A Weekend with the Zs

We spent a fun weekend celebrating Andrew's birthday with Grandma and Baba Z. We explored one of our favorite places here--the Durham Life and Science Museum. It's so much fun and has a great variety of hands-on learning and playing opportunities. 

Thanks for coming and spoiling our sweet, crazy, one in a million Andrew!

Building a House

We are building a house in Chatham County, NC. It means all kinds of things to us right now--patience with temporary housing, excitement in seeing it go from dirt to what you see below, frustration that it is taking way to long, flexibility with planning, joy in envisioning what we will do. That only names a handful of the feelings of the last 2 months. So far we love NC. We have been impressed with friendly people, less traffic, fun activities, and new friends. We went and saw the house this morning and it looks great!  Our general contractor even let the kids add something a little extra to make this house their home: