Since my last blog post on December 11th, there have been some major changes in my life.  In short, I started dating a guy (a very special guy) the first week of January.  We dated for 2 months and got engaged on March 6th … and 4 months later, on July 3rd we got hitched.  :)  So, blogging was one of the last things on my mind during this time.  BUT I do have items to cross off the list!  And you’ll get to learn a bit more about my new husband through this as well since most of these I can cross off because of him!

#64 – Go on at least one date a year. Jeremiah’s and my first date was on January 6th, pretty great way to kick-off the best year of my life!  He took me to Houlihan’s and to see Sherlock Holmes.  I haven’t been on many first dates, but I’ve got to say that this one was pretty stellar.  I knew immediately that I liked this guy.  Here’s a video that some sweet girls took right before Jeremiah picked me up.  It’s through Skype, so that’s why I’m in the computer.

#70 – Watch all the AFI top 100 movies – Hoosiers. Jeremiah looked at my blog and saw my 101 list and decided that he wanted to help accomplish this fun task.  He especially likes the movie challenge and happens to own a few of the movies that I haven’t seen.  So, for our second date he had me over and made me dinner, then we watched Hoosiers.  I knew that I couldn’t blog about this one right away, because I couldn’t remember half of the movie.  And still don’t actually.  Come on, I was sitting next to this cute guy on his couch, how could I pay attention?!  But, still I watched it and I’m sure that we will watch it again sometime.

#52 – Take a group of friends to St. Louis. When I originally wrote this list, I imagined taking a small group of girlfriends.  It ended up being just me and “my Jeremiah friend.”  We went the first weekend of February because I helped out with a youth weekend near there.  Jeremiah stayed with his friend in STL.  On Sunday afternoon I got to show him around town – we went up the arch and to the zoo before driving back to Manhattan.  We had a great time!

#59 – Go to the Top of the World (Manhattan, KS). I definitely didn’t expect that my first time visiting the Top of the World would be for my engagement pictures.  It was a very windy day, but we had a great time!  Our amazing photographer, Erica, did a fantastic job!


#56 – Learn how to make fresh white bread. My good friend Kelsey is a baker and she was kind enough to teach me how to make bread.  We had so much fun making bread in the bakery science lab last month.  It smells so good!  Here are some pictures from the process:

#13 – Take a train somewhere. Jeremiah and I went to Atlantic City, NJ, for our honeymoon.  It was great!  So relaxing.  While researching AC and deciding what to do, we looked at how close New York City was and found that a train ran from AC to NYC on the weekends.  It’s only a 2 1/2 hour trip and super cheap tickets.  And we were excited that this would take care of #13 on the list!  Here’s video that we took:

#46 – Make homemade ice cream. I totally forgot that this was on my list!  My parents bought us an electric ice cream maker for a wedding shower gift and our first night back in Manhattan after the honeymoon we had all the Wenzel siblings over for some homemade ice cream.  While enjoying this delicious treat we opened wedding gifts.  Very fun night!  Sadly no pictures, though.

I am looking forward to continuing the work on this list.  With just over a year left for the project, I’m not if I’ll complete it all.  But I’ll be enjoying what I can get done!

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