When it comes to your values, you can align your life, your decisions, your day-to-day choices to those values. You have our permission to change the game you are playing and to redefine the rules.

While there is loss all around us, there is also an outpouring of love.

We have all learned to have more confidence in what is possible.

If I had to do it over again, I would want to know I can play with my kids rather than signing them up to play.

...we know how precious these days are and how quickly they go by.

In short, we wanted to help build work ethic we felt would last a lifetime.

We could feel the care and dedication this family has put into their business and making it a place where they could serve others

So, when I asked today what she’d like to do and how she’d like to spend her birthday afternoon, in typical Opal fashion she said, “I want to have a family water balloon fight!”

They know the athletes by name and have quickly developed a knack for critiquing every diver’s approach, form, and splash.

Resting easy that he was him and I was me and this is just how we roll.

But once we hit the rapids, we had the time of our lives!

I couldn’t help but see that sweet little toddler who would wiggle around on my lap while I sang her favorite lullaby.

Now I spend every Friday and most afternoons doing the one thing that is most important in life to me—being the father and husband I always dreamed of.

It’s easy to say, we’ve never seen anything else like this.

And then he told us he was going to “lock in this memory” so that he would never forget.

It was a perfect reminder that we’re “home” now!

I’ve been counting down to today for one reason and one reason only—to say yes.

When we put a stake in the ground to redesign our lives and said we would always put family first, I don’t know that we could have envisioned all that would entail.

If our younger selves could see us today, I think they would be so proud of us.

I’ve probably been called Clark Griswold more than anything in my entire life (and trust me, I’ve been called a lot of things!).