Young Party of Four

Last weekend we traveled down to good ole South Florida for about 36 hours. It was a bit of a whirlwind style trip, but we had such a great time that it was worth us to recap it for posterity. We always know we are likely to take a S. Florida trip in early January. Our friends' kiddo is a January baby so we always try to make it down for his birthday party. This year we decided to just stay one night and traveled down on Saturday, the day of his party. We left our house bright and early. As in 6:45am. After picking up some McDonald's breakfast for the road, we were on our way. We made it all the way to Fort Pierce with the kiddos before we had to make a bathroom stop. That was the plan all along so it is always nice when that works out. We were only out of the car for less than 20 minutes then back in for the remainder of the trip down. We set up a movie for the kids to watch and the settled in to watch Descendants 2. Traffic was pretty light so we made it down earlier tha...

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 ...