I have some really exciting news.
This isn’t my secret project (no that will come very soon though), but rather another life changing decision.
So let me tell you a little bit of the background story…
We have been feeling a little detached to Lubbock lately and have wondered why. So as anyone who gets anxious for change we started looking at our options and discovered www.landsof(name your state).com and started searching for our perfect dream property. It was just something to fill our nights with a few months back, and then it hit me. Why don’t we buy land somewhere? If we could move anywhere, where would we want to move? Our answer will make some of you laugh, we chose Stillwater, Oklahoma. Where Josh grew up. Stillwater is home of Oklahoma State, where my brother went to college and met his wife, and the town where Josh and I first met when I was a sophomore in high school.
We did it, we are closing on 20 peaceful, fully wooded acres about 15 minutes outside of Stillwater in November.
My heart has been aching to live the farm life for about 10 years now and I am finally going after my dream. I want to have chickens, goats, mini donkeys, horses, gardens, ponds, rivers and TREES! The land is bare with no man made pipes or roads, so we (we… meaning Josh) will have a lifelong project on our hands of creating something from nothing. Isn’t this what man was made to do in the Garden of Eden, to till the ground and work it? We will sell our house in the spring and find a rent house in Stillwater to live in until we can build on the land. My horse, Rev, will move up there with us and Josh will make a good horse stall for him. It will be my paradise, my piece of the American Dream.
So what about my business? It will go about like normal. We will try to book more weddings in the Oklahoma region, but if not then we will travel to Texas each weekend.
For the remainder of 2010 there will be no travel fees for Lubbock or Oklahoma weddings. We will pay them as our effort to make this transition easier.
Are you living your dream?
