Today is my 35th Birthday! How did that happen? It was like yesterday I was 33 and the day before that I was 30 and the day before that I was 25…you get the point! I have been trying to figure out something to do for my birthday and I came up with nothing! Jesica from rUNladylike’s 32nd birthday was on April Fool’s Day and she did a post on 32 things for a 32 year old.
I thought I would sit down and write a bucket list because I have never done that before. I wanted to do a list of all different sorts of things. Not anyone subject. I started writing items down and thought I would never get to 35 things but sure enough I did!!
For my 35th birthday, I give you 35 things I want to do, races I want to race, and places I want to travel! No specific order but some of these things will be done this year!!
1. Get a new career
2. Go to pastry school
3. Buy a tri bike
4. Come up with a great idea and pitch it in the Shark Tank
5. Lake Placid Ironman
6. Move to Europe
7. Be a wife
8. Write a book
9. New York Marathon
10. Be a contestant on Price Is Right
11. 6 month trip to South America
12. 4 hour marathon
13. Spectate World Championship Ironman (Kona)
14. See The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
15. Do a 6-leg ultra relay
16. 5 more stamps in my passport before it expires (June 2017)
17. Camping in Montana
18. Take a letterpress class
19. Get my sister-in-law to name their first born Cooper(her maiden name)
20. White water raft through the Grand Canyon
21. Space Coast Marathon
22. Learn to surf in Costa Rica
23. Master a Wicked Good Cupcake
24. Learn to “can”–for salsa and pasta sauce
25. Be in Sydney Australia for New Years Eve
26. Learn to stand up paddle board
27. Bike around New Zealand
28. Participate in Maupin bike fest
29. Sub 2 hour 1/2 marathon
30. Go to summer Olympics
31. Get Dan to wear a pink shirt
32. Kayak with orcas in the San Juan Islands
33. Build and maintain a garden
34. Go to Albuquerque Balloon Festival
35. Take a road trip and hit up Yellowstone, Zion, and Yosemite
There you have it. 35 fun things to do and see!!
I leave you with the picture of the cake Dan made me. World’s Best Cake.
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It was delicious! Yellow cake, whipped cream, meringue, and almonds!!
What is on your bucket list??!!
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Happy birthday Leslie. I hope dan made it a wonderful day. Love, Laurie & Bruce.
Happy birthday and congrats on your amazing list. Being quite a bit older than you a lot has been ticked off my list. Run a marathon was last Dec. I don’t know how that got on there 🙂 Things left include an African safari and a trip to Antarctica.
Thanks!! Wow!! My friend just went on an African safari and loved it!! The trips will be much easier than the marathon!! 🙂
Happy happy birthday!!!!! I hope all your wishes come true, and that you are able to accomplish all of your 35 list. You bring joy and oodles of smiles to everyone you encounter, so I wish nothing but the same for you. Love ya!!!!!’
Thanks!! Yes the cake was definitely “probably” delicious!! xo
And oh yea, that cake was “probably delicious”.
WOW! That’s a long bucket list. I like #7, #19, and #31, I know you will accomplish anything you put your mind too! Happy birthday, baby girl!! That cake looks delicious! Yummy….
Happy birthday! Such a great list! I started working on a list like this after turning 32 in January. I think writing down our dreams and goals is the first step in making them a reality!
Thanks!! I absolutely agree Jamie!! 🙂
Happy, happy birthday Leslie! I love your list, especially the backpack through South America and move to Europe!
And I’m pushing my sister to name her boy (due in July) Kerr, our maiden name!
Thanks!!! Yes!! Kerr would be an awesome name but you don’t want to name your child that??!! 🙂
I absolutely LOVE your list!!! So many amazing things on there that I know you will accomplish. I love your dreams to go to pastry school and to be a contestant on the price is right. So fun! I hope you had an amazing birthday an that I’ll get to see you in 2014!!! xoxo
Yay!! Thanks! Thanks again for the idea!! We definitely need a reunion!! xo
HAPPY 35TH BIRTHDAY FRIEND! We’ll celebrate with a 20 miler on Sunday:) Sorry I am a day late, lots going on – you’ll hear all about it Sunday. LOVE the list, especially the move to Europe part. I made a similar list a few months ago. I’ll post it soon, I think we have some overlap!
Thanks!! Can’t wait for Sunday! 🙂
Happy birthday friend!!! Love your list, I should start working on mine for my 33rd in August :). XOXO!
Thanks!!!! Yes would love to see what is on your list!!! xo
Happy birthday Leslie!! I love the list…especially white water rafting in the Grand Canyon, learning to surf in Costa Rica and bicycling around New Zealand. I definitely want to do the New Zealand Ironman someday, which would definitely allow me to cycle part of New Zealand.
Thanks!!! I was in Taupo in 2012 a couple days before the Ironman and on my way to the south island by the time the race was happening but it would have been awesome to be there!! 🙂
Happy Birthday Big Sis!!! Hope you have the BEST YEAR EVER!!! Love the bucket list 🙂 I know you can do anything you set your mind to! However… totally not trying to dream crush… but the chances of #19 happening are pretty slim. tee hee. Love you!!! xoxo.
awesome, love this list!
also i have seen that cake recently, so jealous! YUM!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I guess it is trending that is how Dan saw it!! 🙂
Happy Happy Birthday!!! What a great Bday post! I love the 6 months in South Africa and going to pastry school 🙂
Having a kid and running an international marathon are on my bucket list!
Thanks!!! Which int’l marathon? I think London would be good. I’ve heard the Great Wall marathon is cool!
Awww, so fun! Hope you had a WONDERFUL birthday, Leslie! I turn 35 later this year, too, and we have so many of the same to-dos! Three musts off your list: take a letterpress class (so fun!), learn to surf in Costa Rica (best vacation of my life! Surfing is way harder than it looks!) and SUP! You’ve inspired me to write my own list of 35 🙂
Yes! You were the one to inspire me to take the letterpress class(I am still looking for one) and I have never tried to surf because I thought it would be too hard!! 🙂
Can’t wait to see your list!!!
Can I please be a part of #11??? LOVE this list…#getitgirl and make it happen!
Hells YEAH! I am going to try!!! 🙂
Happy Birthday, Leslie! Now THAT is a bucket list. If you come up with a product for Shark Tank, I will buy it. 🙂 Also, I have heard amazing things about Maupin Bike Fest – that is so cool that it made your list! My bucket list seems like a mile long but at the top of the list is complete an Ironman, go to Disney World, qualify for Boston, and climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.
I would totally be doing Maupin this year but I am running Big Sur Marathon that weekend. Maybe next year!!
Those sound like great items for your list!! 🙂
This list is great!! I need to make one of my own!
Happy Birthday!
Great list! Love all the places you want to travel. 🙂 it is always exciting to visit other places in the world. Where in Erope would you want to live if you moved there?!
Happy 35th!
Count me in for #27!