Bucket List

This isn't necessarily the order that I want to do these things. The number doesn't represent the importance or priority of everything I want to do, I just type them as I think of them.

1. Go to college and graduate
2. Study abroad in Israel
3. Go to Boston in the Fall
4. Get Dad to tell me he's proud of me.....just once, that's all I want.
5. Always choose to see the good and beauty in everyone and everything
6. Have a valet parking service park my car.
7. Drive across country with a friend.....rent a car so we only have to drive one way
8. Go on a mission trip
9. Go out of the country
10. Kiss the one I love in the rain
11. Kiss under a mistletoe
12. Kiss on New Year's Eve at midnight
13. Volunteer at a homeless shelter on a regular basis
14. Go to a professional game of every sport.....I don't care what teams
15. Go to a Ducks game
16. Own a grand piano
17. Learn how to cook.....learn some stuff from Mom
18. Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
19. Go to Paris and Rome
20. Go to the place where I can stand on 4 states at once
21. Have horses
22. Have a golden retriever and a husky
23. Go skydiving
24. Swim with dolphins
25. Go to New York/Visit Ground Zero
26. Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
27. Ride horses on the beach
28. Go to Vegas......just once.
29. See Christmas zoo lights
30. Do something crazy with my hair.....like a crazy color, or multiple colors
31. Donate blood as often as I can
32. Get all the tattoos that I want/Get sister tattoos
33. Have a vegetable garden
34. Have a huge flower garden
35. Go scuba diving
36. Fall in love/Get married
37. Sing karaoke
38. Go cow tipping
39. Go on a cruise
40. Write a Christmas/New Years letter and send it to friends and family
41. Go to the top of the Space Needle
42. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
43. Visit a castle....inside and outside the U.S.
44. The person I love singing to me....even if he's terrible, I don't care, as long as he's singing to me.
45. Learn to do a cart-wheel
46. Kiss at the top of a ferris wheel
47. Go on a road trip with friends.....no destination, no maps, no timeline
48. Own a truck
49. Drive down route 66
50. Go to Italy.....and New Zealand.....and Ireland
51. Own a vespa......and get good at driving it
52. Have breakfast at Tiffany's
53. Visit the world's largest aquarium......wherever it is.
54. Win a stuffed animal at the fair
55. Road trip to Canada
56. Go paragliding
57. Experience a white Christmas......wherever I have to go to get one
58. Chop down my own Christmas tree.....I may need help.
59. Watch sunrise on the beach
60. Watch sunset on the beach
61. Go to Alaska with Dad
62. Find the first Starbucks
63. Spend the whole day going to garage sales
64. Run through sprinklers on a golf course
65. Camp on the beach.....literally on the sand, with just a sleeping bag and flash light.
66. Buy something from an infomercial.....commercial, or whatever
67. Find the perfect tree to climb, climb it with my love, kiss him, and then sing the song that we would sing when we were kids..... "Lindsey and ________ sittin in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G....."
68. Visit Niagara Falls
69. Have a porch swing
70. Go zip lining
71. Go to Nashville.....visit family and go to the CMA's
72. Visit Nanny in Florida
73. Remodel Dad's house and barn
74. Have a family in the newly remodeled house
75. Jump in a pool fully clothed
76. Go to the Mall of America
77. Go to London
78. Have restoration in my family so ALL my sisters can be in my wedding one day, little sister be my maid of honor
79. Stand under and behind a waterfall
80. Go fishing
81. Go mudding/four wheeling
82. Live on a house boat for a week or two
83. Get snowed in.....turn off tv, computer, and whatever else and just enjoy the people I'm with
84. Power goes out.....have a candlelit dinner.....and candlelit everything
85. Live in a village in a foreign country......3 or 4 weeks maybe. Make it a mission trip??!!!!!
86. Have a porch that wraps all the way around my house
87. Have a hammock.....not with a hammock stand.....has to be hung between two trees
88. Build a tree house for my kids
89. Remember to always be content with what I have (material things) and be okay if I lose it all
90. Don't dress to impress. I've always been comfortable in a t-shirt, jeans, little amount of make-up, and doing nothing with my hair. I'll dress up when I want too....that's when it's fun.
91. Go hunting with Dad.....even though it's freezing. It's something he enjoys.
92. Take Mom on a vacation......anywhere she wants to go, just the two of us.
93. Mom, all sisters, brother, nieces, nephews and I go on a vacation
94. Dad, Haylie and I go on a vacation
95. Learn to drive a tractor.....growing up, Dad always said it was too dangerous, so I never had the chance.
96. Go to Washington D.C./Visit the White House
97. Run through a tree orchard
98. Play in a corn field
99. Be able to walk through a field of flowers without taking allergy medicine and without sneezing
100. Lay in a pile of colorful leaves
101. Never stop serving at my church....no matter how busy I get, how many kids I have, whatever ministry I'm doing, or whatever I'm doing with my life.....working at my church is always a must. I have since I was 16 and I don't ever want to stop.
102. Adopt children inside and outside the U.S.
103. Learn to skip rocks on water
104. Learn to whistle
105. Build a huge bird house and put it right outside a window of my house
106. Sit and watch a lightening storm
107. Ride an elephant
108. Learn to sail
109. Sleep on a top bunk with out falling off in my sleep and with no guard rail......scary stuff right there
110. Ride bikes on the beach walk.....rent beach cruisers
111. Surround myself with people that not only accept my weirdness, but love me for it and don't want to change me. People that love me for who I am.
112. Have a couple different fish tanks in my house.....and be creative about it.....like a sink that's a fish tank
113. I want my Daddy to walk me down the isle.....whenever that time may be.
114. Spend a whole summer day at a carnival......riding all the rides and playing all the games
115. Hang a swing from a tree
116. Help build a well for the Wells for Africa organization
117. Go to a drive-in and watch the movie in a truck bed......bring tons of blankets and pillows
118. Go stargazing.....all the time
119. Have picnics in the park
120. Go to the airport, and buy tickets for a random flight.....I love being spontaneous.....when it's appropriate. 
121. Own a pair of aviators
122. Wear the silly bands my nieces and nephews give me
123. Invite friends that don't have anywhere to go for the holidays, to stay with me.
125. Go an entire day without using technology. Being out of cell range or internet being down and it not being an option doesn't count.
126. Watch a meteor shower
127. Visit countries that might seem scary to go to. I wanna go to all of them.
128. See the Wall Of China
129. Drive a go-cart
130. Buy a caterpillar kit.....watch them turn into butterflies and then set them free
131. Build a snowman, have a snowball fight.
132. Make a ring out of a quarter
133. Have a big library in my house.....of every kind of book.....and then one of those cool ladders to get books from top shelves. Have tons of kids' books....especially Dr. Seuss books.
134. Do the Daniel fast
135. Never let my kids get addicted to technology or use it as a baby sitter. Go play outside!!!!!
136. Have a staircase railing that I can slide down.....and/or a slide next to the stairs!!!
137. Ride in a horse drawn carriage at night (with snow falling would be great) wrapped up in a blanket
138. Sled down a hill side
139. Go deep sea fishing
140. Be barefoot as often as possible. Mostly a summer thing. I don't like wearing shoes. I was always barefoot as a child.
141.  Donate stuff to Salvation Army every couple months
142. Watch turtles eggs hatch and watch them make their way to the ocean
143. Put up a tent in the back yard.....summer time.
144. Camp in a yurt
145. Go to Wyoming
146. Go to the beach all the time
147. Buy a homeless person a meal as often as I can
148. Have a hidden door in my house......like a wall that opens or something
149. Win a game of Scrabble against Mom
150. Go to the top of a light house
151. See a volcano
152. Milk a cow.....I don't know how I grew up on a farm (18 years) without ever doing this
153. See the northern lights
154. Spend a couple days in San Fransisco/Go to Alcatraz
155. Ride in a submarine....the Finding Nemo ride at Disneyland doesn't count
156. Walk through a drive-through
157. Take a polaroid camera with everywhere for a day, and take pictures of fun things
158. Own a pair of moccasins
159. Name one of my girls Lila Grace
160. Name one of my other girls Ava Jade
161. Get over my fear of peacocks
162. Learn to do a handstand
163. Pet a tiger
164. Take a yoga class
165. Attach myself to tons and tons of balloons to see if I will float
166. Go on a long hike.....like an all day hike
167. Own the series of Full House and Boy Meets World
168. Bring flowers to my Grandpa and Grandma's grave in Spokane, Washington
169. Get better at my sign language.....take a class again
170. Put a message in a bottle and throw it in the ocean
171. Write a message on a dollar bill, send it out in the world, and see if it ever comes back to me.
172. Go to the Grand Canyon
173. Own a pair of roller blades....go roller blading
174. Own every classic Disney movie
175. Drive a motorcycle.....just once.

Bucket list......in the making

Okay, so I'm going to start a bucket list. I've been meaning to for a while and just never got around to it. There will be crazy stuff on my list that I've always wanted to do, like drive across the country, but also stuff that I can do on a normal day. I think my new year's resolution is to work on my bucket list. I'm going to add things that I've already done, like going out of the U.S. for the first time, and other things that I mentally crossed off my bucket list. They still belong on my list even though I've already done them. It will be a long list and I'll probably never be done with it. I want to make a collage of my bucket list. Everything I want to do in pictures with a caption to each picture!!!!! It will be the biggest collage evveeerrrrr.....and it will never stop growing. I'm super excited!! It's gonna be great. I think I should watch the movie The Bucket List. I've never seen it.
P.S. Let me know if you think you know of something I would want to put on my list. :)

One of the big things on my list is to ride in a hot air balloon.

My friends

I'm sitting in the library, attempting to do my homework but failing miserably because I can't focus and I randomly start crying multiple times.....getting my homework done just isn't going well. This song came on my Pandora and through this song, the Lord reminded me that the value of our friendship is waayyy bigger then anything and there is always room for restoration. I will do anything for you, and I always will and I'm not going to let this ruin our relationship. Plain and simple, I'm just not going to let it.