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A Timeline of My Life After High School

  • Graduated From Lake Wales High School

    Graduated From Lake Wales High School
    I graduated from LWHS in May of 2005, this picture is from my last home football game, it was Senior Night.
  • Graduated from Florida State University

    Graduated from Florida State University
    I attended FSU from August of 2005 through May of 2010, and I can not say enough about FSU, I had the time of my life! Of all the pictures I could have chosen, I chose a picture that was taken with former head football coach Bobby Bowden. Coach Bowden is one of the greatest football coaches of all time, and is an incredible man of God.
  • Moved Back to Lake Wales

    Moved Back to Lake Wales
    Following college, I decided to move back to Lake Wales in June of 2010 and help my family. I worked a few interesting jobs including working as a social media consultant for a gentleman who ran a hedge fund that specialized in the Russian stock market (did some ghostwriting for his book as well), and I also worked for Duke Energy. The picture is of my nephew and I before we mowed my mom's yard.
  • Got Married

    Got Married
    We had met while I was in college, but after being home for a year or two, I began dating Amber. On January 4, 2014 we got married at First Baptist Church in Lake Wales.
  • Our First Child is Born

    Our First Child is Born
    On June 25, 2014 our lives were changed forever when our first child Spate was born.
  • Bought our First Home

    Bought our First Home
    After renting a condo in Winter Haven for a little over a year, we purchased a house in Lake Wales that we could raise our family in. We officially got our keys on June 26, 2015, a day after Spate's first birthday.
  • Started Teaching at Lake Wales High School

    Started Teaching at Lake Wales High School
    Everything came full circle when I returned to LWHS not as a student, but as a teacher. I feel truly blessed to teach at the same high school that I attended. The picture attached is from one of our Morning Meetings where the entire school gathers multiple times a week.
  • Our Second Child is Born

    Our Second Child is Born
    They said two is better than one, and we decided to put that to the test when our second son Nolan was born on May 2, 2016