The yellow highlighted goals are the ones I completed, along with the date of when I completed them.
(Haha, I realize the highlighted font is really hard to read on the red background of the blog... I guess if you want to read it you'll just have to highlight it like you're copying and pasting and just read it while it's highlighted. I can't mess around with the format or all the formatting might go away and I can't care that much about it.)
Preparedness/Financial
1.
Fill up our Emergency Fund account—March 2017
2.
Spending fast for a month—April 2017
3.
Gather a 3-month supply of food storage—August 2017
4.
Gather more food storage for a year’s supply—Canceled, because we don't have space for that right now. A 3-month supply is AWESOME for now.
5.
Update
72-hour kits, including clothes and baby supplies when necessary
6.
Make
an emergency packing list
7.
Get
our wills notarized and signed
8.
Max
out our IRAs each year (2016,
2017, 2018)
9.
Contribute $3000 each to our kids’
college savings—April 2018
10.
Really
figure out our budget and stick to it for a month or two
11.
Buy
some stocks and figure out how it works
12.
Get a
tornado/storm/emergency plan in place and practice it for FHE
13.
Do CPR training/first aid class—June 2018
Personal Development
14.
Read 100 books—2017
15.
Read 10 classics I’ve overlooked: 1. Mrs. Dalloway 2. The Good Earth 3.
Peter Pan 4. 1984 5. Great Expectations 6. Paradise Lost 7. Brothers Karamazov
8. Wuthering Heights 9. Dracula 10. Wizard of Oz
16.
Read 5 biographies: 1. Marie Antoinette 2. Marjorie Pay
Hinckley 3. Wright Brothers 4. Nicholas and Alexandra 5. Catherine the Great
17.
Read 10 books I own but haven’t read: 1. The Good Earth 2. Marie Antoinette 3.
The Blue Castle 4. Mrs. Dalloway 5. Me Me Me Generation 6. Wuthering Heights 7.
Brothers Karamazov 8. Anna Quindlen 9. 1984 10. Wizard of Oz
18.
Write
a short story and share it
19.
No social media for a month—Feb 2018
20.
Take a
creative class at community college
21.
Host a real dinner party for friends—August 2018, Ward Dinner Activity
22.
Go to a music concert I’m really
excited for—James Taylor, July
2017
23.
Put together binders with personal
history documents/pictures for myself—August
2017
24.
Try
out for MCO again
25.
Take a yoga class (even at Fun Club)—January 2018
26.
Choose a poem to memorize—I started reading poetry, which is a
start!
27.
Make a list of easy/quick/go-to meals—Feb 2017
28.
Try to
make one new meal I want to try each month (0/18)
29.
Make a really serious pie sometime away
from Thanksgiving (including crust)—Tried
and failed in July 2018
30.
Make a
turkey
31.
Play a piano song in public—December 2016
32.
Take nice pictures of the kids with the
good camera twice a year (0/4)—Done
Spiritual
33.
Memorize
the Family Proclamation
34.
Read
the Old Testament all the way through
35.
Pray kneeling down every morning and
night—It’s not kneeling down,
but it’s happening regularly
36.
Make a
file with favorite inspirational talks—kind of.
37.
Go to the temple once a month (when
able to after the baby)—pretty
much!
38.
Update our Sunday bag and make it more
Sunday-appropriate and fun for the kids—Oct
2017
Marriage
39.
One date night out a month with Tommy
(after we are able with the baby)—pretty
well!
40.
One
fancy at-home date a month with Tommy
41.
Get a
couple’s massage
42.
Take a
cooking class together
43.
Go on a solo trip with Tommy—Nov 2017, Galapagos
44.
Watch
a sunrise together
45.
Go to a professional sports game
together—May 2018, Dallas
Mavericks
Travel
46.
Visit three national parks (0/3)—We got to two in CA, June 2018, I'll count that
47.
Take a
long road trip with family
48.
Visit Macchu Picchu—Edited to mean the
Galapagos, November 2018
49.
Take a family trip, not to visit family—San Francisco, May 2018, and Broken Bow,
Oct 2018
50.
Get the kids passports—July 2017
51.
Visit South America—Nov 2017
52.
Go to
another temple
53.
Make a list of 50 places to visit in my
lifetime—August 2017
54.
Do two weekend trips within a few hours
of our house (0/2) 1. Glen
Rose TX, Oct 2017 2. Broken Bow, OK Oct 2018
55.
Visit
a new state I’ve never been to
Home
56.
Repaint our bedroom and finish actually
decorating it—Dec 2016
57.
Decorate the other bedrooms in our
house—Feb 2018
58.
Make a
drop zone to reduce clutter
59.
Build
something for the house
60.
Try to plant a garden in our yard and
get food from it—Feb 2018
61.
Buy Royal Copenhagen plates for the
years we were born—Jun 2018
62.
Do
something specific to increase the value of our home
Health/Fitness
63.
Do
another triathlon
64.
Get down to my goal weight one year
after having baby girl—it took
a few more months but I did it
65.
Go to a day spa—Feb 2018
66.
Try a weight-lifting routine in
addition to cardio for one month—thank
you BBG! Jan 2018
67.
Do a month with no sugar—Sept 2017
68.
Do a month with five servings of
fruits/veggies a day consistently—July
2018
69.
Do 25 push-ups and 5 pull-ups—Oct 2018 (5 assisted pull-ups)
70.
No soda for a year (2017)
Family
71.
Take our kids hiking—July 2017
72.
Visit Grandma Merrill in Fresno—June 2017
73.
Mommy/Daddy
dates once a month with boys
74.
Go camping with our family—May 2018
75.
Build a snowman with the boys—Dec 2017
76.
Find
five off-the-beaten-path places in Dallas to visit (0/5) 1. Flight Museum 2.
Safari Rim/Dino World
77.
Take the kids to the Dallas/Fort Worth
Zoo—January 2017
78.
Visit the kids’ museum in Fort Worth—September 2018
79.
Go
fishing with kids
80.
Get a height measurement stick to mark
up with their heights—September
2018
81.
Go for
a bike ride on the Katy Trail
82.
Send
birthday cards to my siblings in the mail
83.
Give a
really awesome present for Christmas or a birthday
84.
Finish
family history book with grandparents and as many ancestors as I can include
85.
Find five fun new parks in
Frisco/Plano/McKinney to visit
(0/5) 1. Limestone Quarry Park 2. Hunters Creek 3. Waterford Park Rocket Park
4. NE Community Park 5. Beavers Bend Park
86.
Do one
family date each month
January 2017: Texas Legends Game
February 2017: Great Wolf Lodge
March 2017: Fair Park Aquarium
April 2017: Easter Egg Hunt
May 2017: Hospital Fun Day
July 2017: Trip to Utah
August 2017: RoughRiders Game
September 2017: Perot Museum
October 2017: Glen Rose, TX and Pumpkin Patch
November-December 2017: Traveling to Ecuador and Utah
January 2018: Long Park Day
February 2018: Bowling with Kurt for his birthday
March 2018: Bonfire with friends
April 2018: Houston for Blue Bell Fun Run
May 2018: Capital One Day
June 2018: Trip to CA
July 2018: RoughRiders game and fireworks
August 2018: Splash Pad in Flower Mound and swimming at FAC
September 2018: Swimming with friends and FW Children's Museum
October 2018: Broken Bow, OK
87.
Go to five art museums with (or
without) the kids (0/5)—edited to mean just one art museum: DMA Dec 2016
88.
Memorize the Articles of Faith with
Dane/Graham—2018
89.
Get an
annual membership somewhere and use it--I got a POGO pass, which goes to multiple places this past summer, and we loved it.
90.
Visit the Perot Museum downtown with
kids—September 2017
91.
Read two Little House on the Prairie
books with Dane—March 2018
92.
Make a list of family goals for the
year and try to do them together—2017
93.
Make a
file of best parenting talks from General Conference, etc.
94.
Help kids learn our phone numbers and
address—May 2018
95.
Read “Teaching Your Children Values” and
plan FHEs about those values—Jan
2017
96.
Make/finish baby books for each kid—May 2018
97.
Begin an allowance for boys and talk
about saving/giving/spending with them—March
2018
98.
Start
doing Saturday chores for the boys--we do them, but there's no regular system so it kind of counts.
99.
Have a
regular dinnertime conversation starter for all of us—Sept 2018 (What is
something kind you did today?)
100.
Do a
service project for others that involves the kids
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