33 Things To Do In The Next 33 Years

In honor of my 33rd birthday (in no particular order):

1. Learn to surf

2. Catch a trophy fish

3. Return to Lake Wawasee for a week (where I spent summers growing up)

4. Get PADI certified

5. Run a marathon...

6. In Hawaii

7. Return to Cabo de Palos, Spain (when I was 16, I went on an incredible motorcycle ride with a super-cute Spanish boy, the Mediterreanean Sea on either side of us... beautiful!)

8. Go on a mission trip

9. Return to Fiji

10. See both of my boys graduate from college

11. Meet a grandchild of mine

12. Finish a triathalon

13. Ski out west

14. Learn to slalom

15. Sail to Bermuda

16. Master a castnet

17. Learn to trailer a boat

18. Learn to clean fish

19. Visit Alaska

20. Climb to the top of Table Rock Mountain and complete the Jones Gap Loop (not big tasks, but opportunities I didn't take advantage of when I should have.)

21. Run with (or at least meet) Dean Karnazes

22. Complete each leg of the trip from Toledo to Charleston with my dad on his boat (I am on my way... 3 out of 7!!)

23. Instill in my boys a love of the outdoors and all it has to offer

24. Watch the August meteor shower from the roof of Pretty Place

25. Build my chocolate tasting business

26. Swim the Lowcountry Splash, a 2.4 mile Charleston Harbor swim

27. Own a vintage, burgandy Mercedes convertible, just like my grandmother's

28. Be an incredible mother-in-law to two incredible daughters-in-law

29. Learn to speak spanish fluently

30. See Elton John sing live again

31. Help my boys build a sand castle as tall as me

32. Give back to my friends and family as much as they have given to me

33. Live each day appreciating all of the blessings that God has given to me