Krystal’s 50 Before 50 List
- Lose 20 lbs (Lost and gained twice over!)
- See a new country (Iceland and Spain Sept 5th, 2015)
- Volunteer with Habitat International
- Complete a large cross-stitch sampler (The Lady of the Flag)
- See the Inland Passage of Alaska
- Take each daughter on a weekend trip, just the two of us
- Clean out and organize the garage
- Plant a fruitful vegetable garden
- Finish a marathon (debating this one!)
- Take another cruise!
- Volunteer 40 hours a year
- Learn enough German to communicate with my penpal in her language
- Get scuba certified
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Learn how to make stained glass
- Write an ethical will for my children
- Join the Pilot Butte Century Club
- Live every day as if it were my last
- Harbin Ice Festival, China
- Visit three new continents (Europe)
- Get current on my scrapbooks
- Create and complete a travel journal
- Retire
- Take a transatlantic re-positioning cruise
- Drive the AlCan Highway to Alaska
- Attend the Ice Carving Festival in Fairbanks
- See at least 100 of the Thomas Dambo Trolls
Previous Accomplishments
- Go Skydiving (3/1/13 @ Skydive Hawaii)
- Pay off all credit/charge card debt 4/30/10
Plant a flower garden in the front corner of the fence-August 2010- Go to Hawaii (2/23 to 3/2/13)
- See the Grand Canyon (3/16/10)
- Get a manicure and pedicure. 5/4/10)
Put a permanent end to the baby making factory (4/23/10)Have children that sleep quietly on their own all night long!(Summer 2011)Have my will and testament ready for my familyAttend a Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010)- Climb Half Dome in Yosemite (August 24, 2016)
- Purchase property in Mexico
- Do everything in my power to help José get his visa (in progress since May 2010, approved 6/24/14)
- Hike the Camino de Santiago across Spain (March 2016-114km)
- Live overseas in Europe (for Sept ’15-June ’16)
Teach English overseas(Spain 2015-2016)- File bankruptcy….every woman’s dream, right? (filed Apr 2015)
- Visit Michaela in Bavaria, Germany
(December 27, 2016) Take the girls to Disneyworld(Mia in February 2022)Sleep in the Ice Hotel of Sweden(December 17, 2023)Sleep in 20 countries this decade (USA, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada)– only made it to 15 in my 40s
Do Not Want to Achieve now
- Visit every Hard Rock Cafe in the World (Barcelona, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Vienna, Prague, Lisbon)
- Educate Erika so she can successfully enter college and then vet school
- Get plastic surgery (tummy tuck a/o boob job)
- Learn enough Portuguese to get around in Brazil
- Get my teeth bleached white
- Build a deck on the back of the house and install a hot tub
- Build a she shed (aka woman cave) behind the house
- Get tattooed by a famous artist – too expensive
- Milford Sound, New Zealand by helicopter (thanks to the Biggest Loser for showing me this!)
- Get my CELTA certificate
Jose’s Bucket List
Attend an NFL game of the Dallas Cowboys playing on home field(November 3, 2025)Go to a “clothing optional” beach(October 31, 2025 in Maui)- Get in the car and drive across America without a plan
- Go to a swingers club (Club Sesso 3/29/13)
- Visit more European spas
Mia’s Bucket List
- Tattoo the United States on my arm and color it in as I visit each of the 50 states
- See a live whale in the ocean
- Pet a baby pig
- See the fireworks over the Eiffel Tower on New Year’s Eve
- Lick the wall of the Ice Hotel in Sweden
- Stand in two countries at the same time
- Use a bidet (9/11/15)
- Go to Jussie Smollett’s concert
- Jump off the diving board
- Do a real life soccer game
- Be a dog groomer
- Have a Collie
- Become a mom
Erika’s Bucket List
- Stand with my feet in two different countries
- Go to Chincoteague and watch the wild ponies cross the water
- Find legos on the beach in England
- Stay in the ice hotel in Sweden
- Travel to Germany (December 22-29, 2016)
- Ride horses on the beach
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