My Bucket List

I started this list when I was a sophomore at my community college and this is what I've come up with thus far...

1. Get into a University ✓
   

2. Get a Tattoo ✓
   

3. Be the First in my family to Graduate College

4. Travel Route 66 & 17 Mile Drive

5. Go Scuba Diving

6. Go Parasailing

7. Move out on my Own ✓
   

8. Swim w/ Dolphins

9. Be @ Time Square for New Years

10. Go to the Junior Olympics ✓

11. Attend the Olympic games
    

12. Stay up all night to watch the sunrise

13. Witness a Miracle

14. Change Someone's Life

15. See the White House, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial ✓
    

16. Go Indoor Skydiving

17. Ride a Zip Line in the Jungle

18. Go to Disneyland & Disney World ✓
    

19. Learn to Hula in Hawaii

20. Visit Europe & Australia

21. Go White Water Rafting

22. Attend the Superbowl & the NFL Pro Bowl

23. See the Aurora Borealis

24. Learn to Play Guitar

25. Go to Mardi Gras

26. Play Volleyball in College ✓
    

27. Visit the NFL, NBA & MLB Hall of Fame

28. Go on a "Frostie Roadtrip" w/ Hailey

29. See the Christmas Day Parade in NYC

30. go horseback riding on the beach

31. Go whale watching ✓

32. Be a Contributor to the Make-A-Wish Foundation

33. Own My Own Business

34. Vacation on Martha's Vineyard

35. Work for ESPN
    

36. Marry my Prince Charming

37. Payback My Parents (for everything)

38. Be a Mom

So, what do you want to do?

Time flying by

This last Thursday my baby cousin, Sydney Paige, graduated from 8th grade. So I guess that means she's not much of a baby anymore, more like a young woman. It's just weird to think about that seven years ago I was just graduating from 8th grade and she was only seven. It makes me feel old and like time is going by faster than ever.
First I was the only child in the whole family, and then Sydney's older sister, Shelby, came into the world five years later and I finally got have someone in the family look up to me. Then two years later, Sydney came along, adding just a bit more love and craziness to the picture. Finally two years after that my younger brother Zach closed out the final four. Ever since the four of us have been pretty inseparable, more like brother and sisters than cousins, and time and life has seemed to be moving in fast forward.
Milestone after milestone I felt so amazed at how much each of them and myself were growing up right before my eyes. And all I keep thinking is how much more growing up we all have to do and it both excites me and scares me. Just in the next five years Shelby and Sydney will have graduated high school and entering college, Zach will almost be out of high school, and I will have graduated university. And with those milestones in just the short amount of time comes twenty birthdays, including two sweet sixteen's, three first cars, three first jobs, one first girlfriend, one first dance, three first dates, four graduation parties, three first jobs and countless numbers of sporting events, etc.
So since time can still not be stopped all I can do is take it all in stride and not take one moment for granted. Because, through thick and thin, and milestone after milestone, the four of us will still remain the four closest cousins anyone will ever meet; always there for each other. No matter what.