RPS Celebrates 5 Years!
October is such a busy and special month for us because we get to celebrate so much.
October 1st we began our 5th year in business and to be completely and brutally honest with you guys there have been times (more than I care to admit) that we didn’t think we’d ever get this far but we trusted in Gods plan and followed even when it went against every social norm and against every fiber in our body telling us to turn back and do things the “safe” way. We are just now starting to feel secure and like this is going to pan out in our families favor but, I want to share with you all some of the seasons we have weathered together and with your help and continued support we have started to see the fruits we planted years ago.
Year 1: We sold our house and moved into a fifth wheel with intentions of buying a lot locally to develop into our future homestead - a dream that was quickly turned upside down by several factors. I was working alongside Hunter in the field and handling administration work.
Year 2: We welcomed our second child. I went back to an office job to mitigate daycare cost. Hunter absorbed all administrative work; we figured out that’s not his strong suit. An uncomfortable truth that had to be faced in order for growth to happen.
Year 3: We discovered our family would be growing yet again. This growth meant we knew we had to move out of the fifth wheel and officially abandon our game plan. I had to leave my fortune five hundred company and career and embark on my “CEO of The Home” journey. A hard pill for me to swallow at the time. I spent a lot of my life trying to prove how smart I was and pushing myself to get into places and positions without a formal degree and I finally felt I had made it. I was at one of the only companies who pays your salary 100% for a full 12 weeks of maternity leave as a standard protocol. It’s quite literally unheard of around here. That’s how good of a company I was working at. Again, something only God knew was essential to our plan. When I think back to all the intricacies I get overcome with emotion knowing he truly takes care of us like he takes care of the birds in the sky. Gods plans as wild and as hard as they are to understand sometimes.. they’re always better in the long run. Trust that.
Year 4 of business we were able to buy a house that has been in our family for three generations. A process that was so painstaking I’ll spare you all the nitty gritty details except the fact that had we not followed Gods path it wouldn’t have came to fruition. Plain and simple. The “string theory” is a coverup for how God works in our lives. If you pay attention you’ll see it within your own. We welcomed our third blessing just a few short months later. I acclimated to being at home full time as well as handling the administrative side of things - if you have been on the other end of a client call it probably sounds something like the sales floor of the New York stock exchange. To be blunt, it’s A LOT. Not every client is as understanding as the next but with that has come growth. For the ones who giggle; thank you. You don’t know how much easier you make the conversation. This year we had some of our biggest projects and some of our biggest losses all at the same time. They say the two go hand and hand but it surely doesn’t make the interim any easier.
October 6th Hunter and I embarked on our 8th year married together and I can’t help but to be in awe of everything we have weathered together. I think back to our high school spring break trip when we all joked that Hunter was a “storm chaser” and can’t help but laugh and know that it’s just so true and I had no idea what lied ahead. He doesn’t waiver when he sees a storm forming. I wouldn’t even say he puts a raincoat on. He’s the pillar that holds our families home together. Raising three children, nurturing your marriage, working on yourself, all while growing and running a business simultaneously takes a certain kind of strength you can only find when you have armored yourself with the blood of Jesus.
I always wondered what our testimony would be until I realized we’re living through it right now.
There’s no other explanation for the series of storms we’ve weathered and come out stronger on the other side other than God. Each year you ignorantly hope and think it’ll get easier and the truth is that’s just not how it works. PERIOD. Each year your goals shift, your ambitions grow, and if your family is growing along side that path then your expenses exponentially grow as well. Year 5 we are eager to see what you have in store for us and what lessons we’ll walk away with.
Thank you God for this life we get to live, for all that you have blessed us with, and the lessons we are learning along the way. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.” — Ecclesiastes 9:10. Amen.
