12 Dates of Christmas: Dates 7-9

I'm back with the next set of 12 Dates of Christmas dates! These three dates included 3 of my favorite things: coffee, Christmas lights, and shopping!

On the seventh date of Christmas...

Ryan was not a coffee drinker when we first started dating over three years ago, but he has learned to love it and coffee dates became one of our favorite things to do together! He also loves board games and for Christmas in the past he started collecting the wooden vintage board games they sell at Target. They are really cool looking and it's fun to be able to collect some of the classic games like Life, Clue, Monopoly, and Scrabble!

So, for this date, we went to Starbucks and ordered our favorite coffees (mine was a Peppermint Mocha of course!) and came home and got out one of our classic board games and played a few rounds of "The Game of Life"!

On the eighth date of Christmas...

I was VERY excited about this date because I love to drive around and look at Christmas lights! I have so many fond childhood memories of piling in my parents car with my aunt and cousins and driving around looking at lights! Branson, Missouri was only about 30 minutes away from where we used to live, so last year we drove down there to do the drive through lights!

I loved driving through the lights display and listening to Christmas music! It was so much fun and got us even more excited for Christmas which by then was only a few weeks away!!

On the ninth date of Christmas...

Ryan and I still had some Christmas shopping to do for our family and friends, so I thought it would be fun to make it more exciting since shopping and fighting the crowds is not really one of his favorite things to do! So, we made a date of it and went shopping in Branson which is not really our normal shopping routine!

Branson has a fantastic outdoor shopping area called The Landing, so since we didn't go very often, it made our shopping trip a little bit more exciting! Plus, The Landing decorates for Christmas and plays Christmas music outside!

And those are dates 7-9! I'm excited to share the last 3 dates to round up the 12 Dates of Christmas series!