My "30 Before 30" List

I've seen this done on other blogs and heard of others making a "30 things to do before turning 30" list. Well, it's my turn, I guess! I'm currently 25, so I've got less than 5 years to complete these goals. I have actually been thinking about this for a while, and this list was put together with a lot of contemplation. Many other ambitions did not make this list of 30 things. Some may not get done, and I'm sure other things will be accomplished that mean even more than anything I could think of right now. Life is funny like that; you never know what's coming next. But, for now, these are some things I'm thinking I'd like to do before the next 5 years are up:

1. Have another child.(Even if we did  have an angel instead. <3 Love you, Sadie girl.) And then we were very blessed with another sweet girl, Felicity.
2. Pay off ALL student loans. (It's supposed to take us 7 more years...let's see if we can do it in 5!) Done March 2017
3. Finish Personal Progress again as a leader. FAIL got released before I could finish.
4. Visit Harry Potter World...FAIL not gonna happen before I'm 30. Maybe we'll go in the next ten years.
5. Run a 5K. So, it wasn't a race. But i ran over 5k on my 41.5 minute run on August 13, 2016. I'm counting it! I run only for me anyway.
6. Meet someone famous. Chris Crabb of We Are The Strike (almost famous?)
7. Donate a good amount of money to a good cause.
8. Read the New Testament all the way through, in order. (I must have been distracted the year we read this in seminary...I don't remember finishing). Complete March 2015
9. Take a cooking class. I'm going to count the pie making class we had for a relief society activity.
10. Do the splits again. (Haven't been able to since I was 10 or something).
11. Play laser tag (Boondocks, 5th anniversary)
12. Learn to cook a turkey
13. Catch up on scrapbooking or organizing all our photos somehow
14. Finish rag denim quilt and have a picnic on it. Finished and gave as a gift instead Christmas 2015
15. Memorize a song on the piano.
16. Save an emergency income fund to survive 3 months without a job if needed. To do after we pay off the student loans.
17. Open a savings account for Preston. Something I have always meant to do, but never seem to get around to.
18. Take another dance class with Danny.
19. Go one month without TV or internet shows
20. Go on a trip without kids  (3 year anniversary trip...that happened faster than I thought it would!)
21. Hike the Y Done with Danny on 5/10/14 (never again!)
22. Have a girls getaway. May 2015 by thanksgiving point
23. Do temple work or attend live ordinances in every temple in Utah.

Bountiful: Open House, Baptisms, Initiatory, Endowment, Sealed, Megan and Becca's sealings, other sessions

Mount Timponogos: Baptisms, sealing of a family member for adopted children

Oakland, CA: Baptisms
Rexburg, ID: Baptisms

Helsinki, Finland: Baptisms

Salt Lake: Endowment sessions, Sealings, This was our temple when we lived in SLC!

Oquirrh Mountain: Endowment Session

Provo: Baptisms, Endowment session 5/9/14

Jordan River: deaf session for Ben's endowment March 2015

Manhattan, NY: Session April 2015

Draper: 3 friends' sealings-Eric, Sarah, Ryan

Provo City Center: Open House, watched dedication

Ogden:
St. George:
Vernal:
Logan:
Manti:
Monticello:
Brigham City:
Payson:

24. Go on a vacation to a place I have never been. Pasco, Washington, Fall 2014
25. Re-Learn how to change a tire, change oil, and basic car maintenance
26. Visit Zion National Park (never been!)
27. Explore San Francisco with Danny FAIL might go for 10 year anniversary
28. Make a door wreath or decoration for every holiday/season (So far: Easter, Spring, Summer, Winter) I've got the whole year covered well enough now.
29. Write a book
30. Do temple work for an ancestor/get into family history work---I'm trying to! I can't find any names to take to the temple, but I am deciding to not be discouraged. Instead, I have uploaded several pictures and stories and started to learn the stories and faces of my ancestors to get to know them. I hope someday I will be able to take a name to the temple, but this is my starting point. ***Update: I did it! Took a family name I found to the temple in May 2018
31. Hike Kanarraville Falls
32. Watch a meteor shower. Done August 11, 2016-Perseid Meteor Shower
33. Eat at the mandarin restaurant with Danny. Well, we got take out. And we tried Little Orient instead.
34. See a show at Desert Star Theater
35. Become a morning person. Being forced to be because of my kids waking up so early!



Extra accomplishments (and challenges) along the way:
1. Set apart as Beehive leader in Young Women 3/2/14. Such a huge blessing, big honor, lesson teacher, humbling experience, big example to me.
2. See my dad struggle after falling and learning how to get back up and heal and live again. 3/3/14. My testimony has grown. My respect and love for life has grown. My love for my dad and my family has grown. I know fasting and prayer is real and works and Heavenly Father hears and listens and loves us.
3. Miscarriage. :( Summer 2014
4. Trip to Washington to visit Bryan and Brenda and family Fall 2014
5. Got to go to Girls Camp for the first time since being a Young Woman. August 2014
6. Get my first gym pass to the rec center and get serious about exercising regularly. November 2014
7. Season tickets to community theater means regular date nights and seeing shows I haven't seen before! Not sure when/if we will ever do this again, so I'm soaking in every show and every date alone with Danny while I can!
8. Trip to New York City with just my husband, thanks to his business trip there. April 2015
9. Take my son in for his first broken bone. 4/29/15 fractured clavicle from falling off a kitchen chair.
10. Go to Girls Camp for 2nd time as a leader, back to Piuta, where my very first girls camp ever was held. June 2015
11. Family trip to the Oregon Coast! July 2015
12. Sadie Mae stillborn September 30, 2015 13.9 oz. 10.5 in. 3:35 a.m. buried in Bountiful Cemetery's babyland.
13. First family vacation with just our little family: Disneyland and Disc Golf trip, January 2016
14. Visit my Grandma Wainwright in Kemmerer, Wyoming for Easter 2016
15. Called to serve on the compassionate service committee 4/27/16
16. Be brave through my fourth pregnancy, giving myself shots every day in my stomach, and getting to keep a baby girl at the end. Felicity Olivia born April 3, 2017.
17. Sell our townhouse in Bountiful and buy a real house in Kaysville. January 18, 2018.
18. Trip to Disneyland with the Wixoms. End of January-beginning of Feb 2018.
19. Set apart as primary pianist in the Fox Point Ward -March 2018
20. Overnight trip to Rigby, Idaho for Ethan's birthday- March 2018
21. Trip to Pasco, Washington for Blake's baptism April, 2018.