January Blog Post – Moving to our Farm and Twenty Months of Sweet Baby Levi Rhett!

Oh my Sweet Baby Levi Rhett and precious baby bear,

how we all love and adore you so!!

Our hearts are overflowing with gratitude for the twenty most joy-filled months with you here in our lives…

and how amazing that exactly one month ago (today!!)

we closed on our forever home

and farm sweet farm just (!!) in time for Christmas…

and the fact that we got to move in

and officially

“ring in the new year” here…

such a gift beyond words

and a Christmas season we will never forget!!

Your big brother Judson and puppy dog Red are your best friends in the whole wide world

and you are all living your very best country boy lives out on the farm these days!

You are the sweetest, snuggliest little country bear cub and bring us all so much joy upon joy!!

Happy 20 months, my angel baby boy!!

The Lord has led our family to our “farm sweet farm” (the “horse house” as Judson has called it since the first day we saw it!) to plant our roots and raise our sweet little country babies out on these acres upon acres of rolling hills farmland in beautiful Bostic, North Carolina!!

He is a God of the immeasurably MORE than we could ever ask, dream, or imagine… and our whole “farm story” is such a testament to that!!

We have been bursting with excitement since the Lord opened the door a couple of months ago to this incredible opportunity and I can’t believe it’s finally “officially official” - and we found our “home for Christmas” - the very best Christmas miracle and gift ever!!!

“I’ve had a splendid time. But the best of it all was the coming home.” - Anne of Green Gables

Our “farm dream” has come to fruition and we have moved to this fully functioning farm with the most precious farmhouse (with my dreamy front porch I’ve always wanted to sip my morning coffee on overlooking God’s Creation) at the end of a long shaded driveway, a barn (& multiple sheds) ready to be filled with horses (eek!!), multiple fenced-in pastures, beautiful landscaping, the most breathtaking water view, and even has a farmhouse guest house, too (come visit us)!!

God’s (!!) plans are always a THOUSAND times better than anything we could dream or come up with on our own and our whole farm journey/story has been such a testament to that these past few years as we sold everything (and left the city) to move up to my great grandparents’ old family home for this past season as we waited on the LORD to sovereignly guide us where HE wanted us all along! God gets ALL the glory in this Ephesians 3:20-21 farm story and we can’t wait to take y’all along on our newest adventure!!!!

H O M E

#ourfarmstory #homesweethome #farmsweetfarm

Our kind new neighbors shared this special photo with us of our farm sweet farm from years ago and I truly can’t get over how gorgeous it looks with that mountain sunset behind it - there are just no words!! We are truly just in complete awe of the Lord that *this* is the farm He had in store for our family all along - just a total GOD story and we have seen His fingerprints every step of the way!! We are just so excited for all that HE (!!) is going to do on and has in store for these acres and acres of farm land - the best is yet to come and we can’t wait for y’all to get to follow along every step of the way!! #immeasurablymore

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” // Ephesians 3:20-21 #allglorybetogod

It has been such a dream come true moving out to the farm and, like I was telling a friend the other day, go from “chasing the dream” to finally getting to “live” the dream we have been praying for and dreaming of since before Wes and I even got married… raising our babies on a bunch of land surrounded by God’s beautiful Creation!! Boy oh boy, did the Lord come through on that prayer – abundantly more!!

We spent our “Christmas Break” (more like a Christmas sprint haha) moving to the farm and New Year’s Eve was our first night here to “ring in the new year” – what a memory!!

It brings us so much JOY watching you and your brother roaming and frolicking around the land and just getting to make the sweetest childhood memories these days – with horsies all around us, all the open fields and pastures, and old dirt roads to walk and explore on around the pond!

All I can say is… God truly does write the very best (!!) stories of all and we couldn’t have asked for, dreamed of, or imagined a more perfect place to raise our babies!!

Thank you, Jesus, for this gift beyond words!!

You are at the cutest stage right now and learning and saying so much these days!! My personal favorite is how you say “Tank uuuu” (for “thank you” haha) and the most adorable little facial expressions you make!

You LOVE your “bubba” Judson and truly just want to be with and do everything that he does

and it is the cutest thing!

I always prayed for my children to be the best of friends and it warms my heart to see y’all really starting to play together so well these days and make up all kinds of games while I’m cooking dinner or what not!

While you are into everything these days (running, climbing, exploring, you name it haha!),  you are a mama’s boy through and through and loveee to be worn, snuggled, and rocked and I don’t mind one bit!! We are still nursing and it is such a gift to be able to feed you the way the Lord so beautifully designed for as long as we have – such a special bond for us both! You are healthy and happy as can be and just such a little ray of sunshine!!

We couldn’t be more grateful for this season of life and all that the Lord has blessed us with! We can’t wait to watch our little pair of #brotherbesties truly get to grow up on these 12.5 acres of farmland and have the sweetest country childhood we always dreamed of giving our babies –

such an answered prayer and immeasurably more than we could’ve asked for!!

This past month, we loved celebrating our sweetest Christmas yet (and closing on the farm just 3 days before - #illbehomeforchristmas !!),

driving to the farm the night we closed

and just taking it all in

(thank you, Jesus!),

the coziest Christmas Eve (full of Santa pancakes,

baking Santa’s cookies,

a candlelight church service, dinner with Wes’ family,

and putting our reindeer food

along with all our other traditions),

the sweetest Christmas morning ever

(and so special seeing our boys’ JOY

over seeing what Santa brought them this year!),

spent Christmas and the day after back home in Charlotte with my parents

(and Judson learned how to ride his new bike!!),

spent Christmas break painting the inside of the new house

and moving moving moving,

packing boxes upon boxes,

“ringing in the new year”

with our first night sleeping at the farm,

lawnmower rides with “Dada” around the property,

waking up to the horsies and donkeys in our backyard view (and all around us!),

exploring the beautiful dirt road trails all around our farm,

playing outside 24/7 with our baby bears,

had our first “picnic on the farm” by the pond and fishies (so special!),

soaking in the most stunning sunrises and sunsets over the land,

our first rainy day on the farm

(with all the puddle jumping and umbrella fun!), Judson thriving riding his bike down the little paved ramp part of our driveway (living his best life haha),

our first trip to Washburn’s Store (the oldest continuously running general store in all of North Carolina – right by our house!),

playing on the farm until the sun goes down,

moving our chickens to their new coop on the farm,

daily collecting eggs upon eggs,

discovering the sweetest track and playground right by our farm,

getting the homeschool room all set up and finally getting back into the swing of things there

(with our “Artic” unit this week in honor of the Winter Storm they’re calling for!),

loving our morning walks as the sun is coming up over the pond,

decorating the farmhouse for Valentine’s Day,

and truly just soaking it all in – life on the farm!!

These truly are the days, y’all!

And if you haven’t already… make sure to go read my birth story blog , “first 2 weeks” blog, one month of Levi Rhett blog, two months of Levi Rhett blog, three months of Levi Rhett blog, four months of Levi Rhett blog, five months of Levi Rhett blog, six months of Levi Rhett blog, seven months of Levi Rhett blog, eight months of Levi Rhett blog, nine months of Levi Rhett blog, ten months of Levi Rhett blog, eleven months of Levi Rhett blog, twelve months of Levi Rhett blog, thirteen months of Levi Rhett blog, fourteen months of Levi Rhett blog, fifteen months of Levi Rhett blog, sixteen months of Levi Rhett blog,  seventeen months of Levi Rhett blog, eighteen months of Levi Rhett blog, and nineteen months of Levi Rhett blog too!!

And friends…. as I mentioned in my recent blog posts, I have been shortening these blogs more and more these days – as all of what I used to share here you can easily find over on my personal Instagram page - @emilyjoannemabry –

so if you haven’t already, head on over and follow me there to see a full month recap and keep up with our fam of four these days!! 

That is where you can see all the pictures, videos, and memories I love to share!

With that being said, I am not longer going to be sharing those lengthy captions (or all those pictures!) here… instead - you can find them ALL over on Instagram - with many many additional photos, videos, full captions, reflections, and more that I love to share over on my personal Instagram page but just simply don’t have room – or the time haha -  to share it all in this blog post) for you to check them out there!!

My personal Instagram page is where I am doing most of my “content sharing” these days and where you can follow along with all the exciting things in this sweet season of raising babies and our farm sweet farm coming to fruition as we speak with my best friend!! We have lots of fun things in store ahead for our family and I’d love to have all of you following along there in efforts of streamlining all the things!! 

You can also follow me over on my LTKit Shop to “shop” all of my posts and what I share that we are using and loving these days in this baby/toddler season of life!

In a world that can be so negative about motherhood and children, I am so passionate about my little #joyfulmotherhood corner of the internet and what a blessing and gift from God that our little ones are!! Follow along over on my personal Instagram page for more JOYful motherhood content - because motherhood truly is a gift and children are a blessing from God!!

And onto an EMC note…

I have been so grateful for your constant love and support of this sweet small business of mine over all these years! I can never thank you enough and I will never stop thanking the Lord for the sweet blessing this business has been for our family - especially now that we have another sweet baby boy here for all the fun!!

With that being said, I am currently only taking prints orders  – no custom orders – as I am fully savoring these precious days at home with my babies!! All of my popular EMC designs and card sets are perfect to share as the sweetest and most unique gift ideas with all of your friends holiday season - for all of their special cities, towns, and places - and perfect wall art and stationery for you to stock up on for Valentines/Easter Season gifts, too! As always, send me a message to order and I’d love to send some happy EMC art your way, too!

And for those of y’all who may be new around here, make sure to head on over to @emilymabrycreative over on Instagram to see all the fun lettering art things I’ve been up to and my personal page @emilyjoannemabry to keep up with our little family! I’d love to have you following along there, too!!

And for those of you who are new around here to the EMC Blog, you can also find me and “shop with me” over on the LIKEtoKNOW.it app. So, if you haven’t already, make sure to download the app and “follow” me there (I put instructions over on my LIKEtoKNOW.it story highlight over on my personal Instagram page @emilyjoannemabry) - where I’m always sharing all my favorite lifestyle products, baby/kids’ items (and cute clothes, of course!), mommy items, homeschool preschool supplies, and finds!!

You can download the app and follow me here:

https://www.liketoknow.it/emilyjoannemabry

I am also constantly sharing “links” on my Instagram stories where you can click, and it will take you to be able to “shop” that specific photo & what you see!!

Like I always say… this blog is such a fun little creative outlet for me and truly just feels like one big “scrapbook” in a lot of ways!! I absolutely love getting to share our lives with you on this EMC Blog as well as over on my personal Instagram page!! We are living in the sweetest days and are absolutely loving being a family of four!!

We are absolutely smitten with our Sweet Little Baby Levi Rhett and soaking in allllll the sweet toddling baby sweetness, snuggles, giggles, and lovin’ these #babyandtoddler days out on the farm!!

So grateful to have each and every one of you here following along – we love you and this entire EMC Community so!!!