Welcome! I am so glad that are joining me on my adventures as a homemaker, backyard farmer, crafter, cook, baker, etc! I am so excited to start this new blog!


I love to talk about myself and what my family are doing. No I'm not conceited or self-centered, quite the opposite in fact. I do feel, however, that I have a lot of useful information to share with others. So here is a little about me so you can get to know me a little better and hopefully learn something from me as well. I love positive comments and hope you leave lots, it's important to build people up, not tear them down!


So, I grew up the oldest of 4 kids. My parents were great and raised us the best they could. I was a normal child that fought with parents and siblings, but we made it through and I'm a much better person because of the influence they all had on me. I love them all so much!


In elementary school and through most of my junior high and high school days, I was teased by others because of how I looked. It was hard during those years but those times made me stronger and now I teach my kids that that is just not right! No one should be teased because of how they look! We are all created by a loving God who made us just the way we are supposed to be and we need to embrace that!


My family was there through a lot of hard times, like the teasing, break ups and bad grades, and also during the good and fun times, like marching band competitions and dating and of course my wedding! Which brings me to:


I am a wife of 15+ years to an amazing man who treats me like a queen and has given me so much in that amount of time! He is a full-time programmer for a great company that he loves, that allows me to stay home with our kids. When we met I was going to cosmetology school to cut hair. I love this industry so much and I'm so glad I have this background! I was able to put my husband through college cutting hair, which didn't pay much at all, even at full time, but we were fine being poor and learned to get by. Plus I haven't paid for a haircut much in that time, and my family never has had to.


While my husband was in college, We had three kids. The oldest was born a couple years after we were married. He has been a good kid, but very strong willed and likes things his way. The second and third were born together, yep they are twins, which is a great story I should tell sometime. They were nine weeks early and a lot of work, but I wouldn't trade them for anything, they are great!


About 5 months after the twins were born, my hubby graduated from college and began working more full time. We moved closer to his job and by that summer were pregnant again. We decided we needed to make a more permanent move and bought a home. Our fourth son was born the next January. Having four boys was not our plan, but we don't run on our own plans, God is always in charge!


But we did wait for a while to have anymore kids, since we had four boys in 4 years! Four years after having our last son though, we welcomed a beautiful little princess to our family who is our pride and joy! It was so much fun having pink and purple instead of blue and green! Don't get me wrong, I love my boys dearly, but there is just something about having a girl!


So we stayed in our house there for 10 years and decided since our boys were getting so big, we needed to move to a larger home and try to get a little more property. We were able to move last summer to a wonderful place that we love and have never been happier! The neighborhood is great, the schools are great, and my kids love that we have lots of kids close by to play with! We couldn't have asked for better!


Which brings me to now. We are very excited to have made it through the Utah winter and are very much looking forward to gardening and especially some new chickens and ducks we are going to raise. We are so excited!! My next post will be about our new little flock, so I won't write much here, just know I can't wait till they are bigger! We are also building garden boxes from scratch and I'm excited to share those with you as well, they don't look like many I've seen anywhere, It's all my hubbys design and thinking and we can't wait till it's all done!


So in a very small nutshell, that is me and what adventures we are pursuing in the near future, so come back often and see what I've been working on lately. There is always something, promise!