My Story From The Beginning

If you’ve read my “about me” page then you might know my name and a few things about me but it’s pretty brief. So it seems appropriate that my first blog post be a little deeper look at who I am, how I’ve been shaped into the person I am today and more about who I’m striving to be. 

I was born in Idaho, my parents divorced when I  was 2 years old and my mom took us kids to Wyoming. So I grew up visiting my dad every year in Idaho and living full time in Wyoming. It can be challenging to answer the question “where are you from?” Because I was raised going back and forth between states, I moved to Nevada after high school, and almost 5 years ago I ended up in Texas! 

I didn’t go to college right out of high school, I went to work at a coal mine as a lab tech, until I went to Nevada where I was a lab tech at a gold mine. After a few years in mining I decided to explore the telecommunications world and I worked my way up the corporate ladder over about 5 years, but I learned over time how corrupt and unfair that world is and I decided I wanted something different.  I watched my dad run his own business my entire life in Idaho, so I already had entrepreneurial instincts. I went into real estate in 2016 and I’ve never looked back! I started my business in Nevada, did property management for a couple years and I sold homes there till 2020, shortly after I left Nevada I let my license go inactive there. I’ve lived in Texas for 4.5 years and I got my real estate license here right after I bought my first Texas home. By the end of 2020 I had built my business up enough to do it full time and make it my only source of income. 

I moved to Nevada because my mom left Wyoming to live closer to her dad, and I followed her about a year after she left because I was not  done with school and I was in love at the time with my high school sweetheart. And I moved to Texas because I was following love! I had visited Texas several times while seeing someone here, and while I was in love with him, I also fell in love with the great state of Texas! The people, the culture, the history, the weather, all of it! Texas felt like home to me pretty instantaneously!! 

That relationship I followed to Texas ended up being the worst, yet best thing that ever happened to me. There was narcissism, cheating and addiction issues that I spent 2.5 years trying to fix. Until one day I realized I could not fix that man, only God could. So we started to go to church at a local cowboy church. In less than 6 months after going to church, he never changed. But I did! I realized God loves me and I realized I didn’t deserve the toxic cycle I was stuck in. That is not the kind of love or the kind of man that God made for me! By this point I had been so manipulated into thinking I could not survive financially without this person that it took an act of God to finally wake me up and make me realize, I had to leave before it got any worse…My faith grew stronger by the day as I now had to re-establish my identity in Texas as a single, 30 year old woman living 1500 miles from her family. 

My faith in God grew every single day following that break up. I had no confidence, very few friends, and I had wracked up a lot of debt that I had no idea how I was gonna pay for. I prayed every single day for strength, courage, guidance, and patience while I navigated the uncertainty. And every single day, God showed up and provided!! Now let me just tell you, he didn’t give me everything I asked for, that’s not how God works. At one point, I was ready to move to Idaho where my family lives and was trying a long distance relationship with an ex-boyfriend from Nevada (haven’t we all tried the whole “going back to the ex for comfort and to see if anything changed” scenario?) I listed my house for sale and everything, thankfully it didn’t sell… soon after I pulled it from the market, I realized that relationship too was also not for me. The most important relationship in life, is the one with God. I stumbled around for a bit trying to find the love he meant for me, and when I stopped looking, I realized I was really content with the life I built and I was less focused on finding love and more focused on my career, my barrel racing and my faith! I felt confident, beautiful, strong, successful, and ready to let things happen in his time!! 

About a year after I moved to Texas I went looking for a Massey Ferguson tractor because I had one in Nevada and I loved it, but I sold it when I moved because I was renting initially. I found a dealership in Granbury TX and decided to make the one hour drive to go see if I could find a deal! The salesman was an eager, friendly, and knowledgeable young man in his mid 20’s. He made me a good deal, and even delivered it to the house!! A few months later, he added me on Facebook but we never talked, just kinda “existed” on each other’s friends list lol. One cool October day in 2022 we actually started talking to each other online and I am now marrying that tractor salesman May 18th, in just over 2 months now!! (No, there was no foul play during that tractor deal either!) I bought that tractor in December of 2020,

The day that Zane and I met, I can tell you neither one of us expected to be marrying each other 3.5 years later!! But it’s very clear now that God knew what he was doing! My relationship with Zane has been the best that I’ve ever been in. I’ve never been treated so well, or loved so wholeheartedly! 

While I’ve grown over the years, spent time re-establishing my identity, learned to lean on my faith as a Christian, and found love, I also realized that I never did have a “Gypsy soul”, I simply was looking for my place in the world that actually felt like home to me. Texas has given me that and so much more!! I truly look forward to starting a family here and raising babies with the incredible man I’ll be marrying in May!

I hope y’all have enjoyed learning a bit more about me, I look forward to sharing with you some of the stories and lessons I’ve learned over the years, and I’m excited to share my journey with you as I continue to grow and learn new things every day! I’ve been told so often that I should write a book, so I’ve decided to start with a blog for now and if you want to keep up with my weekly shenanigan shuffling, check out my channel on YouTube as well!!