Podcast

The Y’all Are Crazy Ranch was created with growth in mind – growth in family, land and animals. We saw the potential for what it could be and absolutely fell in love. Love never comes without sacrifice and we have definitely had to overcome obstacles along the way. During the podcast, we share with listeners about the ups and downs of parenthood, ranching, living in the country and business. Our hope is that all who listen will hear that God is good! God loves us, provides for us, cares for us and wants us to live lives that glorify Him.

We were married in 2009 and had no goals to move to the country, start a large family or own our own businesses. We were just two 22 year old college kids with degrees and no clue how to use them. When we were engaged, Bronson worked at a butcher shop and cut meat for a living. This skill has actually come in quite handy over the years because we can always tell me what any cut of meat is and where it comes from! I dabbled around in the corporate world, in the political world, in the news industry and finally landed on real estate as a career at the age of 25. We had our first child, our daughter, in 2012 and our lives truly took off from that point on. Bronson decided to get into the insurance industry and create his own business – which has turned out to be a huge blessing! We both now use our skill sets to serve others and live in the strengths God gave us. We added another baby just 15 months later, amidst Bronson starting his new office, me building a real estate career and remodeling our first home! Over the following years, we would move every 2-3 years, building equity as we went and moving up in house size and acreage. We lived in a beautiful ranch style home that we remodeled with a fish pond behind it and had a little goat herd – because I have always had a love for goats! We sold it very quickly when I put it up for sale unexpectedly (when you’re a Realtor, you can do these things). Pro tip: Tell your husband first. It just might sell day 1. We thought it would be a great idea to move when I was exactly 40 weeks pregnant with our 5th child (great idea, right?). I remember bringing him home to the ranch house when it was completely packed up and sleeping in a recliner with him for the first few days of his sweet life. We then moved into an Airbnb for a week while our new home was being painted! Once we moved into “the mansion” as our kids called it, a 40-acre property with gorgeous views and lovely pool and waterfall, we thought “this was it”. We lived there happily for 2 years, hosted many events, brought home another baby and built many memories!

Things really got crazy in 2022 when I told him we should look at a rental property in Chandler, OK (a town about 30 minutes east of us). Neither of us had ever been there but I had a strong conviction that God told us to look at that first house. It was old, ugly, in a small neighborhood and we knew almost no one. However, we pulled the trigger, sold our dream home and moved into this crazy little fixer upper. We had a 3 month old at the time (baby #6), slept on air mattresses, froze at night and slept with space heaters because the HVAC was not working properly, had a water pipe burst and flood the living room, and we wondered what in the world we had done! And then….the ranch we now call home came up for sale. 240 acres of glorious acreage and a perfect space for our dream home! It was only a few miles outside of town and it was perfect! Over the next year, the adjoining 160 acres, an additional 160 acres as well as a 10 acre lot with a cabin came up for sale and we were able to add those to the ranch! We welcomed baby #7, moved out to the country and lived happily ever after….