30 Things on a 30-Year-Old's Bucket List
This week I leave my 20’s behind and enter into my 30’s. Turning 30 was something I started to dread around my 26th birthday. 30 just seemed so… OLD. So BIG, grown, like I was supposed to be this certain person and be in a certain place in my life, blah blah blah. I always envisioned myself in a pool and/or spa somewhere on my 30th birthday, drinking endless margaritas and ignoring the fact that I would no longer be a 20-something. Turning 29 last year amped up my dread about the big 3-0, but then in February we found out we were pregnant. And all of a sudden it was like “My birthday? When’s that? I’ll be how old? Oh, okay.” And as the year went on, and my belly got bigger (read as “freaking huge”), it became July/August and I realized I had barely even thought about my birthday, let alone what age I was going to be.
last’s years birthday spent at Zion National Park with my family <3
So, no more dread about my age. Just indifference honestly. And I feel like that’s okay. My pregnancy-brain has barely let me think of anything else anyways, especially myself. And I just assume that my mom-brain will be pretty similar. No I don’t plan on “letting myself go” or “forgetting myself entirely” when Vernon comes around, but it’s nice to know that my brain is already shifting itself to be less all-about-me.
Anyways. Here’s to 30. The year I become a Mom. The year Joel and I’s life together changes for ever, and I’m sure a year we will never forget. Now where’s my Nothing Bundt Cake?
30 Things on the “Bucket List” of a 30-Year-Old
Visit Greece (more specifically, skinny dip in a hidden cove somewhere)
Eat the best pizza in the world
Star gaze at Natural Bridges National Monument
Take Vernon (and any future kids we may have) on an epic road trip
See snow on the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon
Learn American Sign Language
Witness the Northern Lights
Stay overnight in an Igloo hotel
See whales in person
See sea turtles in Hawaii
Kiss Joel under the Eiffel Tower
Stay overnight at a super fancy hotel with all the perks
Have a special homemade dish that my family calls “the Best Ever ….” (better start working on my cooking skills now haha)
Take our kids on some of the same adventures that Joel and I grew up doing with our families.
Go on a cruise with Joel
Take a sailboat ride in the ocean
Have a room in my house dedicated just to scrapbooking
Attend a concert at Red Rock Park
Visit space (lol, I am kinda serious though)
Be thought of as a good friend
Kiss Joel under/in a waterfall (but just a small waterfall, I have a strong fear of drowning!)
See Joel become a dad (eeek can check this one off soon (; wahoooo)
Own my own business
Take our RV out west
Be known as a “regular” at a local restaurant/coffee shop/whatever
Watch my kids get married to someone that is their best friend
See Joel become a Grandpa (OHMYGOSH I can’t even wrap my head around that one right now hahaha)
Have a baby (anyone else put things on a list just because you know you’ll get to check them off soon? haha)
Keep my house plants alive
Be Joel’s best friend for the rest of my life (:
