Bucket List

A couple of days ago, I was on twitter and saw a tweet about a little girl with cancer. You can find her blog here... Her name is Alice Pyne and she was diagnosed with a form of cancer that is terminal. The whole point of her blog is to write about her Bucket List. Some of the things she put on there she won't be able to accomplish but luckily there are people helping her with the ones she can. I hope she gets to do as many of those things as possible.

But that got me thinking about my bucket list. What do I really want to do before it's too late? I know I'm young but really no one knows when our time here will be gone and it got me wondering what I really want to do before its too late... while I am young enough to enjoy most things.

So here is my goal list of things I want to really do... the sooner the better :)

1. Become a mom
2. Travel to Europe (mostly Greece, Italy, France, England)
3. Take cooking classes
4. Go skydiving
5. Learn another language (my 4 years of high school French are lost)
6. Start throwing a yearly New Years Eve bash at our house (complete with hats and confetti)
7. Visit Boston, Chicago (again), New York City, Washington DC, Vegas, Napa
8. Learn how to sew
9. Go on several mission trips
10. Learn sign language
11. Go on a safari in Africa
12. Ride in a hot air balloon
13. swim with dolphins
14. Live in Charleston, SC
15. Have a Christmas tree in every room of my house...complete with themes :)

Some of those are pretty major and will require some moolah (sorry Nick) but others I could do if I just took the initiative to do it but its hard to take initiative when you think you have all the time in the world to do it. My goal is to at least start on 2 of these this year. Personally I tried to talk the hubs into dipping into savings and go a head and check off that number 2. Uh he didn't agree with my plan! :) Oh well, maybe one day...

Do some of the things on my list match yours? Would you put something different on yours? Please share because I would love to know!

HHI A Trip in Pictures

See, at least you know I fulfill my promises and it may not have been yesterday but its first thing this morning! I had to figure out how to steal these pictures from a shutterfly album and it presented quite the challenge at first! ha

This is before the 9 hour road trip began... their car was packed. Our car, was bigger and better, plus we had April which proves to be about 9 hours of entertaining goodness. 

 We stayed at the Marriot Resort right on the beach. We had the top floor suite. Yay for us... boo for every room that surrounded us! :)

The Bachlorette gave each girl a monogrammed beach towel and a sand bucket. Not pictured is our bubba kegs that everyone got too!

Emily, McCourt, and Katheryn super excited about the loot! 

 That's me on the bottom row second from the left. It's one of the only pics with me in it... (remember these weren't from my camera)

Those pictures were all from Friday night when we got there at about 9:30 at night. The next day we woke up bright and early to hit the pool and the beach. The weather was PeRfEcT the whole time we were there... I'm talking 90 and not a cloud in the sky.

 Where we spent the majority of our day! We had such a large group (15) that we kind of took over...

Saturday night we had a dinner catered to our room and then had Em's personal shower. After that we made our way to the Triangle to go out. We found the best outdoor patio bar with a guy on the guitar. It proved to be a great night.

Sunday was more sunbathing (and some where nursing hangovers, who are we kidding here?) Me, not so much, as I was up at 6:45 ready to go to the beach. My roommates were less than thrilled with my  eager early morning attitude. Right, April? :)

Sunday night we went to the Frosty Frog before heading to Harbortown for a really nice dinner on the water. Frosty Frog has machine after machine of mixed frozen drinks with alcohol and I'm talking 110 proof here people... or at least that is what the machines said. I got the banana one...so so good.

These were only a few of the pictures (I couldn't show the not so appropriate ones) but at least I got them on here... it was quite the chore to screen shot my iphone, email them to myself, copy them onto my computer, then upload them all here. Shoo. I'm sure someone is probably reading this thinking there is an easier way to do that... and if you are, do enlighten me to help a sista out!

No Excuses

Sorry I have been MIA. With good intentions, I really did mean to post about HHI after I got back. For some reason though, I feel like my world is just jam packed right now. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the places I get to go with my friends and my family and the parties and celebration that come with the summer season... I really do love it all! For instance, tonight I have a marriage date night at church with my husband, then tomorrow I have to go shopping to get a bridal shower present for the shower I have to attend in the afternoon, not to mention I have a hair appointment in between there somewhere (which btw I just found out my girl is going back to Florida and I could probably dedicate a whole post about how upset I am about it), then on Sunday is the typical church day with lunch and grocery. Geez Louise where did my weekend go?

So.... as you can see my schedule is pretty full and it looks that way up until August. Literally something all week so admittedly I have plenty to blog about just no time to do it! Sooorryyy :)

I'll do better, promise. As a matter of fact I WILL get those HHI pictures posted today...maybe even when I go home for lunch! I wish I could post them all but some are just a little..... ummm... inappropriate with our party decorations and all :)

xoxo

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Me and you's are about-sta fight... and I mean it. I have tried to comment on several blogs lately and you just won't let me! All my words of wisdom are just getting lost in cyber space. Whatevs. I am over you for today.

Anyone else having this problem? Anyone else as annoyed as I am?

Love Letters

Last week I talked a little about my trip to Hilton Head with the girls (which was crazy fun btw); but what I didn't tell you was that while I was preparing to leave on Friday, my husband had been in Boston for that whole week prior (Monday through Thursday). Fortunately he only travels every now and then and it's not an all too often thing because I hate it when I am in the house alone. Cah-reepy. Anyway, I basically got to see my husband for a total of 4 hours last week. Boo. I missd him.

Before we got married we took our premarital classes through our church at Southeast Christian (aka Six Flags over Jesus) and the program we went through was a huge blessing. Not only did we go through group classes but we also got marriage mentors that we met with for about 6 weeks. One thing our mentors suggested doing was keeping a notebook to write in throughout our marriage. In it we could write each other letters filled with only good stuff and the idea is to look at it when times get tough or it will be something our kids will have one day when we are gone.

On the day of our wedding I handed Nick our notebook with the first love letter from me. Admittedly there is no set schedule for the letters or no turn taking... we just write when we feel like it. Imagine my surprise when I wake up on Tuesday after I get back from my trip and peep in the notebook to find a letter from my husband telling me how much he missed me while we were apart. Melt. My. Heart.

I know some may think this is cheesy but seriously people, how cute is it to think that one day our children will have a keepsake of our marriage. Not only that, but you can't help but read what your husband wrote and it put a huge smile on your face. It seriously does. It's not all gushy and mushy... sometimes it could be that I thank him for helping in the yard and taking care of things that needed fixing. I really believe it is important to share the things you appreciate in your spouse.

I just thought I would share about how blessed I am to have a husband that tells me he misses me when I am gone. Although I am sure the letter thing is not for everyone, it is something special so I wanted to share just in case you think it is too! :)