Zac Brown Band

On Thursday last week we decided last minute to look for tickets for the Zac Brown Band playing 20 minutes away from here in Cary. I was able to find someone willing to sell them a little cheaper since it was the day of the show! It was so much fun to go and listen to thier music. Calvin and Camden enjoyed it too! Here's Calvin keeping Camden in line :) We saw the first show of their first headlining tour. Fun!

What a Catch!

Two great catches...Calvin...and this lizard! Haha. This week Calvin was so nice and brought home some flowers! He also took me outside and showed me this awesome lizard (we found out it is actually called a five-lined skink) and helped me catch it! Fun!I have a great husband!

Busy Day!

Wow! We had a very busy day yesterday! We started off by dropping Calvin off at school and then meeting up with our walking friends for the 3 mile loop around Duke golf course (hills with a stroller = a tough workout every time!). Then we went and waited while the car was serviced. After that, we went and met my friend Jenny at a thrift store by our house and found some fun things! We got this little popper-pusher toy for just 25 cents! The spring inside was broken, so I opened it up and fixed it! We got a few other toys, some books, and I got this really cute window frame I'm planning on using as a wall hanging in our bedroom. I want to add some pressed flowers to it, so I'll add some pictures later of the project. Here is Camden enjoying some of his new toys!

After the store, we came home and I was able to shower. Then we had to go pick up Calvin from school. When we got home, Camden took a nap and Calvin and I watched the new X-Men Wolverine movie. Then I had to go to a dr. appointment. When I got home from my appointment, we had to make some funeral potatoes for our ward social.

The ward social was fun. They had amazing southern bbq. Everyone brought "sterotypical mormon side dishes" including jello, salads, and funeral potatoes. I was lucky enough to win a prize for my beautiful dish. Thanks Winder's for the recipe!

After the social, we headed over to meet up with some of the LLM's from law school. These are the Duke Law students who are going to study in China next summer and some students from China who are studying at Duke for a year. We had more food and more fun. The party was held on a patio by a pool and Camden was going crazy wanting to jump right in the pool.

We then headed back home to get ready for salsa dancing! We got Camden to sleep and then took him over to our friends' house for a little sleepover while we were gone. Luckily he was out, so he didn't even wake up while we transferred him into a portable crib. Then my very nice husband took me to a club in Durham for Latin night! We learned a few salsa steps and moves and had fun trying those out! Calvin was very nice to do something that I really enjoy. We had a good time!

So, overall it was a jam-packed day! We're ready for a relaxing Saturday and a BYU game tonight. Go Cougars!

Park Day

Last Friday we went to Forest Hills park for Friday park days. We didn't come prepared to get wet, but once Camden figured out what it was, there was no stopping him! He had so much fun playing in the water! It was nice because it wasn't like the swimming pool where I have to hold on to him, he could just go play and have fun without me getting wet too!

Long New Post

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!

New Bikes!

Wow! We had a great weekend! Calvin started classes last week, so by the time the weekend rolled around, we were ready to have some fun. We really miss Calvin when he has to go to school all day! It was so nice to have some time off to spend together and with our families (post on that still to come...)

So on Friday night we thought we'd have some fun and go camping. The night before, we had set up the tent to make sure we had all the pieces. We were going to go to this cool place called Hanging Rock State Park, where they have some hiking trails, a waterfall, swimming, and camping. However, by the time we got there, we realized that there was far too much rain and water for the gear we had brought with us. So, we just went to the picnic area and had our dinner. We set up our grill and made some hot dogs, ate some watermelon and chips, and then roasted marshmallows. Yum! Camden had fun playing in the dirt and mud. Luckily we had some spare clothes to change him into when we got back in the car. We then drove on to Mt. Airy to see if we could find a hotel, but they all turned out to be more than we wanted to pay, so Calvin drove us back home while Camden and I slept. It was a fun drive and a good dinner!

Then on Saturday, we still had some time and wanted to do something fun. We were trying to think of what to do when Calvin suggested that we go and get some bikes. It sounded like a great idea, so we went and picked out a bike for each of us and got a little seat for Camden! We had so much fun riding on the American Tobacco Trail through Durham. It was a really nice paved trail with a lot of shade and just a slight incline. We rode 10 miles, far for me, but not so far for Calvin. Camden really seemed to like the part he was awake for! We had worked so long on getting the bikes and putting together the seat that Camden was all tired out by the time we started riding. We had a lot of fun and we're excited to be able to ride together more!

The New Place

We are so excited to be moved in to our new place! The last few weeks have been SO busy! Calvin finished up classes, we moved into our new place, and then had my family in town to visit, then flew out to Nevada to visit Calvin's family. We're still here in Nevada, but I thought I should catch up on a few things.

We LOVE our new apartment! It has been so long since we've been in our own place with our own things. When we left UT, we sold all of our furniture and got rid of a lot of stuff. So Calvin's main job was putting together all of our new furniture! It was nice to be able to choose where we were going to live, and then to buy some furniture that would work well in the new apartment. Here are some pictures! We love our "pond view" unit. We also got a new grill for our patio-which is really nice!