{ Stephenson Winter Bucket List // Christmas Cards 2017 }

Y'all it is my favorite time of the year - Christmas card season! I absolutely love coming home and going to the mailbox and receiving Christmas cards from my friends and family! I guess this is what adult life is like...literally racing to get home to see who we got a Christmas card from! I know I say that every year but it just makes me so happy!

Stephenson Winter Bucket List

Winter Bucket List

{ Stephenson Winter Bucket List // Christmas Cards 2016 }

Receiving and sending Christmas cards is one of my favorite things about the Holidays! Well, besides driving through neighborhoods and seeing all the trees in the windows or the lights outside!

Stephenson Winter Bucket List Update

Unfortunately we didn't complete a lot of the items on our Winter bucket list, but we did complete a few and the season was still a very good first married winter!

{ Stephenson Winter Bucket List // Ugly Sweaters }

Ugly Sweater parties are my favorite parties to go to during the Christmas Holiday! I had one at my apartment about 5 years ago and then I went to one the following year and that was the last time I went to one. This year I talked one of our friends into having one, he was already having a house warming party so I told him to make it a tacky sweater party! It is always so much fun to see all the sweaters people are wearing! Well we went to one and my friend Brittany definitely had the best sweater - it was Home Alone themed sweater! 

+ go ice skating downtown

+ build a snowman

+ make a gingerbread house

+ attend a hockey game

+ decorate Christmas cookies

+ decorate our Christmas tree

+ send out Christmas cards

+ go to a Christmas party

+ go to an ugly sweater Christmas party

+ go see Christmas lights

+ make fireplace s'mores

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{ Stephenson Winter Bucket List // Christmas Party }

Christmas parties are one of my favorite things about the Holidays! I love getting all dressed up in red and green and showing our holiday spirit! Every year 2 of our close friends host a Christmas party at their house - this is the 3rd year they have done it! The first year it was pretty big but as the years go on it has gotten smaller - just the way I like it! We all brought something to eat and played games and just enjoyed the festive time!

This year I made the Funfetti Cake Batter Dip and it was so good! We had Buffalo Chicken dip, BBQ sliders, mac n cheese, sausage balls and a mexican dip. Needless to say we hardly had any food left over!

We were lucky enough to get to enjoy multiple Christmas parties this year. We went to a themed one (Tacky Sweater..post coming) and we also got to go to my company Christmas party. These past few weekends have been filled with Christmas parties and I love it! 

Usually we have the company Christmas party down by our pond at our house, but since it is always a mess after everyone leaves we decided to try something else this year. This year we rented a space not too far from our house to have the party. Having the party somewhere else saved us from having to clean up and left the responsibility of the entire event on someone else's shoulders and not my dads. It was nice being able to leave the party and not have to still hear people partying from my bedroom. The only downfall was that my purse along with my friends purse got stolen out of our car. We don't think it was anyone from the party, there were some other random people there. So today I am having to go to the bank and open up all new accounts...headache from hell.

What is left on my list?

+ go ice skating downtown

+ build a snowman

+ make a gingerbread house

+ attend a hockey game

+ decorate Christmas cookies

+ decorate our Christmas tree

+ send out Christmas cards

+ go to a Christmas party

+ go to an ugly sweater Christmas party

+ go see Christmas lights

+ make fireplace s'mores

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{ Stephenson Winter Bucket List // Christmas Cards }

This year it was a scramble to get our Christmas cards created, printed and mailed out! We got married November 21 then went to Virginia for Thanksgiving for a few days and right after that we went straight on our Honeymoon. We didn't get back until December 5th and I was trying to wait until the last minute to order our cards because I really hoping I would have at least one professional picture of the two of us from our wedding to use on our card. Well, we didn't get one so I had to scramble to find some decent iPhone photos from the wedding to use. I knew I wanted to use photos from our wedding because let's be honest I am obsessed with just the few iPhone photos we have so far and I loved everything about our wedding AND there are some really cute Christmas cards for newlyweds! So here is our first Christmas card as Mr. & Mrs. Stephenson! (we also used the card as a thank you card!)

Here are our cards from last year!

What is left on my list?

+ go ice skating downtown

+ build a snowman

+ make a gingerbread house

+ attend a hockey game

+ decorate Christmas cookies

+ decorate our Christmas tree

+ send out Christmas cards

+ go to a Christmas party

+ go to an ugly sweater Christmas party

+ go see Christmas lights

+ make fireplace s'mores

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Stephenson Family Winter Bucketlist

+ go ice skating downtown

+ build a snowman

+ make a gingerbread house

+ attend a hockey game

+ decorate Christmas cookies

+ decorate our Christmas tree

+ send out Christmas cards

+ go to a Christmas party

+ go to an ugly sweater Christmas party

+ go see Christmas lights

+ make fireplace s'mores

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