Nick and Jen Lloyd

So someone told me that Jonah always looked surprised…and I realized they might be on to something…



Zoey doing her new trick “play dead” and Jonah practicing with her.

I can’t believe how much they grow in 3 months! Our friends the Wellner’s had their baby Chloe on Saturday.

We spent this last weekend on a marriage retreat in Williamsburg VA. They did some marriage communication classes and also had some free time to explore. We started off the retreat by doing a fire drill at 4 AM at the hotel! Someone decided it would be fun to set off the fire alarm. I’ve never experienced a hotel middle of the night fire drill…so that was fun, I guess.

For our free time on Saturday we decided to go to Jamestown. The very first settlement in America! On display there they have replicas of the ships that brought the people to the settlement…the susan constant, discover and godspeed.

Jamestown is where Pocahontas met John Rolfe. It’s also where John Smith lived…but unlike the disney movie, he never had a thing with Pocahontas.

Sweet Jonah, sleeping away.


Powhatan Indians (Pocahontas’ tribe!) used to make canoes like this…they would cut down the tree used FIRE! they would put clay about four feet up the trunk all the way around to stop the burning…then they’d chop the tree as it burned. They did the same thing to hollow it out. The guy manning this station was awesome…he was so into it. He even had prescription colonial glasses, I wish I’d gotten a picture!

Replica of the first settlement. (There was also an Indian village but I didn’t get pictures.)

Super cool hat that we didn’t buy.

Then we headed to Yorktown for a stroll on the beach. Lovely.

Except for the jellyfish.

Oh yeah, and we learned how to better communicate as a couple 🙂

Last day of fun with the Lloyd family…we spent it in DC catching up on the last things everyone wanted to do such as shopping, art museum and natural history museum. This is Jonah next to the dinosaur that is on his shirt!

Day 5: Nick and I stayed home with Jonah while the rest of the Lloyd clan made the journey to Williamsburg.

Day 6: Jonah’s blessing!

And a day of rest….

And hanging out just relaxing

Ocean City! And Jonah’s first time at the beach!

We went to Ford Theater, where Lincoln was shot (in the booth behind me, above) and then headed across the street to the house where he died. The bed below is where he died. Very sad. But I did learn more about the story than I knew before, like the fact that John Wilkes Boothe was a famous actor, which is why they let him in to greet the president. So it would be like Brad Pitt shooting Obama…but that would never happen today.

Then we went to the Holocaust museum. I don’t have any pictures of that, but as you can imagine, it was sobering.

On the second day we had tickets to go for a tour of the capitol building. Very cool!

Looking up in the dome of the capitol bldg

Listening to our tour guide

Hungry Jonah at the library of congress

Staring at Jonah again


Popsicles for lunch

Hard Rock Cafe for dinner

Nick’s family came to visit us for a week! We were so glad to have them and we had a ton of fun. They got here last Monday evening. Tuesday, we went to the air and space museum and the national history museum. Then we had Chipotle for dinner.

(above) At the air and space museum…admiring Jonah instead of all the cool airplanes

Oscar! At the national history museum

Kermit! Also at the national history museum…and in the same display were Dorothy’s ruby red slippers!

Natalie and Paul taking a break to admire Jonah again. We wore ourselves out pretty good by the end of the day…soooo much walking in DC!

Dear Nick…congratulations on your promotion from Private to Specialist last Friday! Sorry I couldn’t be there for the ceremony. I love you!
And thank you for all that you do Nick! You’re such a great dad, husband, provider, cook and friend!


Jonah’s very first bottle. (And he’s only had one other since!