Bucket List 2011--status update

Wow, I still have a lot to cross off.  Procrastination is not my friend.

 

Update on Summer Bucket List Status

1. Go to Las Vegas!
2. Organize my craft room Room is cleaned up, and about 3/4 organized--work in progress
3.  Plant a small herb/flower garden to hang off my deck Ughh, this has stalled
4. Take the kids to the beach for the day
5. Take the kids to the Children's Museum. 
6. Partake in the "free movie days" at the local theater
7. Lose, at least, 20 lbs.  Hmmm..... we will see on this one.
8. Spend 1 full week at my Mom's Lake House with kids.  Yup!  Leave soon!
9. Secure a new babysitter and make a regularly-planned date nights with my husband Nope. 
10. Let my kids grow their hair out, even if the long-shaggy look bugs the crud out of me Still holding strong---and it is driving me NUTS---- Yup, still long and shaggy! YES, and haircuts are to soon follow!  YEAH
11. Organize the garage for my husband, so he can do his beloved wood working YUP!   DID IT --- and now it is destroyed again.
12. Learn how to use my sewing machine in above stated "newly organized" craft room
13. Go to the zoo with the kids and not be annoyed because I do not like the zoo
14. Pay off all of our credit card debt (which should be done by July!! :-))  SO CLOSE!  1 payment left ---I am just waiting for my husbands work reinbursements to come in, and then IT IS DONE!  THIS IS GOING TO FEEL SOOOO GOOD---- Still waiting for those reinbursements
15. Obstain from buying my kids anymore summer clothes--and instead just do more laundry
16. Teach my older kids to ride bikes
17. Sign them up for at least 2 extra curricular activities this summer  We did get swimming in!
18. Go one full week without any drive thru/fast food Surely did.  Myself, Lauren, Julia all went a week without.  It was easier than I anticipated.
19. Talk my husband into allowing the kids to have a trampoline  FAILED
20. Enjoy a weird/special show or fair  (one time we went to a tractor show.. it was fun!)
21. Go Berry picking and make our seasonal jam
22. Get my husband a new grill so he can cook at least 3 nights a week ;-) He got a beautiful new grill for Father's Day, and has been expertly cooking! Not quite 3 times a week because of the rain, but I am going to work on that. 
23. Make a dream board to hang in my bathroom to view everyday
24. Go on a bug hunt with my kids
25. Get our deck painted (our house if I feel ambitious!) DONE
26. Family day to the Amusement Park that is not too far from us
27. Take my loud kids to the library
28. Completely break my baby of watching Barney! :-) I had her completely broken---no shows for at least 2 months--and then my husband broke down and let her watch it.  *sigh... I yelled at him "You screwed up my bucket list :-)"  But other than maybe 2 random viewings, she is broken.--She has not watched it since that random viewing.  I think we are BROKEN
29. Get my kids an amphibean (frog/lizard/etc)
30. One day without TV/phone/computer/Facebook/Blogging/Email.......
31. Organize and use my label maker to clean out and label my kitchen cabinets I did about 1/2 thus far and still in progress