Update on 50 in 2015

1) Get under pre-pregnancy weight (192...currently 212.8, that means I need to lose 20.8 lbs)
2) Finish reading the bible (so I can say I have read every book in the Bible)
3) Go to the zoo
4) Go to Boulder Ridge

5) Spend a night with James, away from Matthew (Any volunteers to baby-sit?)

6) Read 10 books for fun. So far I have read 8: Divergent, Insurgent, Alligance, Eragon, Eldest, Inheritance, Brisingr, This Present Darkness, The Circle Maker, and working on Every Bitter Thing is Sweet and Praying for Your Elephant.

7) Have a plan for when I will start nursing school back up. I talked with my school, and I will start back up this fall...if nothing gets in the way :-)

8) Have all 3 credit cards paid off
9) Be 100% caught up on behind bills from my knee/life.
10) Put downpayment on a cruise for March 2016 with my family (including my sisters, mom, and possibly others! <<

11) Pay off all of my medical bills from my Knee

12) Make a business plan for James...for his produce business.

13) Get Matthew into his own room. 

14) Organize our basement

15) Get the shelves hung up in our bathrooms

16) Get prices for re-doing our Kitchen and Living Room 

17) Organize our office

18) Clean up the garage

19) Work on keeping the house clean on a regular basis (I now have an actual chore list for the week, sadly, I am a terrible housekeeper, and my husband is just as messy)

20) Take Matthew to see a movie at the movie theater

21) Take Matthew swimming

22) Take a trip to Frankenmuth/Birch Run

23) Go camping at least one weekend.

24) Go to Catch Air with Matthew 

25) Have a thousand dollars in an emergency fund.

26) Have a month's worth of money in an emergency fund

27) Get pregnant with a healthy sticky baby OR have an appointment set up with Kwak-Kim
28) Go on 12 date nights with James  I have went on 2! This has went on the wayside, sadly.

29) Take a weekend trip to either Chicago or Washington DC

30) Purchase set of essential oils

31) Make a prayer picture book for Matthew.

32) Attend a small group on a regular basis.  I started to go to my women's small group on a regular weekly basis and then it ended for the summer. I am starting a prayer small group! I am a little anxious but excited about it. 

33) Blog at least 4x a month (that = 48 posts in 2015) So far I have posted 26 times in the past 4 months, and none of them were in the month of April.

34) Go out for a girl's night out.

35) Go to one of those canvas panting places.

36) Give up McDonald's for at least a month (though I would be okay with water, ice cream, and coffee from here ;-) haha)

37) Host 6 game nights with friends and/or family.

38) Have family photos taken this summer or fall.

39) Look more closely at foster care classes and their guidelines

40) Fence in our backyard

41) Have 5 bonfires  1 - James, Matthew and I had one bonfire with just the three of us. 

42) Have a swing set or other play thing in the backyard for Matthew.

43) Run or walk a 5K

44) Order wedding photos (Finally!...we have been married for 5 years already...)

45) Go to a shooting range with James

46) Have the money for James to purchase the rifle he wants.

47) Tithe on a regular basis (feel like this should be closer to the top!)

48) Swimming lessons for Matthew

49) Build a cube organizer for Matthew's room

50) Organize all the closets (there are 4 in our house)

There are so many focused on finances and it makes me anxious being that our tax refund sucked and I go back to school this fall which means we will probably have tight budget again. Struggling most of the time pay check to pay check is exhausting, and it is no matter what I do. It sounds pathetic. I feel like at 27 years old I should have this figured out. I might add 25 more with hopes of hitting 50 in 2015.