40 for 40

I will be turning 40 this year!  40!   This is how I want to spend my year - celebrating the life that I've been given.  I could choose to sulk and complain about being 'old', but I think I will choose to be happy and enjoy the ride instead.  I've wasted too much time being sad!  Life is what we make of it, right?  God has blessed me in so many ways and I am grateful.  Let's celebrate (all year long)!! :) 

1. Walk another half marathon with my friends!
2. Participate in 4 5k's
3. Work on a Habitat for Humanity house
4. Serve lunch at a soup kitchen
5. Girls trip to the cabin
6. Ride my bicycle down a country road
7. Take a friend flying
8. Hang-glide!
9. Go to Disney World :)
10. Read a book on the beach - an entire book!
11. Hike some Tennessee trails
12. Write a letter to Andy for him to read when he is 40
13. Go canoeing 
14. 40 Random acts of kindness
15. Go to the symphony
16. Dance in the rain and jump in the puddles
17. Write the first chapter of my memoir for my grandchildren to have
18. Pack a lunch and go on a picnic
19. Go on an hot air ballon ride
20. Spend a night at a bed and breakfast
21. Camp at the pond at watch the stars
22. Go fishing
23. Make a quilt
24. Take a friend dancing
25. Blog about my 40th year once a week all year long
26. Keep a "Thankful Journal" counting my blessings all year long
27. Visit 4 museums 
28. Take the Behind the Scenes Tour of the Biltmore
29. Go to a concert
30. Fly a kite
31. Wade in the creek
32. Go ice skating
33. Make home-made ice cream and enjoy it with my friends
34. Pick strawberries
35. Go to a baseball game
36. Take a drive through the country with the windows down
37. Make a meal for a family in need
38. Make a picture book of my favorite places
39. Write a short story and self publish it
40. Document this "40 for 40" with a picture book!