Author: Jen

A day at the petting zoo at Thanksgiving Point with Grandma. Jonah loves him some animals!

Just thought you all should know that I have FINALLY finalized my flight plans. I am ridiculous when it comes to booking flights, I want it to be just perfect. And there really is no such thing when it comes to flying. So for anyone who wants to know, here is my plan.

Provo area: March 20th-28th
Moscow area: March 28th-April 5th

ITALY!: April 6th!!!

I’ve been thinking about feathers! I met a girl from Portland who was wearing a feather in her hair and now I just can’t stop thinking about it..hers was more like an extension to her hair hanging behind her ear, I can’t seem to find one like it anywhere. But in thinking about feathers and looking for the perfect feather accessory I’ve thought of a few things that I love that would make my “look”…

A nice wide leather bracelet. With some texture to it, ingrained or cut out. Or maybe braided.

Something turquoise. My favorite. You can’t go wrong when it’s this color. I’m obsessed. And I do love these flowers.

And of course, feathers in the hair. This one is tricky…I’ve seen a lot of really ugly ones, and some really lovely ones. It could be a headband, clip or hair extension…but it has to look nice.

What is this look anyways? All these things together…maybe bohemian? Granola? I dunno…hopefully it’s not tacky anyways.

Mostly I want you (Nick) to know what I’ve been thinking about lately because this month is March, and you know what that means!

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!