HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

I love to celebrate ALLOFTHETHINGS, holidays are no exception! Here is a cheat sheet to all of my holiday traditions…

Valentine’s Day

Mail Valentine’s cards
Countdown calendar filled with dog treats for the doodles
Bake heart shaped treats and decorate with heart shaped sprinkles!
Heart Shaped Pizza

St. Patrick’s Day

I celebrate Easter, so sometimes St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t get the creative attention it deserves, but last year I made this fabulous rainbow wreath and I hope to find some fun traditions to start in 2019.

Easter

Easter baskets filled with goodies and a solid chocolate bunny
Easter mass
Brunch with my family
Mail Easter cards to family and friends

Fourth of July

Bake red, white and blue treats
Host a BBQ
Watch fireworks
Celebrate the USA!

Halloween

I finally live in a neighborhood that takes trick-or-treating very seriously, I love it!
Hand out big candy bars to trick-or-treaters
Semi-homemade Halloween costumes
Brainstorm the BEST group costume for me and the doodles
Fill our Halloween countdown calendar with treats for the doodles
Mail Halloween cards to our family and friends
Host a pumpkin carving party
Carve a pumpkin
Bake pumpkin treats
Make Fall Snack Mix
Fill the doodles treat buckets full of toys and treats

Thanksgiving

Bake apple pies with the apples we pick each Fall
Bake and decorate hand turkey sugar cookies
Find cute items for the table, like napkins, plates and place cards
Take a sibling picture in our crochet turkey hats

Christmas

Advent calendar with RAK cards, a Christmas activity and treats for the doodles
Mail Christmas cards and ornaments to family and friends
Watch Christmas movies
Go lightseeing
Make egg nog on Christmas Eve with my brother
Decorate a gingerbread house
Attend a cookie exchange
Bake lots and lots of Christmas cookies
Visit the National and Capitol Christmas Trees
Photos with Santa at Tyson’s Galleria

New Years

Bubbles in plastic champagne flutes
Festive treats
Lots and lots of appetizers
Confetti tossing!

Clean slate! We are taking a couple weeks off from holiday decorations (with the exception of our front door decor, a cute St. Pat’s wreath) and tidying up a bit. Call it early spring cleaning ✨ it feels great! Olive approves of the tidier entryway and coat closet that or she is staring at her tiny monogrammed tote bag that holds her leash and is just thinking let’s go outside already
Give me a sharpie and watch me personalize all of the things! Gift bags, acrylic, gift tags, chalkboards, door hangers, even balloons! Everything is a lettering possibility
We are going to a trivia night this weekend!!! AND THEMED TABLES ARE ENCOURAGED I am allllll about themes and our theme is.....PARTY ANIMALS It’s perfect! It combines color, animals anddddd partying! My mind is spinning with tons of ideas, first up, creating cute party hats for our team to wear DIY tutorial for this flamingo hat is on the blog ✂️
Apparently move your feet, lose your seat is a motto the doodles have decided to embrace
Painting the ultimate party animal
The face you make when you realize some people don’t love Valentine’s Day Captain is shocked he doesn’t know how anyone could not like a holiday that involves treats
Happy Valentine’s Day!! ❤️
Sweet treats ❤️ Rice Krispie Treats dipped in white chocolate and topped with valentine sprinkles
Roses are red violets are blue candy is sweet and so are you!! ❤️ Two more days until February 14th I printed out some adorable printables for cute gifties, tomorrow I’ll be making some more heart shaped treats and don’t worry the doodles are hard at work writing their valentines too! Can’t forget our favorite FURiends during the holidays ❤️
I realized we added another member to our pack since last Valentine’s Day ❤️ when I pulled this wreath out of storage and Captain didn’t have a love note addressed to him, so I crafted one out of felt and HATED it!! Part of it was I could not remember the exact pattern I used for the envelope and the other part was I used the wrong felt. Then I had an ideainstead of using felt I would paint new envelopes for everyone I will take any excuse to paint these days!! ✂️ Isn’t she (the wreath) lovely?