89. Have my brother's family visit at least 2 times a year

Gretchen beat me to the punch on this one.  She has a great collection of pictures showing just how many clicks it takes to get a decent picture.  What did people do before digital cameras?

It is so fun when we get together with Matt's family!  I just love seeing the kids play together and show their personalities.  One of my favorite parts of the weekend was watching the kids play in the Chick-fil-a playground.  Lilly showed Hannah and Maddie what to do.  Watching Lilly and Hannah run up and down the stairs to race down the slide together was great!  They even went down together holding hands a few times.  Maddie was a little slow to warm up to going down the slide but eventually began to love it.
What a great visit!

70. Blood Bank Harry Potter Style

Almost exactly a year ago I went to donate blood only to find it was a Twilight party.  I had a very similar experience yesterday as I went to donate.  Sitting next to two nervous high school girls I found that this week they are promoting the release of the Harry Potter movie.  The most rediculous comment of the day was when the girl very nervously prepared for the needle injection by saying that it was all worth it because of the t-shirt.

You be the judge.  Was it worth it?

One more trip and I will be done with this goal!

49. Read 1,000 books to Madeline

I don't know which girl I like to read to more.  They are both so different!

Hannah loves to have a story read to her.  I think her favorite thing is to curl up in your lap and just listen and enjoy.

Madeline listens to learn and remembers stories so well.  Just tonight when I was reading to her I stopped and Maddie told me to keep reading and told me what part was coming next. She is so attentive and follows along so well.

The thing I like most about reading to the girls now is that they are starting to follow along and have been able to memorize many of the books that we read to the girls.  We have even spotted the girls taking books off the shelf to "read" to Charlie.  Hopefully their love for reading will continue for years to come!

Another goal down!

95. Vote in every election

I have been excited for voting day to come for awhile.  Not because I enjoy voting so much, but because this election had more commercials and phone calls than I remember us ever having before.

When I sat down with my ballot I had a pretty clear view of who I wanted to vote for in each race.  That is a lot different from years ago when I would vote but have no idea about anyone I was voting for.  That is why it made the list.  I have had to make a conscious effort to investigate the people running for office and have had to decide who I want to vote for and why.  It works out a lot better that way!

One more election to go and this goal will be done!  This goal will definitely not be on my next list.  Voting is a good practice to have, but it isn't really the most fun to keep track of.

48. Read 1,000 books to Hannah

Yep, I'm still here, just not a lot going on.

Hannah has turned into a girl who loves to be read to!  She constantly comes up to me and asks me to read a book to her.  I love that she has learned to love books.

Her latest favorite is a book that Uncle Josh and Aunt Nean sent to the kids for their birthday.  It is an awesome ABC book about them.  It is filled with pictures of our family and theirs to make up the alphabet.  Hannah and Maddie both want to read it multiple times each and every day. 

I think the thing I am most excited about having this goal done is that I don't find myself thinking about updating the book total on the blog after I read a book. It gets tedious.

Another goal down!

97. Create a will

It's done!
This one definitely fits into the category of goals I wrote down for things that should be done but have never been motivated to actually do.  Nothing flashy with this one.
I have a good friend from growing up that is a lawyer who said he could write it up.  It turned out to really not to be a big deal at all.  A couple visits and a couple emails and it is done.

Here's a picture of us sealing the deal.  Actually it is a picture of us in the parking lot after playing a round of golf, but it's all I've got.  Matt came down to enjoy the festivities as well.  It was nice to get together again as we were pretty close grade school through high school. 

I can now officially die with legal paperwork in order to help make legal things easier when I am gone!

66. Visit a New Ballpark

In an effort to completely lose all of my readers I am deflecting all traffic from this post to my brother Matt's blog.  He did a great job on his post and I couldn't do any better than he did. Plus, all of the pictures I have would be a duplicate from him as both of us forgot our cameras and we had to rely on the phone from his camera.
We had a great time together driving from Milwaukee to Minneapolis for the game, then back to Milwaukee all in the same day.
Here's his post to get a better picture of our trip.
Enjoy!