50 Interesting Things In My 50 Years

HOLY HANNAH!

I'M TURNING THE BIG FIVE-OH TODAY!

I'm not sure how I feel about turning 50.

I hate that I'm 50 years old now,

but making a list of cool things I've gotten to do over the past 50 years 

definitely makes it a little easier, 

not to mention that I'm on my grandest adventure yet 

at this very moment (I'm about to see some pretty amazing stuff!).

I've been extremely lucky to have a little adventure over the years, 

along with the triumphs, heartache, surprises, day-to-day routines, 

and best of all, great love.

Someone whom I highly esteem once told me that my life was so interesting 
that I should write a book and it would be a best seller.  
At the time I was only 20 years old.  
Add 30 more years of adventure 
(and crazy) 
on top of that, and it's been quite a ride.

My husband calls Fifty the new 'f' word.  haha.  Now I will too.

I've been working on this list for weeks.

I'm sure there will be things I'll think of later that I'll wish I had added, 

but as of today, here are the most interesting things I can think of that I've done/seen/accomplished over the past 50 years.

50 Interesting {to me} Things I've Seen/Done

In The Last 50 Years

(not in order of most interesting)

Awww

1.  Gave birth to five beautiful kids.

2.  Met my husband online.  I call him my mail-order husband.  He has five beautiful kids too.

     Adventurous

3.  Ridden in a hot air balloon

     4.  Zip lined on the Big Island, HA and in Ensenada, MX

     5.  Been on an Alaskan cruise (as of yesterday)

     6.  Flown closely over an active volcano

     7.  Helicoptered over Molokai and Maui, HA, saw the steepest coastal cliffs in the world.

     8.  Snorkeled many times in Hawaii

     9.  Kayaked to Captain Cook’s Monument

    10.  Climbed to the top of Mt Timpanogas (signed the book)

    11.  Scuba dived in the drifts in Cozumel

    12.  Snorkeled with sea lions in Mexico

    13.  Seen the Napali Coast in Kauai

    14.  Water skied Lake Powell

    15.  Snow skied CO and UT

    16.  Rappelled down a few cliffs

    17.  Drove coast to coast in a borrowed VW bug

    18.  Rode on an elephant

    19.  Boated with dolphins

    20.  Floated the Salt River (several times)

    21.  Eaten alligator

Other Travel 

    22.  Times Square in NYC

    23.  Disneyworld

    24.  Niagra Falls

    25.  Toured many church history sites in the east, including Nauvoo, The Sacred Grove, the Whitney store, Hill Cumorah, etc.

Cool

    26.  Modeled swimsuits on the strip in Las Vegas 

    27.  Was the ring girl for boxing matches in Las Vegas (my sister saw me on ESPN 2,500 miles away)

    28.  One night I had my own personal body guard

    29.  Won Miss Congeniality in a beauty contest

    30.  Attended an International Winter Olympics event

Really??

    31.  Met Gordon B. Hinckley in a private meeting with my family

    32.  Kissed David Hasselhoff

    33.  Met Alec Baldwin (he even gave my baby a banana)

    34.  Michael Ballam sang Happy Birthday to me on my 40^th birthday

    35.  Was life-flighted on my honeymoon from Mazatlan to SLC in a private Lear jet.

    36.  Been proposed to at least 7 times

    37.  Pretended to be blind for a whole day.  In public.

    38.  Almost caught the whole neighborhood on fire (don’t play with matches!)

Random

    39.  Been to MX about 50 times. 

    40.  Been to NASCAR in a cpl diff cities

    41.  Stung by a scorpion

    42.  Got comp’d great seats to Donna Summer in Las Vegas.

    43.  Comp’d the biggest hotel suite you've ever seen that had 2-story electric curtains opening up to the Vegas strip.

    44.  Been married 3 times, twice to the same man.

    45.  Lived in foster homes in high school (it was a really good thing, my parents were wayward, not me)

    46.  Sat front and center at Cirque du Soleil

    47.  Seen horse races at Del Mar

    48.  Been top salesperson for every sales job I've ever had.

    49.  I win a lot of great door prizes. Maybe I should be buying lottery tickets?? I've NEVER bought one....YET! (since writing that, a friend gave me a lottery ticket.  I didn’t win.  haha)

    50.  Horseback riding on the beach


                                                   

I guess I should also mention that I'm the youngest of seven children.

NEVER have I seen all six of my siblings at the same time, and never will

(a couple of them have already passed away).

A few of my kids have already reviewed this list

and believe me, THEY HAD QUESTIONS!

I had some 'splainin to do.

     I've come up with a Bucket List too.  

Wanted to put 50 things on it, but honestly, 

it's hard to come up with 50.  Wow.  

That's surprising.  I'll keep working on it.  :)

HAPPY ADVENTURES TO YOU!!!!
AND HAPPY FIFTY YEARS TO ME!!!!