100 Things in 2017--Update

Update:  We loved doing this list and looking at it throughout the year.  We love being able to look back at all the fun memories we've made as a family.  Some things on our list changed.  Some we took off of this year's list and put it on next year's list.  I think this is a family tradition that will continue. 

We love to do things as a family and have adventures.  I also love having a loose plan in place so that it's easier to have adventures and accomplish goals.  Our cousins have done a "100 Things challenge" each year and it's been fun to see what they've done.  It has seemed overwhelming to see 100 things on the list and so it's never even dawned on me that we should do it too until this year.  So we've taken inspiration from Becky and Ben and a website I follow:  funcheaporfree.com about planning your year in advance.

The list is subject to change, but these are the things that Tony and I hope to accomplish/experience in 2017 as a couple, family and individually in no particular order:

1.  Go on a couple's vacation (5/13-5/20)
2.  Renew passports (4/10/17)
3.  Refinish the deck  (8/17)
4.  Circumnavigate the Olympic Peninsula with camping trips.  (7/17)
5.  Go to a Lavender farm (7/17)
6.  Visit the Kalaloch tree cave (7/17)
7.  Visit Ruby Beach (7/17)
8.  Attend Deb's mission reunion (4/1)
9.  25 days of service in December (Light The World)
10.  Family hikes (Swamp Monster, Mormon Mesa, Calico Basin, Gene Coulon, Hoh Rain Forest, Tolt-MacDonald)
11.  Family bike rides (5/7, 6/18, Labor Day)
12.  Make Fast Sunday Sushi a tradition
13.  Max participate in school talent show (4/17)
14.  Celebrate Ryan's baptism (7/17)
15.  Paint master bedroom (5/17)
16.  Redo baseboards in bathrooms, master bedroom (4/17)
17.  120 Mile Bike Riding Summer
18.  Plant a garden in May (5/15--thanks to Grandma Kate)
19.  Go crabbing (7/17)
20.  Help kids clean/organize game closet a month 
21.  Go tubing (Jamaica 5/17)
22.  Finish drawer pulls in kitchen (12/17)
23.  Participate in a flag raising ceremony (7/17)
24.  Volunteer on the Day of Service (9/17)
25.  Complete the summer library reading program
26.  Try a new restaurant (12/17, Khan's Mongolian Grill)
27.  Go tide pooling on beach #4 (7/17)
28.  Design and build a new command center/organization shelf in utility room
29.  Play horse shoes (9/17)
30.  Visit a new country (Jamaica in May)
31.  Tacoma Day--Owen's beach, waterfront (Sunnyside in July, Owen's Beach in September)
32.  Attend the Ensign Symphony and Chorus (3/17)
33.  Father/Son Pinewood Derby project (3/17)
34.  Visit Leavenworth (July 7th Girls' Trip!)
35.  Donate to Healing Waters (12/17)
36.  Watch a parade (Snowflake Lane)
37.  Explore a new city (Poulsbo 8/17)
38.  Have a good manners/etiquette night
39.  Have a bad manners meal (Elf Night--burp contest)
40.  Go to a new amusement park (8/17--Wild Waves)
41.  Visit a museum (airplane museum)
42.  Share a Sunday dinner with friends 
43.  View the solar eclipse (8/17)
44.  visit a salmon hatchery (10/17)
45.  Memorize the Articles of Faith
46.  Go on a ferry boat ride (9/17)
47.  Get a pool membership (6/17)
48.  Swim in a lake (7/17)
49.  Visit a wildlife refuge (Mercer Island Slough)
50.  Go fishing as a family (Zion's Camp)
51.  Read through the King County Library System list of books for preschoolers
52.  Teach family how to fix the toilet (10/17)
53.  Walk in a parade (Renton River Days)
54.  Make a cardboard periscope and observe wildlife from a distance (Cub scout day camp)
55.  Organize the LEGOS (12/17)
56.  Beach camping with friends (7/17)
57.  Make a sand castle (7/17)
58.  Go sledding (1/17)
59.  Learn about dream catchers (11/17)
60.  Go geo-caching (4/17)
61.  Explore a new park (10/17)
62.  Teach Max to cook eggs (9/17)
63.  Finish a joke book as a family (12/17)
64.  Father/Son off-roading trip (3/17)
65.  Get pedicures as a couple (5/17)
66.  Visit a waterfall (12/17 Snoqualmie Falls)
67.  Build a fort out of drift wood (7/17)
68.  Learn how to read a thermometer and barometer and track their readings for 7 days (CS) (March)
69.  Install a shelf in boys' room to hold lego creations (11/17)
70.  Teach the kids how to make a Buche de Noel--1/8/17
71.  Reach the Doctrine and Covenants as a family   (12/17)
72.  Visit the Seattle Children's Museum (7/17)
73.  Attend the theatre  (Little Mermaid 4/17)
74.  Go to Family Day at Boeing (9/17)
75.  Fix up the fort (April 2017)
76.  Learn about St. Lucia Day and celebrate it  (12/17)
77.  Attend a hockey game (12/17)
78.  Visit Jenn's homestead (4/17)
79.  Gather and cook a farm fresh egg (4/17)
80.  Go to the top of the Space Needle (7/8/17)
81.  Have a Star Wars movie marathon with 1-7 and Rogue One (12/29/17)
82.  Work on Evelyn's fairy garden (summer 2017)
83.  Visit Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (4/17)
84.  Swim with Dolphins (5/17)
85.  Family Huff and Puff Before You Stuff run (11/23/17)
86.  Visit a new temple (12/19/17)
87.  Road Trip with no destination (12/30/17)
88.  Visit Temple Square Christmas lights (12/18/17)
89.  Visit the Reptile Museum (7/17)
90.  Unwrap a Christmas book to read each night of December 
91.  Go to Henry Moses Aquatic Center (8/17)
92.  Ride the Monorail (7/17)
93.  Go camping as a family (9/17)
94.  Tony--Read 12 books
95.  Tony--Bike packing trip (Memorial Day Weekend Trip with Seth)
96.  Deb--BDB Weekend
97.  Deb--Whale Watching Tour  (4/22)
98.  Deb--Girl's Trip to Victoria (4/21-4/22)
99.  Deb--read 45 books (12/17)
100.  Deb--jog a 5K

It is overwhelming to think of 100 things.  At first I wasn't going to have it be 100 things, but just whatever we ended up with.  Then, Max and I looked through his Cub Scout book and there are so many things we can make family activities.  Coming up with 100 things became really easy after that.