Bucket List

If you're like me you have a million and one things you want to do throughout your lifetime.  I've been wanting to write these down for a while now so I figure today is as good of a time as any.  So here it is - my bucket list (in no particular order).

1. Swim/dive with dolphins
2. Buy an old Victorian-style home and renovate it
3. Design and build our forever home
4. Watch Abby graduate from high school and college
5. Watch Abby get married and have a family of her own
6. Travel to Europe
7. Live in NYC (even if just for a few months)
8. Go back to the Caymans
9. Visit all 50 states (I've been to 19 so far - NC, SC, TN, FL, GA, VA, TX, OR, WA, NV, AK, NY, CA, IL, AL, WV, MN, IN, MD)
10. Scuba dive in Australia
11. Hold a Koala cub
12. Retire
13. Be a SAHM (at least for a little while)
14. Stay at an all-inclusive resort
15. Go to nursing school and change careers
16. See UT play football in all of the SEC stadiums
17. Go to a Dave Matthews concert
18. Go on a girls-only trip
19. Take Abby to the American Girl store
20. Go to Ikea
21. Vacation in Wilmington, NC
22. Scuba dive at a wreck site
23. Visit Niagara Falls
24. Go zip-lining at Bootleg Canyon in Boulder City, NV
25. Go to Mardi Gras
26. Go to a spa resort for at least a weekend
27. Visit the Biltmore House
28. Go snow-skiing in Colorado
29. Find a career that I enjoy
30. Re-read all of the Harry Potter, Twilight, & Hunger Games books
31. Volunteer at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
32. Volunteer more period
33. Find a church that we enjoy
34. Read the entire Bible
35. Go camping
36. Go to the Kentucky Derby
37. Visit Las Vegas with the husband (we've both been separately, but never together)
38. Take Abby to Disney World
39. Go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
40. Have a chef's kitchen
41. Learn to sew
42. Master shooting in manual
43. Complete Abby's college fund
44. Own a boat
45. Visit Charleston, SC

So there it is - 45 things I hope to accomplish during my life at this point.  I'm sure this list will evolve and change throughout the years, but it's a good starting point anyway.  What's on your bucket list?

This post written as an entry to the $500 Good Financial Cents giveaway.