Nick and Jen Lloyd

I have a very important announcement to make. For those of you who have been to New Zealand or Australia and have had a “tim tam slam” but are now back to the USA and can’t seem to find that delectable cookie (biscuit) anywhere……
GO TO TARGET!!!!
Pepperidge farms is now selling their own “tim tam” at Target. That’s right, a tim tam slam may be in your near future!

Now, for those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about…let me fill you in. The “tim tam” is Australia’s equivalent of America’s “Oreo”. Only better. And if you really want to eat it the way it should be eaten, you gotta slam it!
1. Make some hot chocolate/tea/coffee whichever you prefer.
2. Get a tim tam biscuit ready
3. Nibble off opposite corners of the tim tam
4. Stick one nibbled corner in your mouth
5. Lower the other nibbled corner into your drink
6. Suck the drink through the cookie
7. Once you get some drink, quickly shove the cookie in your mouth
VOILA!

Nick’s response to his first tim tam slam…”MMMMMMMM!” (and then he reached for another, and another…)

Our latest puppy problem is that this cute little puppy…
Can now jump over this little gate!
Little demon! I love her but man she makes things complicated! We even raised the gate a little to give it more height but true to her mischievous beagle ways, she can still get over! I had heard that beagles can get into things, but I’d have only known! Just think, if she can jump high enough to get over this gate…soon she’ll be able to jump onto the kitchen table or counter top…AAAAAUGH!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! This was our first Thanksgiving being married. Since there are only two of us I decided against cooking a whole feast and we went to the “chow hall” on base where the officers were serving a full Thanksgiving meal. My favorite part? They had chocolate milk!
Then on Friday, Nick and I headed to New York City to see my good friend Rachel who was home for the holidays (she lives in Colorado, I met her while doing my internship there). And of course, to see New York. Friday we went to town, saw time square, walked around the fashion district and topped off our evening with dinner and a broadway show! I don’t think I’ve ever seen Nick so excited. We saw “The Young Frankenstein” it was amazing. The set was incredible and the music was great. Nick had this look on his face like it was Christmas morning through the whole show. Walking around the city was overwhelming (especially considering it was black Friday so there were A LOT of people!). All the Christmas decorations were up though so it was fun to see all the lights and the Macy’s window display and the huge Christmas tree at the Rockefeller center. Yay for Christmas coming soon! (For those of you who love the movie ELF as much as I do, here is a picture of the skating rink where they go skating and the huge Christmas tree that she shows Buddy, with the amazing crystal star on top. There were HUGE cables holding this tree up, it’s big.)
Saturday Rachel took us around Long Island (where she lives) to some local spots including a cute little town called “Lloyd village” and the close by “Woodbury”. We took a walk down this cute path to this huge historic mansion on a hill. For dinner, Nick and I had some authentic New York pizza.
Sunday morning we drove home. And instead of taking 3 hrs like it did to get there, it took us 8 hours! But we made it, and we were glad we went. I hadn’t realized how much I missed Rachel! Plus it was really fun to meet her family, they are such a nice family and were very good to us.

So within the same week it has happened AGAIN!

Not only can our little Zoey reach the magazine on top of the toilet, she can also get to the top of the washer/dryer where we set the toilet paper (so as to be out of her reach!). And she did. While we were out getting some Mexican food that Nick was so desperately craving, Zoey tore apart a whole roll of toilet paper. I gotta admit, it wasn’t quite as funny this time!

Nick and I went to the D.C. zoo a few weeks ago for his birthday (that’s what Nick wanted to do for his Birthday! I think he is trying to feel younger cuz he thinks he’s so old now). They had some cool animals that we’d never seen before…impressive zoo for being free! Anyone heard of a sloth bear? Couldn’t get a picture of it but it was cool!

So the other day Nick and I got home from going out for a few hours and this is what we found…
Zoey had completely destroyed a magazine that she pulled off the top of the toilet. (That’ll teach us not to put the lid down!) I would have been mad but I really just couldn’t stop laughing! She tore that thing to shreds! There was not page left whole. Crazy puppy!! Thankfully this is the first time she’s really done any damage, and it was only a magazine.
I’m getting really worried about leaving her at the kennel for 2.5 weeks over Christmas…I think she’s gonna go crazy! She loves attention so much and gets bored easily, I don’t know what she’s going to do! I guess maybe we’ll have to leave a few magazines for her.

Today is Nick’s 24th B-day! Happy birthday baby! I love you!!!

AND…happy veteran’s day! It’s almost been a year since he joined the army! What an old veteran!

Alright people…recently Nick has decided that he has found his “photo face”. I completely disagree…and I need a second opinion to convince him. So if you read this, please comment. (Those of you that don’t have a blog can comment! Just click on the comments thing at the bottom and comment anonymously but sign your name.)

Which do you like better? (Keep in mind that these are not photo-shopped and they may not be the best pictures photographically speaking and I look like a dufus in #2…we’re just looking at his face here.)

#1:

# 2:
Poor Zoey was freezing cold the whole time cuz she jumped into the water silly thing!