Snow Weeks, not just a day

Winters can be tough around this area sometimes. 2019 has not started the way I anticipated and I’m still trying to keep the faith that it will get better, everything always gets better as long as you remain optimistic, right? Just hard to see in the moment. A few weeks into the year while my …

My Reward

Sometimes I feel like my kids are the reward for all the things I actually got right in this world. So many times I have felt like a failure, plans don’t go as planned and it feels like set back after set back at times, but not with them. They are happy, they are healthy, …

It’s a Family Thing

It sits just outside of Spray, Oregon at the foothills of The Umatilla National Forest, a little over a 100 acres that my grandparents purchased in 1997. It was my grandpa’s dream, his goal, that he accomplished through hard work, determination, and perseverance. My grandpa worked for everything he had and was one the most …