Today is my Aunt Vallie’s 100th Birthday! Aunt Vallie (also called Rudy) is such an amazing woman who has led a wonderful life so far! When she is asked the secret to living so long, she answers, “Stay Active!” The other night, Aunt Vallie told my Dad that she had been trying to talk her 91 year old boyfriend ( she says she “robbed the cradle”) into going with her on a road trip from Louisiana to Florida, then through Georgia and up to Virginia. When her boyfriend said “no,” she argued that she would drive!
Such a spunky and caring woman! Aunt Vallie still sends B-day cards and Anniversary cards to all of her family members. I figure she must have to send at least 5 a week! So special… something you can always count on! In honor of Aunt Vallie, Philip and I decided to list out 100 things that we would like to do in our lifetime! We had so much fun coming up with these together. It took a while, but resulted in a lot of laughter and dreaming! They are not in order of importance. Here they go…
1. Tell our kids we love them every day
2. Tell each other we love each other everyday
3. Foster/Adopt
4. Backpack through Europe
5. Go on an African Safari
6. Visit the Holy Land
7. Teach our children to love the Lord
8. Live in Hawaii for at least a year
9. Watch Landon graduate
10. Sleep under the stars with our children
11. Philip plays a round at Augusta National
12. Decorate the house like the Griswolds
13. Katherine get a convertible Beetle
14. Philip get an old Jeep
15. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
16. Fly in a helicopter over a volcano
17. Ride in a hot air balloon (Philip doesn’t want to do that one—afraid of heights)
18. Katherine grow hair out one more time for Locks of Love
19. See George Strait in concert (okay…so if you read our blog regularly, you know Philip has already done this one)
20. Visit all seven continents (including Antarctica)
21. Learn to speak a second language
22. Read the bible from cover to cover
23. Change someone’s life for the better
24. Visit all 50 states
25. Visit all National Parks
26. Sail the Florida Keys
27. Smoke a cigar after UGA wins the national championship in men’s basketball or football
28. Spend a night on the Appalachian Trail…or maybe hike the whole thing
29. Watch KJ bite a park ranger (Oh yeah…already happened)
30. Wrestle an alligator (Philip really wants to do this on his 70th birthday)
31. Own a boat
32. Make our kids laugh each day
33. Attend the Daytona 500
34. Eat lunch with Jack Johnson
35. Attend a Jack Johnson concert in Hawaii
36. Get invited to the White House
37. Go to the Super Bowl
38. Finish our Ph.Ds (still waiting on one)
39. Become a grandparent
40. Own a mountain cabin
41. Write a book (Not counting a dissertation)
42. Remodel an old house
43. Take a cruise to Alaska
44. Run a half-marathon
45. Attend the World Series
46. Run for political office
47. Patent an invention
48. Zip line in Costa Rica
49. Win a grand in Vegas
50. Attend a Presidential Inauguration
51. Ride a donkey or elephant
52. Forgive an enemy
53. Win a hot dog eating contest
54. Have dinner with the pope
55. Have a basketball goal in the driveway
56. Own a beach house
57. Be on a gameshow
58. Read to our children everyday
59. Have our own vegetable garden
60. Eat the vegetables from our garden
61. Have a fancy dinner on our China at least 5 times a year
62. Dance together
63. Go to Disney World in another country
64. See Niagra Falls
65. Attend a Mardi Gras Ball in Louisiana
66. Ride a steamboat
67. Feed a giraffe
68. Win one of those halftime games
69. Snuggle with our babies
70. Teach our children the history of our country
71. Raise kind children
72. Drive a moped into a Conch train (oh yeah…already done that too)
73. Katherine never drive a moped again J
74. Manta Ray Night Dive
75. See a Penguin in the wild
76. Learn how to cook Gumbo
77. Learn how to cook Cornbread Dressing like my Daddy makes it
78. Be an extra in a film
79. Take my Mom and Mother in Law to a fancy spa overnight
80. Spend a year of our life traveling the world
81. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month (Philip not Katherine-Ha!)
82. Mentor
83. Shower in a waterfall
84. Spend the night in a haunted hotel
85. See a lunar eclipse
86. Kiss the Blarney Stone
87. Befriend an elderly person in the nursing home and visit regularly
88. Catch a ball in the stands of a Major League Baseball stadium
89. Take lots of pictures and keep them organized in photo albums
90. Teach our children to give to others
91. Spend a Thanksgiving serving food at a shelter
92. Look into our children’s eyes and see ourselves
93. Go skiing
94. Bake Cookies every Christmas eve
95. Take our family to church every Sunday
96. Ride in a Smart Car
97. Make a family of snow angels
98. Drive an electric car—or some other energy efficient vehicle
99. Learn to juggle
100. Love each other unconditionally!
Pretty good list! I’m sure we’ll add even more over the years! This is going to be a good life!
What 100 things would you like to do in your lifetime?
What 100 things would you like to do in your lifetime?
No comments:
Post a Comment