If you are a regular reader you will know just how much I LOVE a bucket list. Its something Josh and I have always done since right back at the start of our relationship. We used to sit down together at the end of December and make a big list of all the things we wanted to do, places we wanted to visit and goals we wanted to achieve. I just love the feeling of ticking things off throughout the year! Since becoming parents our yearly bucket lists have changed somewhat but it’s still something I really love doing.

Over the last couple of years rather than writing a yearly list, I have opted for seasonal ones instead. But with our new arrival due in the Summer I thought I’d compile an annual one for 2017. Once I started writing it all down I realised there was A LOT that I’d like to do this year. There are of course some things we hope to do before baby boy’s arrival in June. Although there is still plenty on the list that I’d love to do once he’s joined us too, it’s maybe a little ambitious but we’ll see how we get on!

2017 Bucket List

Take Bella for her first ever trip to the cinema

Feed the ducks at Bodiam Castle

Go for a winters walk & a hot chocolate in Rye

Make time for a date night every single month this year! Either out or just at home

Enjoy a family bike ride at Bewl Water

Get a new car

Explore three cities we have never been to before

Visit Alice & Amelia in Dorset

Visit family in Norfolk (hopefully a couple of times!)

Go for afternoon tea with my best friend

Have one last child free night away before the new baby comes!

Have a family day out at the Zoo

Bake cinnamon buns

Do the Bluebell walk on the Sussex Downs

Celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary

Visit Knole Park to see the beautiful deer

Sign Bella up for swimming lessons

Watch Bella in her first ballet show

Host an Easter brunch

Take Bella to Paultons Park

Create a proper play area in the garden

Visit Sheffield park during each season to feed the ducks

Have a picnic in the walled garden at Scotney Castle

Enjoy lots of pool days at the in laws

Camp in the back garden

Host another big Summer BBQ

Throw my Dad a 60th birthday party

Visit the lavender fields

Pick our own fruit at Maynards again

Make strawberry cupcakes & strawberry crumble with said  fruit!

Spent lots of evenings at the beach, eating chips and splashing in the sea!

Go bowling

Grow our own vegetables in the garden

Take Bella to play crazy golf on the seafront

Start running again (Probably after babies arrival)

Participate in a colour run

Make my own ice cream

Eat half man, half burger on the beach with friends

Explore our village more

Take Bella swimming in the sea

Make homemade fudge

Host a raclette night with our friends

Visit the pumpkin patch

Carve pumpkins

Host a Halloween tea party

Go to a fireworks display

Celebrate Bella’s fourth & my twenty fourth birthdays

Take Bella ice skating

Make salt dough Christmas decorations

Go to see the Christmas lights

Bake gingerbread

Go to a Christmas market

Spend our first Christmas as a family of FOUR at the In Laws

Throw a New Years Eve party (Josh’s idea!!)

Harriet XO