THE BAMBI BUCKET LIST

I loved the movie Bucket List. Has to be top TEN movies for sure. I had a bucket list wrote out with a few things checked off. I learned lately, much too late that I often stood on the sidelines and when I went to restaurants, always ordered the same stuff. Always was in the safe zone. With one of my most favorite songs by Rascal Flatts. When the sand runs out. This girl is gonna live and love with her whole heart. Do not want any regrets.


X Have children
X Going to a public event ie: movie by self
X Learn to ride a motorcycle
X Own a Harley
X Own a mustang GT
X Go to a hawaiian island
X Try swordfish
X Try lobster
X Try crablegs
X Get tattoo of daughters names
X Pay off a car and keep it for a year
X Own own house
X Eat Raw oyster--ate with Jeff in Omaha
Visit Australia
Go to big island Hawaii
Visit Maui
Visit Italy
Go to San Diego Zoo
X Go to PBR in Vegas-- Went 12/2014
Vist Napa Valley
Go On a Cruise
Jump from a airplane
X Run a half marathon-completed  5/6/12
X Karoeke- completed 12/6/2013
X Get a tattoo on my ribs/side Got on 12/3/2015
Get to goal weight
Visit Disney with kiddos
Go to Bahamas/Atlantis Resort
X Visit Vegas- Went 12/2014
Get front row tickets for a concert
Get birthmark taken off
Take a college course
Learn to swim
Learn to shoot a gun and hit the target
X Own my own handgun- Its shared but mine half 12/2015
Go hunting
Own a corvette
Marry my soulmate
Go fishing and bait the worm
XGet pink trees planted for my Grandma
Get matching tattoos with Laura & Grace
X Get matching tattoo with my bestie, Megan
X Get matching tattoos with Katelin
Ride in hot air balloon
Go to Hot air balloon festival in Mexico
Visit Napa
Visit Sonoma
Go to Belize
Kiss in front of the Eiffel Tower 
Take Salsa Dance Lessons
X Perfect a runza receipe
Perfect a cinnamon roll receipe
Win over 1000 at the casino
X Go see Jeff Dunham- Went winter 2014 with Zeb Kotil
X Plant own garden-- planted with Jeff Spring 2014
Get backstage at a concert
Go to Macy's Day parade
Visit Budweiser Plant
Try caviar
Make two new recipes each week for a month straight
X eat a mussel
Take cement staining class
Run 5 miles straight non stop
X Pay off credit cards to zero Did 2/2017
X get marilyn monroe beauty mark tattoo
eat tequila worm
have a house buildt
X pay for some random's person coffee- I paid $27 extra was Awesome!!!
own Charger SRT8 or old Charger
Visit every winery in Nebraska
X Be a relay for Life Captain- Event June 9th, 2012
XEarn 2500 for Relay for Life
X try saki
X try eel
perfect the bomb pop martini like Lazlos
X landscape a beautiful burm in my yard- Got first one down in 2014
Have a family planned
Go to a Pink Concert
Make sushi
Do Glow Run
X Do Run or Dye Run- completed with Megan Oquist
Ride an elephant
Go to NYC and see the 9/11 tribute
X See Garth Brooks in Concert- Completed 2016
Go to NYC on New Years Eve

Roller Coaster of Life

I do not like roller coasters very much. I went on the big roller coaster @ Worlds of Fun in Kansas City. THE MAMBA! SCARY! I do not like my stomach falling out and feeling like I'm going to throw up. I have still went on it three times. I think just to see if I can do it. I still will only go once and still don't like it. HA! So often I think of that roller coaster and how it ties in with peoples lives. Roller Coaster. Highs, lows, scary, fun.

I would say often before I had such a roller coaster of emotions, not that people usually knew that about me. I learned something about myself that I needed to achieve which most recently has occured. Just loving myself! Truely. People always told me you could not love someone else fully until you love yourself.

I always wanted things and I let other people shape how I thought sometimes stuff. I am now the person I have always wanted to be. A strong, carefree person who is honest and loyal and would do anything for anyone. I am not going to let anyone take any of that from me. That is now one of my strong points I beleive.

One of my favorite songs in the whole world is IF TODAY WAS YOUR LAST DAY BY NICKELBACK, these are the lyrics:

My best friend gave me the best advice
He said each day's a gift and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less traveled by
That first step you take is the longest stride

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had, if today was your last day?
What if, what if, if today was your last day?

Against the grain should be a way of life
What's worth the price is always worth the fight
Every second counts 'cause there's no second try
So live like you're never living twice
Don't take the free ride in your own life

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had?

And would you call those friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories?
Would you forgive your enemies?
And would you find that one you're dreaming of?
Swear up and down to God above
That you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day?

If today was your last day
Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who you are

So do whatever it takes
'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life
Let nothing stand in your way
'Cause the hands of time are never on your side

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had?

And would you call those friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories?
Would you forgive your enemies?
And would you find that one you're dreaming of
Swear up and down to God above
That you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day?

Life can be like a roller coaster...
And just when you think you've had enough,
and your ready to get off the ride and take the calm, easy merry-go round...
You change your mind, throw you hands in the air
and ride the roller coaster all over again.
That's exhilaration...that's living a bit on the edge...that's being ALIVE."
-Stacey Charter

Sunny Saturday

It has been raining seems like all week. My grass is growing taller by the minute. :-) I am thankful for the rain though because all of my flowers are getting watered and all my hostas are getting huge.
I can't wait to go to the zoo with the girls. They talk about that all the time. Which also leads down the path of what kind of zoo animal is mommy? Which is normally a monkey or zebra. Super funny. Laura & Grace always say they are monkeys or giraffes. They still remember going last year. They liked the penguins and the aquarium the best. I loved the gorillas. The girls were sorta timid around them because the big ape beat on the window and scared them to death.
Lets see of any updates in the DIVA household. We have two flower beds completed. Mulch done, new flowers are planted. A new bronze turtle joined the flower bed family in the back. Can't wait to get all the landscaping done finally. Love seeing all the flowers blooming, so does that girls. But they also like picking all the flowers. So work in progress. Look do not pick ALL of the flowers. Even at this young age of three they rattle off a bunch of people that would want flowers. Even Romeo the cat. How thoughtful. How loving. :-) My girls warm my heart. Love them and their innocent and loving hearts.
I painted my bedroom and found a new bedroom set. Looks so much bigger without the nightstands in the room. I do miss having one though. My phone now just lays on the floor. I am a OCD freak though about cleaning. So it's nice having everything tidy and in it's place. I'm now kinda searching for new bedding. Don't know what I will have. Right now I have diva girl bedding, Pink with lips all over it. LOL. I want something a little more modern like the bedroom set. Don't know what colors yet. Fun to decorate. Hince why HGTV has a special place in my heart.
The girls & I went summer clothes shopping. We got lots of new shorts and skirts and fun stuff like that. Next up will be swimming suit shopping and more flip flops. Just like their mama. Love their flip flops.
Next Projects up will be painting the living room/dining room area and changing the really really outdated curtains and finding a table and doing the decks. I love having projects. I don't know what I will do after my projects run out. Pry have to move. HAHA.
Well that is all I got for today! Have a sunshine filled SATURDAY!