Bucket List - 40 by 40

So I took a bit of a break from the blog…well, no more! I'm going to get back to posting! I am hoping to enhance my photography skills and would like to post some of my work here to share as well as document our busy (but mostly boring) lives!

I saw the idea of creating a bucket list with a specific deadline a while back. I’ve played with the idea for a while and since April is my “birthday month,” I figured I’d create my own 40 x 40 list! 40 things I'd like to accomplish by the time I turn 40. That gives me 6 years to check everything off my list! With your help, my family and friends, I think I can do it!

Here is my list of 40 Things To Do Before I Turn 40…. but really just live. Live for today, forgive yesterday, and be grateful for tomorrow.

Adventure | Travel

1.     Experience the Disney Flower Festival
2.     Snorkel around the world
o    Belize
o    Great Barrier Reef
3.     Visit at least one new location each year
4.     Visit a winery
5.     See a Broadway Play in New York City
6.     See the leaves change colors in New England
7.     See the Northern Lights
8.     Spend New Year in an exotic location
9.     Go on a girls only vacation
10.  Visit a foreign country  and meet the locals
11.  Send a postcard from every trip I take
12.  Pack my bags and set off for a random location with no itinerary planned at all
13.  RunDisney events
o    5k
o    10k
o    1/2 marathon
o    Full marathon
14.  Earn my PADI 5 scuba diver’s certificate & use it
15.  Go on a hot air balloon ride
16.  Try stand up paddle boarding
17.  Swim with the turtles (again)
18.  Swim the manatees (again)
19.  Swim with dolphins
20.  Shark dive
21.  Go on a cruise
22.  Visit all seven continents (this might be one for my life long bucket list!)
23.  Visit Seven Wonders of the World (this might be one for my life long bucket list!)

With the Love of My Life

24.  Watch a sunrise at the beach
25.  Take a cooking class
26.  Make and bury a time capsule
27.  Dance in the rain
28.  Buy and ride a bike
29.  Bake a cake on his birthday
30.  Go on a Romantic Getaway

Home

31.  Bring all my decorating ideas for our house to life
32.  Make our garden pretty again

Personal

33.  Take photographs completely manually on my SLR camera/Practice photography skills
34.  Start photo editing
35.  Read more books    
36.  Get back to my wedding day weight
37.  Clean out my e-mail (3000 and counting)
38.  Learn to forgive and let go; Practice it every day
39.  Write more often in a journal
40.  Learn how to dress myself properly
41.  Re-connect with an old friend
42.  Send 12 handwritten letters a year (not including thank you notes)
43.  Stop being a slob
44.  Improve my posture, strut into my 40s tall and proud
45.  Be a member of the audience in a TV show (would love to be on Ellen!)
46.  Take a photo every day for a year
47.  Work on our Family Tree

Social Activities

48.  Send out Christmas cards again
49.  Buy a stranger their morning coffee
50.  Throw a Pinterest Party
51.  Have dinner with family once a month for 12 months consecutive
52.  Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it

53.  Give shelter to a Stray animal

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