Summer Challenges

Here's a few challenges from friends, family, and me that I want to try this summer and a little into the fall. Or at least try to try! Matt is starting his rotations and two in a row will be rural so for 12 weeks he will be living away from me. These challenges will keep me busy and branching out and hopefully happy while I'm a lonely person living alone for 3 months. Here's the challenges I've been given, a lot from myself:

• Go vampire hunting DONE! You can view the blog here. 
• Try GeoCaching
• Bake a fruit pie This was a lame idea, I don't even like fruit pie! Not sure what I was thinking! HaHa
• Make everyone's homemade Christmas gifts DONE! You can't see the gifts, yet, but I talk about the process here.
• Go to Pagosa Springs and see Mesa Verde National Park and the Hot Springs Instead we adopted a dog, Miles, and we don't have the money for me to go visit, as much as I would want to. 
• Go to the Denver Aquarium
• Ride in a hot air balloon (this is a long shot) Not this summer...
• Little Man Ice Cream
• Go to the mountains
• Trip to Texas Yep! I went and made a Smashbook about my experience 
• Create my own mug dessert 
• Post a Star Wars blog
• Beat Lego Harry Potter 2
• Sew a skirt from a pattern 
• Read a fiction book I finished the first 3 mortal instruments books. 
• Read a church book
• Read a nonfiction book 
• Try a restaurant I've never been to before HuHut, Mimi's Cafe
• Paint a picture 
• Go on a hike
• Pet an alligator This would have happened on my way to Pagosa Springs which was canceled because I'm poor! 
• Go to a sports event Done! I went to a baseball game in Texas and a lacrosse game here in Denver
• Write characters at Disneyland and see if they'll really send an autograph back
• Actually start writing my book
• Make a bird feeder for my balcony
• Volunteer 
• Let the waiter pick my entire meal
• Make a new friend A super fun girl moved in next to my building! 
• Hand write letters to a bunch of relatives
• Lose 25 pounds by my birthday / stick to a workout routine I set up a workout routine and started it, view it here.  I suck at this stuff... 
• Learn to bake popovers 
• Harry Potter movie marathon
• Bake a lasagna
• Do a science experiment 
• Sew headbands
• Test out Dr. Who and see if I'm a fan or not I watched all of the season with the 9th Doctor this week (May 20) and I'm already pretty much hooked. So GOOD!! (August) I'm totally addicted and love it! 
• Go meatless for 5 days
• Read a comic book
• Take the math assessment test at CCA I'm enrolled in a math class now in school. 
• Post the story of how Matt and I met for Jessica, I owe her :) I wrote this blog already here
• Go fishing This is based on someone else taking me and teaching me. I had someone in mind but I'm not sure anymore.