The New Normal

It's been quite a while since I've sat down and wrote anything, and oh how I've missed it. I'm sitting here at our round wood dining room table, while my husband and daughter are watching a movie across the room. The sun is slowly setting, and I can hear the heifers outside in the pasture through the open kitchen window. If you would've told me that I'd be living in the middle of nowhere on a ranch, I would've laughed. I like the city, I like Starbucks, and I love Target. Don't get me wrong I love cows, horses and seeing the stars in the sky, but I like to do those things 10 minutes from town...not hours. We recently settled down on a ranch in the middle of nowhere, and after moving twice between last December and now, it's so nice to have a home. A place where we can be us, and put our roots down. For awhile we weren't sure where we wanted to be. My husband was blessed with an amazing job that he loves and he's living his dream every day. I'm learning how to be the good rancher's wife; you know, cooking filling meals, learning to handle the manure and mud covered laundry and giving up on keeping my mud room floor clean. I'm blessed in the sense that my husband has a ton of patience with me, and keeps loving me even when I fail..and mess up. We're slowly getting settled in our new home, but there's lots to be done. Painting, fixing up the front porch and I really wanna plant a vegetable garden soon. Ranch life is never boring and it's been fun learning the ropes of how things are done. There isn't many people out here so I'll probably start rambling more than I should but hopefully you won't give up on me.

from my phone: hunting with family

all of these photos were taken with my phone

its 6 o'clock saturday morning and my husband is bubbling with excitement; today we're heading into the woods with my family to go hunting. He lives and breathes hunting and nature. Theres just something about the early mornings, hiking for miles (and miles!), animals (the bigger the better!) and guns that he just...loves. He can't resist it. I'm more of a lets stay home and sleep in type of person, but not this morning. We head out of town to one of his favorite hunting spots and we all unload and head up the hill just as the sun was coming over the mountains. The view was breathtaking, as was the hike. The kiddos tried to be as quiet as they could and they did amazing.  My husband was having a blast and didn't wanna stop hunting until the sun went down that night and he couldn't see anything. When we got home that night we had been hiked 10 miles..so I was dead and he was still bubbling. My love for hunting and hiking is slowly getting stronger thanks to my amazing husband who is patiently teaching me just how amazing nature is..and how amazing you feel when you hiked farther than you thought you could.