Life List

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams"

~Les Brown

About a month ago, I told Jason that I wanted to create a "bucket list". My goal was for the two us to sit down together to create a list of the things we would like to accomplish in our lifetime. Let me just begin by saying that Jason is a pretty simple guy. The number one thing (and the only thing) on his list….To go skydiving!

There is something that I have learned about myself in the past couple of years and it is something that I am trying really hard to teach my children; “My possibilities are endless!” I’ve already figured out what I want to be. I’ve already established who I am. So I asked myself some questions. What do I want to do? Where do I want to go? What exactly do I want to learn? The essence of my life list (I changed the name because it just sounds better) is to create a beginning for myself (and Jason too). So here it goes, these are the things I want to accomplish in life.

~My Life List~

Have my own classroom

Build a collection of children’s books (all levels) in order to have my own library inside my classroom (my collection is very good but not quite complete) :-)

  

Earn my Master’s Degree

Write a children’s book

Complete a triathlon

Swim with dolphins

Own a horse

Take ballroom dance lessons

Learn how to ice skate

Learn to play tennis

Learn to crochet like my grandma

Learn to sew

Take classes in photography and art

Visit all the historic baseball parks

Attend a World Series game with my dad, my Jay, & someday my son

Throw the first pitch at an Angles baseball game

Understand American football

Take Kalyssa to see a Broadway show in New York City

See a Broadway show in New York City with my mom

Tour the Louvre with Bryanna

Watch my kids make a wish on a shooting star

Build a tree house with my kids

Take my kids on the Disney Cruise Line

Visit every Disney Park in the World

Stay the night at one of the suites in Cinderella’s castle at Disney World

Ride in a hot air balloon

Help build a house with Habitat for Humanity

Find and preserve a four leaf clover

See a meteor shower

Pay my respects at Pearl Harbor

Tour the Vatican

Visit the Notre Dame Cathedral

Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Visit the Smithsonian Museums in Washington D.C.

Visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Go on an African Safari

Zip line through the Rainforest (Belize would be awesome)

Go white water rafting

Spend one week at a 5 star hotel and spa

Discover more of Yosemite

Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

Watch turtles hatch and find their way to the ocean

Experience the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C.

Experience the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

Experience Carnival in Venice

Experience Oktoberfest in Munich

Experience Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Experience Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

~ Travel ~

Australia

South America: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Belize, Chile, Puerto Rico

Asia: Nepal, Japan, Hong Kong

Europe: Ireland, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Belgium, Germany,

Switzerland

Backpack through Europe

Travel All 50 States

Drive the Northern portion of PCH

Spend a week venturing through San Francisco and Napa Valley

Take a road trip

Take a Cruise

Visit ALL the Wonders of the World (these are the few that I would focus on first)

• The Great Pyramid of Giza

• The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

• The Pharos of Alexandria

• Stonehenge

• The Colosseum

• The Great Wall of China

• The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa

• Mount Everest (Hike)

• Victoria Falls

• The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro

• The Northern Lights

• The Great Barrier Reef (Scuba Dive)

• Mount Fuji

• Mount Kilimanjaro (Hike)

• Niagara Falls

• Big Ben

• Eiffel Tower

• The Gateway Arch

• Mount Rushmore National Memorial

• Taj Mahal

• The Aztec Temple

• The Inca City

• The Mayan Temples

• The Sydney Opera House

• The Great Sphinx of Giza

I’m sure that we will have more to add because…….

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” 

~CS Lewis

~Things I Have Done~

This is a work in progress..... :-)

Found my soul mate

Happy and wonderful marriage

Kids

Earned my Bachelor’s Degree

Graduated with Honors

Finished a 5K

         
Finished a 10K

Finished a half marathon

Hiked through Yosemite National Park

Bought a house

Read every book written by one of my favorite authors

Spent the holidays in New York City

Watched the Macy's Day Parade Live

Walked through Central Park

Visited the Statue of Liberty/Toured Ellis Island

Saw the Twin Towers before 9/11 and visited Ground Zero after 9/11

Reached the top of the Empire State Building

Ice skated with my kids at Rockefeller Center

Became very familiar with Grand Central Station

Toured Yankee Stadium before the new one was built


Driven cross country (west coast to east coast)

Driven from Florida to Maine

Lived in another Country

Watched the Rose Parade live

Help put flowers on one of the Rose Parade floats

Worked at Disneyland

Watched a Broadway musical

Watched the Radio City Christmas Music Spectacular

Explored the Grand Canyon

Driven across the Golden Gate Bridge

Toured all three houses of government (the White House, the Capital Building, and the U.S. Supreme Court)

Paid my respects at Arlington National Cemetery

Climbed the steps of Lincoln’s Memorial

Toured Washington’s Monument

Experienced Day of the Dead in Mexico

Volunteered at a soup kitchen

Adopted a pet

Explored the Pacific Ocean in a glass bottom boat

Watched whales migrate

Watched a sunset over the Pacific Ocean and a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean

Toured a plantation
(South Carolina: Magnolia Plantation
Louisiana: Magnolia Plantation, Melrose Plantation, Oakland Plantation)

Stayed the night at the original Citadel

Toured a mission
(California: San Juan Capistrano, San Buneaventura, Santa Barbara, La Purisima Concepcion, San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Santa Cruz)


Visited New Orleans
(Experienced the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, Saint Charles Street Car)

Got married in the Catholic Church

Zip lined as a family of 5

Stayed at a Bed & Breakfast (Steel Magnolia)


Took a real honeymoon with my Jay


Finished a full marathon


Finished Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge