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My two boys in bright green!

Super cute beach hat my Aunt Renette sent us

Look at that hair in the back!


Nick’s mom Julie is here visiting her very first grandbaby!

Nick’s commander is getting transferred so they had a fancy going away dinner for him…it was fun to get all dressed up!

Nick was so cute in his bowtie! (This is not usually a part of the uniform unless it’s a formal event like this.)

And Jonah did amazing! He even slept the whole time I ate! YAY!

I can hardly believe that he will be one month old tomorrow! Time flies by and he is growing FAST! He is already up to 10 lbs 6 oz.

I forgot to tell you about the visitors we had in his first few weeks…
My friend Lindsay was doing some sightseeing in DC and took time out of her busy tourist schedule to come visit!

We met at BYU on the New Zealand study abroad. Since she visited I did a little reminiscing about New Zealand and found a much cuter photo of us. I much prefer this photo of us at the New Zealand airport:

Anyhow…I wanted her to see a photo of Jonah looking very cute in one of the outfits she got him…

My friend Hillary that I met while working at Anasazi also came to visit about a week later…but I didn’t manage to get a picture with her. We met up with her at the DC temple while waiting for my Mom.

Speaking of my Mom…we were SO blessed to have her here for the first few weeks…sadly she missed the birth by a few days (the little bugger was in a hurry to get out!) but we were soooo happy to have her! She was a HUGE help, thanks Mom!

Some of you may be wondering how Zoey is doing with all of this…well, we are working on transitioning her into being more of an outside dog. Which has been difficult with the crazy amount of ticks in this area…we have found multiple ticks on her, on ourselves and just in the house. YUCK! SO, we try to keep her outside as much as possible and check her thoroughly before bringing her in. Shortly before Jonah was born Nick spent a whole weekend building her a beautiful doghouse…

She’s not too pleased with being banished to the backyard. This is what I usually see when I look out the window:

I keep telling Nick that I think she’s getting depressed…she looks so sad out there! But she’s been really good about the baby…no problems there. She pretty much just steers clear, especially when he cries. Here is the last “family photo” of us before everything got turned upside down for her! This is us at the cherry blossom festival in DC a few weeks before Jonah’s birth.

She’s no longer the baby in the house…

The first smile I’ve been able to capture on camera!

The first family photo! (still at the hospital)

Getting ready to go home

He loves being on his tummy.

First bath at home with mom and grandma.

Changing diapers…lot’s of diapers. We have almost used the whole box of newborns!

Getting ready to go to church with Grandma. Cute little golfer outfit, haha.

He’s a very serious baby.

On Saturday, May 2nd, 2009, at 2:06pm, Jonah Nicholas Lloyd made his first appearance! Jen gave birth to our healthy, 8lb 11.7oz baby boy at the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center in Maryland. Here are some of the photos from that day. There will be more to come so stay tuned!

Sooo the contractions have really slowed down now. Yeah, they’re not really happening. But hey, the up side to all this foolery is that it got me going on all the things I had been putting off! I hurried and cleaned up the house, finally got those hospital bags packed and in the car, and Nick did one last maternity shoot of me. So, next time those contractions start, we’ll really be ready!

I’m still hanging out at home having contractions every 3-10 minutes. They seem to be getting stronger…but they still don’t hurt. So I’m not really sure what’s up. My Mom said she had regular contractions for days before her actual labor started…so I guess it’s genetic. Nick is getting really impatient though!

Ok so…we went to the hospital and they declared me in labor this morning. I am having contractions every three minutes and I’m dilated to a 4. And it’s been more than twelve hours of all this and what am I doing? Hanging out at home. Why? Because it just doesn’t hurt. I don’t want to hang our at the hospital for no good reason…so I’m waiting. So far this labor stuff is pretty easy! 😉 Supposedly all this means that the baby will be here soon, but it really doesn’t feel like it. But hey, if he’s born in April then the birthstone is diamond! So I’m voting we get this baby out by midnight tomorrow.