I’m a wife and stay at home mama of five, soon to be six little babes, and I have my hands in a little bit of everything. From cooking to gardening, dabbling in farm life in our city lot — oh and living in the oldest house in our state! There’s never a quiet moment in this household, and if there is, it’s very concerning!

A few things about me: You can catch me on any given day with a cup or three of coffee, and spotify is playing about 16 hours of the day in our house. My favorite artist of all time is Cameron Moder (love you babe!) Right now Cam and I are on a huge blue bloods kick, although fun fact about us, we don’t own a TV and I hope we never do! I’m obsessed with Chip and Jo, along with the rest of the world, rightly so! I gave my life to Jesus when I was 17, at the same church I met my husband, and my life has never been the same since.

,My husband and I will hit eight years married this March, and in those quick years we have packed them full of babes. In a comical way, as the Lord sometimes likes to work, we became pregnant two short months after we were married. I told Cam I wanted to be honeymooners for life. Always traveling, just the two of us, kids at some point, but not for years because we wanted to run hard in ministry and you simply can’t do that with kids, right? I am so grateful the Lord is the one who establishes our steps despite our planning. I never could have guessed or dreamed of this, I don’t know if I would have wanted it, and I know I wouldn’t have understood the great reward that comes with this season of motherhood in the trenches. Our world was absolutely turned upside-down in every way when our first was born. We fell in love in a way we never knew was possible, if you are a parent then you know. It was like I was meeting a new part of myself for the first time, and little did I know I was walking into my dreams, and the call on my life that was so much greater than I could have carved out for myself. From the moment we had this boy we tossed aside all we thought we wanted, and knew we were called to the ministry of family, and we have been stumbling our way through this journey, trying to give it all we have ever since. The Lord has continued to bless us with these babes, sometimes expected, sometimes not, and sometimes sweet surprises like twins! This life is a party but it isn’t for the faint of heart. We war over our babies, we fight for our marriage, we count on the Lord to come through in this life where there’s not enough time to get all the chores done, feed all the people, go on the dates, and so and so on. We live in a constant place of tension where what we believe is put to the test over and over. We wonder if what we are doing is really good for our babies, are they getting enough, is this a crazy environment, is this fair for them? We come against the same questions that people ask us often because after all, we are going against the grain. We are trusting the Lord to lead and guide us through this life, that He will finish what He has started.