40 By 40

40 By 40

Take Princess to her first ever concert (I'm thinking Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez or dare I say it, Bieber) DONE July 13th 2012 Demi Lovato and Hot Chelle Rae with Backstage passes and everything!

Put Princess in ballet and a music class or some extracurricular activity that she wants to participate in. DONE Fall 2011 - Current Cheer Squad. In first competition won 1st place at regionals, moved on to state and won 2nd place.

Open a small business that will generate enough income to buy a new car DONE June 2012

Go to a big blogging conference (Blogher, Blissdom, BootCamp...you get the idea)

Get completely out of debt! We are well on our way, just finished paying off one credit card and another will be paid off around tax return time.

Get healthy and fit and maintain it!

Move to Mt Vernon IA

Visit every state in the Western US (CA, OR, WA, NV, UT, WY, MT, ID, CO) (we won't count AZ since we live here!) We've visited CA a few times now as a family.  We are visiting Las Vegas NV over spring break, next week 2013!

Build up a healthy savings account (meaning more than 6 months worth of living expenses)

Continue working on my family ancestry, go as far back as I can. Figure out exactly how I am related to a hockey legend!

Read all of the classics I should have read while in high school

Upgrade all of my camera gear

 Get family photos taken yearly (we haven't had a professional family photo taken since Princess was 18 months old!)

Renew my wedding vows with Hubby ♥

Update our furniture. I want all brand new items that we have picked out - no more hand me downs.

Get the matching tattoo's with hubby that we've been planning

Go on a couples only vacation with the hubby

Take a cooking class

Write a book.

Print and scrapbook important photos from the last 10 years that include wedding, pregnancy, childbirth, family life, vacations.

Train for and complete a marathon in 4 hours or less

Learn to dance (ballroom, salsa)

Learn to knit.

Plan, implement and reap the rewards of a successful garden!

Take a girls only trip with Princess

Take a family trip to Connecticut to show Princess and Hubby where I am originally from.

Take a cruise with the family

Get my teeth fixed

Finish getting all the piercings I want (industrial, nipples done...again)  Recently took out all of my piercings and decided I don't want them anymore, so this one can be marked off the list! DONE 2013

Take a trip to New Orleans

Take a trip to New York City

Travel somewhere that I will need a passport to get there

Go to a Red Wings game in Joe Louis Arena

Take 2-3 small vacations a year

Provide a nice Christmas for a family in need

Donate $5000 to either American Cancer Society or Hospice of the Valley ( or $2500 a piece for each of them )

Help pay the bills so Hubby can go back to school for his medic

Get skin removal surgery after I lose the weight I need to lose

Go to Hawaii on vacation

Read 500 books by my 40th birthday!!