30 Before 30

Both Dave and I turn 30 this year. Yikes.

Inspired by several other bloggers (Daffofil Designs, Making it Lovely, Stacie Edwards, Restored Style), I thought it would be a fun challenge if we each made a list of 30 things we want to complete before we turn thirty.

Not lifelong bucket list type of things but just small things we have always wanted to do and would never challenge ourselves to do or make time for otherwise.

Amy's List

1. Complete a sewing project
2. Learn how to do basic graphic design and programing for my blogs
3. Create and print a photo album from our wedding (only four years late)
4. Try CrossFit
5. Take a cake decorating class
6. Run in a race
7. Volunteer
8. Do a full moon hike/ski
9. Dress up and go on a date with Dave
10. Have a Mom/Daughter day
11. Own something from Tiffany's
12. Learn how to use the camera in manual mode
13. Read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
14. Attend a Pecha Kucha presentation
15. Participate in our Community Association
16. Host a dinner party
17. Throw Dave an amazing birthday party
18. Complete a painting
19. Attempt glacier travel
20. Make it to the top of one of the 11,000ers
21. Try meditation
22. Eat strictly paleo for 30 days
23. Buy bike and a) ride to work b) go on a road ride
24. Buy myself perfume
25. Visit a museum or gallery
26. Watch a foreign movie with subtitles
27. Go to a concert
28. Paint pottery
29. Build or refinish a piece of furniture
30. Go on a trip with my best friend Lana who turns 30 two weeks after me

David's List

1. Make sausage
2. Cure meat
3. Build a bar-b-que and/or smoker in the backyard
4. Finish the house 
5. Complete firearm handling course
6. Learn how to hunt
7. Learn how to skin and butcher an animal
8. Try yoga
9. Try meditation
10. Lead a 5.9 trad climbing route
11. Hike at least one portion of the Great Divide Trail
12. Complete/challenge the EMT license
13. Complete Advanced Life Support Instructor training
14. Go on a backcountry camping trip with just a tarp (no tent)
15. Go on a winter camping trip with Shane
16. Go on a ski tour trip with Shane and Dad
17. Go on a canoe trip
18. Make a fly for fly fishing
19. Summit a mountain with Dad
20. Print and frame one of our photos
21. Cook Amy an unforgettable meal
22. Make a piece of furniture
23. Enter a ski mountaineering race
24. Start an adventure blog of my own
25. Volunteer
26. Eat strictly paleo for 30 days
27. Complete in the Crossfit games
28. Learn how to wax and sharpen skis
29. Start a backyard bee hive
30. Build and use my own backcountry equipment

As Dave has the disadvantage of turning thirty 64 days earlier and some of his list specifically needs to be completed during the fall, we have agreed that my birthday in October is the deadline for both of us.

We both wanted to put 'donate blood' on our lists - which I have pathetically never done - but our trip to Nepal and India prevents us from doing it for one year which means we can not donate until 6 weeks past our deadline... assuming we do not travel to another malaria zone in the meantime.

Wish us luck!

Amy