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Wow! Things are going great here! Calvin is working hard in his classes while still taking time to play with Camden and me. It seems like there has been just so much going on lately! We stay busy during the day with playgroups, walking in the mornings, and other outings (and also working...don't worry dad! I don't miss too many calls, haha, just kidding, I answer almost all of them and call the others right back). We've also been going to watch Calvin's law school softball games twice a week. All of the other students love watching Camden walk around making little noises, waving his arms, and clapping when everyone else does.

Calvin has also started his new calling as a Cub Scout Den Leader. Last week we got to go with him to a park in Chapel Hill where they caught little crawdads.

Last weekend we had a get together with some of the other law students who came from BYU. We made cookies and Camden had a lot of fun helping me...

After the law get together, we gathered a few BYU fans at our house for the amazing BYU game! What a game! I think we were all on the edge of our seats for the last quarter. It was awesome!

Yesterday, Camden and I went with our friends Jenny and her little girl Evey and our friend Nichole to the Durham Museum of Life and Science. We had so much fun seeing the newly hatched butterflies being released into the butterfly house, the native animals in North Carolina (alligators, opposums, owls, turtles, and more), lots of insects and bugs (all in cages except some spiders from Madagascar, scary! They were just out in the open with thier webs!), and lots of other cool stuff. Camden really liked the playground inside where he could climb up into this treehouse-type thing and put a ball in a track that wound around the room and then zig-zaged back and forth into a box. He is getting so big and learning so much! He could climb right up the ladder into the tree house. I was very impressed. Here's Camden pointing to some little birds behind the trees in the butterfly house.

Camden is also learning how to eat with a fork and a spoon. He absolutely loves it and won't eat without them. He still has a way to go before he figures it out, but he's doing good!


This weekend we're getting ready for the Duke basketball ticket campout. The graduate students can enter a lottery to get basketball season tickets if they spend the weekend camping out and if they are there for all of the checkpoint times. They begin at 6 pm on Friday and find out if they won the lottery at 7 am on Sunday. This means they are going to set up tents and sleep there and everything! On Saturday, they could sign up for a service project so that they can do the service project and then come home for a couple hours to shower and rest before they have to be back for the next checkpoint. Then Calvin was also able to get an exemption to come home at midnight on Saturday night so he can go to church in the morning. So...we are going to miss having him at home, but I think we'll spend some time there keeping him company.

Overall, we're doing great! We're enjoying being here in North Carolina and meeting new friends and seeing new things. We really miss our families and friends out in the West and hope this blog keeps you more connected to us! Post some comments so we can see how you're doing and see who is reading our blog! Love you all!