Hup and Steph’s 50 Goals For 2009

It’s mid-February and that means its time to check in on the ol’ New Year’s resolutions. Now, I’m not one for making resolutions but instead I prefer New Year’s “goals”. I think its more of an optimistic way of looking towards the new year, don’t you? So on the plane ride home from Indianapolis after our Christmas vacation, Ryan and I created a list of 50 goals that we hoped to strive for in the upcoming year. Below is our list complete with short description of what exactly each goal entails and as we reach these goals we will update the list with appropriate check marks or strike through.

Ryan and Stephanie’s Awesome Goals to Rock out 2009!!

1. Special Olympics
- back in Indy we coached special olympics basketball. see video here or watch it below. We’d like to get involved in some way out here as well.

2. Get involved in something in church
- merely than just going to church every Sunday we want to get involved in some kind of group Bible study or young adults group. The church that we currently go to is Peninsula Covenant Church in Redwood City.

UPDATE: Went to an awesome couple’s session at our church and met some new couples afterward.

UPDATE (1/4/10): We are now much more involved in our church and have also enjoyed getting to know other young couples who call PCC their home, too. More specifically, some of the things that we are doing include:

• A weekly small group with other younger couples (including Matt and Christen who are fellow bloggers)
• A weekly group with a woman named Donna who also goes to our church — she’s awesome sauce
• We helped out with Beautiful Day, which our church puts together as a way to help out our local community
• We have gotten to know both the lead pastor (Gary Gaddini) and the community pastor (Todd Gumbrecht) very well over the past year
• We now are signed up to help out with the ‘welcome station’ in front of the church whenever they need someone to fill in

3. Figure out Stephanie’s next move
- find a new career path or back to school for nursing? just some options

UPDATE on (3/7/09): It looks like Stephanie might be a runway model?

4. Plan wedding
- duh we’re getting married on August 29th. better plan something
- figure out creative methods <- we of course want to make our wedding unique… how can we do that?

UPDATE: Wedding Wednesday is in full effect each week — decided final bridal party on 2/18/09
UPDATE: We got our engagement photos back from Henry on 2/27/09.

UPDATE (1/4/10): We were married on 8/29/09 and headed off to Mexico for an AMAZING honeymoon (where I lost my wedding ring after 3 days). Our wedding photos can all be seen over here on Holly and Ryan Gauper’s website if you’d like to check out just how much fun we really had (you’ll be asked to enter in your email before you can view).

5. Marathon
- we both want to train for and run a marathon within this year

UPDATE (1/4/09): Stephanie ended up running the San Francisco marathon, but unfortunately due to my shoulder surgery (I wrecked my bike), I didn’t end up running it with her. However, that didn’t stop me (and Frank) from helping her train. Check out the breakdown of her marathon times below (yeah, she rocked it):

6. Visit Megan
- my best friend, Megan (see pic below) moved to South Carolina last year and I still haven’t made it out for a visit… something must be done about that.

UPDATE: Megan is coming to visit in May for Bay To Breakers (here’s last year)!!!

Megan and Stephanie — 2 peas in a pod.

7. work on keeping in contact
- It’s so hard with a busy schedule to keep in contact with friends and family, we need to do better
- List of friends to contact
-Family on Facebook (an idea that Ryan has about getting our family on Facebook)
-More cards (we want to send more cards, like the paper kind)
-one post a day on blog (we’re doing better at this)
8. Extra source of Income ( something enjoyable)
- it’s nice to have extra money to play with.. and we also have other ambitions for our life, that we would LOVE to make a career of, we just don’t know how yet.

9. Cheer for Smitty in Hawaii
- one of our good friends, Jason Smith (see pic below) will hopefully be competing in the Iron Man Triathlon in Hawaii this year in November. We live close enough, we should definitely make it over there to see him.

Smitty is a bike-ridin machine…

10. Travel outside of the U.S.
- We have a few friends all over the world, it shouldn’t be hard to find a place to stay
-Andrea (Paris)
-Roger (Costa Rica)

11. Ryan start speaking
- He already talks, yes, a lot. We’d like for Ryan to become more involved though in what he truly enjoys doing, speaking at conferences, panels, etc.

UPDATE: Ryan spoke at the UGCX conference in San Jose in early February — check out his speaker page here.

12. Start some type of fitness training
- still not sure how we’re going to do this, but we have some ideas… it’s definitely a passion of ours

13. License and License plate
- finally we got Ryan’s license, next is the license plate

14. Get to know Homer House Better ( and Palo Alto people)
- we’ve been blessed with a great group of friends that live in a house just right down the street. We’d like to hang out with them more. Read more about the Homer House homies over here and check out the video below to see how they roll.

15. Actually see the Golden Gate Bridge
-yep, still haven’t seen it up close and personal

16. Visit Wine Country
- I’ve been dying to go since we moved here

17. Explore more of S.F.
- It’s an amazing city and we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what all it holds

UPDATE: We got to check out a lot of SF while we were getting our engagement pics taken — what an awesome day.

18. Something different with blog and/or video
- Always looking for different ways to keep things fresh with our blog and videos

19. Couples’ blog group
-It would be cool to set up some sort of group of couples’ blogs

20. One Year Celebration
- we’ve been here for almost one year.. amazing let’s celebrate!

21. Get to know Kelty’s, Greg, Jocelyn better
- It’s amazing how you can live next door to people and still never see them…. busy schedules.

22. Still get out even when we’re tired ( don’t become boring!)
- our biggest fear is boredom… we want to fight it all that we can

23. Continue/get better communication ( accountability/relationship with God)
- communication is key in any relationship… continuing our growth and development of that is a very important goal

UPDATE: Both Ryan and I are dedicated to reading the Bible every day, which is definitely a step in the right direction.

24. Make sure Steph doesn’t turn into a bridezilla
- hey what can I say… it’s easy to get caught up in all of that stuff

25. Skydive
- no explanation necessary.. we’ve both done it in the past (see pics of us both below) and we’re ready to do it again

My hair after 160 mph.

Ryan after his wild ride in the sky

26. Ryan build relationship with TechCrunch and Arrington
- obviously a relationship with one of the biggest tech bloggers could be important. Ryan has been in TechCrunch twice already — check ‘em out here and here. We also got invited to TechCrunch’s annual Crunchies awards, which is where we met MC Hammer (see pic below). Hammer don’t hurt ‘em.

Ryan, Hammer, Me.

27. Continue to be consistent with workouts
- it’s hard to make time to workout, but obviously it’s more than beneficial

UPDATE: Ryan has been consistently working out in the mornings now and I’ve been hitting the gym after work — boo yah!

28. Get Frank
- another goal that holds no explanation… I. MUST. GET. A. DOG. See what Frank will look like below.

Yep, Frank’s a Pug…duh.

UPDATE: We got Frank!!!!

29. hiking/mountain climbing
- we live within one hour of any form of outdoor activity you could imagine.. we need to take advantage of it. We have checked out Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which was cool, but we want to do more!

30. Learn to surf
- see previous goal

31. learn Spanish
- living around this area you see what the rest of the world will be like in a few years.. learn Spanish now

32. Ryan work on Anxiety stuff and Steph too
- It’s hard not to let yourself get worked up when you lead such hectic lives. Ryan has been dealing with some crazy anxiety issues since leaving Indy — I guess that’s what going 24/7 with no sleep does to you. He’s definitely getting better though, which is awesome. I just need to not let all of those preschoolers get to me!

33. Make a budget (for life and wedding)
- it would probably be good to try to stick to a budget rather than live frivolously

UPDATE: Both Ryan and I have both made budgets and have started to spend less money on things like eating out, etc. so that we can get everything paid off as quickly as possible. It’s been great for us and hopefully something that we apply to everything else in our lives.

34. Random acts of kindness
- one of my greatest joys is doing something for someone.

UPDATE: Ryan just made a video for our buddy Bobby, which is pretty cool.

35. run road races
- they’re a great way to increase your level of fitness all while having fun

UPDATE (2/17/09): Looks like we’re running an 8k!.

UPDATE (3/1/09): We ran the Juana Run 8k and we killed it!

Kids, don’t try this at home — we’re professionals

36. Be on time and planning
- it’s a struggle but very important

37. Keeping our house neat
- again, it’s a struggle, and living in such a small place can make this even more difficult. As of now, out place it spotless!

38. Getting the most out of our weekends
- it’s our time to shine… we need to experience all that CA has to offer whenever we get the chance

39. Bubblezzzzz
- ummm i like bubble baths.. i wish i had a jacuzzi tub… maybe when we move

40. Meet more non-tech people
- somewhat of a struggle to do so out here in Silicon Valley, but I need to meet some more people that don’t understand what HTML and SEO stand for

UPDATE on 3/7/09: We met Matt and Christen at church and had an awesome dinner with them — they rule!

Matt and Christen are not techy, but they’re definitely awesome /p>

41. Stephanie more planning for events
- Ryan does a lot of the planning of what we do, it’d be good for me to think of some things as well

42. Go to sporting event
- there are a lot of great professional teams in or area.. we should go to some games

43. Paint the cottage
- I hate white walls

44. NEW COUCH
- it’s impossible for two people to relax comfortably on our current couch

45. Steph learn to make videos
- It would be fun to put a piece of my own flare into our videos

46. Get all doctor/dentist/eyedoctor appt. taken care of (glasses, contacts)
- we’ve waited too long to get all of this stuff done and out of the way

UPDATE: Ryan got contacts and I finally got some new ones!

47. Ryan attend more tech conferences
- He needs to fulfill his need for tech

48. Start fun fund
- my idea of a savings account.. put away money for fun random stuff

49. Bring people out for Bay to Breakers
- the single most amazing day in San Francisco every year.. people must come to see this. This was one of the first things that we did when we first arrived in California and it was amazing.

50. Visit San Diego
- several of my really good friends now live in San Diego.. it’s a shame I don’t go down there more often

Wow, that’s quite a list! It’s great though to write them out to keep them fresh on your mind, and it’s funny how after just a month and a half of writing out these goals, I could easily think of 50 more that we could work on. We should probably stick to accomplishing these first.

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