Right after my 29th birthday I decided to set a few goals for myself for the year. I’ve got quite the list… and I’ve started on quite a few… and finished a couple! I’ll keep updating as the year goes by!
My 30 Before 30 list:
- Run another half marathon (bonus points if I beat my previous time: 2 hrs 9 min 10 seconds)- I’ve registered (and started training) for this! Dec 9th. 2013
- Start a vegetable garden
- Build my own built-in-closet (modeled after Sandra’s AWESOME closet)
- Book a trip to Europe with my husband (and maybe a few friends)
- Find a farmer’s market near my house to visit on a Saturday morning
- Finish my t-shirt quilt (2+years in the making)
Learn to cook 5 new mealsI learned AT LEAST this many during my two weeks of my Whole 30- Take my husband to visit my favorite city: Washington DC
- Go see Lion King (kind of cheating… I already have tickets to this… but it’s a show I’ve always wanted to see!)
- Pay off part of my company debt
- Finish another sprint triathlon (again… bonus points if I beat my previous time)
- Build a pergola in my back yard
Help my twin brother fix up his house (as payment for letting me use his pool whenever I want!)Blog posts coming next week on this!- Spend a Saturday without ever leaving the house… no projects, just laziness.
Take a weekend getaway to Beaver Creek. (I bought a couple of free nights at a silent auction… now we just have to use them)Check out our visit here.- Go Skiing with the church youth group… as an ‘adult’ sponsor.- I’m signed up and ready to go!
- Get new Christmas Stockings for my husband and I for our first Christmas as a married couple.
- Learn how to put crown molding up in
myour house - Give 10% to charity or the church for 2013
- Get my husband certified to Scuba Dive
- Finish changing my name to my married last name… who knew there were so many things to change!?– Just a few more to go! And seriously… American Airlines Miles Program needs more info than my credit card?!
- Organize the whole house- no seriously… every cupboard, closet, under every bed.
- Take a spa day with a friend
- Host a dinner party
- Make homemade ice cream
- Make a wedding book for each set of our parents and ourselves
- Save enough money to install double ovens in our kitchen
- Get to my ideal weight- Working on this…
- Get better at using my SLR Camera (kinda hard to measure… but maybe I’ll know it when I get there?)
- Throw a 30th Birthday Party for my twin brother and myself
Hi, I'm MJ! I'm a DIY kind of girl and this is where I share my projects. I'm taking you along for the ride as I learn how to do woodworking, sew, bake, and renovate! 
You go girl!!!! I’d love to help out with the spa day or Europe trip 🙂