This summer’s bucket list (REVISED)

I find it interesting that my blog post about my summer's bucket list has already shot to being my #1 read blog.  People seem to be very interested in other's summer plans, but I can't really blame them.  I like to know what people are doing too!

With that being said, due to an unforeseen circumstance, I had to revise ONE thing on my bucket list for this summer.  I guess I shouldn’t say “unforeseen” because this was very much planned.  Here’s the new list.

• Spend LOTS of time with friends and family that I haven’t gotten to spend quality time with at all in the past 5 years.
• Shop
• Get my hair cut and colored by Rachel 3 times.  (Rachel, expect me to be in your chair the first week I am home!)
• Take Abbie to the pool a few times, preferably with friends.
• Eat at a hibachi grill.
• Go boating with my family and introduce Abbie to the fun that can be had on the river.
• Shop
• Grow a baby. 
• Take a trip out to CO to see family and friends and to spend some time in the Rockies.
• Enhance my photography skills by taking pictures of friends’ families and animals and anything else they want me to shoot.
• Shop
• Learn how to use Photoshop and practice using the photos I take for my friends.
• Read a lot of books.
• Take violin lessons.
• Do a “mommy and me” class with Abbie.
• Shop
• Learn more quilting techniques from people who’ve been doing it for a long time.
• Go out to eat at least twice a week with friends. 
• Do a girls weekend, maybe to Chicago.
• Take Abbie to the zoo a few times - Madison, Lincoln Park, Omaha, etc.
• Shop
• Write to Mark at least 2 times a week.
• Take Abbie to story time at the local library weekly.
• Visit my friends in OK and maybe NM if I can make it that far.
• Watch TLC, HGTV, and The Food Network as much as possible.
• Potty-train Abbie.  (I’ll let her pee all over someone else’s house.  HAHA!  (Just kidding, mom…)
• Play my piano regularly.  (Need to remember to take my music back with me!)
• Shop
• Take some great photos of my hometown.  (Shouldn’t be hard.  It’s very picturesque!)
• Throw Abbie a huge 2nd birthday party.
• Keep in touch with my friends back in Italy and the ones that are going back to the States too.
• Shop
• Plan a fun vacation for when Mark returns.
• Spend a lot of time with my 95 year old grandma.
• Send care packages to my husband at least every other week.
• Buy a new suitcase to take all of my new clothes back with me.
• See an off-Broadway show, maybe in Chicago.
• Do day-trips with Abbie

Did you catch that?  If not, let Abbie help you out.


Yep, we're pregnant!  Baby #2 is due mid-December and I am 9 weeks along.  We are VERY excited!