About

I am an engineer, attorney, wife, and mother of two beautiful and spunky little girls.  We are designing and building out dream home -- a modern farmhouse for our modern multi-generational family in the Kansas City area.  This blog is intended to document or process, struggles, and (hopefully!) our successes as our dream becomes a reality.  

Background...

It was always chasing a dream.  We would gather with friends and family and joke about creating a 'compound' (not so much Branch Davidian), maybe a subdivision, where all our friends and family would live.  We would joke about pranking each other, borrowing tools, stealing beers from the full refrigerator.

Matt and I met in mechanical engineering school and the University of Kansas.  Five years practicing, two professional engineering stamps, and a couple years of law school later, he was still engineering and I started legal-ing.  Matt was always outside, a true eagle scout.  After getting into law, I realized that he needed a litigation-buffer zone as it seemed that his bonfires were getting bigger and bigger :)

Our little girl Charlie was born and it made us talk more and more about having some land.  Having some cows, being outside, loving our life even more.  After we found out we were expecting our little Madelynn, we decided to stop talking about it -- DO IT!