Cheers to 2025! My Goals, Resolutions, Dreams & Plans
How absolutely insane is it that 2025 is right around the corner? It feels as though just yesterday we were sharing with you our 2024 plans and now, here we are doing the same for 2025.
While we may not have had international adventures in 2023, 2024 was still incredibly good to us. We grew closer as a family, spent lots of time with friends, experienced new firsts, moved into our dream house, and went on numerous adventures.
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A Condensed Version of our 2024 Recap
- We visited countless National Historic sites including; Timucuan Preserve, Congaree National Park, Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, Biscayne National Park, and Reconstruction Era National Historical Park. We took a trip up north to see many monuments in DC and visited Fort McHenry and Gettysburg.
- We visited Universal Studios Orlando and had a sponsored trip to Wild Adventures Theme Park. Later, we visited Hersheypark.
- The kids added Alabama, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware to their list of states they’ve visited.
- The kids had their first legit snow day in West Virginia where we zoomed down the longest sled run on the East Coast of the US!
Our 2024 Goals, Revisited
- ✅Visit The Keys- We visited Key Largo with our framily this summer. We all had a wonderful time. I can’t believe I’ve lived in Florida for 32 years and this was my first trip to The Keys!
- Hit the High Seas- Unfortunately, we canceled our cruise this year…but, there’s always next year…
- ✅Visit More National Parks- My goal this year was to visit at least 10 National Park Sites. I added them to all of our itineraries. The kids love collecting passport stamps, and I enjoy teaching them about our nation’s history.
- ✅Hit up the Theme Parks- While we didn’t make it to Disney this year, we did visit Universal Orlando. We also took a sponsored trip to Wild Adventures Theme Park and Hersheypark.
- ✅Add a New State to the List of Places We’ve Been- The kiddos added Alabama to their list when we visited a friend in Auburn early in the year. Later, we went on our Mason-Dixon Road Trip and added West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey to their list.
- ✅Plan Our Christmas Trip- This year’s trip, which I’ve dubbed the Mason-Dixon Road Trip, was amazing! We went sledding, learned more about our nation’s history at key sites, went to Hersheypark, spent Christmas Day at Great Wolf Lodge, and revisited DC.
- ✅Accrue Airline Miles-We continued to rack up airline miles for future trips.
2025 Goals and Plans
Hey Boo Boo!
At Christmas time, our kids Elves on the Shelf “stole our credit card” and booked a summer trip to Jellystone- our kids absolute favorite place to vacation.
Nashvegas, Baby!
Our New Years Day tradition is putting the names of the states the kids have not been to into a hat and selecting a state at random to plan a trip to. This year, they pulled Tennessee. We booked a flight to Nashville. We can’t wait to share our Nashville trip with you!
Visit More National Parks
Gimme all the parks! The kids each have National Park passports and they love collecting stamps. We visited a TON of National Park sites last year and I’d like to keep it going. I hope to add a park to each of our itineraries this year.
Add at least 1 more state to our list of places we've been
This year I enjoyed the spontaneity of pulling a state from a hat and planning a trip around that state. Otherwise, there’s no way West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware would have been on our radar. I plan on doing the same thing for 2025- while this might not lead to a full-blown road trip, we will definitely plan a trip this way.
More 2025 Goals
- Plan our Christmas Trip.
- Accrue airline miles.
- Create 12 new YouTube Videos
- Add content for 3 states
Follow Along to See How We Do With Our 2025 Goals!
We hope that you’ll join us as we explore the world around us and continue to give our 3 littles a broad view of the world. Our plans for 2025 include lots of time exploring the great outdoors.
If you aren’t already doing so, be sure to follow us on our socials! We use Instagram to share pictures, Reels, and Stories about our day-to-day life. We also use Facebook and Twitter to share our new content.
We look forward to connecting with you and sharing our adventures with you in 2025.
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