We recently made a bucket list of things we can do together as a family this winter in hopes that it would keep us active during these cold winter months. Plus my kids seem to be growing up at an incredible rate so I don’t want to miss experiencing anything with them while they’re still little.
Rather than writing it out on a piece of paper, We have a real bucket and everything listed out on clothespins. Having it be more tangible seems to make it more fun! It’s exciting for the kids to actually drop them in the bucket when they’re finished. I first saw this idea over at Delia Creates.
WINTER BUCKET LIST – To fulfill before winters end 2012
1. Play Broom Hockey – Play hockey on a lake or pond using brooms for hockey sticks and a tennis ball for a puck.
2. Build A Quinzee
3. Go snowboarding – preferably enough times to generate a goggle tan.
4. Make A Backyard Snow Slide – I know we could incorporate the stairs off the deck in some way.
5. Go Cross Country Skiing
6. Build A Snow Obstacle Course
7. Go Tobogganing
8. Go Dog Sledding
9. Go On A Sleigh Ride
10. Play Snow Golf
We’ll post about our winter adventures as we drop each one in the bucket!
Doing this together actually made me think about my own personal bucket list. I’ve never actually sat down and taken the time to write one up. Which is surprising because I’m a list maker for sure.
My Bucket List - Top 15
1. Drive an electric blue VW van along the coast from Canada to San Diego with my bike and camping essentials. And yes it has to be electric blue.
2. Perfect this pose…or how bout get somewhere close to it.
3. Learn to skate ski with one of those cool guns on my back so I can do a biathlon. Learning to shoot straight would be a plus too.
4. Run the Ragnar with a van full of my favorite peeps.
6. Shear a sheep’s wool and knit something fab out of it.
7. Drive up to Alaska and stay for a month. This time driving a truck like this…
8. Go to the airport with my backpack and take the first flight my finger lands on.
9. Snowboard, mountain bike and wakeboard all on the same weekend. Like this…
10. Do a home exchange for a week or two like this in New Zealand. Anyone want to visit Northern Utah? hehehe
11. Serve a religious mission in a foreign country.
12. Climb the Grand Teton
13. Go to a women’s surfing camp in Mexico
14. Complete a triathlon
15. Hike Into Havasu Falls
What’s on your bucket list? Share it with us!!!
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I can see you able to do all of the family ones and having a great time! Your personal ones sound pretty ambitious! But knowing you, you will manage most of them! You would look amazing as a blonde!
I get a kick out of the yoga pose you are trying to get close to doing. Ragnar is a relay run that a team does. Each runner does from 3 to 8 miles. The total distance is 200 miles for a team. You might want to search the internet for more details. I can barely run 2 miles even less. I would like to be able to run a 5K (3.1 miles), participate in a mini triathlon, a clean house and fix some good meals.
Good luck with your bucket list.
Tera
I love your bucket list idea and just might copy that for our family. It will really help me to love winter even more than I currently do (which is already a lot). Permission to write my own bucket list story for my own blog? I’m going to add you to my blog roll too because I think your blog is awesome.
Go for it Tanya! That’s exactly why I posted about it. Checked your site out and loved it! I’ll add you to our correlating material too! I’m sure we’ll cross paths on the internet more often
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Ah, your biathlon aspirations voiced earlier! It’s a great list. I’ve been part-way up Havasu Creek. I was on a private (i.e. affordable) Grand Canyon trip back in ’90 and we had a layover day at its confluence w/the Colorado. We had lots of dutch oven adventures on that trip and, when it was pointed out to one of the cooks that “each time you remove the lid, you lose 20 minutes of cooking time”, he began having visions of time travel ; )
I’m going to try to go sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking, cross-country and downhill skiing all in the same day here – OK, now I’ve got to make it happen! March would be good. Best of luck w/your list!
Oh Jon you just made me realize mistake #4 on my dutch oven disaster…lid removal. Crikey I took it off like 3 times! Best of luck to you in March! Sounds like an epic day in the making!
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Melanie here! I enjoyed this piece, please email me–I have a question about your blog. MelanieLBowen[at]gmail[dot]com
In one way or another, this is more inclined to what I also believe and practice.