Hello everyone! Happy December!! It’s officially the holiday season and I am here for it. From the Christmas movies, to decorations, to the gift buying. I love spending the next few weeks seeing friends and family and celebrating Christmas and New Year’s!
Today I’m sharing my Christmas Season Bucket List. I’m a girl who loves a good list and loves crossing things off of it even more. I’m using this bucket list as a guide of things I want or hope to do. I’m hoping that this gives me inspiration for date ideas and activities to do with friends or family. If you re looking for something fun to do during December, I hope this gives you inspiration or ideas.
Here’s my Christmas Bucket List:
Decorate
Watch the Santa Clauses on Disney Plus
Watch the new movie Spirited
Bake Cookies
Make a Gingerbread House
Christmas Shopping
Get a Christmas Tree and Decorate it
Exchange Gifts with Friends
Play in the Snow
See Christmas Lights
Enjoy Hot Cocoa and a Hot Cocoa bar
Watch Classic Christmas Movies
Watch Hallmark Movies
Mark Christmas Bark
Do a new Christmas Activity
Read Christmas Books
Play Christmas Music
Board Game Night
Read by the Fire
Ice Skating
Celebrate Christmas and New Years
That’s just a few ideas for some fun Christmas fun! Tell me what are your favorite Christmas traditions or things to do over the holidays?
Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a great week as we make our way through September. Since we are now at the halfway point of the month, I figured it was time to break out the fall bucket list.
I love lists! I love laying everything out in one space, I love the satisfaction of crossing things off when they are completed, I love seeing my to-do list in front of me. It should come as no surprise that I love seasonal bucket lists. These lists serve as a way to get ideas for weekends activities, time with family or even dates. I carried some items from my summer bucket list over to my fall bucket list that I didn’t accomplish yet.
Without further ado, here’s my Fall 2022 Bucket List!
Winery
Apple Picking
Coffee/Book store date
Brewery
Fall Walk
Collect Leaves
Apple Recipes
Clean Cars for fall and winter
Fall Festival
Get Pumpkins
Decorate for Fall
Bonfire and S’mores
Enjoy Candy Apple
Fall Drive
Try a New Soup Recipe
Enjoy Hot Apple Cider
Celebrate Halloween
Make a Candy Corn Recipe
Watch a Halloween movie
Try a new Pumpkin Recipe
Curl up and Read a Book
Celebrate Thanksgiving
If you are looking for ideas or inspiration for fall fun, may consider checking an item or two off this list. I would love to hear what’s on your fall bucket lists too! Feel free to share them with me below!
Hi everyone! I hope you are having a great December! I’ve been doing my best to soak up as much Christmas spirit as I can, between drinking lots of hot coco, doing shopping, having my Christmas lights on, and doing some fun Christmas activities too, like ice skating and watching ALL the holiday movies. I’ve been doing my best to get it all in between work and family time.
It’s been a long time since things have been normal since the pandemic began back in 2020.
But slowly and surely, things are going back to normal.
One step towards normalcy has been the return of events and activities including live music and concerts. At the start of December, my mom and I traveled to Cleveland for dinner and a concert.
I didn’t take as many pictures as I planned but had the best time.
Here’s a quick recap:
We started the night meeting friends for dinner in downtown Cleveland at The Chocolate Bar.
If you know me then you know I have a HUGE sweet tooth, so this was the perfect spot.
We all enjoyed appetizers and shareable items from potstickers, to artichoke dip and chips, soft pretzels, deep fried raviolis, and then pulled pork sandwiches.
A look at some of the snacks.
The dessert line up was even better. Here’s a look at the menu.
Here’s what I got…the triple chocolate fusion. It was soooo good!
I also got a mug of a mint hot chocolate. It was the best warm cup of cheer.
After dinner we walked over to the show. My mom and I saw Andrea Bocelli. It was a beautiful show, from the choir to the orchestra, the soloists and Bocelli himself. We were blown away by the talent and the performances. He sang a mix of Italian opera, some songs in English and some Christmas tunes too!
Concert time!
A close up of the performances.
After the show, which included FOUR encores (!!!), my mom and I checked out some lights in the city before heading home.
My concert buddy! We’ve seen Matt Nathanson, The Piano Guys, Ed Sheeran and now Andrea Bocelli.
It was so nice to be able to have a sense of normalcy, even though we were masked the full time. After waiting for this show for months, I was so happy to finally see him live in concert especially after not being able to attend live music events in almost two years.
It was the best way to enjoy a night out and enjoy some live music too.
Happy December! We made it to the last month of 2021…this past year has brought lots of ups and some downs too, another post on that and an end of the year recap will be coming later. Today’s post is all about holidays and Christmas and all the holiday cheer that comes with it!
If you have been following along long enough, you know I love my to-do lists and my goals, especially when it comes to the seasons and holidays. Hello Summer to do, Fall to do, yearly goals etc. With Christmas just weeks away, here’s a look at my Christmas to do list for the month of December.
Decorate
Buy Gifts
Wrap and Send Gifts Early
Make Cookies
See Christmas lights
Listen to Christmas music
Read Christmas Books
Watch classic holiday movies
One Christmas activity a week
Go ice skating
Get the Christmas tree and decorate it
Family Christmas card
See family and friends
Give back to other
Celebrate the holidays
A lot of these things are free or affordable and can be done all through out the month of December. Some are must dos like buying presents, others are fun actives like go ice skating. I can’t wait to celebrate the holiday season and everything that comes with it and most importantly, spend time with family and remember the reason for the season. I can’t wait to get started on my to-do list What are you looking forward to the most this holiday season and what’s on your to-do list?
Hey guys! Happy Wednesday! Even though we are in the middle of November and still have about a month of fall left, I wanted to recap my fall bucket list before we get into the holiday fun between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here’s a recap of my fall bucket list.
Here’s my bucket list all marked off.
Apple Picking
I collected lots of apples and made some tasty recipes too!
Up-close of the apples.
Niagara Falls
I didn’t get to Niagara Falls, but I’m making a plan to go next spring or summer.
But I did get to go to another set of water falls in New York in Letchworth State Park.
Kinzua Hike
A beautiful fall day for a hike at Kinzua State Park.
Hockey Game
I didn’t make this happen, but I’m hoping to head to some local games this winter.
-Cider Press
I went to a pumpkin patch that at a cider press on site.
Decorate Pumpkins
Collected lots of pumpkins and used the to decorate my house.
Collect Leaves
Some of the leaves that I saw on the walk.
Then I used them to decorate my desk in my room
Scary Book and Movie
This was a chick read with a Halloween/mystery twist.
Celebrate Halloween
Decorated my house for Halloween. (The pumpkins are from Mason Farms)
And I ate a lot of sweet candy, probably too much!
Fall Walk
Nothing beats a fall walk. If you are looking for places to walk, check out my blog post on places to walk or hike.
Enjoy Hot Apple Cider
I was enjoying a cup of hot cider every morning but work, but I never snapped a picture…blogger fail.
Make A Fall Treat
I made cut out cookies for Halloween
I made apple crisp and apple bread from the apples I picked.
I made s’mores cookies for the first time.
And of course fall trail mix.
Mason Farms
Here’s the pumpkins I got from Mason Farms.
Fall Festival
I didn’t make it to a fall fest this year, but I clearly enjoyed lots of fall fun!
I hate to see summer end, but I always look forward to the changing leaves and fall fun. That’s just a little peak into my fall fun! What are some of our favorite fall activities?!
Hey guys! Happy Wednesday! We are officially in June! I had the best time celebrating my birthday last weekend. In between work, I was able to go out for dinner, see family, open presents and celebrate with friends too! It was the best way to celebrate 23!
I always view Memorial Day as the official start to summer, now that we are passed that I can share my official summer bucket list! I have shared them every summer since I started my blog and I love to use my list as a way to hold me accountable and be intentional with my summer plans. Here’s my summer bucket list for 2021. I’ve already started to do somethings this summer which I was super excited about.
My summer bucket list that hangs on my wall
-Seawolves Baseball Game
-Start a new show
-Summer reading
-Travel someplace new
-Best friend’s wedding shower
-Best friend’s wedding
-See college friends
I already saw my bestie Danielle!
-See high school friends
-Ice cream nights
-Dinner by water
-Play putt putt
-Beach day
Grilling on the beach was a favorite of mine!
-Zoo
-Family trip
-Pittsburgh Trip
-See family
-White Turkey
A summer must-have
-Sara’s
After a walk at Presque Isle, ice cream was a must!
-Niagara Falls
-Grill nights
-Entertain friends
-Winery or Brewery
-Celebrate 23
-Summer festivals
-Pool days
-Summer Hikes
Hiking at the PeninsulaHikes at Geneva State Park
I know more things will come up this summer but here are my top things that I want to accomplish this summer. What are some things that are on your summer bucket list?!
Well at the beginning of the summer I shared my summer bucket list and today I’m sharing everything I got accomplished! Let’s see how we did…
Summer List
– Complete Internship-YES
I had a great summer internship experience, you can read all about it here
Practicing my reporting
– Go some place new-YES
I went to Taylor Swift’s concert so that counts as something new, right!?
…Are you Ready for It?
– Take a trip-YES
My family and a took a getaway to one of our favorite places, it was so nice to get away and unwind.
Getting away for a bit
– Sleep in-YES
I was able to snag a few days to sleep in and take it easy during the weekend and a few week days when I was off of work.
– See high school friends-YES
It was so good to see many friends from high school, we picked up where we left off-love them!
Fourth of July spent with my favorites
– See one (or more) college friends-YES
I’m really proud that I pulled this off, I saw FOUR friends from high school. All my friends live at least 2 hours or more away so I was so happy I was able to see them
Much needed retail therapy
– Read SIX book (one more than last summer)-YES
I really outdid myself with reading this summer. I’ll be posting a book review soon so you can see how many I read.
– Watch SUITS-NO
I got through most of it this summer but still have a few more episodes to go. I really enjoyed this series. You can check it out on USA or Amazon Prime.
– Watch Evil Genius-YES
I binged watched this while I was traveling and it was so good. I would recommend it for sure, plus who doesn’t like to watch a documentary about something that happened 5 minutes from their house…true story
– Watch Comedians in Cars getting Coffee-YES
I watched one episode (episodes are only 20 minutes) every morning while getting ready for work. It was something super light and easy to watch.
my latest obsession
– See Mamma Mia 2-YES
I loved this movie, I have been listening to the soundtrack nonstop. It was definitely a favorite movie for me.
such a good movie
– See Oceans 8-YES
Loved this movie, it was so well done and the cast couldn’t have been better, girl power all the way.
Another movie I loved
– See family and spend time with them-YES
I was so happy I was able to see both sides of my family, from grandparents, cousin’s and aunts and uncles. Family over everything!
– Try something new-YES
Doing my internship counts right?!
– Go to the beach-YES
I went a few times to cover stories for my internship, but I also went to watch the sunset.
Watching the sunset
– Take more walks-YES
I did better at the beginning of summer, but I can’t wait to be back in the gym once school starts back
– Eat at a food truck-YES
One of my best friends and I grabbed lunch one day downtown. It was delicious and a fun way to catch up.
Grabbing lunch with my girl downtown
– Watch the sunset and sunrise-YES
My family and I went to the beach to watch the sunset and I had a few early mornings where I watched the sun rise.
Watching the sunset
– See a concert-YES
I saw both the Piano Guys and Taylor Swift. Both incredible shows. I absolutely loved them
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We had great seats to see her perform on one of the smaller stages
– Spend more time outside-YES
Whether it was swimming, tanning, reading or working, I spent a lot of time outside.
Soaking up the sun
– Go swimming more often-YES
I wanted to go in more but I got in the pool more than last summer so that counts.
– Do more free things (Zoo, parks, festivals)-YES
I did but I could have done better, hey I had a busy summer, I did make it to the zoo, beach, and relaxed so that counts
– Trip to Pittsburgh-YES
I went a few times for some sightseeing, zoo, a concert. I did very well in this department
City lights at Night
– Breakfast at iHop-YES
It was more of a brunch but I got my fill of iHOP.
– Don’t rush as much and be in the moment-YES/.NO
I wished I slowed down more but sadly I was often on the go. Always more things to work on
– Smile more-YES
This was the summer of me! I had such a good summer and smiled a lot.
MY MOOD THIS WHOLE SUMMER
– Be spontaneous-YES
I was spontaneous but there is always room for improvement.
I truly had a wonderful summer. I lived a lot, learned a lot and really took care of myself and had some fun. Summer 2018 you were so good to me! Fall Semester, let’s get to work!
