August 2013 -- 101 in 1001 Update

August 2013--101 in 1001 Update

Our Goals

1. Add a member to our family.   DUE 11/12/13

2. Pay off all student loans.  DONE 8/2/13

3. Visit NYC.

4. Take a long road trip. 

5. Sell something on Etsy  

6. Have Dad's Crawfish in Louisiana.  

7. Take a trip to Louisiana at least once a year. (2/3) 

8. Host a holiday in our home. 

9. Go camping.

10. Build a real fire.   

11. Rent or buy a house. 

12. Decorate the outside of a house for Christmas.   

13. Stay at or Visit the Biltmore.  

14. Serve in a soup kitchen. 

15. Grow our own tomatoes.

16. ******* 

17. Give an item away each time we buy something new (clothing, housewares, etc).  

18. Go on dates at least every other week.  

19. Complete a blog series together.

20. For one month, don't buy anything extra. 

21. Contact our family members/parents at least once a week.

22. Go to a shooting range. 

23. Go sailing.

24. Get involved in a community service group.

25. Go on a mission trip.

26. Read at least one book a month for a year. (12/12)

27. Start a small business. 

29. Buy a new Christmas ornament each year. (2/3) 

30. Get a massage.  

31. Send a card to a friend or family member just for fun. 

32. Begin a photography business (big or small).  

33. Eat at a local/non-chain restaurant every time we travel. 

34. Visit a new place together once a year. (2/3)  (So far this year...Charleston, Raleigh, Pennsylvania)

35. Ride in a hot air balloon.  

36. Attend at least one festival a year in the state where we live. (2/3) (2012: Spring Fest, 2013: BBQ Fest)

37. Stay at a B&B. 

38. Floss more- at least once a week. 

39. Give a 100% tip. 

40. Go see a musical. 

41. Eat a new type of food. (Korean, African, etc)

42. Repurpose a piece of furniture. 

43. Watch a sunrise and photograph it. 

44. Explore secret paths.

45. Do something nice for someone anonymously. 

46. Pick fruit at an orchard.  

47. Get a library card. 

48. Go to a garage sale together. 

49. Celebrate our Golden Birthdays in style!   DONE My 29th birthday was on 8/29/13. Blog post coming! :)

50. Make homemade ice cream. 

51. Learn a new hobby together.

Leslie's Goals

52. Lose my desired amount of weight.  

53. Continue to utilize this blog to document our lives especially once we start having children.

54. Get a Skype account and use it. 

55. Paint something worth looking at (not just a wall)  

56. Add at least one cross to my cross collection. 

57. Learn to make the best sweet tea my husband has ever tasted. 

58. Make homemade marshmallows.  

59. Sell/Give away at least one cake or cupcakes that I've decorated for a party/gathering/birthday/etc.

60. Plan a scavenger hunt for Matt. 

61. Bake and decorate each of Matt's birthday cakes. (2/3)

62. Rake someone's leaves.

63. Meet up with at least one other blogger whose blog I read. 

64. Complete a blog series or post about our wedding, including the planning. Just for my own sake :) 

65. Continue mailing out birthday and anniversary cards to our friends and family. 

66. Invite someone to stay with us for a weekend or longer at least once a year. (2/3)

67. Complete a vlog.

68. Go fishing.

69. Make a point to call my closest friends as often as possible, not just texting. (I have done well with this; it's so nice to have conversations with good friends)

70. Take a continuing education class related to Autism or other childhood disorders. (Scheduled for September 19th)

71. Find a yummy Low Country Boil recipe and cook it. 

72. Take at least one picture of Matt and I every time we travel.

73. When we take a long trip (5+ hours one way), drive so that Matt doesn't have to. 

74. Take a trip to visit a few special friends (we know who they are).   

75. Take a cake decorating class. (hope to do this in the first of 2014; considered doing it this year but we are running out of time at this point :))

76. Read a book, write a blog post about it, and link up with a book club blog. 

Matt's Goals

77. Run a 5k. 

78. Take a photography class. 

79. Take Leslie to an air show. 

80. Make a picture frame out of an old or hand-made window frame.  

81. Go to a college football game.  (We really hope to do this in the fall before baby comes. It may not be a BIG game but we hope to at least make it to a local college game)

82. Get a dog.  
83. Get a new camera lens.  

84. Make my wife cry in a good/romantic/sweet/you get the idea way. 

85. Give Leslie a love letter at least once a month for a year.  

86. Visit Chimney Rock, N.C. 

87. Wear a suit, and look good doing it. ;) 

88. Visit a new, to me, zoo. 

89. Watch the Flyers destroy the Hurricanes in Raleigh (hopefully with Leslie).  

90. Fix something for someone.  

91. Cook something new and exciting. 

92. Swim in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

93. Make something from scratch. 

94. Do something with Granddad. 

95. Journal more often. It's a different kind of journaling BUT he has journaled to Baby each week. So special. 

96. Learn all the words to OR learn how to play one of Leslie's "high school days" favorite rap songs.

97. Teach something to someone.

98. Ride a horse.

99. Surprise Leslie with surprises.  

100. Spend an entire day, literally the entire day, in bed. Hopefully not while sick. 

101. Figure out how we will finish all 101 things on this list. 

Ours: 30/51

Leslie: 15/25

Matt: 18/25

Total: 63/101

Luke and Kieran's Birthday

I'm hoping this video uploads correctly, if it doesn't, let me know!

This video is a quick blurb from our nephew's Luke and Kieran. For their birthday, we sent them a gift package that included a shirt for each of them with the Planes logo on it. We also made them custom tickets for the movie and sent money so that Holly and Mitch could take them to the movie. The video is their "thank you" to us. It is quite funny!

Cara Box Reveal

I participated in the Cara Box exchange this month. I sent a box to Kayleigh. I received a box from Stephanie!

She sent me some of the cutest items. Please forgive the photo quality. Normally, I would have my photographer husband take them but he was working! 

Here's the overview

She included some baby wipes! 

One of my cravings: potato chips!

Two letters for the alphabet wall that we are doing in the nursery!

Sweet notes on the box as well as a sweet card inside!

Little bitty mittens for Baby Morgan and some CUTE outfits! 

I love it all. Thanks Stephanie! YOU ROCK!

A Gift for Mom-Mom

When we were in Pennsylvania, on our last night, we went to Dairy Queen with Mom-Mom and Matt's cousin, Morgan. Mom-Mom got a S'more's Blizzard and she was SO disappointed. She said it didn't have enough marshmallow, graham cracker or chocolate. She cracked Matt and I up because she was going on about it. It was comical. That was one of our favorite memories of the trip.

For her birthday, we sent her a DQ gift card with one stipulation. She MUST make sure that they made a good blizzard for her when she used it.

Matt talked to her on her birthday and she thought the gift was great and she cracked up just like we did!

PERFECT GIFT!