And these kids continue to grow!

I think we often take for granted how wonderful it is for Alyssa to grow up in the same community that Brian and I did. Most of Alyssa's friends are kids that she has gone to school with since she was 3 years old. She has know these kids longer than she hasn't! One of her best friends is the daughter of someone that Brian and I went to school with. In fact, Brian was even on her t-ball team growing up.

The point of all of this? Alyssa and her friend Lauryn have grown up together and these two crack me up!

This morning they decided to wear matching t-shirts to school. They decided this before they left school on Friday. The morning started with Lauryn's Mom and I texting back and forth since the girls wanted to make sure that the outfits matched just right. They are too funny! I had Sara (Lauryn's Mom) take a picture of them at school (she is a teacher there). I am shocked at how big they look. I had to go back and look at some pictures of them through the years and it kind of makes me sappy.

Here they are this morning:

The first day of 2nd Grade in August 2010:

The first day of kindergarten:

Preschool gymnastics (please note Alyssa's I love New Kids on the Block shirt, lol):

What do these kids think they are doing growing up????

What do you want to do before you die?

Have you ever thought of making a bucket list? Well I started with 50. I wonder if I will ever come close to marking all of these off my list.

1. Visit Washington DC and visit the museums and monuments
2. Learn to wakeboard
3. Grow a successful garden
4. Fly in first class
5. Have a food fight
6. Visit New York City at Christmas time
7. Send a message in a bottle
8. See the real Terra Cotta Warriors in China
9. Mail a secret to Post Secret
10. Volunteer in a soup kitchen on Christmas eve
11. Finish my nursing degree
12. Run a half marathon
13. Attend Mardi Gra
14. Learn to sew something other than things with straight lines
15. Take an RV trip across the United States
16. Have boudoir photos taken
17. Take my girls to Disney World!
18. Learn to snowboard
19. Pay for a strangers groceries
20. Have a bonfire on the beach
21. Protest something
22. Skinny dip
23. Visit all 50 states
24. Take a ballroom dance class
25. Learn sign language
26. Have a snow ball fight
27. Make a quilt
28. Take 1 picture a day of each of my girls for one year
29. Walk on a warm beach at sunset
30. Learn to fold origami
31. Compile my family tree
32. Go fishing
33. Play in the rain
34. Take a cooking class
35. Sew my own curtains
36. See a Banksy piece in person
37. See the Grand Canyon
38. Ride every ride at Disneyland
39. Should I have another child, try unmedicated childbirth
40. Visit Mount Rushmore
41. Learn more about wine
42. Attend a luau
43. Ride in a horse-drawn carriage
44. Travel somewhere by train
45. Own a horse
46. Walk the Susan G. Komen 3 day walk
47. Visit the USS Arizona Memorial
48. Have grandchildren
49. Zip-line
50. Be a tourist in San Francisco

If you have a bucket list I would love to see it. Post the link!

Haaaaa, ha, ha!