Christmas Bucket List Update #2

We're now Indiana for the holidays and have completed even more Christmas related tasks.

Completed 7/28

1. Go see Santa!
2. Got to Fantasy of Lights at Franke Park
3. Watch Christmas Movies
   1. Elf
   2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
   3. Charlie Brown Christmas
   4. The Polar Express
   5. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
   6. Christmas Vacation
   7. Love Actually
   8. A Christmas Story
   9. Holiday Inn
   10. White Christmas
   11. Christmas in the Smokies ✓
   12. Christmas Crush/Holiday High School Reunion ✓
   13. A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale ✓
   14. A Christmas Crush ✓
   15. My Santa ✓
   16. Christmas in the City ✓
   17. Merry Kissmas ✓
   18. Naughty & Nice ✓
   19. How Sarah Got Her Wings ✓
4. Make Christmas Cookies
5. Ride the Christmas train (New Haven)
6. Visit Oakland Zoo lights
7. Go ice skating
8. Make Christmas cocktails
9. Send Christmas cards -- All have been sent out!
10. Make peppermint bark
11. Load computer/phone with Christmas music
12. Make a Christmas craft
13. Check out and read 25 Christmas books
    1. Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson
    2. Jingle-Jingle by Nicola Smee
    3. What Santa Can't Do by Douglas Wood
    4. A New Improved Santa by Patricia Rae Wolff
    5. How Many Sleeps 'til Christmas? by Mark Sperring
    6. Albert's Christmas by Leslie Tryon
    7. A Small Christmas by Wong Herbert Yee
    8. Holiday Helper by Jill Abramson
    9. Llama Llama Holiday Drama by Anna Dewdney
    10. Monster Needs a Christmas Tree by Paul Czajak
    11. Christmas Coal Man by Joe Kulka
    12. Dear Santasaurus by Stacy McAnulty
    13. Pig the Elf by Aaron Blabey
    14. Best Christmas Book Ever by Richard Scarry
    15. Merry Christmas Pocoyo by Kristen Depken
14. Make Christmas ornaments
15. Make paper snowflakes
16. Write a letter to Santa
17. Decorate a gingerbread house -- Instead of a gingerbread house, we made a gingerbread tree! 
18. Host/attend Christmas cookie exchange -- I made my Ginger Molasses Cookies and in return we got Cardamon Shortbread, Iced Sugar Cookies, and Stem Ginger Cookies. Oh so good!
19. Read a Christmas-themed book (or two)
20. Participate in Secret Santa -- Arthur and Quentin had their Secret Snowflake exchange through the parent group. And I sent off my book-related Secret Santa gift. Hopefully mine will be waiting in Indiana when I get there.
21. Find a new Christmas album -- Done! I found two actually: Leslie Odom Jr.'s Simply Christmas and Lindsey Stirling's Warmer in the Winter. Both have been on repeat.
22. Make Hot Chocolate
23. Drive around to see the Christmas lights
24. Make Christmas albums
25. Make a snowglobe
26. Have a Christmas dance party
27. Call Santa
28. Have a candy cane hunt

Our Christmas Tree disaster... 

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