do get to see her. all of these wonderful people were met through my high school job at the theatre. i will forever be grateful for that place.  

these last ones are out of order and happened at the very beginning of december, but my roommates and i went to the festival of trees. i have always wanted to go and this blew all my expectations. it was wonderful. i loved all of it. the trees were so elaborate and gorgeous and i can only hope to put a tree in there one day. 

Christmas part 3

check out part 1 and part 2 of my crazy christmas adventure

a very vegas christmas and a trashy new year....

my brother got meg, my mom, dad and me Las Vegas Bowl football tickets for us. we love college football in this family a little too much. however, USC is my brother's favorite team and we could not miss that. we drove down to mesquite and saw this precious niece of mine. it is incredible how quickly newborns grow and change. she is adorable.

 meghan and i then drove onto vegas for the night. it was wonderful to get out of salt lake and just hang out and roam the strip.

 the next day my family drove into vegas for the game and we stopped at the bellagio before the game. these creations are made of flowers. how incredible is that?!

 it was actually really warm outside and the sun was never in our faces, so it was a perfect day for a game.

 this was randomly thrown to us at the game....we love our utes and still find a way to support them at a game they are not even playing.

 we drove back to mesquite that night and megan took my sister and i to one of the casinos. on my first penny slot machine i put in a dollar and won 20. it was pretty awesome.

we went to church the next day and then drove the long trek home to salt lake.