27 before…
June 19, 2012 in 27 before

Today is my 27th birthday! I made myself a pie!
You guys have seen the “30 before 30″ lists around, right? I wanted to do something similar to that but lord knows I’d get bored with anything that I had to stick with for an entire year. So this is a list of 27 things that I want to do before this deployment is over.
Most are pretty silly, food-related things but they’re things that I’ve been wanting to do and just haven’t gotten around to doing them. Hopefully a list keeps me on track. Monthly progress reports to come.
Also, Rachel Cooks does a fun series called A Day in the Life and it’s my turn this week! Check it out!
(Pie recipe coming tomorrow!)
1. Take the boys to The Airplane Restaurant
2. Try a new homemade pizza every Friday.
3. Make croissants.
4. Track down The Springs Cupcake Truck.
5. Try that lavender bubble tea that always taunts me when I visit my favorite bubble tea shack.
6. Can something.
7. Find the best sesame chicken in this city.
8. Take the boys to The Children’s Museum in Denver.
9. Buy wine glasses.
10. Pick a theme for the older boys’ room and run with it.
11. Hike the incline.
12. Find a ball gown.
13. Do a craft/project every week with the boys (until school starts).
14. Read 6 books a month.
15. Plan a post-deployment vacation.
16. Make root beer floats.
17. Roadtrip it to Alabama.
18. Finally hang stuff on the walls. (We’ve been here over a year and still have unpacked boxes!)
19. Go to the Denver aquarium.
20. Finish Insanity. Do it again.
21. Take a picnic lunch to Garden of the Gods.
22. See a movie at the drive-in in Pueblo.
23. Participate in an FRG activity.
24. Fire up the grill.
25. Try local coffee shops/bakeries.
26. Attend a food festival.
27. Take homecoming photos for at least one friend – hopefully more if I have childcare.





So what do I do at 47…..make a list of 50 before 50? lol That would be quite a daunting list, I must say!
Happy birthday! Have a good day and I hope you’re boys will go sleep early today, so you can have a lovely quiet evening :)
Happy Birthday to youuuuu! I love your list. I did a 30 by 30, but I’m only 9 months from 30 and my progress has been very poor. I hope you have better luck!
Happy birthday! And that looks like a fun list.
I love list-style posts! Happy Birthday! Thanks again for letting me feature you today!
Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥ I wish I were there to make you a cake. And I kind of want to be there to do all of this awesome stuff with you and your little men!! :)
Happy Birthday!!! and good luck with your list! I had fun with mine!
Happy, happy birthday!! Hope you have the best day :) Love your list, I’m itching to go to the drive-in this summer too!
Paul and I did 2 rounds of Insanity last year. It was brutal. But honestly, we just finished 21 days of a no junk food challenge…and that was harder for me!! ;-) I love that you made pie for yourself – Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have fun with your 27 list. I have done those before. I have failed miserably but it had def made my take on more things I have wanted to do before. I love trying new things so it helps you go with it.
LOVE this list. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! Good luck with your list!!
Happy birthday, Amanda! Here’s to crossing a lot of that stuff off your list in your 27th year!
Happy Birthday! The pie looks rich and wonderful! Great list of things to do. I have heard good things about the Aquarium and The Children’s Museum, we just haven’t done them yet. We did the Zoo and the Science and Nature Museum ,and they were both fun too!
6 books a month? Holy crap! I can’t even read 6 comics a month.
Seriously, love the list though and hoping you are having one hell of a birthday!!!
Great list! I know there a couple of items you have that I want to do myself!
Happy Birthday!!!!
I love your list… it reminds me I need to get on mine, and actaully start knocking some stuff off! Funny thing though, I HAVE done some of the super random things on your list, like hiking the incline. Insanity will prepare you, that’s for sure!
i love love love this concept and have seen it before but yours is striking some motivation in me to do the same thing (i turn 26 this sunday!). now i need to brainstorm…
p.s. love the pizza every friday thing. we do a new burger every sunday :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! xoxoxo love your list!! I hope you do it all!
6 books in one month? Unless your talking kids picture books _ I’d take that one off right now. Lol! Loved your blog – found it off of Dina and Dish! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! The pie looks amazing!! 27 is awesome because you know yourself but you are still in your 20s! Enjoy!
I LOVE this! I’m just sorry I didn’t see it yesterday. I might have to steal it :). I hope your birthday was happy and that this next year brings you all of these things and more. If you lived closer I would have totally made you the biggest cake you ever saw :)
I love this list! So many awesome things :)
Hope you had a Happy Birthday! This looks like a fun list! Great idea!
Im playing catch up with my blogs today and even though it’s a lil late, Happy Birthday!!! Also, I’ve always wanted to can something but I’m so chicken!! I look forward to reading all about it when you tackle it!