Bucketlist Item #10… Skydiving!!!

Well, I did it and I lived to tell the tale. Bucketlist Item #10. Check! I can tell you there is no feeling quite like the rush of stepping out of a plane 11,000 feet in the air… on purpose.

We found a Groupon, so the jump cost was only $115. I say “only $115” because without the Groupon, it would have been much closer to $200. The weather was pretty terrible for our appointment time of 2:30, so we ended up jumping closer to 6 or 7. We occupied our time with some soccer…

And mobile “Family Fued…”

And in no time, we were off…

Other than the initial terror due to stepping out of the plane, it actual wasn’t too frightening. Because of the delay, we ended up jumping right at sunset, which made it worth the wait. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone to try at least once. If you decide to purchase the video, be prepared to see some very bizarre facial expressions. Not from fear, but from the air pressure. I had giant cheekbones at one point, flapping lips at another and the side of my face moved in ways that ones face never should.

Dogs can be cute too…

Happy Wednesday! You’re half way through the week!

Spray Paint Success!

I’m going to start with the “after” picture, because I am so happy with how it turned out.

We found it at a garage sale for about $.50 and it looked like this:

Really cute, but it didn’t match my decor. I knew I wanted it to be metallic to match a few other things in my office, but I didn’t want the paint to ruin it so I did a test run on my cactus candelabra first. That turned out really nicely and gave me enough confidence to paint the frog without thinking I would make it ugly. Off to my cement spray paint slab I went…

I think it’s perfect!

Does anyone else have some spray paint success stories? I’d love to hear them!