~ChRiStMaS BuCkEt LiSt SuCcEsS~

This week was our first week doing our Christmas bucket list and we got a few things crossed off, a few things that I was very excited to do! We made a homemade Christmas countdown that I hope we will keep for years and years to come, so that maybe someday it will be a favorite of our children because it will be one that they remember as little kids:)  We worked so hard on it (we were up till 2:30 in the A.M.) and I was so pleased at how it turned out! I love spending quality time like that with my husband:) We also got "Watch the Santa Clause" crossed off of our list. I just love that movie. It's probably one of  my favorites. The last one that we got crossed off was "Write letters to Santa." What me and Mitch did for this one was actually write letters to each other, addressed to Santa. How we did this was act as if we were talking to Santa. We told "Santa" what we enjoyed this past year and asked "Santa" what kinds of gifts we wanted for the year to come. Ex: "Santa one gift that I want this year is for me and Mitch to be healthy." Or: "A gift I would be grateful for is Mitch finding the job we are wanting ." Etc. Then me and Mitch will open these letters from each other on Christmas Eve. I'm pretty excited about it. I hope this become a fun tradition we look forward to every year! We still have quite a bit on out bucket list, and I can't wait to get more crossed off! In the mean time here a a few pictures that I took this week:)
What have you guys done so far this December?!

Spray painted an old cookie sheet with primer 

Lots of craft supplies makes me happy:)

We used acrylic paint for the countdown, and chalk paint for the
top part of the countdown . 

Busy, busy, busy. Messy, messy, messy.

All for these CUTE personalized Mitch and Haley countdown pieces with magnetic tape on the back. (Sorry couldn't get the picture the right way) 

We put a ribbon where the 2 different paints end
as to hide the paint mess. I thought it added
a fun pop of color to it!

Drew 25 boxes with a black permanent marker. 

The finished product! I was SO happy with it!

~Christmas Bucket List~

I know I posted yesterday, but I  just have to share what I am going to be doing this Christmas holiday! I have come up with a "Christmas Bucket List" to do the month, and I am SO excited!

~Christmas Bucket List~

Make Gingerbread Houses      Bake Christmas Cookies            Watch “The Santa Clause”       Visit Temple Square

 Make A Homemade Christmas Ornament          Read “The Polar Express”          Watch “Miracle On 34^th Street”

          Learn The Legend of The Candy Cane           Read About the Birth of Christ (Luke Chapter 2)

Watch “The Grinch”          Leave Cookies Out for Santa         Make Snow globes              Decorate a Tree  Make a Lego Nativity             Go Shopping For Our Very “First Christmas” Ornament          Make Eggnog

          Watch “Polar Express”               Make suckers               Watch “Charlie Brown Christmas”

Make a Christmas Countdown         Watch “It’s a Wonderful Life”           Build a snowman

   Watch “A Christmas Story”            Eat Candy Canes           Watch “Elf”           Make paper snowflakes

Watch “Rudolph”           Take a Walk in The Snow and Drink Hot Cocoa After           Watch “Christmas Vacation”    

      Watch “Frosty The Snowman”        Read “Twas’ The Night Before Christmas”          Take Lots of Pictures

          Watch “Home Alone”          Write a Letter to Santa              Watch “Grimlins”

                             What fun things will you be doing this holiday season?!

~Thanksgiving Week~

This week was so great, and it's sad that it has come to an end! As much as I love Sundays, I hate that it means back to reality we go. This week was so busy and so much fun. We prepared for Thanksgiving Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and celebrated Thursday with lots of food! This year it was spent with the Klinglers and was my first Thanksgiving away from home. Not going to lie it was kind of emotional and overwhelming for me (There are a lot of Klinglers(; ) but like I said before I was just grateful to be with Mitch. We also went and saw the Disney movie 'Frozen' and Oh. My. Goodness. It was the cutest thing ever! Mitch even liked it so much I think we're going to go to the theaters again and see it in 3D this time haha. So this year I decided to put what I am thankful for each day on Facebook, and I am so glad that I did. Each year lots of Facebook friends do this and I just never thought about doing it. I don't think i'll do it again, once was enough. The reason I say that is because its kind of sad that we usually only do this around the month of November. What this challenge has taught me is that we have things to be thankful for daily, and we shouldn't be expressing our gratitude publicly once a year for 30 days. ( I'm also not saying to put every little thing on Facebook that you are thankful for, people might start deleting you.) We have so much to be thankful for and i'm going to start remembering to be thankful for at least one thing once a day. Shouldn't be that hard! This month of December i'm going to challenge myself to think about Christ and least once a Day. That's what this month is about anyways right? That was till companies started making it about the money right? :) Anyways, I am in love with this time of year, and I can't wait to start doing all the fun Christmas festivities! (I also need to take more pictures so that I can put them on here so my blog isn't so boring(: )
Have a great Sunday!!