#73- Do the Dishes First Thing Every Morning for 2 Weeks

For Honesty's sake, I didn't always do this first thing in the morning, but if not first thing, it was done after lunch. I figured I could count it because I did them every day, which is a feat for me. :)

#93- Go To Desert Star Theatre

My awesome sister gave Neil and I tickets to Desert Star last Christmas. We are huge slackers, but finally used them on November 19. We saw It's a Wonderful Life. It was hilarious!!!!!!! We both really enjoyed it and have even been throwing around the idea of getting season tickets.
Thanks for the Christmas present, Misty! :D

#80- Vacuum Once a Week for 2 Months

This goal was harder than I thought it would be because the floors have to be clean before they can be vacuumed! : ) I really enjoy having clean floors, it's nice to not have to fear for your feet when you're walking around barefoot. This is a goal that I plan on continuing even though it's checked off my list.

#95-Teach Somebody How to Sew

When Misty asked me to help her make Melia's Halloween costume again this year I couldn't say no. Last year's turned out amazing, so I knew this year's would be awesome.
Conveniently one of Misty's goals is to learn how to sew, so both of us were able to benefit from this.
Misty did an amazing job and the costume turned out so cute! My favorite part was at the end when Misty said she didn't want the costume to be finished because she wanted to sew more. :)

#28-Get the Girls Sleeping in Their Own Beds All Night

This goal has been done for a while, but I was afraid that if I blogged about it I would jinx myself and they would start coming into our bed again. :)
The girls are sleeping great in their own bed. On rare occasions we will get one of them in bed with us in the middle of the night, but not very often. It is so nice to have some room to sleep instead of praying you don't fall over the edge. :) I don't have a picture to accompany this post because I'm afraid that if I took a picture of them sleeping it would wake them up.

#4- Run a 5k

On August 6 my school held a 5k. As soon as I heard about it I was so excited that I would get to pass off another goal. I talked Neil and Misty into running with me. We had a lot of fun, even though they had to go pretty slow to wait for me. Neil pushed the girls all the way. Neil got 3rd place in his age group! We are running another one in a few weeks and I'm so excited!

#37-Take the Girls Horseback Riding

I believe it was July when we did this, but could be wrong.
We went down to the Durtschi's house in Ephraim to let the girls ride their horse. They absolutely LOVED it!

Here they are getting acquainted with the horse before they start riding.


Once the horse was saddled we asked Holly if she wanted to ride first. She was a little scared and said she didn't want to. When we asked Taylor if she wanted to ride she didn't even hesitate. She ran right over to get in the saddle. She had a blast and didn't want to get off. She got several turns because she was having so much fun.


After Holly saw how much fun it was for Taylor she was as timid. She also had a lot of fun riding.

I'm so glad that we have friends who have a horse and were willing to let us come visit and ride.