Bucket List #26

#26. Get my Master's degree.

I finally defended my thesis in March of 2012 and officially graduated in May!  I even have the fancy hard-cover bound copy of my thesis sitting on my bookshelf now.  Boy, oh boy, does it feel good to be done with that!

There's my brick of a thesis all ready to ship to the graduate college!

It's official!

Bucket List #19n

The 19th item on my Bucket List is to visit certain national parks.  And yes, there are many sub-sets to this item on the list.

#19n. Camp in or visit Zion National Park, Utah.

Erik and I camped in Zion National Park (for the second time) during Spring Break of 2010.  We relaxed and went on some easy hikes and even had some misadventures (note: do not buy wet fire wood, it leads to crabbiness).

Ahh! Don't let go!

Near our campsite

Misadventures with the infamous wet fire wood

Got to try out the new tent

Throwing rocks into the river, always a good time.

In May of 2011, we went to Zion National Park again to go hiking with our friends Jamey and Kim.  We didn't camp at Zion, but we hiked Angel's Landing (a first for Erik).

Walter's Wiggles

At the top of Angel's Landing

Bucket List #4

First off, holy buckets!  It has been almost a year since I have posted last!  Sorry, blog, didn't mean to ignore you for so long.  This is still no guarantee that I'll keep up with posting, but I'm at least going to try!  And to start off, we're going to play catch-up with my bucket list series.

#4. Have a pet other than a goldfish.

We adopted our wonderful cat, Murphy, back in the fall of 2011.  And although he sometimes keeps us up at night chasing toys or trying to dig to China in his litter box, sometimes barfs on my stuff, and begs for scraps of our dinner, we love him to pieces.  Seriously, we've become those weird "cat parents" who talk about their cat as if he's their actual baby.  It's kinda gross.  But we can't help it; he's just so cute!