Nick and Jen Lloyd

Some of you probably don’t care but this is a really big deal to us…

WE GOT OFFICIAL ORDERS!!!

What that means is that we know have official government paperwork signed and stamped saying we are going to Italy. And with those three little pieces of paper we were able to arrange movers, flights and finally apply for our visas today. It has been a long eight weeks and a lot of jumping through hoops to get these papers in our hands.

So what now? Biggest thing is that we are waiting on the Visa…which at the latest (hopefully) will come back a few days before we fly out, hopefully it comes back early so we don’t stress too much. We scheduled out flight for April 6th. It is a ten hour flight including a one hour layover in Germany.

The movers…the army has this fancy new system for applying for your movers/transportation. It’s called “do it yourself” and it’s supposed to be the latest and greatest..pfffft. It stinks. So far we have tried fifty times today to get their website to work, and it doesn’t work. Lovely. But we are looking at scheduling the movers around the 16th-ish.

Which means that from about the 16th of March to the 6th of April we will be homeless and stuffless. We are considering a trip home (rather than staying in a hotel)…too many factors to decide just yet. Keep ya posted 😉

Jonah has always sang the tune of ABC but today he very cleary said “a-b-c” while singing it, followed by gibberish and more “a-b-c”. We think he might be finally deciding to talk…he actually tries to say some things when we tell him to, which he hasn’t ever done. YAY!

So we got some snow here again (although it’s melting quickly…the snow came after two days of 70 degree weather and then for one day it got cold and snowed) and it got me thinking about the last time it snowed, I never posted photos, just the video. So here ya go. Sorry they are all of me, Nick had the camera that day.

Three years ago today we said yes. Out of those three years we have been apart for about a year. Being away from my husband gives me a greater appreciation of when he is here, he truly is wonderful and I am so grateful to be able to spend this anniversary together. I love you babe. Now let’s celebrate with yummy curry and cake!

-Atlantic City (water park?, board walk)
-Amish country
-Philadelphia (take Jonah to Smith park, the whispering bench)
-Shenandoah park (Stony man hike)
-Boston??
-Charleston??
-Scuba cert??

Just trying to figure out our new camera (it’s waterproof, breakproof and super awesome but apparently you can hear the zoom in video mode…weird)

Jonah has been doing this screaming noise when he laughs lately…it is ear piercing but you can’t help but laugh with him. We went to the zoo today to see the lion cubs, we were lucky enough to catch them out playing, sooo cute!

Recently I started a facebook group for the women of the Fort Meade ward. Because it’s a military ward it is tough to get to know everyone because it’s constantly changing. I wanted everyone to have a place to tell each other about “non-church” stuff. Like good sales going on or an awesome recipe they discovered or parties they were throwing…anything. I’ve gotten some pretty good response to it. We currently have 37 members. I think we just need a few more and we will have everyone in the ward!

Also, for the last few months I have been trying to start a Bunco group. It’s never really worked. But this month I said to myself “to heck with the numbers” and decided to do it even if only one person said they’d come. We had it last night…on Monday I had four people coming. But by yesterday afternoon I had suddenly locked in 12 people! The perfect number! Of course one of them decided to go into labor a month early so we ended up with only 11. But these ladies were super creative and made a table of 3 perfectly functional. Awesome. Hopefully the group will continue, everyone seemed to love it as much as I always did with the group in Moscow.

One of the women in the Bunco group asked me “why are you doing this? Aren’t you moving soon?” I suppose I just wanted to make some difference…I just wish I would have done it sooner so I could enjoy it a little longer 🙂

So Jen, Jonah and I went sledding today! There aren’t too many great sledding hills around but we managed to find a couple that were pretty fun! Jonah LOVED it! I put together a little video to remember it, hope you like it!