A Holiday Bucket List for Families Plus Some of Our Family Traditions

 Well, the holidays are just around the corner and Thanksgiving is a couple of days. Then, it's a mad dash to Christmas and New Year's. It's amazing how fast this year has gone by. So, before things get to crazy, I wanted to share a holiday bucket list for families as well some of our favorite family traditions.

A Holiday Bucket List for Families Plus Some of Our Family Traditions
 

Drive around and look at Christmas lights (we start doing this right after Thanksgiving and have our specific areas we go to. We also get hot chocolate for the ride)

Go Ice-skating

Watch Christmas movies (our favorites are Home Alone, The Family Stone, The Holiday, The Family Man, all the Santa Claus movies, and the claymations that my husband and I watched when we were kids.)

Make cinnamon rolls (we do this for Christmas morning)

Visit Santa Claus (duh of course! We do this at our local mall)

Get a new family ornament each year

Decorate for Christmas (we already did this, this year!)

Open one gift on Christmas Eve

Matching Christmas Jammies pics

New Christmas jammies for the littles (and us)

The Christmas lights a t MSU (new to us this year)

The Polar Bear Express in Wichita Falls (another new thing we are doing this year)

25 Books of Christmas (we read a different Christmas book each day in December and end with The Night Before Christmas)

Adopting a family for Christmas

Take coffee cakes to friends/neighbors/special people in our life