Our Family and Farm

I met my husband while tubing down the Guadalupe River in Canyon Lake. To make a long story short he tried to drown me by dunking me in the water hahaha. When he finally brought me up for air and held me in his arms I looked at him while coughing and choking and fell in love with him.

Two months of dating only on the weekends cause he was in Army and I was working as Riding Director at Girl Scout camp for summer he got orders to leave to Germany. It was either say goodbye or get married. Fifth teen years later we have never regretted it. We spent many years in Europe where my husband was also in Desert Storm and I waited like a good military wifes for his return later we explored Europe together for our long awaited honey moon.

We got stationed in the East coast later bought our first house and had my daughter in North Carolina at Fort Bragg. My husband was injured in a Parachute accident while stationed there and we got rid of our house, paid off our bills and got an early out of Service thanks to the Clinton admistrators for deactivating the service at that time we had little choice.

We decided to go where the jobs were and at that time it was San Antonio. My husband still hurting from his injurys and couldn�t work much didn�t get his disability till three years later. They kept losing his records. Senator Hutchision , Thank you Senator and her staff managed to track down his records and we were able to catch up with our bills and get our feet back on the ground.

With medical care now and time my husband healed a bit and he got into the computer field which he Mastered and became very successful in it he got a wonderful job in San Antonio. A year after that I was able to quit my job and stay home with my daughter who was at the time in a daycare from 6am in morning till 6pm at night. I don�t think there was not one day that I didn�t cry for her.

I tried putting my daughter in a private kinder garden school however they were so advanced and pushed the kids so much I was doing home work with my daughter after school at least 2-3 hours a night. She was stressed I was stressed and I got in an argument with the teacher and her progress. She wanted to hold my daughter back I wanted to go through summer with a tutor or summer school to pass her. In the end we pulled her out and I started home schooling for the first time.

I got a hold of FEAST a homeschool store at the time they introduced me with information about homeschooling, and they connected me to HAVEN my first homeschool group. I tried to get with this other one but can you imagine they had a waiting list for a year! A year later they called me and I told them NO THANK YOU. I was happy with HAVEN great coordinator for group and Miranda loved the partys and gatherings they had.

About three passed and we currently were living in a rental house my husband came home with an ad he�s friend gave him at work. 75 acre ranch house in Medina county for sale. He wanted to go look at it. We thought for sure maybe it was a mistake maybe it was 7.5 acres not 75 acres for $149,000 but we called her up and nope it was 75 acres. We thought for sure maybe it was an old trailer shack, but it was a three bedroom 2 bath house with enclosed porch and garage we fell in love. We spent three years at this ranch but since the mortgage was so high for us we never had extra money to fix it up any. The road was horrible and it kept tearing up my car, which in turn gave us huge car bills and we put thousands into fixing the road only to have it swallowed up by the sand a few weeks later. Still it was nice and peaceful out there and I loved the wild flowers.