#MakingDreamsHappen
“Things don’t just happen; you make them happen.” –William Cooper Procter (Proctor & Gamble’s second President)
My Bucket list:
Take a ‘World History Tour’ with Kids
Have a friend on all continents
- North America -✔
- South America -✔
- Europe -✔
- Asia -✔
- Africa – not yet.
- Australia ✔
- Antarctica – Someday.
Arizona
- Hike Havasupai and camp for more than 2 days
- Watch the sunrise at the Grand Canyon
- Watch the sunset at the Grand Canyon ✔
- Grand Canyon Skywalk ✔
- Take a picture of myself in 4 states at once. ✔(Four Corners Monument)
- Learn to drive a semi truck ✔
- Hike Flatiron in the Superstition Mountains ✔
- Watch the sunrise from the top of the Superstition Mountains
- Out of Africa ✔
Europe
- Spend extended time in Spain. ✔
- Running of the Bulls ✔
- Backpack across Europe ✔
- South of France ✔
- Leaning Tower of Pisa ✔
- Venice ✔
- Sound of Music Tour ✔
- Sleeping Beauty’s Castle (Neuschwanstein) ✔
- Berlin Wall ✔
- Paris ✔
- Stone Henge ✔
- Punting on the Thames River ✔
- Snow Board the Swiss Alps
- Travel Europe in Style
- Shopping in Paris
- Take a gondola in Venice
- Drive the Autobahn
- Go to the Greek Islands
Africa
- Safari in South Africa
- Climb Mt Kilimanjaro
India
- Taj Mahal (See 7 Wonders List)
Asia
- Dance on the Great Wall of China ✔
- Plant a tree in China
- Tour the Holy Lands
- Live 2+ months in Japan
- 2020 Olympics in Japan
- Take the Trans-Siberian Rail Road
Islands
- Bora Bora
- Jamaica
- New Zealand
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- Take the LOTR Tour
- Pet a kangaroo
- Scuba the Great Barrier Reef
- See the Sydney Oprah House, Australia
Visit all 7 [man made] wonders of the world
- Great Wall of China ✔
- Petra -Jordan
- Christ the Redeemer (statue) -Brazil ✔
- Machu Picchu -Peru (visit Laura’s house)
- Chichen Itza -Mexico
- Roman Colosseum -Italy ✔
- Taj Mahal – India (India with Mahi Rajan)
- **.Great Pyramid (Honorary Candidate) – Egypt
North America
- Live in Nashville ✔
- Dollywood
- Visit Niagara Falls
- Go canoeing in Alaska to see the Northern Lights With Morgan
- Full LDS Church History Tour
- Liberty Jail, MO ✔
- Palmyra, New York
- Nauvoo, IL
- Marine biologist for a day at Sea World
- Go to Schlitterbahn Water-slide Park in Texas
- Go to the Alamo ✔
- Para sail the Atlantic
- Pacific Ocean ✔
- Buy something nice from Tiffanies in NY
- Stay a night in the Grand Plaza Hotel
- Walk the Brooklyn bridge with a really cute boy
- Take a tour of Disney Animation Studios. ✔
- Winchester Mystery House ✔
- Become a member of Club 33
- Cross Country Road Trip ✔
- Shopping in NYC
- Moque Cave, UT ✔
South America
- Mount Fitzroy, Argentina
- Snow Board the Andes Mts
- Take a boat across the Panama Canal
- Backpack Around South America
- Spend Extended Time in Argentina/Chile
- Easter Island, Chile
- Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
- Santuario de las Lajas, Colombia
- The River of Five Colours, Colombia
- See the Milkyway over Lake Titicaca, Peru
- Canopy Walk, The Amazon, Peru
- Go to Brazil ✔
- Go to the 2016 Olympics in Rio ✔
- Escadaria Selarón ✔
- Pedra da Gávea
- Tijuca Forest ✔
- Parque Lage ✔
- Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro ✔
- Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro ✔
- Corcovado Mountain, Rio ✔
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio ✔
- Ipanema ✔
- Fortaleza ✔
- Beach Park
- The Capital -Brasília ✔
- Iguassu Falls, bordering Argentina and Brazil ✔
- Botanical Garden of Curitiba
- Meeting of Waters River
- Rides of Beto Carrero World ✔
- Fernando de Noronha
- Watch the sunrise in the ocean – Jericoacoara – Ceará
- Morro de São Paulo – Bahia. Cars are forbidden and the top beaches are there.
- Amazon River
- Go to the 2016 Olympics in Rio ✔
To Do:
- Serve a Mission ✔
- Speak 6 different languages (Have an hour conversation with someone, read the BOM, and a 100+ page book)
- Portuguese ✔
- Spanish
- Chinese
- French
- Italian
- German
- **Biblical Hebrew- Just need to read it.
- Swim With Dolphins
- Swim with Sharks
- Pet a lion
- Wear my Mom’s wedding dress for my wedding.
- Have the Feng Family (my friends from China) at my wedding
- Keep a journal for one solid year
- Write a book and have it published
- Be able to do a back handspring
- Be able to do a full front split
- Hike Camelback Mt. in Under an Hour
- Swim in a hot springs
- Have a garden
- Paint a picture
- Yodel for Bob Barker on the Price is Right ✔ -2005
- Run a Half Marathon ✔✔
- Run a Full Marathon
- Triathlon
- Iron Man in Floripa, Brazil
- Learn to Surf
- Watch a full Solar eclipse in the Totality Zone
- April 8, 2024 (The path of totality begins in Mexico, passing through Texas as it moves northeast to Maine.)
- Watch a lunar eclipse
- Oct. 8, 2014: Total Lunar Eclipse: Visible from the Americans, Asia, Australia and in the Pacific Ocean.
- Sep 28, 2015 Did it! ✔
- Jan 21, 2019
- Deep Sea Fishing -catch a REALLY big one- and mount it on my wall.
- Get a Degree
- Teach about Government
- Help wanting families adopt
To Have / To Meet
To Have
- Own my own island
- Have my own estate home
- Tesla Model S
- Have a Castle with 100 secret passage ways.
- Have a 1000 acre Ranch/Mountain/Forest home
- Have 5 to 8 horses
- Stables and training Ring
- Own so much land that I wouldn’t truly be able to explore it all
- Summer home in Canyon
- Hummer H1 to get to summer home in canyon
- A house in Arizona
- A house in Nashville
- A house in Brazil
To Meet
- One of the Beatles
- Arnold Swartzenager
- Oprah Winfrey
- Alice Cooper ✔
- Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (Audio Interview✔ Hand shake✔)
- Conan O’Brian (Audio Interview Hand shake)
- Rich Moore (Audio Interview & Hand shake)
- Robert & Kristen Anderson Lopez (Audio Interview & Hand shake)
- John Lasseter (Audio Interview & Hand Shake)
- Stephen Schwartz (Audio Interview & Hand Shake)
- Glen Keane (Audio Interview ✔ & Hand Shake)
Singing and Career
- Be the voice of a character in a Disney movie
- Perform at Disneyland/world
- Hear myself [sing] on the Radio
- Win a Grammy
- Win an Oscar
- Have 5 #1 Singles in another language
- Have 5 #1 Singles in English
- Have 2 #1 Albums English and/or Foreign Language
- Sing on the Tonight Show, SNL, Ellen, Or all of the above. ?
- Make a Movie
- Write a Movie Soundtrack
- Record 5 albums
- Go to a Garth Brooks Concert
- This is Garth (Las Vegas) ✔
- Stadium Tour ✔
- Sing with Garth Brooks in Concert
- Sing at Carnage Hall
- Sing at the Grand ol’ Opry
- Tour with Brad Paisley
- Tour with Keith Urban
- Perform with Pat Benatar on CMT Crossroads
- Meet and Perform with Reba
- Meet and Sing with Dolly Parton
- Write a Song with Taylor Swift
- Perform with Victor & Leo
- Perform with Paula Fernades