Our Story
Welcome to It's Our Abundant Life! We are a Christ-following, faith-filled, fun-loving family hoping to bring joy & laughter to your days as we share our everyday life with you through our journey of homesteading wholeheartedly, working diligently, playing passionately, serving faithfully, & loving relentlessly. We have raised our three older children in the beautiful wine country in northern CA & are blessed abundantly that we have been given our youngest and fourth child, Gracelyn, to raise in this abundant valley! We are excited to share the raising of & the family life that we share with her, our family, neighbors, & all who enter our lives! Thank you for watching & allowing our family this opportunity to share the abundance of His great blessings with you as we grow, learn, laugh, & do life together! May you & your family be abundantly blessed as you submit your lives to Christ! All be for His glory! Romans 11:36
As the Lord has so graciously knitted our family together, we have “tasted and seen that the Lord is good!” Mike and I met in high school as sophomores, began dating in our senior year, and our journey continues! Early on, we both knew that journey would lead us into many adventures, but never would I have ever imagined being gifted, by the grace of God, the treasures of each and every adventure we have been on!
At the young age of eighteen when I heard the “nearly too good to be true” good news of our Lord, Jesus Christ, I passionately surrendered my life to His leading that He’d be the Lord of my life. This has been the most incredible decision I have ever made and I praise God for the work of the Holy Spirit in my life and in the lives of my family and friends that surround us! Mike grew up in a loving Christian home and through him and his families devotion to the Lord, I recognized something in their lives that I knew, I really knew, I did not possess. It was not until the moment that I had opened my heart to hear the Lord calling me that I recognized that the One thing they had that I did not, was Jesus! My heart and my life is Christ’s, yet I give gratitude and will have a life long grateful heart that my husband and his family shared Jesus with me and now we, as a family, can share this good news with all those who are open to hearing of the amazing love that God, the Father, has for them!
We have been blessed with our four beautiful children, Michael, Gabriel, McKayla, and Gracelyn, who have brought so much joy to our lives as we've watched them grow into the young adults and little girl that He has purposed for them and to be able to glean from the wisdom and godly example in which they share!
Our family business for well over two decades has been in the heavy equipment and underground utility industry. We have faithfully served our surrounding community with integrity, diligent work, and commitment to go above and beyond in serving our customers' needs through the training and hard work that Mike and our eldest son, Michael, has poured into each and every project as doing it unto the Lord....Colossians 3:23-24, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."
In this current season of life after raising our eldest three children who have become God-fearing, Christ-following young adults, we are now raising our fourth who is four years old and keeps us believing we are young ourselves! In this unexpected and very blessed season of raising our little, "Chooch," we felt called to begin a site where we could share in our family gatherings and doings, and of course, share the endless love of Jesus! We are blessed to share we have a site for both our family and for our excavating company, JR Excavating & Sons, Inc. As we continue to learn and grow in this newest adventure, we welcome your positive feedback, testimonies, guidance, and fellowship as we get to know you and your family!
Thank you for watching, supporting, and coming along with us on our greatest adventures yet to come!
As the Lord has so graciously knitted our family together, we have “tasted and seen that the Lord is good!” Mike and I met in high school as sophomores, began dating in our senior year, and our journey continues! Early on, we both knew that journey would lead us into many adventures, but never would I have ever imagined being gifted, by the grace of God, the treasures of each and every adventure we have been on!
At the young age of eighteen when I heard the “nearly too good to be true” good news of our Lord, Jesus Christ, I passionately surrendered my life to His leading that He’d be the Lord of my life. This has been the most incredible decision I have ever made and I praise God for the work of the Holy Spirit in my life and in the lives of my family and friends that surround us! Mike grew up in a loving Christian home and through him and his families devotion to the Lord, I recognized something in their lives that I knew, I really knew, I did not possess. It was not until the moment that I had opened my heart to hear the Lord calling me that I recognized that the One thing they had that I did not, was Jesus! My heart and my life is Christ’s, yet I give gratitude and will have a life long grateful heart that my husband and his family shared Jesus with me and now we, as a family, can share this good news with all those who are open to hearing of the amazing love that God, the Father, has for them!
We have been blessed with our four beautiful children, Michael, Gabriel, McKayla, and Gracelyn, who have brought so much joy to our lives as we've watched them grow into the young adults and little girl that He has purposed for them and to be able to glean from the wisdom and godly example in which they share!
Our family business for well over two decades has been in the heavy equipment and underground utility industry. We have faithfully served our surrounding community with integrity, diligent work, and commitment to go above and beyond in serving our customers' needs through the training and hard work that Mike and our eldest son, Michael, has poured into each and every project as doing it unto the Lord....Colossians 3:23-24, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."
In this current season of life after raising our eldest three children who have become God-fearing, Christ-following young adults, we are now raising our fourth who is four years old and keeps us believing we are young ourselves! In this unexpected and very blessed season of raising our little, "Chooch," we felt called to begin a site where we could share in our family gatherings and doings, and of course, share the endless love of Jesus! We are blessed to share we have a site for both our family and for our excavating company, JR Excavating & Sons, Inc. As we continue to learn and grow in this newest adventure, we welcome your positive feedback, testimonies, guidance, and fellowship as we get to know you and your family!
Thank you for watching, supporting, and coming along with us on our greatest adventures yet to come!
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