#40- Ride a Tandem bike

Today Joe Heeb and I decided to go to Estes Park to do some exploring. We were about ready to go but Joe wanted to drive by the lake. We were driving by and I saw this cook bike/car looking thing so told him to turn around. Then behind the weird car thing we saw it. A tandem bike. We went in and saw that it was only 8 dollars to rent it for 30min. So we did but were told part of the lake was uphill. The bike was a lot harder to ride than it looks. I tried to be in the front but couldn't hack it so Joe was the entire time. It was so fun and we were laughing so much. We did have to walk some of it since it was only a one gear bike. It was super fun and what is even cooler is that Joe and I crossed something off that was on both of our lists!

 Joe and I on the bike

 This is the lake we biked around. This view is from the Gondola we went on

#7- Go to a General Conference

In my fall semester of 2009 I had the opportunity to attend a General Conference and not just one session but TWO of them. The first one was on Saturday October 3, 2009. Cody and I arrived and had pretty good seats. We were on the second or third row on the second level all the way to the left. I just couldn’t believe how huge it was! WOW! It was so neat to be in the presence of so many apostles and be able to sustain them. My favorite talk was by Neil A. Anderson http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1117-14,00.html

After conference Cody and I walked around Temple Square and took a lot of pictures. On Sunday we were able to go to the morning session. That means we were there for Music and the Spoken Word. It was so amazing and we had such good seats!!! The acoustics were perfect where we were sitting. They sang two of my favorite songs. My Shepherd Will Supply My Need and Come Thou Fount. Conference was amazing even though we were tired. I am so thankful I had the opportunity to go and think that everyone should go if they get the chance!

Cody and I at the Saturday Afternoon session

Me, Nick, Carrie, Scott, and Cody after the Sunday morning session

#10- Ride on a Motorcycle

In my fall semester of 2008 this guy Seth came over. He knew Denise and Carrie. He came on his motorcycle and gave this girl a ride. He was leaving for the night and before he left Carrie mentioned that it was on my bucket list to ride on one. He promised that he would come back and give me a ride. Sure enough, a few days later he knocked on our door and asked if I was ready for a ride. I said yes and got on my jacket. I asked where to hold on because I’m retarded. He said, “To me.” Yeah, it was embarrassing. It was fun and I loved the feeling of wind in my hair. He took me around campus. He asked me if I wanted to try and drive but I said no. I was too scared and didn’t even know the concept behind it so didn’t want to try. We talked the whole time. It was kind of hard though because it was loud. Anyway, it was way fun and I like motorcycles now.

I don't exactly remember what the motorcycle looked liked but I think it was kind of older since he fixed them up.

#13- Sleep on a Trampoline

In winter semester of 2009 I was done with clean checks. I was planning on going to Utah but didn’t have a place to stay for that night because we had to be out of our apartments. Brady said I could stay at his house in Idaho Falls. It was Chris’ Birthday so he came and spent the night too. We stayed up really late playing games and watching movies. Brady had a trampoline. We went out and played this fun superhero game where you run around in a circle and try to step on the person’s cape aka blanket in front of you. We were playing all these games and then got way tired and just laid down. We had blankets and I was in the middle of Chris and Brady so was pretty warm. I told them I’d never slept on a trampoline before and they thought I was crazy. I told them it was on my Bucket List. So we talked forever under the stars and eventually we fell asleep in this mass pile on the trampoline. It was so warm and cozy. We woke up around 4:00am and went inside because we were way cold but I did sleep on a trampoline.

It was me

Brady

and Chris aka Topher

#15- Finish one of the songs I started Writing

In the winter semester of 2008 our final was an individual project of our choice. We could do anything pertaining to the Book of Mormon. I had an idea for a song for a long time but never took the time to get it out. Later that day I went to the Snow building and started figuring out my song. It was a neat experience because the words and music just started coming. I felt the Savior’s love while writing this song. The last two days of classes we had to present our final projects. I was very nervous and went to the front of the class and said that this was the first song I had ever written. I sat down and started to play. It was a neat experience and my testimony rang through. My friends really liked the song and said I did a great job. Here are the lyrics to my song called He Died for Me:

Why, why did he die,

just to save my life?

How, how did it feel,

the worry, pain, and strife?

I looked in his eyes,

the sadness was there.

What he did for me,

was beyond compare.

He died for me

He died for me

Why, why did he care,

that much for me?

What, what did he bear,

In Gethsemane

He suffered it all

and showed us the way,

So we could repent,

and live with Him some day

He died for me

He died for me

He died to save us

From all of our sins

He died to rescue us

From sorrow that’s within

I can’t repay Him

For what He gives

But it’s not over

Because… He lives!

He inviteth all

to come unto him

So we can have life

and return again

He lives for me

#16- Invent Something Useful

So I don’t know if this has already been invented or not but I have come up with it on my own. I don’t know how to make it big but I think it would be useful. I have invented timed texting. I hate when I’m up late and don’t want to wake someone up by texting them but don’t want to have to remember to text them in the morning. So I have invented a timer on a text. You set a certain time that you want to send the text and as long as your phone is on it will send without you having to do anything! I ended up sending the idea to Verizon but who knows.

Here is my current phone: The chocolate 3

#17- Create an A' Cappella Group

In the fall semester of 2008, Carrie’s friend Brady came over. They were talking about A’ cappella and Carrie mentioned that I loved it. She called me out and the three of us listened to music for over 2 hours. I told Brady about my list and how I thought it would be awesome to create a group at BYU-Idaho. He said, “Well, why don’t you?” I was kind of shocked by his response. What was holding me back? Brady happened to be the lowest and most talented bass I could have hoped for. He said he would be in the group and find people for it. It was a long process getting it started but we did and performed for the nursing home Christmas party at the end of the semester. The group continued on into the winter semester as well. We were a lot better and performed a couple more times. The name “My A’ cappella” stuck and the group is still in operation even though I am not there.

Nick, Emily, Kylie, Merrill, me, Chris, Brady, Bethany

Carrie, Nick, Emily, Brady, me, Chris, and J

This is when we sang at Nashville nights. We got a standing ovation and an encore. We were then voted to sing at Best of Show and it was awesome.

This was the group last winter with Dave and Cory as the new additions. Yes, if you were wondering, the green was my idea!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLE5g5wRAoY
Here is a link to a song we arranged.

#23- Play 100 hymns in the hymnbook

I have now been the ward organist for 3 summers in a row. Because I’ve had this calling, practicing the piano has been a bigger priority in my life. I felt very inadequate to do this calling but have seen the blessings pour from it. I have been better at sight reading and am able to learn hymns faster. I went through the hymnbook and can play over 100 hymns now thanks to my calling!

This is me playing a hymn at the visitor's center in Salt Lake

#37- Go to a really scary place

I went to a haunted place called the Haunted Mill. I went with Denise, Carrie, Thomas, Jake, and Jake’s friend. It was super scary. The scariest part was we were walking and this monster said, “Lisa!” I was creeped out. I then said, “Did that monster just say my name?” Then it said, “Lisa Baer.” I later found out it was my friend who worked there. Ahhh!!!

#39- Ride on a 4-wheeler

We went to this random house for a bon fire. They used 4-Wheelers to get around. Carrie said to a hott guy, “Hey, Lisa has never been on one. Will you help her cross something off her bucket list?" The guy told me to hop on. I didn’t know where to hold on and he finally told me around his waist was best. Awkward! Haha! It was super fun though! Since then I have driven them several times.

Don't worry, the guy was hotter than this. This is just a random picture I found.

#41- Attempt to beat/ set a Guinness World Record

I went to Provo with my friends. They were having a girl’s night but I didn’t know most of them. J and Jazon were with me and we were trying to decide what we should do. I suggested marshmallows and toothpicks. J said that gumdrops worked better. So we texted ChaCha to see if there was a record for the tallest gumdrop and toothpick tower and they responded, “There is no record of the highest toothpick/ gumdrop structure. If you’re bored, you and your friend could compete for the tallest.” So we went to the store and pitched in and bought a bunch of toothpicks and gumdrops. We started around 9ish and got done at 4 in the morning. It really didn’t stand up by itself. It was super heavy but we measured it to be 5 feet tall! It was so much fun! Then after we took tons of pictures we smashed it and were just laughing the entire night! I’m tagged in tons of the pictures on facebook!

J and I with the measuring tape

Me pointing to the measurement with my hurt thumb

Jazon, J, and I

#42- Learn to play a song on the guitar

Kaity taught me how to play, “You are my Sunshine.”

#50- Go Snowboarding

The first time I went Kinzee, Denise, Kaity, Tyler, and I went. Everyone left me except for Kaity. She even let me borrow her snowboard. We went down the bunny hill but it was not steep at all so I couldn’t get any momentum. She then suggested we go on the big one. Getting on the lift was so scary!!! Getting off was worse because I totally fell! Haha! The hardest part was getting up when I fell down. I finally got down the hill. The second time we went down I didn’t fall at all and was so proud of myself! I LOVED it so much!

Me, Denise, and Kaity (my wonderful teacher)

#51- Go Snowmobiling

John Gardner invited me to go with him and his roommates. I didn’t feel good that morning but Kaity told me I’d better go or I might not get my chance again! So I went! At first John and I were just pulled up a hill by one of them and then went sledding! I finally asked if someone could take me for a ride since I’d never been before. This guy Scott said sure. He took me for a way long ride and I loved it! I think I like them better than 4-Wheelers! I'm pretty sure this is the guy that took me but can't remember...

#53- Stay up wake boarding for more than 5 seconds

I went to Lake Powell with the Reeder family in August 5^th through the 10^th in 2010. It was the second time I had been and was wonderful. I tried wakeboarding one day with really no luck. I let it all sink in over the next 2 days what I had learned and tried a second time. It had been two years since I had stayed up for 5 seconds. The second time I tried, we had a pole which I think gave me a lot of lift. I stayed up for a whole 7 seconds. I sure beat 5 but hope some day it will be at least a minute.

This picture is from the actual time I was up for 7seconds

#60- Have a flour fight

Joe Heeb and I were FHE co-chairs this summer which was fun because we both have Bucket Lists and tried to incorporate some items into FHE. This was one of them. Joe, Timbler, and I met up at WalMart a couple hours before FHE and bought a ton of flour and nylons. We spent about an hour or more filling up nylons with flour at the church and then set up cones and made a dodge ball like war zone. When everyone showed up we taped one team and the others did not have tape. Each team picked a captain and the object of the game was to get the other teams captain the whitest. The captain was allowed 3 protectors. You could cross the middle line to try to hit the captain but if you got hit by someone else you had to drop your nylon weapons and go back on your side. The entire thing lasted about 30 to 45 minutes. We concluded that Jenn Dugan was indeed the whitest which meant that out team lost. It was still a blast though. We then proceeded to open up the nylons and have a huge flour fight until there was no more flour. It was the greatest activity ever!

Here I am holding one of the nylon weapons

Here is the entire FHE gang that participated. It was a blast!

#61- Play Apples to Apples Backwards

We went over to Kristen Grover’s house for her Birthday. We ended up playing a lot of games and happened to choose Apples to Apples. We played with the green cards in our hands and placed the red cards on the table. It was so fun and was just a refreshing way to play one of my favorite games.

#71- Create an Improv Everywhere event

Again, being FHE co-chair came in handy this summer. Joe and I came up with 3 different flash mob ideas and ended up doing all three. The first one was a freeze on 72^nd Ave. We all dispursed on both sides of the street. The elders drove by and did a secret honk which froze all of us for 5 minutes until they came a second time with the honk to un-freeze us. It was so funny, especially because people were walking on the same sidewalk.

The second one was to wear our clothes backwards and shop walking backwards in Kohls for 15minutes. We just had to act normal and it was awesome! One guy asked me, “I normally wouldn’t ask but everyone in the store is walking backwards. What is going on?” I told him I had no idea what was going on and didn’t even notice that people were walking backwards. It was pretty funny!

Joe and I with our clothes on  backwards

The third one we did was to shop in slow motion in King Soopers. We froze when we hit the door and it was hilarious! Some lady told Ezra and Joe to fast forward. So funny. Some guys came up to me and were asking questions. I just responded in slow language and they were laughing so hard.

My Bucket List

Here is my Bucket List. Some are random, many are weird, some are serious, and others are ridiculous but so am I. These are some of the things I want to accomplish in my lifetime. The ones with *** in front of them are things I have already accomplished. I have decided to create a blog so I can write about the things I have accomplished on this list and hope to inspire others to make lists as well. It gives me something to look forward to and it feels good to cross items off. Enjoy! :)

Bucket List

1. Go to Guam

2. Go to Egypt

3. Play a difficult song on the piano… blindfolded

4. Get married in the temple

5. Have kids

6. Drive a really fast car, preferably a Viper

***7. Go to a General Conference

8. Go on some of the world’s best roller coasters

9. Swim with a shark (maybe this should be the last one)

***10. Ride on a motorcycle

11. Do a 50 miler

12. Pet a tiger

***13. Sleep on a trampoline

14. Sing with someone famous (preferably Josh Groban)

***15. Finish one of the songs I started writing

***16. Invent something useful

***17. Create an A’ Cappella group

18. Go hang gliding

19. Learn to play a song on the bagpipes

20. Ride in a small plane

21. Be on a TV show

22. Learn to say something in the bushman language

***23. Play 100 hymns in the hymnbook

24. Be a Ma on the Pioneer trek

25. Donate money to a charity

26. Visit the Taj Mahal

27. Live in Colorado Springs

28. Go to a drive in movie theatre

29. Save a life

30. Go on a cruise to Alaska

31. Go hard-core caving

32. Paint a picture of my favorite tree

33. Design a bright green room in my house

34. Play mud football

35. Write a really good story

36. Learn sign language

***37. Go to a really scary place

38. Paint a beautiful picture with my toes

***39. Ride on a 4-wheeler

***40. Ride a tandem bike

***41. Attempt to beat/ set a Guinness world record

***42. Learn how to play a song on the guitar

***43. Make a cool scarf

44. Go skydiving

45. Live next door to my best friend

46. Be the Ward Choir Director

47. Go on a mission

48. Wake up early and watch a sunrise from the top of a mountain

49. Have a huge food fight

***50. Go snowboarding

***51. Go snowmobiling

52. Ride in a hot air balloon

***53. Stay up wakeboarding for more than 5sec.

54. Visit the palace of the Winds

55. Try out for the Amazing Race

56. Go to the San Diego, California temple

57. Go on a long horseback ride/ camping trip

58. Knowingly eat a bug

59. Go fishing

***60. Have a flour fight

***61. Play Apples to Apples backwards

62. Visit Multnomah Falls, Washington

63. Visit Astoria, Oregon where the Goonies was filmed

64. Ride in a limo

65. Go to a real NFL football game

***66. Eat at In-N-Out

67. Re-visit Goblin Valley

***68. Carve a watermelon

69. Watch the extended versions of Lord of the Rings

70. Fly in a helicopter

***71. Create an Improv Everywhere event

72. Use a Potter’s wheel

73. Go zip lining

74. Go to a batting cage

75. Play Pingis (ping pong in a tennis court)

76. Go exploring in a huge castle

77. See a firefly in real life
78. Go dog sledding
79. Write a song on the guitar
80. Have a secret passageway and/or a slide in my house
81. Make and sleep in a snow cave
82. Have a shaving cream fight
83. Own a pair of chacos
84. Attend a Coldplay concert