30 while I'm 30

1. Take a photography class

2. Plant some plants and keep them alive.

3. Go through Celebrate Recovery

4. Read at least ten new books (in progress)

-The Hole in Our Gospel, Rich Sterns

-Emergence, labeled Autistic, Temple Grandin

-The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch

-Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother, Jana Wolff

-Adopted for Life, Russell Moore

-The Help (in progress)

5. Throw a surprise date for Kyle and I

6. Adopt our child-Approved and waiting!!!

7. Clean and and organize our closets

8. Lose ten pounds. Enjoy being active and strong. (in progress)

9. Memorize ten Scripture verses. (3 committed to memory, so far)

10. Learn how to make homemade pasta.

11. Take Lois to the beach

12. Give more of my time to serve my community. (HopeStreet)

13. Visit my sister in Paris. (was not able to complete…sad times.)

14. Run a mile without stopping. (ran 1.25)

15. Go rowing on Lake Austin.

16. Go an entire month without watching TV.

17. Eat at Uchi.

18. Go on a vacation with only Kyle. (South Africa!!!)

19. Go to the Austin Museum of Arts

20. Have a family picnic.

21. Take in a few happy hours with the girls.

22. Wear false eyelashes.

23. Go to the ballet.

24. Eat lobster

25.Learn the rules of football (in progress…just learned some rule the other day, but I can’t remember.)

26. Hike more often

27. Get better at putting away folded clothes

28. See more movies in the theater

29. Finish compiling my poetry

30. Find the best queso in Austin