Living the good life

It has been a year since Diego and I moved to Deming, NM to begin our new life on the Quintana Ranch. I knew when we left my beloved Provo, UT that my life would never be the same. Yes, life out here is quite different...it is remote, it is desert, it is chickens, rattlesnakes and coyotes...it is dirty little hands and sun chapped faces...it is clotheslines, well water, tractors and eating by the sweat of our brow...it is the crackling of a bonfire, the roaring of four-wheelers, the ringing of the dinner bell after a hard-days' work...it is breathtaking sunsets and starlit skies. Our new life here in Deming is simple and free, and we are truly living the good life.   

                                                  

   

Back to blogging

My last blog entry was written 2 weeks into my wonderful marriage to Diego. Three years, three homes and two children later--I'm back. My cousin-in-law and good friend Ginene Nicoll loaned me a great book called "Heaven is Here" written by an amazing girl (Stephanie Clark Nielson) whom I went to high school with and who lived just down the street from me. She is now a mother of 5 who manages to be a supermom, author, avid blogger (journal keeper), home-maker and missionary after miraculously surviving a plane crash that left her and her husband severely burned. Her book, her blog (nieniedialogues.com), and Ginene's new blog (ginenenicoll.blogspot.com) have inspired me to pick up my blog again. I see it as a fun way to keep a journal and record the special memories of my life as a wife and mother and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.