The New List

I found this lovely new blog today. (new to me) And how wonderful it is that Melanie Jacobson is doing a giveaway! She wrote a book, The List. And she is giving a copy away. This giveaway caught my eye because it gave me something to think about.

MY BUCKET LIST.

I have one. It's located all the way at the bottom of the blog. Under all my posts. Maybe this is to keep it a secret, I don't really know. But she brought up that bucket lists don't have to be restricted to things you have to do before you die. That feels like such a long ways away and doesn't feel like I have to try to accomplish anything on it for a while. I need lists that I can see accomplishments. Accomplishments sooner than later.

So, I'm making a new one. (don't get me wrong, I'm not discarding the old one.) This one is:

Things To Do Before My Kids Graduate:

1. Go to Disney World; stay in a hotel in the resort
2. Finish a Triathalon
3. Buy a House
4. Take my kids to visit New Zealand
5. Have my own successful garden
6. Visit Europe
7. Camp EVERY summer
8. Snow shoe EVERY winter
9. Come up with a really spectacular idea
10. Build/create something with each kid
11. Family vacations EVERY year. (more than one)
    

I know that I have 20 years to accomplish this goal, but the last 6 years have gone by super quick. So, the next 20 will go by quickly as well I'm sure.

What would you do?

Deer 'N Moose 'N Bears OH MY!

Deer in the campsite.

Just in case you didn't know, deer can be vicious.

Moose out on Cameron Lake, right near the shoreline.


Bear:

on the trial up to Bear's Hump.

On the way into Waterton Park.




I love seeing all the wild life.

Except for the mosquito's. YUCK.

Back From the Great White North

Which isn't white at the moment.

AND I improved my tan while I was there.

Camping Trip with 6 month old, successful.

One of my favorite places in the world is Waterton, Alberta, Canada. We always camp. The little tourist town is so beautiful and quiet. AND you get views like this:



Swimming in glacier runoff water which makes it so you can barely breathe. Wild animals in your camp sites.

(this isn't our camper, I'm a tent kind of girl) The best ice-cream EVER.

Who wouldn't have fun doing all this?

I will post more pics when I get all the cameras organized and together.

Camping With Children

Has anyone out there gone on an extended camping trip with one or more babies under the age of one?

We are going camping with my little Sweet Pea and I just wanted to know if there was anything I NEEDED to know?

Or if there was anything I just SHOULD NOT forget?