100 Things to Do in 2018

100 Things to do in 2018

1.  Summer Grandparent visit (7/18-8/18)
2. Jason join a basketball team (11/18)
3.  Family Bike packing trip (5/18)
4.  Evelyn take ballet class and dance in a recital (The Wizard of Oz) (4/18)
5.  Hike to a Ghost Town, Franklin, WA (4/13/18)
6. Fill out a 3-generation Family Pedigree Chart  (4/13/18)
7.  Improve our family mile time (8/18)
8.  Learn how to milk a cow (9/5/18)
9.   Go to Trees of Mystery (7/18)
10. Mariners Game (6/18)
11.Watch a Boeing Model Rocket Club Launch (11/20)
12.  Make our own cars out of boxes for a home drive-in movie night (7/18)
13.  Kelsey Creek Farm Visit (Sheep Shearing Festival) (4/29/18)
14.  Pajama and Video Game Day (11/18)
15.  Learn how to make hummus (7/18 with Grandma Pearl)
16.  Attend the special Olympics (6/18)
17.  Complete the library summer reading program (8/18)
18.  Sing carols at a nursing home (12/3/18)
19.  Visit Northwest Trek (5/5/18)
10.  Visit Sutter's Fort (7/18)
11.  BYU vs. UW football game (9/29)
12.  Have a Pillow Fight (11/18)
13.  Have Target Practice (1/18)
14.  Dinner at Panda Express (6/8/18)
15.  Learn how to make doughnuts (8/18 with Grandma Kate)
16.  Learn how to make root beer (8/18 with Grandma Kate)
17.  Deb and the kids trip to Rockaway Beach (3/18)
18.  New bikes for mom and Evelyn (5/18)
19.  Family Beach Camping Trip (6/18)
20.  Have a good manners Night (7/18)
21.  Attend the Theatre, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (3/30/18)
22.  Visit Fairy Tale Town (7/18)
23.  Climb the Astoria Tower (3/18)
24.  Visit a Lavender Farm (7/18)
25.  Try lavender ice cream (7/18)
26.  Max and Ryan do kid only baking projects (4/18)
27.  Save for 2019 Disneyland Trip (12/18)
28   Max joins the swim team ( 5/18).
29.  Make Grandma Irma's Caramels (12/18)
30.  Watch Shark Tank as a family (1/16/18)
31.  Drive through a giant redwood (7/18)
32.  Visit where gold was discovered in California (7/18)
33.  Learn how to make teddy bear bread with Grandma Kate
34.  Make Infant Blankets for Seattle Children's Hospital (8/18)
35.  Take a Family a Meal Once a quarter (completed 12/18)
36.  Plant a garden (4/5/18)
37.  Max attend Boy Scout camp (7/18)
38.  Ryan and Jase attend Cub Scout Camp (7/18)
39.  Ride on a tractor (4/18)
40.  Read Native American folklore (2/18)
41.  Send Christmas Cards out in November
42.  Have Family Pictures taken (4/21/18)
43.  See the prophet speak at Safeco Field (9/18)
44.  Do a Christmas light scavenger hunt (12/18)
45.  Family Bowling Night (2/29/18)
46.  Make boats for the Rain Gutter Regatta (6/18)
47.  Read the Book of Mormon as a family (12/31/18)
48.  Visit the Bellevue Art Museum (5/4/18)
49.  Laser Tag at Phillip Arnold (8/31/18)
50.  Enter Reflections Art Contest (11/18)
51.  Visit Discovery Park (11/18)
52.  Watch a tank demonstration (9/18)
53.  Hike Gnome Trail(9/18)
54. Visit the Woodland Zoo (8/18)
55.  Go to Circus Circus (8/18)
56.  Visit Lake Tahoe (8/18)
57. Attend Makerfest 2018 (10/18)
58. Cut down our own Christmas tree (12/3/18)
59.  Visit the Tulip Festival in April (4/18)
60.  Run 5 Fun Runs as a family (12/18)
61.  See a magician (10/18)
62.  Attend a multicultural festival (9/18)
63.  Evelyn host a Nutcracker Party (12/18)
64.  Take May Day Flowers to 5 neighbors  (5/1/18)
65.  Volunteer on the Day of Service (9/8/18)
66.  Go to a Sounders game (6/18)
67.   Attend Festival of the Nativity (12/8/18)
68.  Watch the Incredibles 2 at the Drive in Theater (7/2/18)
69.  Attend an art appreciation night (10/18)
70.  Visit the Washington State Fair (9/18)
71.  Attend Festival of the Nativity (12/8/18)
72. Go to Snowflake Lane (12/10/18)
73.  Family Board Game Night (4/13/18)
74.  Have a Grinch Night Dinner (12/18)
75.  Max attend 5th grade camp (6/18)
76.  Deb and Tony explore the Oregon coast (2/18)
77.  Family beach camping trip (6/18)
78.  Learn how to build a campfire (7/18)
79.  Visit Whidbey Island (3/18)
80.  Make Your own movie night (4/12/18--Max's scout movie)
81.  Good Will $5 Treasure Hunt (10/29)
82.  Huff and Puff Before You Stuff (11/23/18)
83.  Go to a Christmas lights display (11/28/18)
84.  Apple Tasting Night (10/7/18)
85.  Do a Secret Santa Service (12/18)
86.  Family Restaurant night with candles (11/18)
87.  See Santa fly in on an airplane (12/15/18)
88.  Visit a corn maze (10/20/18)
89.  Have a Toy Story marathon (12/31)
90.  Learn a new game (Cobra Paw) (12/18)
91.  S'mores on the fire pit (multiple times)
92.  Tony--Build Bumper for 4 Runner (2/18)
93.  Tony--Take a H.A.M Radio Class
94.  Tony--read 10 books
95.  Tony--Tahoe Twirl, 40th birthday bikepacking trip (8/18)
96.  Deb--Attend Time Our for Women
97.  Deb--Ladies Temple Trip (11/18)
98.  Deb--read 55 books
99.  Deb--Learn About Card Making (11/18)
100.  Deb--BDB weekend (10/18)

New Year's Eve 2017

We weren't able to keep our plans with friends because they got sick, but we've been having lots of fun.  We've played Candyland, Garbage, charades, and Nerts, reviewed 2017, watched Studio C and had Root Beer Floats.  The boys are playing Star Wars Battlefront, Tony's planning a bikepacking trip and I'm getting the blog updated.  It's a great night!

Tony was acting out Jabba the Hut which was perfect since he was sitting down with a little Princess Leia by him.

Evelyn was acting out fireworks.

I got a seven deck game of Nerts for Christmas.  My kids are old enough to play!  Hooray!  

We'll be toasting the New Year and banging on pots and pans.  It's going to be a great year together!

2017 Year in Review

So I'm going to start out with our review of 2016 since I didn't blog about it before and then go to our review of 2017.

https://www.twentyfivethings.com/year-in-review-printable-for-kids/

Evelyn's Grandma Quilt

Grandma Kate has made some amazing airplane quilts for the three boys.  For Christmas she finished a beautiful quilt for Evelyn.  The cream parts are a fabric that are on her brother's quilts.  There are beautiful little pieces that are flowers or French inspired.  Evelyn loves it!

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.  

Family Adventure Day

After a day of watching movies all day we wanted an adventure day.  We explored a park we've never been to called Tolt-Macdonald State Park.  Then we went to Snoqualmie Falls.

Finish a Jokebook

One of the things our family wanted to do this year was finish a joke book together.  Well we finished the Laugh Out Loud Jokes for Kids.  It's fun to laugh together as a family.  I especially love it when Jase and Evelyn make up jokes.