# 73 See a Broadway show (meow)

On April 27, 2010 Mallory, Claire, Katie, and Bryce all with their family went and saw the Broadway show CATS at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson, MS.

The four of us in front of the set, from where our seats were.

#64 Have a picnic at the park

Mallory, Kelsey, and Bryce picnicked at the park on May 12, 2010. This was also after the AP Language and Composition test. We didn't want to go back to school! Mallory and Bryce had Chick-fil-a and Kelsey had Sushi Box 2 from OEC 2! :)

Mallory and Bryce

 Kelsey and Bryce

Mallory and Kelsey sitting on the lovely picnic blanket Bryce brought

Chick-fil-a = delicious

Sushi = YUCK, well at least to Mallory

#92 Fly a kite

Bryce, Kelsey, and Mallory completed this on May 12, 2010. After taking the AP Language and Composition exam, we all got some lunch and flew kites. It took us a while to get the hang of it and keep them in the air, but we did it. We made all the little kids outside at Flowood Elm extremely jealous! :) Flying kites with friends is waaay better than going to school!!!

Building the "Batman" kite

"Batman" kite

"Yoda" kite

Bryce and Kelsey

Mallory and Kelsey

Mallory and Kelsey again

Me and claire got to meet needtobreathe!!!!!!!! The concert was cancelled due to severe weather! :( but the band did come out and meet everyone! When I get to a computer pictures will be posted!!!!!!!!!! We are currently freaking out! Oh and we met some very cute college boys! :)

#81 Beat the "Impossible Quiz"

On April 1, 2010, Mallory beat the "Impossible Quiz". This has been a goal of her's since freshmen year, basically. We all feel this is a great accomplishment. She played this basically all during A3 today. :)

Mallory after beating the "Impossible Quiz":

The winner's screen for the quiz:

#6 Go to an EPIC concert

On Wednesday March 17, 2010, Katie and Claire got to go see  John Mayer in ATL. This was one of Katie's birthday presents. According to both of them this concert was beyond amazing. Pictures of this concert will be put up very soon.

On Saturday April 3, 2010, Mallory and Kelsey will get to go see Toby Mac, Skillet, and House of Heroes, in JXN. This most definately will be an awsome concert. Mallory and Kelsey have already seen Skillet almost a year ago.

On Saturday April 24, 2010, Mallory, Katie, and Claire will go see NeedtoBreathe in concerct in B'ham. Mallory has already seen them once in concert a little over a year ago. NeedtoBreathe is one of the bands where they are better live than they are on their records.

Pictures for all of these EPIC concerts will be put up soon after each concert has taken place! :)


JOHN MAYER CONCERT:

Claire and Katie at the John Mayer concert

Up close of John

Very neat looking picture

Just another picture that looks neat

TOBYMAC, SKILLET, AND HOUSE OF HEROES

Mallory and Kelsey after the concert:

TobyMac

TobyMac finale

Skillet

Meeting the lead singer of HOH

NEEDTOBREATHE:

There are no needtobreathe concert pictures, due to it being canceled because of severe weather in Birmingham the night of the concert! :(

#46 Share God's word with someone you don't know

This weekend Mallory is accomplishing this task on the list. She was asked to do the halftime devotional for Upwards Basketball & Cheerleading. She is the gym manager for Pinelake during the season, so she has been able to see every practice and game and seen the children grow with Christ. So with that, she took on the task to speak to all of the family and friends of the players. She spoke about STRESS because this past week she has had alot of stress on her, considering she was crazy and took three AP classes her Junior year. Her devotional was from:

Psalm 31:1-5

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.

3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

4 Free me from the trap that is set for me,
for you are my refuge.

5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.

The author of this passage was stressed out. His enemies were after him. He clearly understood that God was his help, God was his refuge, his deliverer, his rescuer, his strength, his strong hold, his fortress, his leader, his truth.
The same God that the author of this passage turned to in a time of stress or worry, is the same God that loves and cares for us in the same way. We need to internalize these characteristics of God. God has our backs and can handle any of our problems if we just ask him to. He will not put you to it, if He cannot get you through it.

So with this in mind, Mallory ended with this.

Psalm 31:24
24 Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the LORD.

#87 Face a fear

So, last night Februray 24, 2010, Mallory was able to cross "face a fear" off of the list. She spoke to all of the parents for a half time devotional for the Upward basketball and cheerleading games. Her devotional was short but sweet. It was only about 2 minutes long. On the plus side, she gets the chance to give this devotional a total of 6 times to all of the parents who have children taking part the Upwards program at Pinelake Baptist church. This item was actually crossed off the list a while back by Claire, but we did not get a pictures or video of it! :( She spoke in front of all of her peers at our high school's FCA huddle on a Friday morning. She did great, and all of the girls wished we would have gotten video or pictures of her. The day she spoke, there were many more students at the huddle than there had been in the past few weeks. These two events were very exciting for Claire and Mallory. So now two things have been officially crossed off the list.

The Buried Life

The television show that inspired our list of 100 things to do before graduation, premiers tonight on MTV at 10/9 central. Most of us have our DVRs set to record the show because we just happen to busy during the premier! oh well, we will all catch it later!

#23 Swim with dolphins or manatees

We are excited to announce that we have only 99 more things to do on the list!!! Bryce had the opprotunity through Girl Scouts to swim with manatees in Florida today. We all want to do this activity, but she beat us to the punch. Maybe later on in the year the rest of the group will get to go to Florida  and have this experience. Bryce took many pictures or so she said. ;) When she gets home from Florida, pictures will be posted to the blog. Also, when she gets home we can start on working one other thing off the list which is #99 create a scrapbook of our adventures. The fun has now begun for all of us. All that's left for us to do is come to a consensus for our name for our group as a whole, we do have several in mind, we just have to pick one! :)

Bryce swimming with the manatees

This is a picture of the sign where Bryce went swimming

This is a picture of most of the girls who went on the trip with Bryce

According to Bryce, the manatees love belly rubs and to be tickled!

Here's another picture of Bryce swimming with the sea cows!

And another picture of Bryce with the sea cows. mooooo!

Burrrr. Bryce went swimming at the beginning of January. She said it was freezing!!!

Bryce being a goof! :)

We need some fundraising ideas for our group to complete the "bigger" items on our list. I guess we didn't really anticipate coming up with things such as riding the country's tallest rollercoaster or the swimming with dolphins or going to major concerts/sporting events or all the traveling we would have to do. So does anyone have any ideas for us?!

The Lunchbox List in its entirety

The Lunchbox List

Mallory Cadenhead, Kelsey Thomasson, Claire Bolen, Katie Kimbrell, Taylor Giles, and Bryce Maier

16 months. 6 girls. 100 things to do before graduation.

1. Get on the six o clock news

2. Skydive

3. Start a random protest

4. Work the drive through at McDonald’s

5. Chase down the ice cream truck

6. Go to an epic concert

7. Road trip it to the beach for a day

8. Start a dance in a public place

9. Donate money to charity

10. Attend a major sporting event

11. Get a YouTube video to blow up on the internet

12. Find all the geocaches in Brandon area

13. Pay for a strangers groceries

14. Learn to ball room dance

15. Learn to play an instrument

16. Smash a guitar after perform on a street corner in Jackson with it

17. Ride in a cop car

18. Ride the highest roller coaster in the country-Kingda Ka in New Jersey

19. Drive a convertible with the top down and the music blaring

20. Learn to make a gourmet meal

21. White water rafting

22. A day of silence

23. Swim with dolphins or manatees

24. Make the front page of the newspaper

25. Meet someone famous

26. Host a lemonade stand

27. Create a waterslide and tube down it

28. Camp outside

29. Road trip to most small cities in Mississippi

30. Host a radio show

31. Roll an entire street of houses

32. Trick or treat in April

33. Go to a poetry club a recite poetry (snap, snap)

34. Accomplish 333 ways to get kicked out of Wal-Mart

35. Help someone with house work

36. Play at pump it up

37. Kayak the reservoir

38. Sonic happy hour for one week straight

39. Look through every magazine in Borders/Barnes and Nobles

40. Stay out all night

41. Get a picture with a celebrity

42. Walk/run/bike a half or full marathon

43. Skip school

44. Climb a tree

45. See something that takes your breath away

46. Share God’s word with someone you don’t know

47. Watch an extremely stupid movie

48. Laugh until you cry

49. Prank three cars, three nights in a row

50. Rap the McDonald’s rap in a public place with lots of people or in McDonalds

51. Drive down the highway blowing bubbles out the window

52. Temporary hair highlights (pink, green, blue, etc.)

53. Eat a really, really, really, really big burger

54. Start a huge wave

55. Get a tattoo (henna)

56. Scream at the top of your lungs from the top of the Empire State Building

57. Donate blood

58. Plant a tree

59. Get a professional massage

60. Bike ride the entire Northshore biking/walking/running trail

61. Have a homerun derby at the 471 fields

62. Go to Memphis in May

63. Spend an entire day at the park


64. Have a picnic at the park

65. Dance in the rain or snow if we happen to get some this year

66. Play “The Floor is Lava”

67. Do something for homeless

68. Huge garage sale

69. Have a Wii Sports tournament

70. Pull an all nighter at home

71. Have a Disney classic marathon

72. Have a Disney character costume party

73. See a Broadway show (meow)

74. See how many pictures we can get of ourselves in the yearbook

75. All day shopping day

76. Play Frisbee golf

77. See how far Lakeland/25 goes

78. Get REALLY tan

79. Road trip to New Orleans

80. Sing karaoke

81. Finish the impossible quiz

82. Chocolate slide (for Claire)

83. Sock sliding contest

84. TOMS shoe party

85. Prom senior year together

86. Eat a new, random food

87. Face a fear

88. Ride every ride at the fair

89. Go to the rodeo

90. Stand on an elevator backwards and see who follows

91. Christmas carols in July


92. Fly a kite

93. Random Act of Kindness day

94. Go visit a senior citizen home

95. Take 100 pictures of all 6 of us- all different, all of us have to be in each picture

96. Gaze at the stars

97. Paint pottery at Fat Cat or Harry the Potter

98. Volunteer at ARF shelter on Hollybush Rd

99. Scrapbook our adventure

100. Graduate High School

100 Things

Our list of 100 things is finally complete and we can start working on crossing all of them off!!! Woo hoo!!! We still need to come up with a name for the group itself, but we actually have several in mind! :)

The List in the Making

We got the idea from the new MTV reality show The Buried Life.  It sounded like an interseting and a fun way to build memories leading up to and all of senior year of highschool. The people taking part in this are Mallory Cadenhead, Katie Kimbrell, Claire Bolen, Kelsey Thomasson, Taylor Giles, and last but certainly not least, Bryce Maier. So the past few days, we have been trying to come up with all 100 things for our list. So far over the course of 3 days we have come up with 81 things to do before graduation! Also in the past 3 days we have come up with a title for our list, but not a title for group. The list is still in the works, but we want to finish it ASAP so we can start. Everyone in our group is ecstatic to start working on crossing things off of the list. The sooner we start, the sooner the real fun begins. In making this list, our hopes are to make great memories, make new friends, and build our friendship stronger. This list will be the thing we remember most about our last year and half of high school. The whole goal of the lunchbox list is to accomplish 99 things before graduation and the 100th thing being GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL, which we plan to cross off the list after all of us have walked across the stage!