About Caleb

Caleb was also born three weeks early! His mom had been working at a bakery in Redmond, WA, and figured she had three weeks to sew while she waited for her first baby to make his appearance. Caleb had other plans. Caleb Scott Scoville was born in Bellevue, WA, at 4:28 a.m., just 4 ½ hours after Mom and Dad arrived at the hospital. He weighed 7 lbs. 3 oz.

When Caleb was 6 months old he moved with his parents to Vancouver, WA, and lived in a small apartment. Caleb was an early talker and recognized many letters at an early age. Fifteen months later, Caleb welcomed a sister, and four more siblings soon followed, making 4 boys and 2 girls in the family. Then ten months later Caleb moved with the family to his first house/home. He would live there for 15 ½ years.

Caleb was part of a co-op preschool with a friend across the street. He had an imaginary friend named "Tubbyseata". His parents would ask him how he knew something and he would say "I thinked it in my mind." He then attended Ellsworth Elementary School in Vancouver. While at Ellsworth he participated in the band program and played the trombone, and also took a few piano lessons from his mom. He started playing soccer at age eight and this would inspire him to participate in sports for many years to come. He attended Cascade Middle School where he would participate in basketball, wrestling and track. He enjoyed all three, but would go on to excel in running events.

Caleb began studying Spanish while attending Cascade Middle School. He later attended and graduated from Evergreen High School and during his years at Evergreen, he completed his Eagle Scout Award. For his Eagle project he secured funds and organized the building of two large wooden sets of locker/cabinets to be used at two homeless shelter locations. The cabinets are useful for locking up personal medications that the residents have and need.

Caleb was well liked by teachers, administrators and students, and he was the senior class treasurer. When Ms. Lockwood, the Senior class advisor, met Caleb, she said, "You must be one of those nice Mormon boys; you have that 'Mormon twinkle' in your eyes." Caleb had politely opened and held the door for Ms. Lockwood. He was self motivated to do well in his classes and worked hard to get good grades. He took Spanish classes all four years of high school. He also did very well in cross country and track and was part of a relay team at Track Regionals.

Caleb was one of the emcees at the Senior Awards Night and was very surprised when he learned he was the recipient of a scholarship given by his high school to future educators. Then after a late night graduation party, Caleb arose early the next morning with his family and headed for BYU in Provo. He would spend the next ten moths in Provo successfully completing his freshman year. Following his freshman year, he returned home and worked at two jobs to earn money for his mission. He worked as a Special Education Staff Assistant with students at Evergreen High School and also as an installer of sprinkler systems. Sprinkler system installation was hard work and all the funds from both jobs went towards serving a mission.

When Caleb's mission call arrived in the mailbox, he gathered the family around while he opened it. The letter said he would be serving the Lord for two years in Rosario, Argentina. Caleb's favorite assignment as a missionary was training other missionaries.

Five days after returning home from his mission, Caleb returned to BYU to not only continue working towards his Spanish Teaching major, but to look for his eternal companion. He worked for a short time with his cousin Joanali as a secretary at the Women's Research Center at BYU, becoming only the second male secretary in over ten years. After a few months, he was called to work at the MTC (where he had previously applied) teaching Spanish. He considered other jobs during the summer breaks where he could earn more money, but stayed at the MTC doing what he loves most, teaching Spanish. What a good decision that turned out to be as that was the time he met his future wife, Amy Fitzgerald, in the ward he had been attending all school year.

Once Caleb and Amy officially started dating it was only a short while later that they became engaged. Caleb brought Amy with him to his Grandpa Scoville's funeral in California where she met a large portion of the Scoville family, who all fell in love with her - almost as much as Caleb!