Here we go again! As always, we had to write ourselves some rules:
- Every Thing must be completed by 11:59 pm on December 31, 2015.
- They are not required to be completed in any particular order.
- Unless otherwise noted, each Thing requires that both Becky and I be present. Some are for just one of us, some also have the kids involved.
- More than one Thing may be completed in a single day, if circumstances permit.
- We are allowed to modify the list to adjust for life changes during the year, as long as the goal of doing 100 great things is still met.
This is our second time doing this (here’s the 2014 list!), and we’ve learned a few things. This year we’re keeping some of the items that make sense to do again, but we’re also adding a few personal-growth adventures and individual things. Some of these are pretty ambitious, so wish us luck!
Current Progress: 100/100
- Sell our house
- Family archery lesson
- Dine at one of the 2015 Portland Restaurants of the Year
- Dine at an old guard Portland restaurant: Huber’s (136 years)
- Road trip with no destination
- Explore a new area of the USA
- Write anniversary letters
- Build a shed
- Explore a new beach town
- Do 3 walks from Portland Walking Tours book
- Adopt a dog
- Watch movies 90-71 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list
- Visit a fish museum
- Experience Chizu
- Patronize 5 new (to us) Alberta Arts establishments
- Explore the Westmoreland Park nature playground
- Make a retro video game station
- Hold 12 family game nights
- Hold 12 family movie nights, with reviews from all four of us
- Surprise date planned by Ben
- Cook through an entire cookbook
- Family CrossFit
- Visit an active volcano
- Cook a goose
- Create a Dear Photograph
- Find 10 geocaches
- Attempt paleo(ish) campfire dumpcake
- Write a guest blog post
- Buy a house
- Find a piece of art for our entryway
- Experience Russian food at Kachka
- Tour a mine
View a movie a week (5 documentaries, 20 AFI films, 12 family movies, 15 random)- Japanese Tea Garden
- Get new bikes for the adults
- Buy a car
- Karaoke date
- Road trip with a destination: Afternoon Tea at The Empress
- Find a new school for the kids
- Wings & Waves family day
- Bookshelves in the kid bedrooms
- Join an underwear-of-the-month club
- Create private patio area for Airbnb apartment with fencing and plants
- Deposit all the change
- Vist a cidery for a cider tasting
- Read a parenting book
- Walk Portland’s newest bridge
- Decorate for minor holiday breakfasts
- Visit the Portland Art Museum
- Pajama day
- Hike Lands End
- Homeschool
- Visit a new country
- Take in a photography exhibit
- Take a tour of the Portland Underground
- Play a round of mini-golf with the kids
- Install a pool
- Move
- Visit Golden Gate Park
- Attend an event at the convention center
- Visit a monastery museum
- Visit the Grove of the States
- Live musical performance
- Finish up the Theater Room
- Go on a long bike ride
- Visit the Sea Lion Caves
- Buy a commuter car
- Hawaiian adventure with William
- Explore our new neighborhood
- Wisconsin family vacation
- Perform something as a family
- Visit the Trees of Mystery
- Kids: wear every article of clothing in their closets
- Attend Mortified Portland
- Visit the Museum of Contemporary Craft
- Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
- Stay a night at the Historic Lake Quinault Lodge
- Make homemade laundry detergent
- Container Garden
- Build a picnic table
- Ride on a ferry
- See America’s tallest glockenspiel
- Make 4 fancy seasonal cocktails (from recipes)
- Stay at a weird Airbnb
- Attend an event at Woodburn Dragstrip
- Community education: Oregon Wine & Cheese (Becky)
- Community education: Making Bacon (Ben)
- Ben: Make a new website for CLASS Academy
- Ben: Publish a book
- Ben: Book a speaking gig
- Ben: Drive a Lamborghini
- Ben: Take a knife skills class
- Ben: Go to prosciutto school
- Becky: Connect with my sister
Becky: Participate in a GoodReads challenge – 100 books- Becky: Jenson Family Photo Re-Creations
- Becky: Stay in a Tiny House
- Becky: 2014 100 Things Book
- Becky: Fill in a hole in the OCT
- Create and post our “100 Things in 2016” list
Footnotes
- This can be a place either or both of us has been in the past, but has to be someplace we’ve never visited together.
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Nice list. The kids and I have gone to a Tuba Christmas and Fort Vancouver. You probably already know this or have a pass, but Forty Vancouver is a , part of the Federal or State park system and they have a free visit day a couple times a year, they have extra tours that day. Also I am jealous of your trip to the Empress, it is so good! Although Buchart (sp?) Gardens up there has a good Tea Time also. I am totally not jealous of you cleaning our your closets though, lol. I get to do that a couple times a year here. 🙂 Have a great year.
Did you really cook through my entire cookbook? That’s so amazing! Did you post about it at all? I’d love to see how it went! Happy New Year 🙂
Not yet, but it’s on our list for 2015! We’re really looking forward to it, your book looks amazing.
Awesome list! Really looking forward to following along again this year. So impressed with the running everyday and cooking an entire cookbook.
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