My Bucket List

After watching one of my favorite movies for the umpteenth time, I've felt that I needed to post my own personal Bucket List on here.

For those who haven't seen the movie The Bucket List, a bucket list is a list of those things that you hope to do before you kick the bucket.

1. Visit Norway

• Spring 2006 — My first visit to the home of my ancestors. Met many of my distant cousins, stood in the very place where my 3gg father and his family accepted the Gospel, and fell in love with the land of my ancestors.
• Summer 2009 — My upcoming trip.

2. Visit the Arctic Circle

• Spring 2006 — Attended church in Bødo, Norway, one of the branches that my great grandfather served his mission in. It is located on the northern end of Norway, above the Arctic Circle.

3. Become a Good Husband

• Summer 2005 — Close, but no cigar.

4. Become a Good Dad

• I don't care whether I am considered "dad" by someone who is genetically my offspring, adopted by me, or my step-children.
• Summer 2005 -- (see above)
• 07 Jan 2011 -- Heidi's 16 year old daughter, Bailey, called me Dad for the first time, and said she would like to call me Dad.
  

5. Live a Life worth Living

• This one will never be checked off during my lifetime, but I hope that someone else can check it off for me when the end of this life comes.

Thanksgiving Day Dinner Photos

I love it when the holidays approach, and people tell me that they're having a big crowd for Thanksgiving Dinner.  I always chuckle when they claim that twenty people might be there.  Why?  Because our family usually has EIGHTY to ONE-HUNDRED people at our family's dinner.

We rent out an LDS wardhouse, everyone brings assigned dishes, and we have about four to six turkeys.

This year I think that we were close to one-hundred people out in West Jordan.  My cousin Paula Marsh and her family hosted it this year, and it was a great time.

The first set of photos as everyone lines up to get dinner.

The second set of photos as everyone finishes up dinner.