This summer is already promising to be super crazy and busy in the work-family-life balance sheet, but I do want to make sure I get a solid run of awesome things in before the weather turns cool again. Blue Eyes and I will have his kids for 3 weeks in July, and I certainly hope they can participate in many of these with us. However, I also know that most of that time will be spent with family and family is first. The following is my bucket list to be completed between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend:
- Visit the farmer’s market – bonus points for riding my bike
- Wear white pants successfully
- Climb a mountain, a big one
- Make homemade ice cream
- Roast marshmallows with my stepkids
- Dangle my bare feet in a cold mountain stream
- Attend a bonfire – bonus points for spending the evening updating our plan for the zombie apocalypse
- Make out with that very handsome husband of mine, a lot
- Sleep under the stars – bonus points if I can see the milky way
- 21 days as a vegetarian
- Go to a baseball game (one will suffice), and sit on the lawn
- Run a 5k for a good cause
- Many, many photo walks around my neighborhood and the surrounding canyons
- Go to a rodeo, yeehaw!
- Hike in red rock country
- Read a whole pile of books, a big pile, obviously
- Dinner in the canyon – bonus points for cooking said dinner over an open fire
- Attend an outdoor concert
- Eat lots and lots of corn on the cob
- Watch the sunset from a beautiful vantage point
- Keep my tomato plant alive
- Make it to September without getting any tan lines (meaning, no tan, not nekkid tanning)
- Go to the wildflower festival, take an inordinate amount of photos
- Go to Food Truck Thursday for lunch
- Take a midnight walk, preferably with an enormous full moon and a sky full of stars
- Schedule a personal day off work, take myself out to brunch and get a pedicure, for no other reason than I can.
- Go camping
- Eat strawberries off the vine – bonus points if they are sun warmed
- Visit one of the formal gardens in my city
- Go on an overnight motorcycle adventure with my sweetheart
Expect a full report in September! What is on your bucket list for this summer?