Santa's coming to town!

Today is my annual baking day with my mom.  There's lots to do to finish preparing for Christmas.  I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and is able to focus on the reason for celebrating.  💗

It's been a while since I have dressed up the hams.  I got out my Santa outfit for them and let them explore our Christmas village.  Glorfindel tried to eat the cow which is just rude.  But he looked so very cute with the hat on that I didn't even care!

Olórin was very interested in seeing the whole Christmas village.  I was unable to keep the hat on his head.  Maybe next year I'll add straps to it so it can stay on better.

Jars of Leftover Resin

In January, Joe and I got a letter stating that the city would be working on replacing the water mains near us and that our house would be among those getting switched to the new lines.  Nothing happened so we forgot about the letter for a very long time.  A couple of weeks ago, I noticed yellow and blue flags dotting our street and wondered if our time was near (they had already been working on the next street over).  I dug through our stack of important papers and found the letter.  I had concerns about our plans to host Christmas this year if it would be in the midst of this project, so I sent an email with some questions I had.  I received a very prompt reply that confirmed they were ready for our street and put my mind at ease about our Christmas plans.  Unfortunately something went wrong yesterday, so we were without water for about 6 hours.  But even after it was dark out, the crew just set up lights and continued working diligently until the problem was fixed and we all had running water again.

Glrofindel is such a nice ham.  He knows I'm the one that gives him all the treats so he happily comes out of his nest whenever I bother him.  💗

Olórin hasn't quite realized that I am the giver of treats so he still tends to avoid me.  He is surprisingly good at slipping out of my hands if I am trying to pick him up.  But eventually I normally succeed in holding him and even if he doesn't want to be held, he's always so calm and has never bitten me.  He is so sweet.

Lil' Pumpkins

These pictures were taken over a month ago, but I think they are too cute to not post, so despite that we are clearly fully in Christmas season, I hope you can enjoy these cute lil' pumpkins.  😊  I am officially all caught up on client galleries which feels amazing!  I still have a lot of personal pictures to get through, but they'll get done eventually.  I also only have one last step to do before the end of the year for the major project of switching church management systems that I've been working on since like August I think.  The last few months have been a blur...  But I'm feeling better every day!  I can't say that I'm ready for Christmas though...  I have begun to plan out all the baking I do, but that's about it.  Normally I'd be almost done shopping by now, but I haven't started that.  😐  But it's all good.  I work well under pressure.  Haha!  😅

The last couple weeks I've realized that my boys are getting old.  They are probably both around 15 months old and while I'd love for them to both live to be at least 2 years old, I know they didn't have the best start to life which could affect their lifespan.  I don't spend nearly as much time with them as I'd like since I avoid waking them up and they aren't generally awake when I am.  But they are both such sweet boys and I love them.  💗  

Olórin is fairly shy and prefers to be left alone, but he tolerates me holding him.  I make sure he is well compensated in treats.  😊