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Pivotal Moments · Spinning the Light Podcast

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Hello and welcome to two girls and a thought I'm.
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Sharon, I'm Christy. You know, one of the things is,
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is that, you know, as we've been doing this, our podcast is kind
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of morphed, which I think is really cool because I think it's
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more of an organic thing that's happened.
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I think we've always had it pretty organic, but part of The
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thing is we're opening up a little bit more, I think getting
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more comfortable with the whole thing.
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And I think in that, you know, one of the things that we've
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really loved about this is talking about people's journey,
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that journey into S but into wherever you're going, whatever
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it is that you're trying to accomplish, yeah.
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Whatever it is you're aspiring to do and.
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You know, in doing that, one of the things is, is we talk in
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little bits and pieces about our journey.
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We haven't really talked very much about our journey and about
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how we got here. Really.
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Do you know what I mean? Yeah, for me, you know, I grew
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up in such a large family, so I have five brothers and five
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sisters. And even within that, it's not
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like we were all ever in our home together because my oldest
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sister is 17 years older than me.
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So, you know, I was just little when she was off and having her
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own baby. So my niece is only like a 2-3
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years younger than me or something, you know?
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But I grew up on a farm. Sometimes we listen to people
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who will say, you know, I just wanted to get out of that small
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town. There was, you know, blah, blah.
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They they have like this almost disdain for it.
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You know, I didn't have that. I didn't realize how much I
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would appreciate it. And hopefully I got older, you
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know, wants to be about 5:00, you know, chasing the stupid cow
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to milk or all that. I'm really grateful.
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That was now my experience growing.
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Up. We brought you into the mix
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though. Danny, Dan.
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You know, when you're young, just don't you're they're sort
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of like, why am I doing this shit?
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It's all saying it's cold out. It's, you know, all of these
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things. I'm treading through the snow
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when it's winter, when it's summer, you want to go do summer
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things and all that shit. It was uphill.
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And how many feet of snow both ways to stool?
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That's what I'm hearing. That was my story, damn it.
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No, but no. I think what's really
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interesting is I didn't really realize and didn't have the
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appreciation for it until later when I started to work and stuff
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and I was talking to my sister one day and we talked about that
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our worth ethic. I feel like we have this worth
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ethic and I feel like mom and dad gave that to us by all of
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those things that we griped and complained about as a child.
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I grew up in a small town,
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Delmar, Colorado, very small, but it's mostly by religions
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growing up. So you know, we knew everybody.
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But shout out to. Delmar, Colorado.
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But you know, we knew everybody. There was a different feel to it
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and all that. And I think as a family, once
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again growing up in a Latin, you know, a Latin family, you know,
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it's all really familia based, you know.
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So there's just so much of that that I've grown to appreciate.
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More. As I've gotten older and to see
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the value of it and how it's valuable to me even to this day.
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And I got the opportunity to see some of the value of that too
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and learn some things. And I appreciate it.
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And you're right, the there is a feeling there I feel like among
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the people of the Valley that is, it's very, I feel like it's
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inviting. I mean, I always felt, as you
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guys always say, everybody feels muy gente, you know, just very
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friendly and and personable and I appreciated that.
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And of course, yes, your family did welcome me in to the whole
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get out there and work the farm mix.
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I'm really glad that you guys didn't milk cows by that time
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game. Along, but he didn't show me
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experience with a cow. Muffy cow.
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When you're a girl, Oh, well, you know, when you're little,
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you want to be like the adults and go, you know, my grandpa
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went out there with his metal bucket and I had a little tiny
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one. And we were just visiting, of
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course, because I did not grow up on a farm.
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I was city girl. And so we went to visit him and
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he had his metal bucket and I had my little one.
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And I thought that was so cool. And I wanted to go out there and
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help milk the cow. And then I watched him do it and
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I was like, I don't want to touch that.
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Yeah, no good feeling gone. He did give my hands and and
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help me to do it. And I was like, no, no, they
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don't. They don't want to do that.
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It is a different feel. You have to.
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When you don't have a choice and you don't know the difference,
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she's going to. Do it so.
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Yeah, I'm not sure anybody sits there and says, you know what, I
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think I want to grow up and do that.
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No, but you're right. You know, you came into my
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family and my dad really didn't care.
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You were a city girl. It was Get out There shovel.
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Dig, get dirty, Let's go get wood, you know.
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My dad didn't know. Little pieces, you know, trees
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are big in circumference. And so there's this giant one.
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And he goes, put it on the truck and Christy's looking at me and
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she goes, well, how we can do that?
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I said, oh sweetie, we're going to roll it and then we're going
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to use everything we got. Put that in the truck.
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Yeah, learned. Use your legs.
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You don't use your legs. But do you have those things you
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know, even with you, you know, when you were young?
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Well, my dad led by example for sure with, you know, just that
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work ethic like you say, and I appreciate that.
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I mean, I he he was always doing something and committed to, you
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know, whether it be making the town look beautiful because he
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was out picking up trash or those kinds of things.
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He. He.
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Wholeheartedly did those kind of things, and I'm grateful for
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that example. But that is definitely something
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I always remember about your dad, because, you know, every
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time I turn around, he was, Bob was picking up the trash on the
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side of the road and making beautifying our neighborhood.
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Yeah. So do you feel like that, like
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role modeling, that work ethic was something?
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For you, yeah. Become became an intrinsic
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value. I think just, you know seeing
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him put in the time and effort and you know my mom too, but
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she's my mom has always changed things up.
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So she's she tried very many different kind of dogs and
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things like. That and so.
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She was all over the place. I have not seen Christy on the
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side of the road picking up trash.
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And you won't see me driving a bus.
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My mom, she was a bus driver for many years.
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In case of some things we don't want to do.
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In fact, I have no desire to be a farmer.
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However, I do love growing things.
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My mom was such an avid Oh my goodness, she can make anything
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grow. I'm telling you, she was just
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amazing. And my grandfather had a huge
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garden, you know? So I come by it naturally.
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Thank goodness for that because I do love to grow things.
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And I always tell you, if I had a place where I could have a
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garden, I would have a garden. I have plants, you know, and
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flowers out in the yard and stuff, but I just don't have a
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lot of space for that. But that would be something that
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I would just absolutely love. You know, I have my plants in my
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house, but sometimes I think it's too much for you.
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Well, I actually like the plants.
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Just nothing to do with them, just like to look at them.
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But I think those are the things, you know, when when we
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talk about that and sometimes when we think something's a
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negative because you really did not want to move to Colorado.
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I didn't, and my course could have been way different.
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But I. Not as good.
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I agree. I don't think it would have been
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as bad. Yeah, grew up in the Quad
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Cities. Shout out to the QC.
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So right along the Mississippi, it was a neat place to grow up,
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I think. And I feel like there was, you
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know, a lot of different cultures there and things like
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that. So that that's cool.
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It's not pretty in the winter and didn't I?
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That was my biggest complaint about living there growing up
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was I hated the winners there. They're getting dumped on the
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snow, in fact, this weekend. So they're a little hunkered
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down over there. Yeah, I mean, people think of
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Colorado and they think cold, but it can get cold, which, like
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it's really cold today to me. But it's interesting because I
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always feel like the snow doesn't stay long.
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You know, the sun comes out here, melts it right away.
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And yeah, here in Springs, I feel like it's not too bad.
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But where I grew up, I I always tell Sharon, Oh my God, I hated
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winter because it would snow freeze over and then snow again.
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And so when you're walking with, you know, snow clear up to your
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thighs and you're falling through, it's not fun.
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You're not really tall, So what was that like?
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This is true. So I was waist deep and yeah,
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and I was just down the street from the school, so it didn't
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matter that it, you know, the wind chill was like 60 below.
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You were still expected to go to school and I.
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Hated. I was telling her I always loved
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where we live because we live down the on the farm.
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They wouldn't plow our Rd. I mean, it was a dirt Rd.
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And so we would get, you know, a foot or two of snow, whatever it
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was. And so the bus couldn't come
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down. So anybody out in the country
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got snow days. So kids in town were not happy,
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but we were. Convenient.
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I know. That's a perk on this, that on,
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I guess. But but then I came to Colorado
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and I I you know, when you're younger, you don't.
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Keep that screaming. Yeah, you don't have the same
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appreciation for all the beauty there and all that kind of
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stuff. No, I was thinking, I know
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everybody here. I grew up here.
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I don't want to leave my friends, all those things.
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So I was digging my heels in and I was like, I'm going to stay
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here, give me a roommate. I'll just stay here in Illinois
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even though I didn't like the weather, but I thought Colorado
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doesn't sound any warmer, so why am I going there?
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I think your idea was to move It was going to be with palm trees.
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Yeah, that was my thought. So since that didn't happen, But
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yeah, we came out to Colorado, my parents bought a an apartment
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complex and that's How I Met you.
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They were landlords and such. So I mean, if I hadn't come out
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to Colorado, that wouldn't happen.
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So, so sad. And we wouldn't be here doing
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this wonderful podcast. And I think that just goes to
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show that sometimes I think in our minds we have this idea of
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what our life is going to be because we're so limited in or
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we don't expand out that, you know, and I never growing up,
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even in the Valley, I didn't sit there and think I'm going to
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travel. You know, I we didn't travel a
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whole lot. You'll have to remember, you
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know, try hauling around that many kids on a trip.
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You know, on vacation I need. A pretty big vehicle.
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I think we need a bus. But, you know, so it was, it
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wasn't even one of those things, you know, that I sat there and
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said, oh man, you know, this is something that I would really
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eventually love to do and would become such a passion for me,
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you know, And now getting out of it was actually when I was in
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high school, my sister was in a car accident.
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So I went to stay with her and I had to get in a plane for the
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first time, which was and you know, talking about stubborn
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just a little bit. You know, my dad takes me and
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he's given me a hard time and like teasing me.
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And, you know, I was already having anxiety about getting on
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this plane because I was going nobody with.
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I didn't know the person who was meeting me.
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Nothing, You know, I'm just like, OK, I'm going to go do
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this, you know, So I go. And so then I got a window seat
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because he was teasing me. And I shouldn't have got a
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window seat because the first time flying, I didn't, you know,
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it was just horrible. But I flew, I went, I landed in
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Atlanta, which was a big place from, you know, I just hadn't
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seen this, you know. Then we drove from Atlanta up to
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North Carolina, and that exposure was so amazing to me
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because I saw the ocean. Prior to that, we had been I I
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got to see Myrtle Beach and all of those things.
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So I had this exposure, which then it was like, Oh my God,
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there's a whole nother world out there, you know?
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And that's the thing, you know, sometimes our journey leads us
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on unexpected adventures and then it becomes, you know, a
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part of our story. And sometimes it's such a
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positive and it may not look like that to us at first.
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We resist that, but I mean, look where we are today.
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I'm so. Happy And you know, I think
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it's, you know, I think often times, you know with parents as
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children we don't understand. They're trying to teach us these
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life lessons. We think that we're just child
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labor, free child labor, you know what I mean?
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And you don't understand and and appreciate it.
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And and I always have this memory of we had had harvest so
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we were growing up alpha and so was my sister Alice.
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Sarah, Linda, my brother Mike, I think my brother Vernon, my
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sister Maria was not there. I don't know.
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Anyways, it was us. And as a reward for bringing in
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the hay for the alfalfa, that's it.
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Y'all go to the drive in. Oh my goodness, that was we were
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hot shit, man. Oh yeah, so we go, we called it
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our Corvette. It was like an old, I don't even
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know what the car was. It was like they don't make them
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anymore. And so we're driving, It's
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raining. The windshield wipers don't
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work. My sister Ellis is driving.
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We're trying to. And how many of the eleven are
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in the start? Not all of us were there.
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But you know what? We didn't even care.
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We had. It was just such a fun time
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because it was the reward, it was the payoff.
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And it didn't have to be a lot, but it felt so good.
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And I think that's what I'm learning on this journey is that
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sometimes we think a reward is or the payoff is this grandiose
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thing and sometimes it's not even for us, And I know this
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might sound funny, is even with our podcast, we have a gratitude
15:10
statement that for all of our followers weekly we get one more
15:15
follower or subscriber. You would think we had hit the
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Lotto. We're do not dance.
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And yeah, but I. But that's what I mean, I think
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there is so much to that and I think that's learning those
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things of what it is that we have gratitude for.
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And it's those little things. And it's really starting to put
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those things together. You know, being here and growing
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up, when we would drive through Springs, I was, I don't like
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springs. I don't even know why I don't
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like springs. Maybe it was because I was going
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to a doctor or something. That might be it.
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But anyway, I remember saying that.
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And then when I got the job in Springs, I was like, oh God, we
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got to go to Springs. And now it is my home.
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And I love it. I love the connections we have
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here. I love the work that we do.
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I love my office. I absolutely love our.
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Home. There have many local businesses
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that we love to frequent. And yeah, we've lived in a few
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different places throughout Colorado over time.
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And my appreciation for Colorado and just its beauty has, you
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know, grown exponentially over time.
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But I feel like that Colorado Springs feels like home, and I
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have said that more than any other place we've been and I.
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Think it's interesting because I remember a conversation that we
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had and you were saying that you kind of wish your dad was still
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here because now as he lived in Colorado and but why is that
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what? What is it?
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My dad really appreciated the mountains.
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He loved the mountains of Colorado and I do wish that he
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was still here too. Well, for many reasons, but just
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to share that with him and that appreciation and you and I.
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You know. Go hiking now and things like
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that. And I think that those are all
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things that he would have enjoyed but that I didn't really
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do with him. I mean he he worked a lot
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throughout my entire life. It didn't matter When he
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retired, he kept on trucking, so he was always busy doing things
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and he had a. Love of animals and nature piece
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that you've really grown to appreciate and to just it
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resonates with you now. Right.
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Yeah. So I really do wish that I could
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share some of these experiences with him now.
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But I feel like, you know, you've even talked about that,
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that there's still now this different kind of connectedness
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even with him because of that. You know what I mean?
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That. So once again, that journey that
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brought you to here, where even though he's gone, you can still
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feel that, you know, if that makes sense, yeah.
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I mean, I wish that we could have those conversations, but
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yes, I I think when we're outside, especially in nature
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and that I I can feel his presence, you know what I mean?
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Because I feel like that though, these are all things that he
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would have enjoyed so much. And I agree.
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You know what? My parents always loved nature
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and things like that. And so sometimes I'll, you know
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it worked out as somewhere new willing to say oh man, mom and
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dad would like this or oh you know dad would like this And you
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know those kind of things. And you know, even on this
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journey, you know, it's it's kind of cool that we've even
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like with your mom and brother, we got to go experience
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different things with them that you know, I don't know if they
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would have done it kind of things just change that are
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outside of our control. But I have always found it
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interesting that my, my mom's family, they come from a very
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small town in Alabama and many of them still live there to this
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day, didn't venture outside of those areas very much.
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And then some of them, you know, maybe I've traveled for jobs
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because I, you know, some of my family was in the trucking
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industry and so did some of that kind of traveling.
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But home was always the small town place.
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And I appreciate that about everybody.
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You know, if it's home and it's home and that's where you want
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to be, then definitely that's where your heart is.
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And I think that's great. But I love that with my mom and
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my brother, even some of my cousins.
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We've taken some time to take some trips with them and go see
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the ocean and and all of those kind of things, places that they
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probably wouldn't have gone on their own, as you said.
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I think it's kind of cool that we, you know, longest turning of
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ours. We've been able to expose them
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to other things and really love that when we had the twins.
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Yeah, my little cousins, they're twins.
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They're not so little anymore. They're turning 16 of the year.
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Oh my gosh. And times.
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But you know what? That was one of the things, you
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know, even for holidays and stuff, we talked about how do we
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give them something that's memorable in those experiences
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Because and sometimes it's economic, sometimes it there's
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all of these things and it's neither positive or negative.
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It's not good or bad. It's none of that.
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It's circumstance, right. And I am so grateful that on
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this journey and especially where we've been we have been
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able to afford those luxuries and those things and and it was
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so fun to see them because we took we our first was to the we
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we're closer to the East Coast. So we went to Panama City and
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got to see them but even their evolution and their journey.
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So when we go to Panama City Courtney nothing to do with the
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ocean. Haley, she wants to be out there
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with us. We're out in the wings.
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We're having this great dine. Fast forward, we go to see my
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sister in California and spend the holiday with her.
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And we go to Laguna Beach. Yes.
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And we have this flip. Yeah, Courtney out there wants
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to be in the waves with us. Haley, I ain't going out there.
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It's interesting. I feel like with twins, because
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a lot of times they do flip with things like there'll be certain
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things they're adamant about when they're, you know, certain
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age and then. And and.
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One will be the opposite and then you go a little bit, a
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little bit down the road and they completely slip.
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Exactly. But it just that experience of
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of them seeing those two places. And you know what I love about
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travel with other people is you get to see and experience it
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through their eyes. And that has been something that
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I love about this journey and about the places we've gone and
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and you know we have this sleeve tattoo and this is a a montage
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to. Our many trips to Las.
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Vegas and the different people we've went, so we each has a
22:02
representation. The Twins have a representation
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on that because we took them to Vegas too.
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They freaking loved it. Yeah, they wanted to live on the
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strip. You know, but we don't get a
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live on the strip. Nobody lives on the Strip.
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You know maybe somebody does I don't know you know but it was
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such a cool thing and and and I hope that we in that we expose
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them to something that might lead to a passion with them
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because we never know you know and especially when we're we're
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with other people just as I never knew you know flying to
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for the first time in that would be one of those things you know
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where we live there would be something that would change
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something for me you. Know.
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That's the cool thing. The people that we encounter add
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something to our lives, you know, or hopefully we add to
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theirs as well. Definitely.
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And there's been numerous places that, you know, maybe I've gone
22:50
to alone or with my family in the past that I wanted to
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revisit with you because like you say, you get to experience
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it through someone else's eyes and I love that.
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I appreciate it and and give you a little piece of what I
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experienced, you know when when I was younger what I you know.
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That was really cool. One of the house from the rocks.
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Yes, that was really cool. That was one of the one of the
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places that I was thinking of. If nobody's heard of it, I don't
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know, but it's a house that was built by Frank Lloyd Wright and
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it's called House on the Rocks. I can't tell you the exact
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location of it, but anyway, look it up at the really cool place
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and very interesting. I mean very.
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Unusual. A lot of stuff in their rooms.
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Yeah, amazing stuff and very historic stuff too.
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So it was really a neat thing. I I really appreciated getting
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to see that 'cause you, you had talked about it and I think we
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can share those things. I think that's another thing
23:47
that's really kind of cool to me is is because that that shows me
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the journey that you've been on. And I get to see a part of that
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past, you know, and and how it played a role.
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You know, just like, you know, with you, you know, I've taken
24:03
you to different places in the Valley that have been, you know,
24:06
important to me. You know, we've been to
24:07
different places in New Mexico because my mom's parents lived
24:11
in New Mexico. And then when we were in when I
24:16
was in ANFLAC, we're in Fort Riley, KS.
24:19
And so we got to go back to where my grandparents were.
24:22
Actually, my mom's parents were actually buried and stuff.
24:25
So it's been a neat thing. And I think that our journey is
24:29
not written in stone. And I think that's the really
24:31
cool thing is there are so many parents that we can take and we
24:36
can take a path and we can say, you know, this isn't it for me
24:39
and we can redo it. And that's the beauty of our
24:42
journeys. We don't know what's going to
24:45
take us to that next exciting place in our life, but sometimes
24:50
we have such a fear of it. Yeah.
24:52
And I I think that you have to have some flexibility and you
24:57
know, just get comfortable in that and realize that you know
25:00
the way that you saw things happening.
25:03
It may not be the way that it plays out, but it may play out
25:06
to even something better than you realized.
25:09
Especially you're moving to Colorado, yes.
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That was a wonderful thing. So I'm really grateful that my
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parents, you know, no, you can't stay here.
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Yes, I was 18, but no, you can't stay.
25:27
They won, but I think even like you talked about the San Mose
25:31
Valley. Yeah, and I had no idea, no
25:37
concept of the San Luis Valley. When I came to Colorado, I had
25:41
never heard of that. We moved to the Grand Junction
25:44
area, which Mesa State is there, and I was attending college, but
25:50
I somehow found out about the sister college, which is Adam
25:54
State, which is Adam State University now in Alamosa, which
25:58
is in the Valley. And I don't know, I just became
26:02
fixated on the idea of finding out more about this school and
26:06
just started looking into it and then end up making a trip down
26:11
to the Valley. And I thought, you know what, I
26:13
don't know why, but I think I'm going to live here one day and I
26:17
wouldn't have guessed that because it's not a big place.
26:20
It's not like some place that I would aspire to move to.
26:24
I just. And she wasn't enamored with me
26:27
yet. I know I didn't even know you
26:29
yet, so that's interesting because you came from there and
26:32
I didn't didn't even know you at that time.
26:35
So it's really interesting how our paths twist and turn and you
26:39
know. Well, I think that's kind of
26:41
cool, you know, because even in the twisting and the turning of
26:44
that, you know, your bachelor's degree is from Adam State
26:46
University and my master's is from Adam State University.
26:50
So we both get to the alumni of that.
26:52
And that's another piece of that connectedness.
26:54
You know what I mean? It's such a fun thing when you
26:58
sit back and you really take that time to look at your
27:00
journey. And I don't know if people do
27:02
that, you know, but taking that time to sit back and I think,
27:07
you know, we do that more and more now, we kind of reflect
27:09
more back on that. And you know, what were those
27:12
things that we learned that we didn't think were valuable and
27:15
we find the value in those if we pause, you know, we have to
27:20
pause and and do that. So, you know, hopefully as
27:23
you're listening this, some of you will sit back and say, Oh my
27:25
God, what was that pivotal moments in the my journey that I
27:28
didn't really give thought to or have gratitude for?
27:31
Because I think the more we do that, the more it enhances the
27:35
journey that we're already on. Yeah, what were those moments
27:39
that you totally kicked against it and then found out it was one
27:43
of the best things? Like the universe knew better
27:45
sometimes. That happens.
27:49
That's what it is. We we get to this place, you
27:52
know, and I hope that more and more people are getting to that
27:56
because I think sometimes we spend so much time holding on to
27:59
the negative that we forget what came out of it.
28:03
We forget what that potential is.
28:06
We don't realize the potential in things because if you stay
28:10
there and you get here and you're still kicking against it
28:13
and never look around with what you have now, you would have
28:16
stayed stuck in a very different place.
28:19
Right. You know, and I don't think it
28:21
would be as beautiful as what I feel like this is.
28:26
Exactly. And if I had sat there and
28:28
continued with this made-up idea in my head about Colorado,
28:31
because that I don't even know where it came from, You know,
28:34
maybe it's because it was too big of a city, you know, because
28:36
I was little, you know, and I was from this little, teeny,
28:39
tiny town. And then, you know, Springs even
28:41
then wasn't that huge, but it was still bigger than where I
28:44
came from. I don't know if there was
28:45
something of that. You know what?
28:46
I mean, I still think it was because you were going to the
28:48
doctor or something like that, that you didn't want to attend.
28:53
You know, I don't know, but I remember we had to drive through
28:55
Springs because my oldest sister lived in Denver in the suburb of
28:59
Denver. So I don't know if it was even
29:02
that. It just seemed like went on
29:03
forever. You know what I'm saying?
29:05
Now you know you get to Springs and then you're in Denver in no
29:08
time begin. There's almost no, there's it's
29:10
all being filled in in between. But before it wasn't, which is
29:13
like, oh God, this is boring. I guess it's a kid.
29:15
I don't know. You know, I always love going to
29:17
my sister's house because she made the biggest pancakes.
29:20
She was a great cook. Oh my goodness.
29:22
But anyway, you'd go back to food.
29:26
But that's what I mean. I don't know if it was part of
29:28
that or whatever it was, but I'm glad I didn't hold on to that
29:31
idea and sit there and say, you know what?
29:33
This. I said this when I was little.
29:35
I'm going to stick to this or whatever.
29:36
I'm so glad I didn't because like you, I feel like we are in
29:39
such an amazing, wonderful place and I am so grateful for it all
29:42
the time. And Colorado Springs is my home
29:46
and I appreciate it. I I love, we love supporting
29:49
like you said local things and being a part of the community.
29:55
So hopefully you know as you're listening today you guys all
29:57
take that little Scroll down memory lane and and see what
30:02
resonates with you and and have gratitude for the journey you're
30:06
on and for the journey you've been on this whole entire time
30:10
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30:14
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31:01
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31:03
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31:06
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