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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Who are these kids?! Oh that’s Ashley and Jonathan 19 years ago in their first “date.” Or was it a “hang?” How did we go from two kids at a Goo Goo Dolls concert to parents of 4, full-time travelers, and homesteaders? You can ask us on this trip down memory lane.
My husband worked with my Mother and was a friend while he went through his divorce. Then he was gone a few years. We ran into each other at my Mom's business, renewed the friendship. He knew them but to not spook me he said it would be great to have a friend to hang with, without the pressure of dating or sex. I felt the connection too but not as strong, so invited him to help me with my daughter's 8th birthday party tomorrow? He said yes! We saw each other every day, were engaged in 2 months, married in 6 and were married for 30 years till he passed away. His 2, my 1 and 3 more kids, 16 grandkids and 2 great grandkids later, he was the joy of my life! 💞 Appreciate every day while you can! 😉💞
What a small world we live in! My late husband and I moved from Texas to far northeast Tennessee in 2018, having never been there before. We ended up buying a house in Kingsport. We loved it there. But two years later, my husband was at work in Johnson City when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest and died. Thank my much for sharing your story and your lives! Such a beautiful family!
My husband and I met when he was 23 and in college, and I was 31 and going through a divorce. We met at his younger sister's confirmation, via his older sister, who was a new friend. I didn't even know she had a brother his age. Well, long story short, at the end of the evening, he told his mom that I was the woman he was going to spend the rest of his life with. Everyone, except his sister (maybe), was against it. That was back in 1993. Today, we have 2 amazing young adult children, one of whom is married to a wonderful man we absolutely love. And us? Well, we couldn't be happier or more in love. After almost 30 years together, we're living our happily ever after. Next steps? The kids want to buy land and start a family homestead, which led us here. We have experience with gardening and livestock, and we plan to build an earthbag complex, too. I'm looking forward to watching all your videos!
Very cool love story:)
I was 17, she walked through my friend's door and I knew it. Told her I was going to marry her one day, took a year before she said yes ...38 years later and three Beautiful daughters and four grandchildren.... you guys are rocking it....
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You're my kind of people can I come visit y'all I'll bring my dog Yogi can I come visit me and my dog Yogi I love you with which I did my name is Nathaniel Grant call me sometime both of y'all I love your family you're my kind of people
we were just saying you two are the best live! Your humor and the back and forth without putting each other down. Just refreshing and so comical. Keep doing you, cause your awesome. Definitely not boring.
Great Iove story this wil shock you I went out and married my hubby in 11 days we had 37 years together before he died from cancer ❤️❤️❤️
I just found you. I’m watching this a year later. I knew the day I met my husband that he was the one. I told my mom and she laughed. We got married 2 years later and were married for 52 years when he passed.in 2018. 😊🤗
A year after you recorded this delightful video, you now have far exceeded your10k goal!
😅🤣😂 I so love you guys! Nothing but pure down to earth Real!
I admire you guys and Ashley you look so much like my daugther Penny it make me so lonely , I'm way in Québec,Can. and she lives in Casa Grande AZ. in fact both my daugthers , grand-kids and arriere grand-kids lives in AZ. I'm hoping to go see them in Oct. boundocking in a van with my sweetheart of 80 years.
Met online. We knew on the first email on Monday. First date Friday night. Date ended on Tuesday. Married in September. September 18, 2023 we will celebrate 10 years of OMG. We're both over 70. Life is good. Every day is Valentine's Day. Who knew? True love does exist. We can see in your faces.
Like Gene M said...it is the 27th of June 2022...and thank you so much for sharing your story...I truly enjoy watching your videos which I only discovered this year. I live in Arizona and I am hopeful to meet y'all one day!
Faucet~~it’s amazing how many things are fixed by taking apart, cleaning and putting back together.
Not boring at all folks! Loved hearing how your journey started out!
I live in Kentucky so it's wild knowing you guys come from Indiana and Tennessee!
Cheers
This is so nice for your children to look back on
Beautiful family story ❤
You all are AWESOME! I really enjoy watching you & your family. I've always wanted to go adventure more & live off grid. My health is hindering me but I'm hopeful to someday live more free & happily. I feel like I can live vicariously through y'all. Until I am able to live my dream. Thanks so much for sharing so much! God bless. 😊🌷
I'm twice divorced, too, but I love to see people that find their soulmates and stay together. My mother says when she met my dad, she knew.
You too are very hard working and deeply committed in achieving future goals for the family
I almost had love at first sight. We "met" on eHarmony, had a face to face in Nashville, and realized we clicked. He came to Knoxville and that's when I knew and he did too. He proposed in front of my fourth grade class at Berean with Rae's covert help (co-teaching). Been married 15 years, one son, homeschooling, minimalizing step by step, so blessed!
Nice story. I’m 77 and you remind me of my youth. Sweet life to you and yours.
I was a junior and he was a sophmore. He gave me one of the those papers that said " If you give it back you owe me a kiss, if you throw it away you owe me a kiss, if you give it to someone else..." He was tall dark and handsome and had the legs of a runner. I was a dork. We just celebrated our 42nd anniversary. At the wedding people were making bets on how long we would last. We fooled them. If you ask him when he knew I was the one, he will tell you it was when I held his hand on our first actual date to a Christmas choir concert at Bethany college with my parents, grandpa and little sister. And we still look at each other the way the two of you do. I was 20 and he was 19 on our wedding day in 1980. At the end of the day its all about choosing each other, even when you don't like each other. And it really helps to start with a best friend.
2003 was a great year!! You are such a colorful and interesting bunch for having come from such solemn and sincere roots. It's fun to watch you develop your dreamscape. Thanks for sharing your hard work and dedicated spirit.
Been watching and just ran across this video. We lived in Maryville for several years and our daughter got her first degree at UT( 2010 ).
We were 15 when we met. The night before--Halloween--was my family's first night in town. The next morning we went to a church pastored by a family friend. It was Homecoming Sunday with dinner on the grounds. A young man walked into the Sunday School room where my mother and I were eating, introduced himself and said, "Will you marry me?" and continued talking for a really long time. I thought something was wrong with him. After he stopped talking and walked away I said as much to my mother. We ended up getting married 3 1/2 years later. Three children, 4 grandchildren and 35 1/2 years later death did us part.
Y’all are too cute, love listening to y’all. You could never be boring...Keep havein fun
My husband and I are police officers of different departments. We met one weekend, and he moved in with me the next weekend. We have been married for 30 years and are now retired together and, of course, visiting grand babies
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I LOVE YOUR STORIES AND YOUR SOULMATE CONNECTION ❤️❤️❤️🙋♀️
Saw my husband one time I could not get his eyes out of my head we have been married for nearly 40years I love him more now than then
I knew when I saw his picture, we met online. Next year is our 10th anniversary.
I love your story. Yes, we both knew. We were married March 7, 1970. I was 21 and she was 17. Just celebrated our 54th anniversary.
MY MOTHER was the one that said "he will marry my daughter" as his family walked into our church for the very first time! Native Texan here and even we Texans hate Texas in August (and July).
We met in April, my sweetie proposed to me in June, married in December the same year! This December it will be 46 yrs. We were so young but through it all we made a commitment to love each other, speak our thoughts in respect and always be truthful. We are still, silly and madly in love with one another.
OMG; The Best For Last ~ you guys just flashed that 20 year old photo of you two! TOO GREAT!
Wow 2 years ago you only had 7000 and now you have117,000 I do love watching everything you have accomplished. Keep up the great work :)
We had a clue, after meeting on Yahoo! Singles (lol, remember that?). First date over coffee turned into 5 hours and "I have to go to work tomorrow," followed by a phone conversation to say "Thanks, I had a good time," that went until about 2:30 am. Married 9 months later, married 18 years this past February.
My wife and I met December and knew enough for me to ask her to marry me in mid January and for both of us to decide to get married in December of the same year. We lasted until she had a year with colon cancer, had a final surgery, got the word that she was cured followed two days after the surgery by getting a surprise embolism that killed her. We had prayed that God would heal her and that we would have our 50th wedding anniversary. We should have asked for healing AND the 50. While we were going together, 50 seemed unreal but they were a goood set of years.
So sorry for your loss.
I knew right away. The very first time I met my wife. That she wad the one. Just her presence alone would give me warmth and throw me off balance in a good way. She was with another guy back then. I made sure to stay in contact every now and then but eventually lost contact. Then about ten years ago she was pregnant and left to her own devices. Through a chance of one in a million we met at her work. Without any hesitation I asked her out. Like flatout asked her after ten seconds of talking. Right now I'm pretty much the luckiest guy on planet earth. She's a goddess and I have a stepdaughter and a son whom I both love and treat as my own. Sometimes I look at my wife and I'm still trying to figure out how a goof like me was given this woman. I still don't get it haha. On a sidenote, we also plan to homestead, just not off grid as our country does not allow it through law and rules. We really like the channel. Keep it up.
When I met my second husband, I said uh oh trouble. That was in 1997. We've be together 25 years and will be married 20 years August 9th. Still hanging together. lol
🦋 I am really watching this video for the second time. I love your story.
I enjoyed this walk back in time with you!
Well here you two are with over 50k followers now! Congrats! Love your story! You are so cute together!
Hindsight is 20/20. You guys have done sooooo much right! List that haha.
I like the way you think. We spend too much time thinking about the wrong things that we forget to celebrate the wins.
College to meeting to kids to traveling to homesteading. THE STORY. DROPPING THE DIRT. Ashley was a trouble child forced to go to Bible College. You heard Jonathan's band and fell in love. You signed guest book. March 7th 2002. Went home for summer. Jonathan asked to date at the Goo Goo Dolls Concert. Kind of first date. Jonathan has to meet her parents and asked to marry her. Jonathan was pentacostal and they didn't know him, not too excited with the news. Drove back and proposed. Got married a year from the day they met, March 8th, 2003. Tiny apartment for a year. Bought first house right up road from Jonathan's parents. There for 5 years. Then looking for more than 1000 square foot house for four kids. Got 2700 square foot house farm behind you and then got developed. Feeling of peace and quiet at that house. Home schooled your kids. Wanted to go do things. Downsized from September 2014 and left May 2015. House sold in 12 days. Got huge 5th wheel brand new and used F-350 and set off on a grand adventure. On the road for one year. Got tired of RV neighborhoods. Boondocking on National Public lands and be set up for it. Valley of Fire at Lake Mead at night with your big rig and stuck in mud and then more rain and flash flood warnings. Crazy. Wow, friends came and pulled you out! Fantastic. Cool, invited to Zion National Park to boondock with other boondockers. Needed different set up. Work camp in Oregon for 5 months. Decided to renovate an airstream and worked on it at Ashley's parents. Went out on road for 3 more years. Love of Off Grid and peace and quiet and the desert. Nine months on property now. Animals. Wow! That's a story!
You both have a great charisma on camera as I'm sure you do off camera. I'll bet longer video's and a bigger picture of what your hoping to accomplish will bring you more viewers, along with more adds. You also might want to reach out to sponsors for help and if you haven't already done the patron thing, you should get that started. You have a good story, and expanding on that can bring more people in, and your viewer base is family orientated which will also bring you a bigger base. The minimal life style is big right now so you fit in to the times. Myself, I plan to go underground. I haven't purchased my desert dream property yet but because of the heat and sometime freezing temps, it's smarter in my opinion to go down under.
You two work very hard!
Just seeing this video, even though it's 3 years old. I love watching your channel. I met my husband our freshman year, I was 18. We dated a year, then he served a 2 year church mission before we married. 47 years later we're still going strong! 3 kids, now all in their 40's- where does time go??
Your smiles and blushes tell the whole story.
We got married March 9,1985. Still chugging after all this time too
Beautiful story! Yes, when I saw my husband walk towards me my heart said “Hello, old friend, good to see you again!” Like our souls were already connected and together now 14 years and growing every day.
I also have had a wild and very eye opening life.
I wouldn't trade it for anything.
To be in the world and try to go the path that really was not intended for me I felt out of place and just unhappy in so many areas of my life. I thought it was the way to go. I have done so many things that I eventually went this isn't right. A nagging feeling in the back of your head.
I know that you 2 are doing the right thing that leads to a life of real freedom.
So many want but just can't see the truth of it all.
You are teaching a generation that most of these kids nowadays are so lost.
Real future leaders.
My parents met each other in March 93 and married a year and 2 months later, and have been together since. They are best friends and do everything together. If I'm lucky enough to find what they have I'll be blessed if not that's okay too.
How much drink is in one can 😆
This video is great haha. So giggly!
Your story is so much fun. Love listening and watching you.
We knew ! Dated 2 weeks then engaged and married 1 month later ! 36 years ago!
My first wife and I built our first house in 1980 for $52,000. Split level 1800 sq. ft. but no garage. 10 years later I built a 2 car garage for $39,000. 10 years made a huge difference in costs.
Just saw this now, Great video.
What a sweet story. I love you even more.
I'm a yr late and y'all have gotten so much done. I just love ❤ your relationship 🥰
Just met you guys not too long ago, Love you guys. I haven’t really met your kids. I love the earth bag building you are working on. That’s how I landed on you channel.
I love AHA! I knew the first time I met my husband he was the one. I'm watching this 7/22 and your at 76k subscribers 👏👏👏😊
Your goal was 10K subscribers by the end of your first year - you may not have made it then, but three years later you have over 170K subscribers!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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Now I had to 👍 cause I know what it’s like not to be around people! I hope you met your goal soon! Keep making videos 👍 thank You!
Great story.
Wonderful recap. I'm glad I got to watch you on this week of a time off. Oops I'm commenting on a different tape
🥰 Glad I got to watch this and see how much you've all grown as a channel since this video! I'm super hooked on all of your videos, I live in Phoenix and would love to someday be able to go off grid or on the road first before I get too old! haha
Awesome we're glad you're here!
hello from kingsport tn, love your show and everthing you all are doing :D
Good to hear about your love story.... the way she looks at you says there is more to your story but you can keep that a secret ;)
You guys are funny
you guys been togeather all that time and still look at each other like you just started dating, i think that is awesome :D
You guys are so fun!!! I love you story and your story telling!!
This is my 2nd time to watch. It's so cute.
Enjoyed your video, love your story of how you both met. You are both lovely people and a lovely couple, well suited to each other. 😃
Great story! Loved it!
Sorry I missed this Live chat... only a year late. 🙄 I just discovered you guys.. you are so Cute. I can't believe you don't have more followers.
Seriously... keep talking.. you're great. 😝
Thanks. That was fun.
I had no idea I was going to marry my husband when we first met. Actually, I was dating one of his best friends!
That relationship didn’t work out. 10 years later, after being casual acquaintances for all those years, my now husband and I ran into each other one evening. We spent the evening together and I was surprised to find myself attracted to him. We were engaged three months later and married the next year.
You saying y’all don’t have 10,000 subs definitely is UNBELIEVABLE. It doesn’t make sense. So I will analyze only logical explanation.
Sometimes I think God keeps us in the shadows for a reason. Probably preparing you for your million subs. You both have a artist vision and are working with tons of dirt. So cool. Very impressed.
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Y’all definitely holding out on some DETS! Y’all are naturals on cameras so I enjoy your company.
Keep claiming subs. Let’s say ONE million. Blab it and grab it! (Texan holy roller here and yes we HOT!)
I meant 100,000 of course. If you haven’t made bird bath yet
Make sure there is drainage hole or tube if you can’t topple it to clean it.
Oh no. He was definitely NOT the one. His nickname in college, where I met him, was The Fonz. I got a blind date to a formal dance just to see who would go out with this guy. He showed up without a date just so he could dance with anyone he wanted to and not have to deal with an upset date.
Haha. Woah.
I enjoy watching your videos.
Chuck and I met the very end of Aug. 1999 and we were married Nov. 20th 1999 been happy ever after.......
I found out my daugter is pregnant last week and she lives in Tucson. I live in Idaho, so now I want to move. Any advice on down sizing and moving across country would be welcome. Loved this video going down memory lane!
I’m watching!
So nice getting to know you.
By the by, the soda drinking made me want a grapefruit one ! :)
Your pies look good to give away
Kind of going backwards, enjoyed. The stories of your meeting, and all. You went thru to get where you are
My 1st, was my heart.
, but I was 16...and didn't understand healthy relationships. Every relationship since, I've known immediately that he wasn't the one. Now I'm 55 and single.
My husband asked me to marry him on our first ‘date’ 😳
My mom told me I was going to marry him.
Oh, how I denied it.
That was 1983
Still married & we haven’t strangled each other yet 🤣🤣🤣
Just think, back when this was recorded you were looking to be at 10K subscribers, now here you are homing in on 100K!
Happy Anniversary 🥂
I loved hearing your story, thank you for sharing! I just came across your channel and will be subscribing to tag along on your awesome journey. So where in Indiana did you live? I live in north-east Indiana with my husband and 2 young boys, We also homeschool. So are you guys Born Again Christians, if you don't mind me asking? Anyways I look forward to watching & catching up on your videos. May God bless you & your family! Shalom
Love this 🤓
Just just found y’all. Love your fun personalities.
How many acres did you buy?
We have 11 acres right now. And thanks for watching:)
The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming dragon!🐲🐉
You guys are a kick!
One of your loafives of home baked bread. Yum yum
The second I made eye contact with both of my husbands I knew they were going to be mine!!
Really enjoying your videos, I'm a new follower. Your view of the Stronghold is very similar to mine.
Nope..he was younger and I was his boss..but 6mos later we were married.. 43yrs ago
Oh, please may I see a wedding picture? : )
2KrazyKamper's channel is helpful in this regard.