2-Year Wish List

When we first moved into this house in 2010, there were a lot of furnishings we needed for it, but I was unable to get them all at once, so I created a long-term 2-year list to hopefully work on obtaining one item at a time until everything on the list was complete. After 2 years, I'd crossed off 10 of the 15 items that were listed. I wanted to continue working towards long-term goals, so I made a new list in the summer of 2012 with 10 new items, but only 4 items got crossed off in that time. However, we've been pretty successful at completing the items on the two-year list I made in 2014; only two did not get accomplished:

2-year Wish List (Fall 2014)
1. Replace van 12/14 (this has been on the list from the beginning!)
2. Build a garage 6/16 (this has also been on the list every time!)
3. New streetbike motorcycle 5/15
4. Put hardwood floor in family room 12/15
5. Install a light at the end of the deck
6. New couch 12/15
7. New wood stove
8. New dishwasher 3/16 (purchased out of necessity when the old dishwasher bit the dust)
9. Family trip to Disneyland 11/16
10. Couple's trip to Mexico 11/15 (this is another item that has been on every one of the lists)

Josh purchased the suburban in Rexburg without me. We picked it up on the
way back from my Grandma Rose's funeral in Utah at the beginning of
December 2014. We sold the van a few weeks later, and have never regretted it!

This much-desired garage has been a huge blessing for us already.
It was made possible mostly in part to the inheritance we received after my
Grandpa Perkins passed away. Every time I drive up and see the garage,
I feel so grateful and am so thankful to him and his everlasting gift to us!

Josh and I have both wanted a street bike for years--I'm so glad this dream
finally came true. It's been one of the funnest vehicle purchases we've ever made!

This was Josh's gift to me last Christmas. It was not a fun job for him, and
was painstakingly laborful--but it's been so nice to have in the family room, and
has felt so much cleaner since (it was impossible to keep the old carpet in there
clean with the wood stove dust, the muddy tracks from the kids coming
in the back door, and their constant food spills in there). 

We got this couch from a family in Idaho Falls that was listed on Craigslist.
We like to have upholstered couches while our kids are still young; the microfiber
ones get dirty so fast. It was in better condition than our previous sectional
(which, coincidentally, we also got form Craigslist in 2010) which was sagging 
in the couch section, and ripping on the recliners, but eventually we'd like
to have one where the recliners face the TV instead of run perpendicular to it. 

We've been planning for this trip ever since Kanyon was little.
We wanted to go when he was at least 8, and before Ammon
graduated from high school. It finally happened this year!
I loved it, the boys liked it, and Josh survived it!

This was the best vacation Josh & I have ever taken. We've been dreaming of
doing it for years, and finally made it come true last year for Josh's 39th birthday.
We loved it so much that we hope to go again next year! We recommend Playa
Del Carmen to everyone and hope to have friends or family join us next time

I'm pretty proud of all that we've been able to cross off that list! Here's the newest list of items to financially work towards in the next two years:

2-year Wish List, as of Fall 2016
1. Electricity in the garage
2. Insulation in the garage
3. Install gutter along backside of the house
4. Add a light in the living room entrance and also outside by the end of the deck
5. Get a new car
6. Pay off truck
7. Pay off suburban
8. Couple's vacation to Mexico
9. Purchase a new laptop
10. Get a better piano