Lauren's Bucket List

Perform a service project in Africa

Go on a 30th/60th Birthday trip with my mom.  (My mom turns 60 when I turn 30)

Give birth- Parker Vincent Ricci was born via c-section on February 18, 2013 at 3:18 am.  The most incredible moment of my life.

Save someone’s life

Visit every country in the Caribbean- St. Lucia, 2007; Jamaica, 2006 & 2009; Trinidad and Tobago, 2012; Barbados, 2012

Find fulfillment in my job- Fidelity Investments, October, 2010

Visit Australia

Go to an awards show

Make a difference in the world

Become a mother- Became Parker's mama on February 18, 2013; absolutely in love with this little man.

Renew our wedding vows on a beach with our best friends

Own a pair of ridiculously expensive shoes

Learn how to arrange flowers

Take maternity photos

Visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC

Stay in an overwater bungalow in Fiji, Tahiti or Bora Bora

Go to a movie premier

Have a stylist show me what I should wear

Go skydiving

Sing karaoke and be totally proud of it

Bake a perfect batch of cookies

Give a homeless person my leftovers- May 18, 2012

Go on an African safari

Learn to photoshop

Visit New Zealand

Have boudoir photos taken of myself- August, 2010

Go to a Saints game- Arizona, 2010

Go on an extended road trip through California to visit each of our family members who live there

Become the intake specialist at The Sharing Place- October, 2009

Publish my infertility blog

Ski black diamonds without hesitation

Take a professional make-up class

Go on an EX wives girl's trip- Moab, UT, 2009

Forgive my dad- 2012

Pay cash for a car- Bought a Lexus GS350 for Mike on January 3, 2013

Go to the Superbowl

Watch my kidlets grow up

Visit Boston with Miguel

Run my own teen group at The Sharing Place

Visit the Solomon Islands

Grow a lime tree

Go to New York with Mike and prove to myself not every relationship ends there

Successfully grow peonies- First peonies bloomed May, 2012.

Be on a game show

Open a home organization business

Watch the Saints win a Suberbowl- February, 2010

Solve a Rubix cube

Help plan someone else’s wedding

Become an aunt- Michaela Kendra Ricci was born May 14, 2012

Cliff jump in Lake Powell- August, 2011

Attend a Burlesque show

Become as toned as I was at my wedding and maintain it

Learn to do up-dos on myself

Be made-over

Learn to craft

Go on an Alaskan cruise

See a monkey in the wild- Barbados, 2012

Go backstage at a concert

Solve a crime

Discover San Francisco- November, 2011

Design and build a house

Stay in a hotel with a private pool- The Villas at StoneHaven, Trinidad and Tobago, 2012

Learn to make ravioli macchiati

Bridge jump

Go on a helicopter ride over Kauai

Go to a Saints game at home

Visit the Eiffel Tower- October, 2012

Go to a real fortune teller

Go on a tropical vacation with friends- Cancun Mexico- 2010 with The Sigma Chis

Visit North Carolina

Go on a hot-air balloon ride

Ride in a Boeing 747

Master wakeboarding

Design a nursery- Designed Parker's nursery in 2012

Become a voted Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

Take a professional cooking class

Visit Disneyland and Disneyworld with my kidlets

Attend a Cirque ole show

Plant and maintain an herb garden- Work in progress.  Currently grow parsley, mint, rosemary, chives, thyme, green onions, lavender and tarragon.

Live in another state

Go back to Capri, Italy

Cook a perfect omelet

Hold a Koala

Be in New Orleans for every celebrated holiday, including Mardi Gras.- Have been for New Years, Easter, Halloween and the Saints Superbowl win.

Successfully grow basil- Summer, 2012

Remove my toe tattoo- in progress

Embrace my large forehead

Visit Egypt

Love who I am and embrace the story I am meant to tell

Run a marathon

Conquer my fear of water

Embrace color

Be a server

Ride a mechanical bull