Rachel at Home on the Ranch

Christmas Jammies Here it is, almost a week after Christmas and things have just started to slow down! December came quickly and is now almost over. We were in Cincinnati for almost 2 weeks with my family to celebrate Jesus’ birth and to be together. I enjoyed staying with my mom and seeing my sister most days and I enjoyed remembering and recognizing some of our family’s traditions. We spend every other year with our respective families (and actually next year will be the first Christmas in our whole 14 years of marriage that we will not travel on this holiday, because we now live with our Wyoming Family!). This alternating family celebration was a tradition with which we have been very consistent and it has served us well. Opening Stockings from Santa This year we were in Cincinnati and that was super-fun on multiple levels. We arrived on Sunday the 18th and the week before christmas was full of cookie baking, decorating mom’s house (which we cheated a little and didn’t...

I have lived in Wyoming for 6 Months now! On June 1, 2016, we arrived on the ranch with all of our things and we decided to stay. The time has flown by and I am finding myself more and more at home here.  Over the past two months, I have traveled to Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia to visit family and some friends. It was so good to see people that I love and have connections with but the thing that most surprised me at the end of those trips, was that I could not wait to return to the ranch. It's quiet and peaceful here, entirely different than the hustle and bustle of city life (especially in Atlanta!). One of the things I look forward to at the end of a long day (including car pool, kids, diapers, laundry, paperwork and cleaning) is the night sky. I love watching the process of the sun going down and the stars appearing. There are so many stars that are visible from the ranch! And, I have experienced so many beautiful sunsets from our front porch! The sunsets are coming earlier a...

I think I forgot to mention in my last post that along with Facebook and Instagram, I am also a Pinterest junkie! For those of you who do not know, Pinterest is a website where you can collect websites (pins) into folders (boards). It’s very fun and very addictive. Currently, I have 81 boards and over 7,000 pins; I may have a problem! Recently I have been obsessed with pinning ideas for our new home (that we will build one day), I have a board for Floor Plans, Kitchen and Bathroom Ideas, Mudroom Thoughts, Decorating... Basically dreaming to keep me sane until that glorious day arrives! Until then, I’ll be content with where we are now (but it’s still fun to dream). The boards I have had the longest contain my favorite activities- Crafting and Cooking! I love creating things to share with my friends and family. It’s like sharing a piece of myself with them when I make a friend a card, sew a pretty dress for my daughter or cook dinner for my family. Relationships matter to me...

Well, let’s start from the very beginning (a very good place to start)... My name is Rachel and I am from Cincinnati, Ohio- although I lived in Lexington, Kentucky for the past 19 years and recently moved to Alva, Wyoming. I live on a ranch in the middle of absolutely nowhere with my husband of 14 years and 2 girls, ages 19 months and 12 years old. I’m a stay at home mom but I just started keeping the books for the ranch operation, expanding our custom-cattle program and organizing my husband’s busy calendar.   This blog is a huge, risky step for me but I cannot wait to share with you some of my new life here in Wyoming. Some of the things I love to talk about are: being a mommy, cooking, Jesus, my family and all the things ranch-life that I am learning! On our most recent trip to Kentucky and Ohio, I was constantly asked how I am adjusting to this new life. That is when I started thinking about writing this blog. You should know, I am a city girl and never have spent mo...