Videos of Camden

We have had so much fun with the warmer weather. I just wanted to share a couple videos of what Camden has been up to! He is getting much better at steering his truck. He loves to go outside and drive his truck.

Another thing Camden loves to do is play with water. He loves to pour the water back and forth between different containers. I decided to let him play in the tub for a while one day and try out his new swimming suit before we went on vacation!

One of those nights...in the kitchen

So, you know those nights, the nights when nothing seems to work out? Specifically, when you are cooking? I had one of those nights last night. The first problem was that I wasn't exactly sure when Calvin would be home to eat, so I was trying to make dinner so that it would be ready whenever he got home. I was going to cook some pork chops with bbq sauce on the grill outside, but it started pouring rain, so I decided to just bake them in the oven.

Well, by the time we got around to eating them, Calvin described the pork chops as "pork jerky." They were a little over-cooked, to say the least. In addition, I steamed the broccoli until it was just broccoli mush. Luckily, the mashed potatoes turned out ok. Then, I had tried a new brownie recipe for our family night treat, and it was terrible. I had decided to be creative and put in some chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, and chopped nuts (rocky road?) and that just added to the mess. Overall, it was not my best night in the kitchen.

So, just remember, set a timer, follow the recipe, be careful when trying a new recipe, and if your husband's coming home late, get some take out :)

Last Day of February

Wow, February has been such a busy month! Calvin has had so much going on this month with school, the Duke Law Journal, and everything else in between! I truly appreciate him and how much he takes time to spend with Camden and me, even when he has so much going on. We had a fun Valentine's Day weekend. Calvin got me these bright and beautiful flowers.

On Monday, he brought home some sugar babies for Camden and some chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for me, yum!

We got to go out on a date to Rockfish Grill at Southpoint over the weekend. It was fun to spend some time together and the food was really good!

Thank you Calvin for all you do and for working so hard! Thank you Camden for being such a sweet little boy and my little companion every day. What great Valentine's I have!

"I do reading"

I was making dinner yesterday and Camden was playing in the living room, when I heard him go into the bathroom. A minute later, he came back out to get a chair from his little table in the kitchen. I went to check on what he was doing, and this is what I found :) He had set this up all by himself. I asked him what he was doing and he said "I do reading."

I took a little video, but you can't hear him talking very well.

It's starting to warm up outside, so we've had the chance to get out and enjoy some of the nice, sunny days! We cleaned off our patio and ate some lunch outside.

On Saturday, we went over to the park to play in the sand. Camden was having too much fun to look at the camera!

When we're not outside, Camden loves to build roads with his blocks and play with his collection of cars.


We are so excited for Spring to be here! It can't come fast enough! Especially because that means Calvin will be caught up on more of his school things (he has been extremely busy!!) and we'll have a chance to go on a vacation for spring break!

It's a BOY!

You may have heard the news, but we found out yesterday that we are going to be having a baby boy! He is due on July 4th. We are all so happy and excited. Camden has been saying that he is going to have a sister, so now we are working on convincing him that it actually is going to be a brother (and that the baby is in mom's tummy and not his own). I think it will be so fun for Camden to have a brother.

I have just started to feel the baby moving, which is also really exciting. I can't wait for Calvin and Camden to be able to feel it too. I think that will help Camden understand even more.

We are just so grateful to be a family and to be able to add one more little boy. I am going to be even more outnumbered! Calvin's dad pointed out that I might begin to get a feeling of what my dad went through all those years with all girls! I love my boys and I am so happy to have another one!

Lots of Shirts!

Camden is so funny! Lately, he has been telling me he wants to wear "lots of shirts." One morning, he brought down this whole pile of shirts from his drawer and told me he wanted to wear them all. So I put an extra one on, and he said more. We kept on going until we could not put any more shirts on. The funniest thing is that he wore them all day! He did not want me to take them off. I think he had on about 6 shirts, including at least one sweatshirt.



This is the most extreme day of our "lots of shirts" but there are plenty of days that he still gets out a pile of shirts and asks to put them all on. What a funny boy!

New Year in Nevada

We had a great time visiting our family in Nevada! It was so much fun to be able to spend time with them and celebrate the new year. Here are some pictures of some of the fun things we did!

Camden enjoyed helping Grandma Winder in the kitchen.

We brought Grandpa Winder a new puppy! He came with us on the airplane all the way from Utah.

Here's Camden-driving a truck at the age of 2. Well, steering a truck at least! Don't worry, we were just out in the field...no hazards around.

Here are some of the tracks Camden made while driving the truck.



I love the Nevada landscape! It's so nice to be able to see so far. Camden, Daddy, and Uncle Mckay.

One afternoon, we headed out to the desert to do some shooting. We set up a target stand and we each got our own paper target to put up. Calvin won the competition.

Calvin showing Camden how it's done.

Grandpa taught Mckay too!

Laiel's husband Dusty...the target was pretty far away!

We also had a chance to gather everyone for a family picture.

Yes, Mckay was being a little silly in all the pictures...this is the best we could get! Pretty good of everyone else though! Look at that old guy on the left-he's even smiling too!

Happy New Year!

On another afternoon, we got the chance to go up past Reno to a place we could go sledding. It was beautiful!

We found the perfect little sled for Camden. It had a seat belt and a back rest and it slid down the hill really well! We took the sleds we got for Ivan and Mckay last year too.

Don't look too closely at the faces here...I think I'm the only one who got the memo to smile :)

Katie and Ashton! We had a lot of fun together.

Camden loved sledding, he kept saying, again! again!

And for one more outing-for FHE one night, we got to go to the "best place in the whole world" according to Mckay-the Fun Center in Fernley. The kids got to play in this 3 level play ground while we played a couple of games of bowling. Everyone had a lot of fun!

And finally, for your viewing pleasure, Camden's rendition of the Heigh Ho song from Snow White. His version goes, "Heigh ho, heigh ho, I do work!"