Photos of the amazing ride

1. Live mortgage/debt free.
2. Live somewhere new for 6 mo or a year.
3. Visit a farmers market in Spain
4. Let go and live, presently.
5. Cultivate a successful garden, every year.
2009
6. Raise chickens
7. Own and operate my Chicken Coop Cottage business
8. Get a college degree
9. Learn carpentry
10. Lose 30 pounds
11. Vacation yearly with Aaron
12. Tour Europe, not necessarily by backpack
13. Take a month long road trip with no destination
14. Stand proudly by Aaron’s side as he accepts a VC check from a major player in his industry for software that was his concept and follow through.
15. Be generous, in a “Big Give” kind of way
16. Live on the water
17. Have a vacation home
18. Build my dream kitchen
19. Tell stories with my photography
20. Win
Lakeshore Fine Arts Juried Competition. In short: WOW.
21. Grow old with Aaron
22. Watch my kids get married, and get old
23. Learn how to salsa dance
24. Learn how to throw glass into bowls or glasses or such
25. Spend a Spanish Holiday in a quaint native city – and dance the night away with Aaron
26. Learn Spanish
27. Become well read
28. Write a book
29. Make it to the NY TIMES Best Selling List
30. Watch Jessica meet Ariel for the first time, in person, at Disney World.
31. Visit Santorini, Greece with Aaron
33. Watch Jessica walk down her wedding aisle
34. Go skydiving
35. Go bungee jumping in Canada I think here
36. Make 1,000 lovely things.
1,2.Banana Cream Pie, Pinata
3.Sun pickles
4.Sidewalk chalk paint
5.carmel apples with Jessica
6.a new ki-ki for Jessica
7.bouquet of flowers picked from our garden – fall 2009
8.Pine Cone Wreath
9.Tiramisu (no photo of my own, but it turned out just like hers!!)
10.Chalk board frame
11.home made egg noodles
12.my favorite holiday cookie – the snickerdoodle! (to give away)
13.Homemade marshmallows
14.Sugar cookies
15.cinnamon rolls
16.Homemade pie
17.Homemade egg rolls
18.Homemade Donuts
37. Cook/Bake 100 different, creative things with Jessica as the master chef in our kitchen.
Morning Smoothie, with cookie
38. Say Yes to Jessica’s every request for 24 hours in a row. And if that brings us to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in search of mermaids, so be it.
39. See the Northern Lights
40. Make an apple pie from the apples of our own trees
41. Spend a weekend at a working ranch, helping and learning
42. Milk a cow by hand. How about a goat?
43. Dig for clams with Jessica and Oliver
44. go lobster fishing for dinner
45. Safari in south africa
46. Go back to Nigeria, where I was born
47. Hang a really huge map and pin all the places we’ve been, make it a tradition
48. Become a published writer for magazines
49. Build a wooden car with Oliver
50. Buy a bottle of Crystal in celebration
51. Institute a pajama tradition for winter holidays
52. Fly co-pilot with my dad on the flight that will begin his retirement
53. Pay for each child’s tuition in cash
54. Leave a brief case full of cash in the middle of a crowded place and watch what happens. Finders Keepers.
55. Be part of one those “time stands still” projects
56. Go backstage after a concert
57. Vacation on a yacht
58. Contribute to one of my favorite websites (not entirely sure if this counts, but lookie here ) IT TOTALLY COUNTS!
59. Do a home renovation project on my own
Re-caulked the bath tub after mildew moved in. A two week process for correct ventilation. I am a rock star.
60. Build a house
61. Have a surreal experience
62. Tell my story
63. If ever overcome with emotion, let it go and cry freely
Happened one September 2009 evening. I don’t think I’ll tell this story.
64. Watch either child teach something to the other
65. Watch Aaron teach Jessica how to ride her bike without training wheels September 8, 2009
66. Do something really scary, like labor over a piece of art and then submit it for review or walk through a haunted building. Both are equally hee-bee-gee-bee’s for me. I submitted some work to a juried art show and was accepted!!! and then I won (#20)
67. Try 1,000 new things. Food, experiences, fabrics, techniques, travel, sights etc.
1.Mussels
2.Raw Octopus at a sushi bar (no photo)
3.Duck at Bistro 110
4.BlogHer09!
5.tried Bubble Tea! (not a fan)
6.King Crab Legs!
7.Crag Rangoons
8.Homemade ice cream in a bag
68. When Jessica reaches the 48” mark, drop everything and go to Cedar Point with her, ride every single ride
69. Camp near a waterfall
70. Have neighbors with children who are playmates for our kids
71. Sell our house
72. Finish decorating a home
73. Plan a wedding for someone
74. Witness a birth other than my own
75. Spin a globe and where ever our fingers stop it – buy tickets within the hour for the next flight out of town
76. Be surprised
77. Throw a huge party for Aaron’s 30th, 40th and 50th
78. Vacation in Argentina
79. Visit ruins of ancient civilizations
80. Rent a beach house with friends
81. Spend a month in Peru with friends or family during a winter – kids running here and there.
82. Go on a cruise
83. Video interview all my grandparents telling their stories and antidotes
84. Gallop on horseback again
85. Learn more about my faith
86. Knock a wall down
87. Reupholster furniture
88. record a CD for my kids of me singing their favorite songs, reading their favorite books
89. Get in the habit of doing grand gestures for my kids: Breakfast
90. Wake up consistently before everyone else in the house
91. Learn Botany
92. Become a family who hikes together .
93. Get my blood sugar issues resolved once and for all
94. Compete in an athletic race: running, swimming … whatever.
95. Look back in 20 years and remember the good times
96. Order a dirty martini with 3 olives in a hotel bar in NY wearing a swank black dinner dress.
97. Teach Jessica how to walk in heels
99. Sit on my dad’s porch, rocking in a chair and smelling the fresh Alaskan air around me – I’ll be watching him operate his float plane.
100. Stand on a cliff and breathe
101. Wear wedding dress while I A) jump into a body or water and B) participate in a food fight
102. Have more Root Beer Floats Whuh, whuh, whuh. Unfortunately – this one sounds awesome but doesn’t align with #93, which is more important than a scrumptious little treat.