As a family, we believe in order to live up to your full potential you need to live intentionally. Annually, we would write down our goals and life priorities to form a vision for the future as individuals and as a group. Until the overwhelming life events that occurred in 2015, we thought we had the perfect life. My father-in-law died in January. Then my mom suddenly died in April, just weeks before her two grandchildren, our boys, were graduating from college. On a tearful Mother’s Day, my mom’s favorite day, we watched our son receive his diploma. The next weekend, we watched our other son receive his engineering degree. He was the fourth generation to graduate from Virginia Tech, but his grandpa was now missing the heartfelt moment. Our son proudly wore his grandpa’s Virginia Tech’s class ring with the Hoge family crest for the occasion. The surge of raw emotions as we were surrounded by the university steeped in tradition, left us in tears.