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5 Favorite Popular Christmas Events in Arizona

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Arizona is well known as very tourist friendly state during the winter months. The warmer temperatures in the winter months are a major attraction to people looking to escape the cold winter temperatures. It is also the best time of the year to live in Arizona due to the weather.

Because of the winter temperatures, Arizona has many Christmas and holiday themed events to entertain visitors and locals alike. Since this is such a nice time of the year to get out of the house and do things, I decided to pick my top five favorite Christmas themed events that happen annually in Arizona and feature them in a post. Some of them are well known events while others are things I like to do myself.

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5 Favorite Christmas Light Parades in Arizona

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One of my favorite holiday traditions is Christmas light parades. Arizona has quite a few. Some are large while others are small. Still, I love them all. Since I am thinking of going to a light parade this year, I decided to write a list of my five favorite light parades in Arizona.

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why I Hate) This Month in Arizona- December

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It’s December and it’s time for Blogmas! This year, I decided for the first post of Blogmas to finish the post series I started in January. That means, for the last time, to publish my five reasons I love and five reasons I hate this month in Arizona.

Since it is December, and I love Christmas, there shouldn’t be any reason for me to hate living in Arizona. The weather is nice and it is the happiest time of the year. Sadly, no where is perfect and Arizona is no exception. Finding the reasons to hate this month were just as easy as finding reasons to love this month. So, I hope you enjoy the five reasons why I love and hate this month in Arizona.

Here are all the previous months posts…

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why I Hate) This Month in Arizona- November

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November in Arizona is a special month. It considered by many to be the start of Arizona’s tourism season. (Some say tourism season is October to April while others say November to April) People travel to the state to see the state in it’s beauty without the oppressive heat.

During this time, there are so many things to do and see that it may be hard to imagine anything is bad about the state. As a lifelong resident of Arizona, I can honestly say that there are some Novembers that are good while others are not. Yet, while enjoying the state during it’s best weather months can make it look convincingly perfect when it really is not.

Inspired by my sometimes love/hate relationship with the state I’ve called home my whole life, I decided to write a list of five reasons why I like Arizona during November and five reasons why I don’t.

In addition to this post, I have wrote posts about why I love and hate Arizona during all the months of the year. You can read them here…

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why I Hate) This Month in Arizona- October

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October has finally arrived in Arizona and it is the first month with many celebrations. Along with Halloween, Oktoberfest  and other seasonal festivals happen in the month. Pumpkins are in season and farms are open for pumpkin picking. This, and the cooler temperatures in comparison to the summer months, makes this month a month of outdoor fun and celebrations!

As with every month, October in Arizona has its down sides. Temperatures in certain areas in Arizona may not be cool enough for many people to actually call it fall. There have been years when Arizona’s temperatures are so warm they are 100 degrees or hotter.

Since Arizona is a mix of both good and bad, I compiled a list of five reasons I love Arizona in October and five reasons why I hate it.

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6 More Things to Do in Arizona in the Fall

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Last year, I published a post about eight things to do in Arizona during the fall. You can read that post here. This year, I decided to write another post about more things to do in Arizona. Fall is the season Arizona wakes up after a summer hibernation due to the heat, so there are a lot of things to do during the season!

For this post, I decided to focus on events and activities that would happen during the month I didn’t mention in my previous post.

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why I Hate) This Month in Arizona- September

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It’s September and it’s the month when the Fall Equinox happens! So much happens during the fall in Arizona. Festivals and fairs start showing up again. Football has officially returned and the professional baseball season is starting to wind down, yet it is time to focus on playing well enough for a place in the playoff for the World Series. And new temperatures signal the end of summer.

Even though September is a month of change, many of them welcome changes, there are still some not so nice parts of living in Arizona during the month of September. I compiled a list of five reasons why I love Arizona in September and five reasons why I hate Arizona in September.

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why I Hate) This Month in Arizona- August

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August is the month when the summer starts to wind down. In Arizona, it is an especially important time of the year. This is when the summer heat starts to weigh, storms are still around, but they are not always as fierce, and school starts for many students.

When planing for this month’s love and hate about Arizona post, I thought I would have problems finding things I didn’t like about the month. Instead, I struggled finding things I liked about it! For many years, living in Arizona during the month of August has not been really

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why Hate) This Month in Arizona- July

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It’s finally July here in Arizona! It is the time of the year when, like the rest of the country, we celebrate the 4th of July, eat plenty of ice cream, and enjoy so many other luxuries that make summertime so enjoyable. Since I live in Arizona, I also have found some major downsides that come along with this month. (One of them being the heat and the monsoon storm season!)

Continuing my post series of why I love and hate all the months in Arizona, I found many things I don’t like about July. What surprised me was all the reasons why I love this month as well! I honestly thought I would struggle to find reasons why I love this month, but it came pretty easily.

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5 Reasons I Love (and 5 Reasons Why Hate) This Month in Arizona- June

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It’s June in Arizona, which means it’s summertime! Also, it means the hottest days of the year are here. Since June is a really hot month, it is normal to dwell on the bad parts of this month in Arizona. Instead of dwelling on all the bad, I try to focus on the good parts.

For this post, I want to list the five reasons why I love June in Arizona. I also want to list five reasons why I hate June in Arizona.

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