My Bucket List

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -Helen Keller

Dana's Bucket List

1.) Go on a Long Term Mission Trip
2.) Be Completely Debt Free
3.) Drive on the Road to Hana (Maui)

4.) Own My Own Monogramming Business or Bakery
5.)  Have a really nice sewing machine
6.) Go to Japan

7.) Build Our Own House (that includes a giant bathroom & closet...I don't really care about anything else)
8.) Wear a size 6
9.) Visit Georgetown Cupcakes in D.C./Georgetown

10.) Be able to give away/tithe more than we live off of (PLEASE Read Crazy Love...so inspirational)


The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate; to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.) Bless a Stranger
12.) Run a 5K
13.) Direct a Wedding
14.) Donate to Locks of Love
15.) Go On A Carriage Ride With James

16.) Read through the ENTIRE Bible (without cheating through the OT lineage)
17.) Work at the Soup Kitchen on Thanksgiving/Christmas with my family
18.) Have a picture taken with Chris Tomlin (meet someone "famous" that I actually like)
19.) Catch a Foul Ball at a Turner Field

20.) Go on a Roadtrip Across America

21.) Ride in a Limo
22.) Go back to NYC (and actually get to see a Broadway Show)

23.) Be Voted Teacher of the Year
24.) Overcome My Fear Of Flying
25.) Take My Parents to the Grand Canyon or cruise with them to Alaska
26.) Go to Africa

27.) Adopt a child from Haiti/Africa (please, nobody go crazy over that...it's a bucket list, okay :-)

AHHH!!! Love this little girl!!! (& her sister)




28.) Have 1 carat diamond earrings (there's a little materialism coming out in me)

29.) Visit Charleston & Savannah

30.) Be completely "caught up" on scrap-booking
31. ) Go on a Gondola Ride Through Venice

32.) Tour the Ancient Roman Ruins
33.) Visit Jerusalem 
34.) Go to Australia
35.) Zipline (legitimately through some rain forest or over the ocean, not through a cow pasture)

36.) Go to Sandals for our anniversary 6.26

37.) Have a kid in the FFA
38.) Have a kid who is an "athletic superstar" (You can guess whose idea this is)
39.) Meet Jack Johnson (came really close on our honeymoon!)

40.) Do the Daniel fast

41.) Visit the Louvre

42.) Go Dancing with James (somewhere besides a wedding)
43.) Go to the UNICEF Snowflake Ball in NYC
44.) Swim with Dolphins
45.) Spend the night at the Georgia Aquarium

46.) Renew our vows
47.) Celebrate my parent's 50th wedding anniversary

48.) Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary
49.) Raise a happy and healthy child (no, not any time soon, people! I've got too much to cross off this list!)
50.) Spend two weeks straight at a beach


“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


51.) See a Cirque de Solei show
52.) Go to the Kentucky Derby & Wear One of Those Fancy-Smancy Hats

53.) Sing a duet with James @ Church & Rock It for Jesus!!!!
54.) Go to the World Series (to cheer on the BRAVES, of course!)
55.) Ice-skate at Rockefellar Center @ Christmastime 

56.) Go with my mama on a mission trip (hint, hint)
57.) Do one of those photo-a-day for a year things
58.) Complete grad school and get a pay raise
59.) Have a grown student come back to me and tell me what a difference I made in his/her life
60.) Save $1000 and spend it all on a shopping spree for myself (without feeling really guilty like I always do when I shop)
61.) Save $1000 and spend it all on OTHER PEOPLE
62.) Live somewhere besides Toccoa
63.) Become fluent in another language....be it Kreyole, Spanish, Japanese, whatever....
64.) Own several pair of TOMS & do "One Day Without Shoes" ( couldn't do it this year or last b/c of being in school that day)

65.) Buy James a new guitar as a complete SUPRISE!
66.) Have my own signature recipe for something
67.) Read David Platt's new book "Radical Together"
68.) Finally get Hercules, the chocolate lab puppy with gorgeous blue eyes

69.) Do something radical for Jesus
70.) Takes James to the Georgia National Fair in Perry

71.) Pay for the meal of the person behind me in the drive-thru 
72.) Make 500 dresses for Little Dresses for Africa/Haiti
73.) Go without Diet Coke (or any carbonated beverage) for an entire week
74.) Make a really cute cake
75.) Go a week without a computer or cell phone
76.) Complete a Beth Moore Bible study
77.) Memorize a Bible verse a month, at least
78.) Attend Passion 2012
79.) Try 5 New Foods (0/5)
80.) Drink only water for an entire week
81.) Go to Secret Church
82.) Purchase a cute little stamp with our monogram and address on it

Kind of like this

83.) Find someone from my past and apologize

84.) Plant a tree each year we are married

85.) Wash someone's feet (I soooo wish we had done this at our wedding!)

86.) Become an expert on one book of the Bible

87.) Be completely organized in my tools & resources for school

88.) Experience a miracle

89.) Fast for an extended period of time

90.) Buy five outfits from J. Crew

91.) Cut my hair and like it

92.) Find a really good hair stylist & stay "faithful"

93.) Win something on 104.7 THE FISH

94.) Convince James that wrestling is fake

95.) Help James decorate his own classroom

96.) Make a Daily Quiet Time a Top Priority

97.) Win Free Chick-Fil-A for a Year (again!)

98.) See lost family/friends come to know Jesus (HE knows who they are!)99.) Adopt a World Vision Child

100.) Blog my way through this list!

“Life is too short to let it pass you by. We only have one shot at this and then it's gone.”

Alaska or Grand Canyon?

2 Timothy 4:7-8 (NIV) 
⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. ⁸ Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day--and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

"If you're bored with life - or you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enoug