30 Before 30

This is not an original idea, by any means. I was inspired by my friend, Arika, when I saw her list on her blog. I've been meaning to make my own list for a while, but just haven't done it. Several of these I stole from her, but some are from a list of my own that I started in college. That list idea was also stolen (this time from my roommate, Rachel) but it is a life-long list with no time frame on it. These things are not in any particular order; some are serious and some are silly but all things that I really want to do. A few are things I've already done, but either they were important things that I had been thinking about doing for a long time and/or I want to do them again. I turn 30 in November of 2015 so I have a little less than 3 years to complete these goals.

My 100-thing scrap book

 #1. On my list was "Have children". Obviously I've had more than one, I just haven't updated it yet.

30 before 30

*Go snowboarding (I've been once but I didn't do well at all and want a do-over)

*See the Grand Canyon

*Go on a cruise (I have done this one - post about it soon - but I do want to go on another one, either before I'm 30 or for my 30th birthday)

*Start a garden

*Take a cooking class with Josh

*Start a surrogacy-resource website (with a few of my good friends)

*Ask 12 people their favorite book and read it (I got this idea here)

*Take another girls’ trip

*Have another baby

*Have a weekly date with Josh (I'm not sure if this one has a time frame, but I want to do this for a least a few months in a row, even if it's just a date at home after the kids are in bed)

*Anonymously pay for a stranger’s meal or leave 100% tip (I've thought about doing this as a tradition around Christmastime)

*Crochet or knit something

*Reach my goal weight & stay within +/- 5 lbs for 3 months (I reached a goal weight I had set for myself this past October but only stayed there for about a week before starting to gain weight, post to come)

*Move into a bigger place
*Throw a [housewarming] party in our new place

*Buy a “family” car (This already happened but it was a big deal. You can read about it here)

*Go on family trips

*Run a 10k

*Attend the temple every week for 6 months

*Make my children’s Halloween costumes (at least one year)

*Milk a cow

*See “Wicked” (This has happened, too, but it's something I've wanted to do for a really long time and I want to see it again. Read this post.)

*Do a “Secret Santa” with my kids for another family

*Do at least one random act of kindness every day for a week

*Try something I said I’d never try

*Buy a sewing machine

*Complete at least 5 sewing projects

*Refinish a piece of furniture

*Go jet skiing

*Read all of the Doctrine & Covenants