If you’ve been following the JSP blog from it’s humble beginnings, you’ll know all about my Life List. While I haven’t kept up with updating you guys on it, the list will always hold a very special place in my heart. It’s a little known fact that B actually won me over by helping me find ways to mark things off this list, and on a cool afternoon in September 2010, he swept me off my feet by teaching me how to drive a stick shift. True story!

I haven’t looked at the list or posted anything about it since we moved to the new blog last year, so I thought I’d give you an updated version today. Do any of you keep a Life List? What are some things you have on yours? Leave your insight in the comments below!

Anyways, here it is…my life list.

1. Graduate college/ Earn a degree. —DONE  May 2007
2. Follow my heart with wreckless abandon. — DONE
3. Get married.  – DONE! 11-16-13
4. Have children.
5. Make exercising a habit.
6. Take photos of my parents.  – DONE
7. Record my Mom and Dad’s voice.
8. Be debt free!!!—DONE
9. Buy a new car. – DONE, it’s not new but it’s completely paid for!
10. Buy a house.
11. Buy all the camera equipment I want/need. — DONE, but there’s always something new I want!
12. Give to charity.
13. Work on a Habitat for Humanity build.
14. Volunteer at the soup kitchen.
15. Read the Bible.
16. Donate blood.
17. Go on another mission trip.
18. Learn to play and memorize a song on the piano.
19. Learn to speak another language fluently.
20. Learn sign language.
21. Read all of Emily Post’s Etiquette or take a course in it.
22. Take a flower arranging course.
23. Take a cake decorating course.
24. Take a calligraphy course.
25. Make a list of 100 books I want to read and read them all.
26. Learn to drive a stick shift.— DONE, although I probably couldn’t make it around town if I had to.
27. Fly first class.
28. Drink Dom Perignon somewhere fabulous.
29. Throw a surprise party.
30. Get a surprise party.
31. Go skydiving.
32. Go on a helicopter ride.
33. Ride a mechanical bull.
34. Take a canopy tour on a zip line.
35. Grow a garden.
36. Plant a tree and watch it grow. – DONE
37. Have a personal day at the spa. – DONE
38. Swim with trained dolphins.
39. Go whale watching. – DONE February 2014
40. Milk a cow.
41. Go parasailing.
42. Go on a weeklong cruise.
43. Go on a hot air balloon ride.— DONE
44. Go white water rafting. – DONE
45. Go snow tubing.
46. Go to a shooting range. — DONE
47. Ride by train.— DONE
48. Keep an orchid alive for more than 3 months.
49. Go to a foam party.
50. Go to a murder mystery dinner party.
51. Go to a live taping of a talk show.
52. Attend the ballet.
53. Attend the opera.
54. Wear a large hat to the Kentucky Derby and drink a mint julep.
55. Pick fruit at a pick-your-own farm and do something with it. — DONE
56. Learn to shag.
57. Make a loaf of bread from scratch. – DONE
58. Be a bridesmaid or Maid of Honor. — DONE
59. Eat vegetarian for a month.
60. Go camping.
61. Learn to quilt, complete a project, and go for a picnic with quilt.
62. Visit all 50 states. (I’ve made it to 29 so far!)
63. Take Momma to Vermont.
64. Take Dad on a fishing trip.
65. Travel Italy. — DONE and I would go back in a heartbeat.
66. Travel Europe.  – DONE, March 2013
67. Travel to Australia. — DONE, November 2011
68. Travel to New Zealand.
69. See the…
    1. Grand Canyon
    2. Eiffel Tower- DONE
    3. Wall of China
    4. Northern Lights
    5. Niagara Falls
    6. Stonehenge
    7. The Great Pyramids
70. Go to New York at Christmas and see a Broadway play.
71. Go to Oktoberfest in Germany.
72. Shoot a wedding on the beach. — DONE
73. Book a wedding in another state.— DONE
74. Book a wedding in a state not surrounding SC. — DONE
75. Book a destination wedding in another country. — DONE
76. Book a wedding in Italy.
77. Photograph an engagement proposal.
78. Photograph a courthouse marriage.
79. Get certified as a professional photographer.
80. Donate an entire wedding package to a deserving couple. — DONE, and might do again!
81. Get published for my photography.
82. Hire an intern.
83. Hire associate photographer/s for JSP.
84. Mentor an upcoming photographer.
85. Start a photography workshop/seminar.
86. Become a member of the ISWP.
87. Complete a marathon… maybe a half!
88. Learn to play golf or tennis.
89. Take a horseback riding lesson.
90. Learn to surf.
91. Learn how to french braid my hair.
92. Learn to whistle with two fingers.
93. Go on a safari.
94. Shower in a tropical waterfall. – DONE, February 2014
95. Experience weightlessness.
96. Drive a racecar.
97. Swing on a circus trapeze.
98. Ride an elephant in the jungle.
99. Ride a camel in the desert.
100. Be an extra in a movie.
101. Try acupuncture.
102. Go to Harry Potter World.

Yep, that crazy person in the water on the right is me! (Taken on our honeymoon in Hawaii.)