Christmas Bucket List Update #3

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

Completed 11/28

1. Go see Santa! -- We got to meet with Santa on the Christmas train last weekend.
2. Got to Fantasy of Lights at Franke Park
3. Watch Christmas Movies
   1. Elf
   2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
   3. A 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 ✓
   20. A Princess for Christmas ✓
   21. Christmas Inheritance ✓
4. Make Christmas Cookies -- Arthur and I made more of my Ginger Molasses cookies. We're going to iced and decorate mom's sugar cookies after the twins arrive.
5. Ride the Christmas train (New Haven)
6. Visit Oakland Zoo lights
7. Go ice skating
8. Make Christmas cocktails
9. Send Christmas cards
10. Make peppermint bark
11. Load computer/phone with Christmas music
12. Make a Christmas craft -- Arthur and I have been making the various crafts we bought at Michael's last month.
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 
18. Host/attend Christmas cookie exchange 
19. Read a Christmas-themed book (or two) -- I finished Christmas Magic and am reading A Christmas to Remember anthology.
20. Participate in Secret Santa 
21. Find a new Christmas album 
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

Next up on the TBR pile: