Bucket List Update… Only 3.5 more years to go!

It seems like yesterday that my twenty year old self sat on a twin sized bed in the shared room at the sorority house with the idea of making a "before thirty bucket list". Even on that day, with my limited travels & living in a tiny town in South Alabama, I knew that my twenties were meant for adventure. I remember using my roommate as a sounding board & coming up with ideas that although they weren't completely impossible, they seemed far fetched & like nice dreams to have for the new decade of my life. I never imagined that I would have this many crossed off by 26.

Looking at this list now, it's hard to believe that I didn't even know Shawn when I wrote it (I mean hello, FENWAY is on it!). It's almost as if he was written into before I had a clue. It's been a fun 6.5 years & I'm incredibly thankful to have found someone that loves adventure as much as I do! 

So here's the updated list. With a little more than 3 & 1/2 years left, I'm looking forward to making the rest of these happen!

• See Dolly Parton live.. preferably from the front row.

So it wasn't front row... but it was still DOLLY & it was still super 
close. Best 23rd birthday present in the world :) 10/5/2010

Climb a real mountain for a bird's eye view of God's beauty... but only a small one.

It wasn't a massive mountain... heck some wouldn't even consider 

it a mountain, but it counts to me! Great Hill Mountain where 

Shawn grew up. 6/20/2011

The first one may have been a mini-mountain, but the 
Appalachian Trail at Wesser Bald definitely counts!
11/25/12

Visit LA & New York.

The doorstep where Carrie Bradshaw lived in Sex & The City!!

The main thing I HAD to see :) 6/15/2011

At the top of the Empire State Building on my first NYC trip!

6/15/2011 

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of us. But I got to play 
tourist in LA while Shawn filmed an episode of Hart of Dixie 
with the lovely Kelleigh Bannen.
9/6/12

Take the London/Paris/Rome trip I've been planning since I was 17 (the next few go with this)...

Drink champagne under the Eiffel Tower at night.

Visit the Louvre.

Ride the London Eye (the really big ferris wheel).

See Michaelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel with my own eyes.

Take a picture on the Sydney Harbor bridge in Australia.

Go to the NASCAR race in Daytona, Charlotte, & Bristol. One of which MUST be a night race.

That one time we were on our way back from a gig in DC & the interstate
split left to head to Charlotte & I wouldn't shut up about my bucket list…
So we spontaneously took the split & got there just as the green flag dropped!
5/26/13

Kiss in the rain (come on, every girl wants to once in her life).

oh Wisconsin. What a fun & memorable night of 
great music, & even better friends. 6/26/10

• Go to Fan Fair/CMAfest.

No one better than my best friend Laura to cross this one off with. Nosebleed

seats for Jamey Johnson (below), Martina, Lee Ann Womack & THE JUDDS!

June 2009

• Learn to cook at least one dish really well.


• Go skinny dipping (let's face it, your body just won't be like this after kids).


• Attend a concert at the Ryman.

I can thank Shawn for helping me discover the Pixies.

We went to see them at the Ryman for his birthday in September 2010.

• See a musical on Broadway.

So it wasn't technically a "play". But it is a 
show in NYC. Rockette's at Radio City! 
11/28/2011

• Experience a ride along in a NASCAR car.


• Completely finish Mere Christianity & The Four Loves.


• Run a marathon... or maybe just a half marathon.


• Continue learning & practicing my Spanish until it's conversational at the very lest.


• Go to Austin for at least part of South by Southwest.

Well it wasn't SXSW, but the point was to 
make it to Austin. Even with a 101 degree 
fever, I LOVED it! 5/13/2011

The first time may not have been SXSW, but 
I finally made it last year! SO. MUCH. FUN.
3/15/13

• Go white water rafting.


• Take a canopy tour in Mexico (where you ride zip lines through the trees).





This one is kind of a stretch, but we've decided it counts! It wasn't Mexico,
but Costa Rica instead. And rather than zip lining through the canopy, it was 
a hike over hanging brings hundreds of feet in the air. BUT the point was to see 
the rainforest & that is what happened!
11/19/13


• Ride a mechanical bull (just once).


• Pay all my own bills with NO help from anyone.

• Send a stranger a message in a bottle.


• Finally make it to Chicago & go ice skating.


• Sponsor a child through Compassion International.

            His name is Kavila & he lives in Kenya. I love connecting our two worlds! Jan. 2012

• Be an extra in a major motion picture.

Although it hasn't been a major motion picture just yet, I think 

these count:

With Dax Shepard as an extra on the CMT Awards 

Red Carpet! 6/6/2012

I worked as an extra on the pilot episode of the 
ABC show Nashville

 3/22/2012

• Volunteer with the Nashville Rescue Mission.


• Go to a drive-in movie.


• Celebrate a birthday in Vegas.

Well it wasn't a birthday, but again the point was more to visit the city.

The Chandelier Bar in The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Vegas. 3/20/2012

The view of the Bellagio Fountains from our 67th floor balcony at the Cosmopolitan!

• Swim with Stingrays in the Cayman Islands.


• Make a nursing home friend & visit her regularly.


• Be 100% out of debt by the time I turn 30.


• Buy the '66 mustang & fix it up myself.


• Ride a motorcycle.


• Go to a game at Fenway Park.

FENWAY!!!!  Seriously one of my favorite days. I LOVED it!

6/19/2011