30B430 Updates

2months, 2 weeks, 2 days to go... update time:

ANGEL K'S 30 BEFORE 30 LIST:

1. Go to my first concert - Sting June 2013
2. Get my first tattoo - I at least have a plan for the tattoo, still trying to decide on location (on my body)
3. Have a second baby/or be pregnant for #2 The Kid #2 born Feb 2014
4. Buy dinner or coffee for a stranger behind me at a drive through (Sort of) I bought a suspended coffee at a coffee shop...
5. Get another 4.0 semester - Spring 2013 I got a 3.8... all because of one stupid A- instead of A. Boo.
6. Lose 45 lbs (or more!) -- Ha ha, no... see # 3 
7. Learn how to use my dSLR camera - correctly! -- Um... I got better at it, still not great
8. Go see the NY Yankees play in the new Yankees Stadium (we went the last year of the old stadium, it's time to go back!) Also no, see #3
9. Take The Kid to splash in the ocean Bar Harbor- August 2013
10. Bring our credit scores up
11. Buy a newer car Check! 2009 Kia Sedona, 2/21/13
12. No soda for 1 month (Including Diet) - Coke is my Achilles. 
13. No coffee for 1 week *Yes I CAN do this!* Done! June 2013
14. Read the bible cover to cover... I got about 1/3 done, I need to get back into this routine.
15. No fast food for 1 month.  Working on this right now
16. No new shoes for me for 6 months. (2/21/13-8/21/13) - Epic Fail, granted I've only bought a couple pairs all year, which is a huge drop for me!
17. Sew t-shirt quilt - I got back into sewing, but this is a much bigger project than I have time for at the moment (See #3!)
18. Sew a dress for The Kid - I'm looking for an easy pattern!
19. Complete half-finished kitchen island sitting in the shed. - I have a plan for this, it involves using it as storage for the shed since our kitchen doesn't have room for it anymore... will update soon. 
20. See a movie at a drive-in... Wonder when the drive in opens - this may happen after I turn 30 just due to Winter.
21. Watch 50 of IMDB's top 250 movies, list found here I've seen 25/250... I should step this up!
22. Try my luck at the slot machines  This hasn't happened yet :( Boo!
23. Visit my Big Sister "Domi" in Halifax :)  I really wanted to make this happen but finances just were not in my favor. Soon I hope!
24. Take a day trip to eat at an obscure diner in a small town in Maine that I've never eaten at before. - The Bluebird Ranch - Machias Maine - August 2013
25. Take The Kid to a children's museum - Planning this for next month!
26. Go skiing again at least one time. Ha. See #3
27. Redecorate our bedroom - We put this on the burner in favor of a partial kitchen renovation, photos coming soon. 
28. Catch up on the Patricia Cornwell books I've fallen behind on (I've received 4, make that 5, for Christmas I haven't read yet) Started this, and put it back down again, Bad Angel!
29. Get together with friends more often.  Goal: One lunch "date" a month! - Doing better, still not at my goal though.
30. Keep This blog going! - Hey I'm still here, not as much as I'd like to be, but I haven't fallen off the face of the earth yet so Yay!

A day at the Beach!

We took a quick family vacation down to Bar Harbor/Acadia National Park last weekend and got to let The Kid splash in the ocean and play in the sand. It was quite fun!

No COFFEE!

I've officially gone one week coffee free as of 10am today. Thankfully it hasn't been too difficult due to some extremely obnoxious heartburn lately, I've avoided anything that will cause more of that and avoid tums/antacids. Woo hoo! The King said I couldn't do it!

30B430!! Updates!!

Knocking more off the list!! (You can see what's been crossed off at right)

This weekend The King and I had the pleasure of attending our first concerts ever!  Thursday night we saw Sting's Back to Bass concert at the Bangor Waterfront Pavillion, and the following night we went to the Jana Kramer/Rodney Atkins/Darius Rucker concert.  These Were Amazing!!! I mean truly amazing! We had so much fun, and can't wait to go to another one!  Anyway, enough chatter, here are some photos!! Wish I could have taken my good camera, but cell phone and bloggie camera pics will have to do!

Sting!!

Jana Kramer

Rodney Atkins

Darius Rucker!!!

A Sunday Drive... King style

Hello everyone!! Happy Sunday!

We woke up this morning, early, because The Kid is teething and mornings are not her strong point when she's teething.  Unfortunately mornings are not my strong point on any Sunday.  Luckily she took an early nap and so we decided to set out on a little jaunt to waste away some of our Sunday. The King just got his passport card in the mail this week, so we decided to put it to use!   What started out as a quick drive down to Woodstock for a bite to eat turned into much much more!

We crossed in Bridgewater, ME over to Centreville,NB...

From there we headed over to Florenceville, and down to Woodstock.  We drove through, and didn't really find anyplace we'd like to eat that was open... so we decided to drive back north.  We then pulled off the TCH in Hartland, and got to drive across the world's largest covered bridge!

Somewhere around Bath we could see the back side of our very own "BigRock Mountain"... not sure how well these came out since we were in a moving car and I was using my cellular device...

 You could see the windmills... but I guess these don't really show that...

We kept going North, and came to Perth-Andover, where we stopped for a snack and to stretch for a few minutes...

After that we hopped back on the TCH and figured we'd come this far, we'd keep going to Edmunston, since neither The King or I (Or obviously The Kid since this was her first trip to Canada) had been there...

We got a little bit lost in Edmunston, ended up stopping for a bite to eat there, but when I ordered our food our US debit card wouldn't work... still don't understand that one... I'm thankful that we needed to pay before we got our food and not the other way around, we would have been washing dishes for sure!! 

We quickly found a border station, and headed back Stateside, we crossed into Madawaska, and from there went to Fort Kent. 

FINALLY we stopped for some food.  Which by the way, crosses one of my 30B430 list items off!  --> 

Somebody was a little grumpy after waking up from her nap and we're STILL not home yet.

She did entertain two whole tables of little old ladies though!!

Finally after eating until we were completely full we headed home.  Over 250 miles today, check out our map:

 What a full day :) Hope your weekend was great!!

Thirty before thirty... an Update

As you can see below, there is exactly one year, and two months until I turn thirty... and so far only one thing checked off my list!.

Here are a few updates to my progress... 

In June I will check off the concert item, because we bought tickets to go see Sting, and tickets to see Darius Rucker too! I'm super excited!

We hope to go see the Yankees play soon, my brother just earned a sweet promotion and we'll be moving to the NYC/NJ area so we'll go visit him and sneak in a Yankees game :)

(This is K-Fred... my baby brother, who is probably going to kill me for posting this... but that's OK, Hilarious!!!) 

I've made plans to go to Halifax in August or September, where we'll be able to check off several of my list items, including a drive in theater (I think), slot machines, children's museum, and the ocean:)

My "Big Sis" Jen & I Carving Pumpkins - Fall 2005

I've started a "Bible in a Year" plan with the YouVersion app on my phone (www.youversion.com), I've got it set to read about 3 chapters a day, some days it breaks a chapter into two parts, and it skips around so I'm not reading straight from Genesis to Revelation, but so far I've read most of Luke, most of Genesis, and each day ends with a psalm. A few days I've read ahead, then I get busy and forget, but I'm really making an effort!  So far so good!