G&G Marquardt: September 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

School and Other Things

So I'm very bad at this whole blogging thing. So, two weeks ago I went and saw Greg in Little Rock. These are the things we did:

This is me at the top of Pinnacle Mountain. Took over an hour to climb up (with some breaks for mental stability.) Its 1115 ft. high and it was a ton of fun and super terrifying!

Heres Greg at the top!

The view :-D

This is the Old Mill, it was featured in Gone with the wind and it was an awesome park!! Great place for wedding or engagement photos for sure!

The only pic we took of us the whole weekend. Oops :)

Gregs a master photographer :)

Missing everyone back home!

101 in 1001

Started Jan 3, 2011
To be Completed by Monday Sept 30, 2013

Travel:

1. Go to Crete
2. Go on a Gwen and Greg only camping and fishing trip
3. Greg-send home postcards from somewhere other than home.
4. Go to our 5 year reunion if possible.
5. Go to a place neither of us have been before (Houston, Tx January 2011)
6. See the west coast, take a photo of our feet in the Pacific Ocean
7. Go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea
8. Visit One Winery and one Brewery (0/2)
9. Go to 5 different farmers markets (0/5)
10. Get passports
11. Visit the DeYoung Family Zoo
12. Go on a cruise together
13. Go to a museum or art gallery
14. Visit one Texas State park and camp there for a weekend (Possum Kingdom June 18-19)
15. Plan a tropical vacation
16. Go to a zoo we've never been to before

Finances:

17. Pay off credit card debt
18. Pay off equinox
19. Start a college fund for kids
20. Start a retirement fund
21. Buy nothing for one week except groceries
22. Create a budget and stick to it for one year (so far so good)
23. Start a business plan for the coffee shop and have a place for all my ideas
24. Organize all financial information
25. Save $200 a month starting in February 2011

Health and Fitness:

26. Run 6 miles a week for one month (0/24)
27. Go to the gym 3 times a week
28. Eat one healthy meal a day for one month (0/31)
29. Wake up with Greg everyday for one month (0/31)
30. Go to the dentist (July 6th, 2011)
31. Go to yoga once a week for 6 months (0/24)
32. Buy bicycles
33. Go for a weekly bikeride for 6 months (0/24)
34. Go one month without fast food (0/31)
35. Go one month without eating at a sit down restaurant (0/31)
36. Private
37. No soda for one month (31/31)
38. Run 2 miles without stopping
39. Take multivitamins everyday for one month (3/30)
40. Get Massages

Relationship Goals

41. Complete one thing a week from the his/her booklet for one year (0/52)
42. Have a date night once a week
43. Write a love letter once a month to each other (4/12)
44. Build a cat tree from scratch together
45. Watch the sunrise together
46. Make lists of 100 things we love about eachother
47. See 5 bands in concert (3/5) (Korn, Sevendust, In This Moment)
48. See the Transiberian Orchestra
49. Go Snowboarding
50. Write letters to ourselves to be read in 5 years
51. Try 10 new restaurants (5/10) (Ichibon, Freebirds, Gringos, KoKos, Phin)
52. Go horseback riding
53. Come up with 50 date night ideas and do them
54. Go on a picnic
55. Buy a loaf of bread and feed ducks
56. Do something we've never done before on our birthdays

Cooking goals:

57. Make meal plans weekly for one year (12/52)
58. Cook a new recipe a month for one year (3/12)
59. Have an herb garden (PLANTED)
60. Join a wine club for a year
61. Go out and pick something from a farm
62. Make homemade jam or jelly
63. Surprise Greg and make Panna Cota (June 1, 2011 as a welcome home present)
64. Make homemade sushi
65. Bake 5 different cupcakes out of my Hello Cupcake books (1/5) (Butterflies)

Gwens Personal Goals:

67. Finish a degree
68. Read one book a month for a year (4/12)
69. Learn Greek before the Crete trip
70. Blog at least 3 times a week
71. Paint 5 new paintings for the house (4/5)
72. Buy fresh flowers once a month for a year (0/12)
73. Buy a desktop computer (March 2011 - Decided on a new laptop instead)
74. Compile a book of Marquardt and Heller family recipes
75. See Wicked - Done Feb 19, 2011
76 Write down 25 things I like about myself and keep somewhere visible-June 26, 2011
77. Set up emergency fund of cash
78. Make 5 new christmas decorations
79. Go one week without facebook (Aug 6-13)

Greg Personal Goals:

80. Finish prerequisites for Palmer
81. Finish CCAF as an airman
82. Finish MK9 Combat Tower (300/300) July 30, 2011
83. Decide whether or not to re-enlist
84. Watch one "Classic Heller" film a month for a year (6/12)
85. Teach Gwen to shoot a gun
86. Complete 100 hours of community service (0/100)

Rest of the Goals:

87. Buy a nice furniture set.
88. Own an entire TV series
89. Find a place with a balcony or porch and have outside furniture-June 16th 2011
90. Get all of our photos printed and scrapbooked (all Printed as of today, yet to scrapbook)
91. Send 5 care packages to the squadron boys when Greg is not deployed (0/5)
92. Send 10 birthday cards to people (1/10)
93. Learn to drive stick shift
94. Buy another vehicle
95. Buy a sewing machine
96. Get rid of everything we do not use or wear (June 13, 2011)
97. Have a computer free weekend June 18-19 2011
98. Make something new and give as a christmas present
99. Make Daily goals everyday for a week and complete them (0/7)
100. Post list on the fridge and update weekly on blog
101. Donate $5 for every unmet goal