Well, I’ve been working on our life list with Chris since this post back in September. Haha. I guess you could say it has taken us a little while to finish it. I was recently inspired to finish it by a post from, you guessed it, Kelle Hampton, called New. It’s absolutely beautiful and such an inspirational post. She challenged everyone to share 5 things from their bucket lists and everyone’s responses were so awesome! I got some great ideas from the comments on her post to add to our list. And I absolutely loved this outpouring from her heart:
“But I think just by wanting to be more subtracts the “enough” from “good enough” and what you are left with is good. We are good moms and wives and daughters and friends because we recognize our faults, embrace our imperfections, create meaningful challenges and weave them all together in some brilliant tapestry of wanting to be better, to be more. That, in itself, makes us pretty damn good.”Powerful.
Chris and I both want to be more this year, be good. We might not be good “enough”, but we’ll be good. 
We hope to be able to cross a few things off of our life list this year. It’s going to take some time (a lifetime!) to get to all of them, but we’re going to have a blast checking them off one by one! Without further adieu, here are some of the top picks from our life list:
1. Take driving tours along both coasts
2. Take a road trip across the US
3. Stay in the ICEHOTEL
4. Set foot in all 50 states
5. Participate in a flash mob (Love this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo)
6. Attend a TED conference
7. Participate in a giant food fight
8. Dinner at the French Laundry
9. Live in another country for a year
10. Visit Monaco
11. See Aurora Borealis
12. Stay on a Caribbean island
13. Stand atop the Great Wall of China
14. Visit Cape Cod
15. Fly Virgin Atlantic and sleep in a horizontal bed while flying across the Atlantic
16. Eat lunch at a Parisian cafe
17. Become parents
18. Visit New England in the fall
19. Visit all of the Hard Rock cafes
20. Visit Ireland & Scotland
21. Visit Australia & New Zealand
22. Go camping on a beach and/or in the mountains
23. Spend Christmas with our families in a cabin in the mountains
24. See the fountain show in Dubai
25. Go on a random road trip by taking directions out of options from a hat or only turning a certain direction
26. Go to a drive-in movie
27. Ski (or, tube in my case ) in Park City, Utah
28. Go skydiving
29. 4th of July in Boston
30. Spend a day at Isle of Capri (inspired by all of Kelle Hampton’s Isle of Capri posts!)
31. Go to a taping of the Today Show
32. Figure out how to make a living doing what we love and being able to work from home and/or owning our own business
33. Surprise our future kids with a trip to Disney World
34. Live in California
35. See all the Cirque du Soleil shows
36. Visit Hawaii. Stay in a hotel close enough to the ocean to hear the waves crash.
37. See the wild horses on Chincoteague Island
38. See Wicked
39. See Coldplay in concert
40. Complete a 365 day photo challenge and blog about it
41. Visit Seattle
42. See Radiohead in concert
43. Visit every SEC stadium
44. See Mumford & Sons in concert
45. NYC at Christmastime and go to Serendipity
46. Visit a guitar manufacturer (PRS, Gibson)
47. Tour Hearst Castle
48. Stay in a Waldorf Astoria
49. Ride in a hot air balloon
50. Visit Yellowstone Park
As you can see, we have a lot of travelling to do! Which is good because we <3 to travel!
We encourage you to make a life list if you haven’t already done so. Get out there and live your life to the fullest. Explore God’s beautiful creation. Meet new people. Enjoy new places. Experience new cultures. Make your list now! Seriously, do it.
We hope you were inspired by some of our items. We can’t wait to hear about some of yours!
Please leave us a comment and let us know what some of your life list items are!
~ Chris and Jess
What a great list! Maybe Brandon and I should start working on one, since these types of lists to do take a while. I also want to go to a taping of the Today Show! It is a must-see! And if you ever make it to the Great Wall of China, it is breathtaking!!! I was there in college and there is nothing like it.
Thanks! Yeah, you should totally come up with a list! We have 100 items on ours. Some of the items we’ve already checked off but we still have quite a few to do!
The Today Show is definitely a must-see! I’ve always loved it. Oh wow! I can’t believe you’ve been to the Great Wall of China! That’s amazing! 