2017 Bucket List

I'm not one for making resolutions... I'm a tad pessimistic I will follow through, and then when I don't I have to deal with the repercussion of the guilt and shame of failing, nope, not into that! However I am one for making goals, there's less obligation and more hopefulness.

Usually at the beginning of the year, or near my birthday, I make a goals bucket list for the year to come. I've been rackin' my brain trying to think of things I want to accomplish this year and it's hard! This season of life we're in (3 small children + a husband officially starting the program to get his CPA designation) really debilitates your thought process for having hopes and dreams... all I can hope for is making it to naptime without losing my cool.

So I decided this year I was going to break it down a little bit differently. I looked at key areas in my life and evaluated where I want to go with them. This compartmentalization really helped my groggy brain function much better.

Kids

Rylee: Start a new activity (complete! Gymnastics started last week), learn to ride her bike, teach her to tie her shoes.

Zachery: Work harder with his speech development, lose the soother, lose daytime diapers (so close!).

Adelyne: Begin potty training, move into a big girl bed.

Do something we haven't done before (some ideas... snowboarding, hiking, camping, fishing).

Have one on one dates with mommy and daddy.

Husband

Once a month date night.

Take a cooking class together.

Travel

Adventure awaits! We have already decided this year we will plan a trip, just have to decide from one of these locations and pinch a whole lot of pennies.

Australia 

Scotland + England

Hawaii

Thailand

Europe

All Inclusive

Road Trip US/Canada

Road Trip in Canada
Mexico

Disneyland

Home
Revamp the kids room.
Purge out old clothes.
Put more pictures up.
Purge the junk drawer (s) (none would be ideal, one would be realistic).
Build raised garden beds.

Personal

Blog more. (would love to get back up to twice a week posts)

Create more. (finish old projects, magnet alphabet, fabric doll, and learn to crochet amigurumi style)

Read more. (would love to complete 20 books over the year, shoot me any ideas of good reads)

Take more pictures and videos of kids. (picture a month challenge starting soon)

Get some updated family photos done.

30 Before Thirty

Last week I turned 29.... GASP... and its got me thinking of all the things I've done thus far in life and still all the things I want to do. Over the past 10 or so years I've accomplished a lot things, seen a lot, and gone through a lot and I don't ever want the adventures and excitemnet of living to end...

So in honour of the last year of my 20's I've created this "30 things to do before I'm thirty" bucket list! Over the next year there's so much in store for our family, what with the coming of new life, an anniversary, and a whole new phase of life. It's going to be a great year and I can't wait to live it!

So here are the 30 things I want to do before I'm thirty...

1. Give birth to a healthy bubs

2. Go on a trip (preferable somewhere new.... But Hawaii or Disneyland would do too)

3. Play soccer on an actual team again

4. Have a girls weekend

5. Take a picture once day, everyday till i hit 30

6. Learn how to use my camera properly to take better pictures

7. Create a photobook for both Zachery and new baby's first year

8. Train for 2016 10k Sun Run

9. Give up soda

10. Do something special for our five year anniversary

11. Go for a hike

12. Make Christmas gifts 

13. Volunteer for something

14. Unplug completely once a week

15. Blog more regularly

16. Read 10 books

17. Learn how to make Samosas
18. Get a new lens for my camera
19. Bring someone a meal
20. Grow something and not kill it...
21. Build something
22. Make my own shampoo
23. Go paddle boarding
24. Go on a road trip
25. Sign up for a pottery class
26. Send more snail mail to loved ones
27. Learn how to can
28. Buy a new piece of furniture ...like a bed!
29. Get a hot stone massage
30. Make ice cream from scratch

A New Summer Tradition

Upon arrival to our new home in the Fraser Valley we took full advantage of blueberry season. We spent one afternoon in the blazing heat picking blueberries at a local farm. This has been on my summer bucket list for years and I was SOOO excited...I think more so than Rylee to finally do it! 

We picked till our basket was heaping, and Rylee picked till her tummy was full (I think maybe five blueberries made it into the basket from her...). Papa would be proud, Rylee indulged in blueberry after blueberry, handful by handful, he created a blueberry monster! 

After we were done we checked out some of the baby animals on display (goats, pigs, and cows) and made sure we brought home a mixed tub of fresh made coconut, strawberry, and lime ice cream! I can't wait till next summer, this is definitely going to become a family tradition!