Christmas Ornament #18: Sloth

 Unlike all those years when we left our Christmas ornament shopping until the last minute, in 2021 we set a record for the earliest ornament. In June we went to St. Louis to visit family, and while we were there we went to the zoo and found this guy:

For reasons I've never fully understood, Shannon has a deep, deep love for sloths. This guy was handmade by someone in central Asia and has slowly crawled his way all the way to our tree.

Christmas Ornament #17: Angel

 Perhaps you've heard: 2020 was rough. It was rough for just about everybody, so while it wasn't uncommonly rough for us, it was still rough. We figured we needed a little angelic help to make it through the quarantine-y holiday.

Christmas Ornament #16: Sheepy

The only problem with waiting multiple years to write down what ornament you got is that you forget if there was a reason that you got it. I don't know about Mr Sheep here, but since we've already got a fox, a reindeer, doves, cows and who knows what other animals on the tree, me might as well keep turning it into a full on zoo.

Christmas Ornament #15: Angels

 When last we visited the annual Blockburger Christmas tree ornament tradition, I said, "We picked [Mary, Joseph and Jesus] over the set of three angels, so maybe Target will still have this line going next year and we can continue to augment our nativity set." Well . . . . 

There they are. Target did keep them around for another year. These three are on the tree this year hovering just above baby Jesus. The wise men are on the other side of the tree making their way.