The Last Two Years

When I started this adventure, I set a reminder to go off on the last day of each month, so I would remember to blog about what I've been doing. That didn't work very well - blogging here became a low priority with business school, internship, and work. I don't know if anyone has alerts set up for this blog, but if so, you will likely be the only ones that see this update. :) Either way, here are the goals I've completed in the last...ahem...little while.

4. Travel to at least one LDS church history site.
We went to Nauvoo and Carthage last year for the Nauvoo Pageant. It was awesome.

5. Visit another country.
Last summer, the whole Buchanan Clan visited Mexico for a family reunion. It was probably the best vacation ever. 

6. Visit three new states. [3/3] 
As I mentioned, we went to Nauvoo - we also visited Chicago (although I've been to both those states, my family hadn't. But, on the way out we drove through Colorado (new to me), Nebraska, and Iowa. In going to Illinois, we traveled through Wisconsin (new to me), and for work I traveled to Indiana (new) for training. Not to mention moving to Minnesota - which brings the new state total to 4! (And 6 for Kristen!)

17. Graduate from business school.
18. Get a good internship.
19. Get a good job post graduate school.
I'm going to group these three together. Business school was amazing - I made so many close friends, and I will never forget the amazing experiences I had there. Last summer I was lucky to intern with Cummins Power Generation, and was given a full-time offer there after school. I am currently in month 3 of working full-time out here in Minnesota. Life is good.

32. Go a month with no soda.
I did this when I was trying to be healthy, exercising and losing weight. I need to get on that again...

36. Have another baby.
About three weeks after graduation, we welcomed Felicity Rose into the world. She is a sweet little angel, and we love her so much.

39. Eat at the dining room table 3 times a week for a month.
This has now become a habit - we always eat at the dining room table. It helps that we were given a significantly bigger one when we moved.

41. Dress up with my wife and little girl for Halloween again.
42. Get our Halloween pumpkins from a pumpkin patch.
I was Flynn Rider again, while Scarlett was Rapunzel and Kristen was Mother Gothel. We were adorable.

51. Learn how to program Excel macros.
I took a VBA class in school - I'm basically a genius at programming Excel now.

53. Make a pie from scratch (that doesn’t end up with the pie plate shattered all over the kitchen).
Oh man, I did this more than once - Thanksgiving and at Christmas. And they were the most delicious pies you've ever had.

73. Act in a play after grad school is over.
Technically it was before I graduated - Kristen and I performed in A Christmas Carol one last time before moving to Minnesota. So much fun.

77. Go to a professional sports game.
Last summer, all of the interns went to a Minnesota Twins baseball game. We won - boo ya!

92. Have a Passover dinner.
It wasn't super traditional, but we had lamb... :)

99. Make homemade ice cream.
Kristen's been homemade ice cream-ing up a storm lately. Technically I didn't do it, but my main goal was that "we" made it, so it counts. 

101. Buy a crossover/second vehicle.
I bought a 1995 Ford Mustang for $1800. Unfortunately, the brakes just gave out and the mechanic wanted $1400 to fix them. Fortunately, a co-worker works on cars and said it's not as bad as that guy said, and he'll only charge me a couple hundred to do it. Yay!