*The List

1. Dance in the Rain

2. Have a picnic in Millennium

Park in Chicago by the Bean

3.Put $5.00 in Brylees savings account every month(except on her birthday/Christmas)- check(set up an automatic withdrawl)

4. Join Bible Study - check (Wyoming Community Church-www.wyomingcc.org)

5. Participate in the ALS Walk

6. Get a new job.

7. Visit a new state

8. Lose 10lbs from the weight I am today (137lbs)

9. Pay off X amount of my debt

10. Kiss a boy- check (Adam)

11. Take less Methotrexite Pills(I take 8 pills/week right now)

12. Attend church 8 consecutive weeks

13.Visit Nicks grave site

14. Go Camping

15. Go to Brunch with Grandma W

16. Raise my goal for the Arthritis walk for this year and years to come

17.Go to Fredrick Meijer Gardens for more than Butterflies and Christmas Trees

18. Try Lobster

19. Take a trip on a train- check (Chicago..twice)

20. Go to the eye doctor- check (perfect vision)

21. See an Ocean

22. Get T-shirts made for my arthritis walk team- check (2010)

23. Send out Christmas cards

24. Buy a lottery ticket

25. Start a pray chain with at least 5 of my friends

26. Get my parents to attend church with me

27. Go on a date- check (Adam)

28. Get Byrlee to say some form of "Auntie Rachel"- check (she calls me Auntie..I like that)

29. Get my hemoglobin(red blood cell count) above 10.2

30. Attend an arthritis Conference- check

31. Volunteer for the Arthritis Foundation- check (JBR, Arthritis Walks)

32. Have a date at the Airport viewing area

33. buy a jump rope

34. Go golfing or to the driving range

35. Eat at The Cheesecake Factory in downtown Chicago- check (with Ali in December)

36. Buy flowers for myself

37. Go to a Detroit Tigers Game- check (With my parents in August)

38. Go to a concert

39. Buy something from Sephora

40. Visit the Binder Park Zoo

41. Send an anonymous uplifting letter to a friend

42. Shovel Grandma and Grandpa D's front walk at least once a winter.

43. Take Brylee Sledding

44. Try Shrimp (yikes)-check--yuck( at Susan's house for the jewelry party)

45. Make a photobook for my parents- check (Brylee's Summer 2010)

46. Dust my entertainment center

47. Go to the Drive-In movies in Muskegon

48. Take a 'just because' road trip, no matter how long or short- check, Chicago with Erin

49. Learn where to put windshield wiper fluid in, in my car- Check

50. Learn how to say "I love you" in dutch and french

51. Make more than $9.00 an hour

52. Get my parents a facebook account- check

53. Visit New York.- Check (to visit Tom Summer 2009)

54. Get a tattoo...(yikes)

55. Get my mom a scalp massage

56. Get a pedicure with my mom and Grandma D

57. Get a black and white picture framed for my parents of Brylee

58. Re-read the story of Ester

59. Write a letter to Cassie, Jessie, Melissa, Kelly, Kelli, and Jen of how grateful I am for their friendship and MAIL it to them.

60. Make a list of important qualities I want my future husband to have

61. Clean my car inside and out

62. Have a 'girls night'

63. Go to Tulip Time

64. Spend the night in Holland with my Aunt Joannie and Alison- check (Ali and I had a girls night in August)

65. Buy a new day Planner for 2011- check

66. Learn how to sew a hem line

67. Have a candle lite dinner

68. Go the the Pizza Ranch with Kristi once a year

69. Identify 101 of my Blessings

70. Document as many items from this list as I can through photographs.- check(http://rachelslifethroughpictures.blogspot.com/)

71. Make a list of 10 things that I like about myself

72. Hang my black picture frames in my room

73. Sleep the whole night in my 3 season room.

74. Visit all of the museums in Grand Rapids

75. Compliment a complete stranger

76. Eat dinner at a nice restaurant in Holland - check (Boatwerks with Cassie & Dayna)

77. See 5 movies in the theater**

78. Make Christmas cookies with my mom and Grandma D

79. Rent a book from the Grand Rapids Public Library- check (The Twilight Series)

80. Buy the movie Fireproof

81. Leave an encouraging note for a stranger to find

82. Buy a piece of artwork

83. Go to the Flea Market

84. Go fishing

85. Take pictures in a photobooth with my parents

86. Send a postcard to Postsecret.com

87. Go wine tasting- check (with mom and Katrina in Traverse City)

88. Go to a casino- check (with mom and Katrina in Traverse City, and Tara and Kristi to Four Winds )

89. Fly a kite

90. Take a trip by plane

91. Buy something from MAC make-up

92. Name a star

93. Visit a Renaissance Festival

94. Go to the beach at least 5 times a summer *****

95. Send a care package to a soldier

96. See a sunrise

97. Eat a S'more Flurrie at Ruth Ann's

98. Eat a Banana Split at The Rainbow Grille

99. Be a 'Secret Santa' for 2 people for Christmas

100. Donate $5.00 per item I do not accomplish to the Arthritis Foundation

101. Get a virus protector for my laptop