Seven Year Itch

Nick and I just celebrated our seven year anniversary. Nick's Aunt watched Shasta and Shelby so we could do sealings at the Temple (like we do every year) and go to lunch. It was nice to have a date just the two of us, especially since we experienced so much stress the last couple of months. This was the 8th time we've done Temple sealings on or around May 20th. I love our tradition! I wish we would have taken a picture in front of the temple every year to see how much we've changed. Oh well. Maybe we'll start next year.

Some say that seven years of marriage brings on a seven year itch. To help keep our marriage alive we came up with a list of things we want to do together. It's a life-long list so some of the things we can't do for years to come, but as we check things off we'll add pictures and stories. It should be fun!

1. Tour Nick's mission
2. Go on a cruise
3. Build a cabin
4. Go skinny dipping
5. Visit Nauvoo again
6. Participate in The Nauvoo Pageant
7. Do a session in every temple in Utah (St. George, Monticello, Vernal, Manti, Payson, Provo, Provo City Center, Mt. Timpanogos, Draper, South Jordan, Oquirrh Mountain, Salt Lake, Bountiful, Ogden, Brigham City, Logan)
8. Write a children's book together
9. Go to a live recording of The Big Bang Theory
10. Graduate from college

    

    One down, one to go

11. Attend a Devil's hockey game
12. Build a sandcastle
13. Swim by a waterfall
14. Spend Christmas in our no longer pretend cabin
15. Attend a baseball game at Fenway Park
16. Attend a baseball game at Rigley Field
17. Audition for a role in a community play
18. Sing "Must Have Done Something Right" in a talent show
19. Make a vacation t-shirt quilt
20. Beat Mario Bros 3 on old school Nintendo without warping
21. Read the Children of the Promise series
22. Attend a Relay For Life event and stay from start to finish
23. Drive cross country in a RV
24. Go to a Buffalo Bills football game
25. See Jim Gaffigan live
26. Visit San Diego Zoo
27. Shake hands with the Prophet
28. Become millionaires
29. Make ice cream sculptures
30. Attend the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City and speak Old English the whole time
31. Keep playing Killer Bunnies until we've gone through the entire deck of cards
32. Take a Sign Language class
33. Take a Volleyball class
34. Dress up and go to dinner
35. Write and send a fan letter
36. Have a home in Parade of Homes
37. Attend Wicked
38. See a show on Broadway
39. Attend at least one high school reunion
40. Ride on a train
41. Go ice skating
42. Go to White Pine Lake (arguably one of the most beautiful hikes in Utah)
43. Buy a Kitchen Aide
44. Serve a mission
45. Go to a Bees game
46. Put flowers on President Hinckley's grave
47. Learn the history of Elizabeth Rogers (Who Shasta was named after)
48. Learn the history of Eliza Abigail Hendricks (Who Shelby was named after)
49. Pan for gold
50. Become a True Aggie
51. Ride an elephant
52. Attend a World Series game
53. Go to a Super Bowl
54. Clean the sink at Angie's
55. Find out what's eating Gilbert Grape
56. Go camping in our own backyard
57. Host a Murder Mystery dinner party
58. Submit a screenplay to Hollywood
59. Eat something exotic
60. Watch Star Wars without falling asleep (eh hem, Sara!)
61. Go to the circus 

    

    Completed 9/27/13. Read about it here!

62. Go to an Imagine Dragons concert
63. Flip a house
64. Take piano lessons
65. Support a charitable cause
66. Buy a car with doors that slide instead of hinge
67. Go to a drive-in movie
68. Become debt free and celebrate with Dave Ramsey
69. Take a ride in a submarine
70. Become grandparents
71. Volunteer in a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving
72. Participate in a bowling Tournament
73. Enter something into the County Fair
74. Go horseback riding
75. Make a Christmas Village out of Legos