When It Was All Just a Dream (pt 3)

I look over at you, riding in the truck next to me. Our hands are entwined on the console, our favorite song on the radio, and the kids are asleep in the backseat. We've got this year's calf crop in the trailer behind us, and we're on our way to the sale. Remember when it was all just a dream?

Last night, we sorted cows and calves and the boys did their best to "help". Tell stood on the fence and yelled at the cows and Castle kept saying moo cows! Over and over. These boys were born loving this life. Sharing our passion with them and watching them develop a passion for it too is nothing short of incredible. Remember when it was all just a dream?

I remember being 16 and just knowing our life in a few years would be amazing. We'd have our own cows, some nice horses, and a couple of cute kiddos to haul around. It was a pipe dream, then. 

Look at us now.

Remember when all of this was just a dream? But that was eight years ago.

8 years of craziness, passion, big dreams, love, frustration, hard work, realization of dreams, the best days of our lives so far, mundane and ordinary days, life struggles, health problems, new challenges, opportunities, tons of growth, and it has all put us where we are. Remember when it was all just a dream?

Real life is harder than we dreamed, I think. But I couldn't have imagined the incredible beauty of our lives together. The way trials shape us and help us grow stronger, the way every day life is filled with love and laughter, the way you are my one constant and the rock I can lean on no matter how hard life gets. What a great privilege it has been to get to grow up with you, and now to grow old with you. You are my biggest dream and my greatest adventure.

We have come so far together, and only have forever to go!

In a few years, when more of our dreams are realized, we can look back on this wonderful, simple time of living on love and say, "Remember when it was all just a dream?"