Em in Real Life: Thanksgiving Top Ten

Thanksgiving was such a blast and I am so ready for Christmas. I loved spending time with all my family. Here were my top ten favorite parts of my Thanksgiving vacation.

Pumpkin Rolls with Maple Streusel Filling
Sweet n' Sour Meatballs and BBQ Weiners
Pecan Pie
Homemade Stuffing
The Twilight Movie with all my sisters
Playing board games every day! A new one we played that was fun - Hit or Miss
Not having to entertain Gordon all day long, in fact not having to entertain Gordon at all!
Girl Talk with my sisters
Making crafts and projects with my sisters; my favorite-this book bag for GordonAnd getting the new books my mom gave Gordon for his birthday. We love reading them!
Getting myself a sewing machine for Christmas at the Black Friday sales!

99 Things in 999 Days

Orange- Working on
Red- Completed

Mothering
1. Spend a 1/2 hour every day formally teaching Gordon for 3 months
2. Read Babywise
3. Have Edison sleeping through the night by 3 months
4. Have Edison on a feeding schedule by 2 months
5. Do an art/craft activity with Gordon once a week for 2 months
6. Go on a “field trip” with the boys once every 2 weeks for 3 months
7. Read to my boys for a 1/2 hour every day for 2 months
8. Take the Family/Parenting class offered through LDS Family Services
9. Only watch two movies a week (or less)

Personal
10.Get a pedicure, facial, hot-stone massage, and manicure
11. Take a Ballroom dance class with Chris
12. Get paid someday to take pictures
13. Take a photography class
14. Take a “Me Day” once a month
15. Buy a Digital SLR camera
16. Graduate with my Bachelor’s Degree
17. Read 5 classic novels- Persuasion by Jane Austen, Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
18. Change a flat tire
19. Update my blog at least twice a week
20. Watch no more than 1 hour of TV a day for two months
21. Buy something on E-bay

Developing Talents/Hobbies
22. Spend 3 hours a month doing family history
23. Take voice lessons
24. Learn how to use Photoshop
25. Learn to do online scrapbooking
26. Practice the piano 4 hours a month
27. Learn how to crotchet and knit
28. Audition for a play
29. Participate in a play
30. Do one service activity a month for 3 months

Marriage
31. Do “Spouse Inventory” once a month
32. Go on a weekend getaway with Chris
33. Spend a weekend at the Anniversary Inn
34. Go out on weekly dates
35. Compliment Chris once every day for 3 weeks
36. Go to bed at the same time and have pillow talk for 10 minutes
37. Take the Marriage Class that is offered through LDS Family Services

Physical
38. Floss my teeth every night
39. Record everything (exact amounts) I eat for one week
40. Go on a diet for one month
41. Start doing 30 sit-ups and increase 10 every week
42. Walk 5 miles a week
43. Go to bed at 10:00 p.m., at the latest, every night
44. Run a half marathon
45. Run a full marathon
46. Lose 5 pounds
47. Stretch everyday for 3 weeks
48. Do a full fitness assessment
49. Drink 64 oz. of water a day for two weeks

Spiritual
50. Read from the scriptures or Ensign everyday
51. Go to the temple once a month
52. Build my 3 month food storage
53. Be a 100% visiting teacher
54. Make FHE a priority every Monday night for 3 months
55. Write in a journal every week for 2 months
56. Keep a grateful journal everyday for 3 weeks
57. Finish the Book of Mormon in a year
58. Say at least 1 comment in church every Sunday for 2 months
59. Read Patriarchal Blessing at least once a month

Homemaking
60. Compile favorite recipes
61. Try a new recipe every week
62. Make a family cookbook
63. Make a quilt
64. Buy a sewing machine
65. Make a first-aid kit for the car
66. Bake bread every week for two months
67. Use my wheat grinder
68. Make a baby blanket
69. Do one load of laundry everyday for 2 months
70. Finish my wedding scrapbook
71. Keep my house clean enough that if someone stopped by unannounced I wouldn’t be embarrassed (for one month)
72. Keep a budget for 3 months

Travel
73. Take a cruise with Chris
74. Go to Europe
75. Take Chris to New York and Boston
76. Spend a week on a Dude Ranch
77. Go to the temple in every city I visit that has one
78. Take a road-trip across the country and stop at every location we feel like
79. Go to Mexico with Charity Anywhere with my family

Family
80. Send Birthday cards to everyone in our immediate families
81. Visit Chris’s grandparents in SLC
82. Contact one sibling a week
83. Visit with my relatives and record the conversations for family history
84. Compile all photos my relatives have for family history
85. Go to the temple to do my own family names
86. Plan a family outing with Chris’s family

Social
87. Have friends over once a month
88. Host a New Year’s Eve party
89. Get to know my neighbors
90. Host a reunion with all the girls that were my age in my ward growing up
91. Host a Halloween party
92. Have a “Girls Night Out” once every 2 months

Fun
93. Go to 2 events at the Ellen Eccles Theatre – saw Les Miserables,
94. Go to an Aggies basketball and football game
95. Go to a show at the Pickleville Playhouse
96. Go snowmobiling
97. Go camping
98. Go to a monster truck show with Chris
99. Go to the Celebration Center

Em in Real Life

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Thanksgiving Top Ten

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