Revisiting my Bucket List from 5 years ago!

I'm working on my "30 before 30" list. I turn 29 in a few weeks, meaning I've only got about 55 more weeks of living out my 20's. I'll share my "30 before 30" list closer to my birthday, but I thought I'd take this time to reflect on a Bucket List post I made in 2012.

Let's see what I've checked off that list in the past 5 years:

1. Own a horse I was blessed to have 2! Hoping to own one again someday
   
2. Visit my homeland: Ireland
3. Play a different board game every day for a month
4. Wear my mom's wedding dress (in some form) and my grandma's wedding band at my wedding  This was pretty cool to check off. I DID wear a dress that was combined with my mom's wedding gown, and my wedding band was my grandmother's wedding band.
5. Show one of my dogs in an AKC competition
6. Have an herb garden  And I have kept most of them alive!
   
7. Learn how to cook with fresh herbs  Totally love doing this with herbs from my own garden!
8. Take a hot air balloon ride
9. Go scuba diving
10. Ride horseback in the ocean   Did this on my honeymoon, bareback in St. Lucia! #thedream
    
11. Search for buried treasure
12. See the sunrise and the sunset on the same day
13. Be debt free for the rest of my life
14. Speak to students about Truth  I've had the opportunity to talk to students and athletes
15. Come out with my own music album
16. Swim with dolphins  Another epic memory from my honeymoon! Swam WITH dolphins on an Island near St. Maarten's
    
17. Hold a lion cub
18. Ride an elephant
19. Rescue a greyhound
20. Do all the crafts on my DIY craft board on pinterest
21. Learn to think before I speak  Still a work in progress, but becoming a therapist helped with this a lot
22. Be in a movie  I've been in a few commercials, so I'll count that!
    
23. Start an orphanage somehwere its needed, and run it
24. Adopt a few kids
25. Make my own wedding veil  Made from my mom's wedding veil! (I didn't make it myself...but I made a veil for my bridal photos)
26. Have a 50th wedding anniversary
27. Take a gondola ride in Italy along the canals
28. Go to the Ellen DeGeneres show
29. Visit England and wear a fancy hat somewhere it would be appropriate
30. Enter a ballroom dance competition
31. Run a 10K  The Chicago 10k! Well, almost...I was registered, and got the date wrong, so I did it with a friend the day before....by ourselves haha. Still got the t-shirt!
32. Grow flowers
33. Help my Dad buy a boat
34. Own a condo where all my family can vacation together  Vacation rental in Hendersonville, NC!
35. See all my kids graduate and get married
36. Visit my cousins in Africa and help them do missions where my Dad grew up
37. Live in Europe
38. Have a library room in my house
39. Write and have a book published
40. Have lunch with Francine Rivers
41. Grow my hair out to my lower ribs
42. Be in Times Square for New Years
43. Go on a Disney Cruise
44. Speak Spanish fluently
45. Share Jesus with a stranger
46. Learn to decorate cakes professionally
47. Eat all natural foods and cook from scratch Proud to do this regularly now!
48. Own a car younger than me  A huge personal accomplishment for me.
49. Be on a TV show like Wipeout, Survivor, or the Amazing Race
50. Feel confident in a bikini  Praise God for healthy body image!
51. Learn to play the guitar
52. Live on a self-sufficient farm with goats and chickens and horses
53. Throw an epic themed party (maybe a reunion, or a reception)
54. Travel travel travel: Greece, Italy, Spain, Tailand, Africa, Norway, Ireland, Hungary, Hawaii
55. Raise my kids along with my brother and sister-in-law

Some of these items aren't priorities for me currently. But still some exciting ideas I think I'd be proud to check off my list one day. 15 out of 55. Not too bad.  And they were some pretty big ones!

What have you checked off your bucket list lately?