Young Party of Four

It finally happened people! It's hard to believe that just a few years ago in 2015, our alma mater's football team managed to do something unthinkable. Go 0 and 12. Yeah. That's a perfect season. A perfect failing season. They lost every single game they played. Every. Single. Game. It was a rough year to be a UCF fan... but we don't do fair weather around these parts (at least in our home) so we stuck it out. We watched those games and figured one day it would turn around. And boy did it! Just two years later in 2017, UCF went undefeated. 13-0. The truly perfect season. The Colly Matrix even declared them the National Champion so they claimed it alongside the powerhouse of football, Bama. (That's right... you can blame the NCAA for our refusal to shut up about it.) It was a fun year. Steven and I were even at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta on January 1, 2018 to watch UCF beat Auburn. It was a game I won't soon forget. Fast forward through off season to the curr

Dear Will, Wow! Here we are. On your fourth birthday. Four years old already. Almost a whole hand. You have been such a joy to watch learn and grow this year and we are so happy we were chosen to be your parents to get to witness it. You just keep getting bigger and bigger. When you started school this year, everyone remarked about how you apparently shot up over the summer. We don't notice it, but after having a ton of people tell us, we decided you must have gotten a lot taller. So, we measured you. And lo and behold, you were tall. You had your official 4 year appointment today so the official measurements are 42 inches tall (85th percentile) and 35.4 pounds (50th percentile). It's official, you have left your sister behind at the same age at this point. Not surprising being that you are a boy and you have quite a few tall people in this family bringing you up. You are still riding the tall and skinny train, for sure. As a matter of fact, your BMI is at 4%. The

Whew! Another 5k in the books. And this one was HOT! HOT! HOT! So, freaking hot. I wish I had thought to take a screenshot of the temperature at start time. I did find this on the Run Nona event page and I would fully agree that the temp was hovering around 89 degrees. Remember though that is not accounting for the "Feels Like" temp. It was stupid hot. We still had a blast though! We have actually never been out to Lake Nona. We don't have a need really to go that far so this was new to us. It is about a 45 minute drive. Will fell asleep on the way there which is good and bad. Good because he was able to stay up later without getting ridiculous at all. Bad because he doesn't wake up nice usually from naps. It's part of the reason we don't push them with him... but that is another story for another time. We were able to find parking fairly easily. We found out later we were lucky. Some people had to park a couple miles from the start line. Will woke up