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Nina & Wes Photography Nina & Wes Photography. Photographers, homesteaders, and joy seekers.

When you’re trying to get your morning chores done, but the cutest little baby keeps stealing the teats you’re working o...
08/04/2021

When you’re trying to get your morning chores done, but the cutest little baby keeps stealing the teats you’re working on....

If you don’t cradle your veggies like a baby, do you even 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 about your garden.l?Today we were inundated with cucumber...
07/19/2021

If you don’t cradle your veggies like a baby, do you even 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚 about your garden.l?

Today we were inundated with cucumbers (but who 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 inundated with cucumbers?).

I found one bright red tomato! It was cracked and battered, but the parts that weren’t were 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦. If you haven’t tasted a tomato freshly picked, you haven’t tasted a tomato!

I got two banana peppers (those are for ) and one shish*to (Now we have to decide who gets the shish*to! Spoiler alert...it will be me...someone’s gonna have a full tummy!).

I can’t believe I’m growing something in my own backyard. No matter how small the harvest, it makes you feel so rich! Probably a sermon in there somewhere.

Happy Sunday, friends!

Allow me to officially introduce our sweet little girl....Freyja!!!It took us a few days to land on a name for her, but ...
07/14/2021

Allow me to officially introduce our sweet little girl....Freyja!!!

It took us a few days to land on a name for her, but decided to keep the Norwegian theme going. Also, has a fascination with Norse mythology (like C.S. Lewis did), and Freyja (pronounced fray-yuh if you have an American English accent) was a Norse god. Apparently the goddess, Freyja, rode in a chariot pulled by two cats. I’m gonna see if Wendell and Tiny are interested in pulling Freyja in a cart (we don’t have a chariot). I feel like it’s totally possible.

Welcome to our little homestead family, Freyja. We love you so much!

Happy Birthday to this amazing man right here!Double fours. Wow.Over 17 of those 44 have been spent with me, and I am fo...
07/14/2021

Happy Birthday to this amazing man right here!

Double fours. Wow.

Over 17 of those 44 have been spent with me, and I am forever grateful for that.

Wes is a man of many talents and can pretty much speak to any person on any level on almost any topic. I am always in awe of this.

He can slay in a game of basketball. He can build a cabin in the woods with his own two hands. He writes poetry that will make you cry. He can tell you about the difference between ontological and epistemological. He cooks dinner every night for his family. And he can chat with the most revered Oxford professors about the deepest and most intellectually challenging topics. He loves our animals and worries about them when they are sick. And best of all, he loves Jesus like a man should, and walks this road of faith with me without fail.

This is my husband of nearly 18 years. A small-town Kentucky boy, that wasn’t expected to go very far in life (spoiler alert: he has gone SO far, and he just continues to climb). I am so incredibly lucky to have him by my side in this life of ours.

Happy Birthday, my love. You are worthy of every good thing coming your way.

What does homesteading mean to me?I’m sure this will evolve as we figure this homestead thing out, but I’ll focus on rig...
07/12/2021

What does homesteading mean to me?

I’m sure this will evolve as we figure this homestead thing out, but I’ll focus on right now.

A homestead is a place where you live. And in that place where you live, you grow food and livestock that helps sustain you and your family.

That’s the simple definition to me. But it’s so much more.

It’s waiting 20 long weeks for your chickens to lay their first egg, and then you tell all your friends, dance a jig, and take a thousand photos of that first egg and show that photo off to the world like you just birthed a baby.

It’s milking a cow for the first time when you are quite sick, but feeling so incredibly fulfilled after it’s all said and done.

It’s crying over a chicken when it dies for no known reason.

It’s seeing a flower bloom...a flower that you planted from a seed.

It’s feeling like a failure when you can’t seem to get your donkey to stand still for the farrier.

It’s feeling sad when those seeds you planted never germinate, but feeling so incredibly proud when a tomato grows.

This is a little bit of what homesteading is to me. Perhaps I’ve oversimplified it. But this is what I know thus far. I haven’t even begun to talk about what you learn about the character of God when you interact with creation on a daily basis. But I’ll save that for another day.

Today, it’s all the good, the painful, the bad and the beautiful.

(Day 11 - )

These two eggs deserve their very own post because these are our FIRST eggs!!! Stop the presses and ring the gong!This i...
07/11/2021

These two eggs deserve their very own post because these are our FIRST eggs!!! Stop the presses and ring the gong!

This is so exciting! We were wondering when this would happen because has been getting eggs for several weeks and we got our chickens at the same time! But last night they decided to give us this gift. There is nothing so gratifying as seeing your little farm give back to you after so much work!

Cherishing these first fruits of our homestead. Milk and eggs!

(I think these came from our Barred Rock girls)

I present to you....A BABY!!!!And what a surprise! We weren’t expecting her for another month! Sølvi showed no signs of ...
07/01/2021

I present to you....A BABY!!!!

And what a surprise! We weren’t expecting her for another month! Sølvi showed no signs of labor. She shocked us all!

At about noon on June 29th, Alex ran into the house and said, “Mamma! There’s another cow in our field!” In a state of obvious confusion I asked him what he was talking about. Did another farmer’s cow find its way into our pasture? And then finally he conveyed that a baby was in the field. Uhhhh say what now?!

I scrambled to put on shoes and grabbed a camera and ran down the hill in the sweltering heat.

And as sure as anything, there lay a baby in the field. And Sølvi was a few feet away eating the placenta as she should. And after some investigation, we also realized it was a little girl! Praise God!

SO unprepared. That was me yesterday. And yet I think it was a mercy. Instead of stressing over a birth going wrong in some way, all I had left to worry about was that this baby stayed healthy and started nursing. And she did!

I still can’t believe that this little Princess is here. We don’t have a name for her yet, but we will soon.

For now, I’m just so very grateful for this sweet miracle. God has truly loved on us in a special way with her precious life.

06/24/2021

Ok the goods are here! Young Loving had its International Grand Convention last week and they always release new products. We all feel out about it and do our nerdy oily witchdoctor dances. Ok maybe we don’t all dance, but we get excited. And we aren’t witchdoctors...well, I guess there COULD be some out there, but I don’t know any personally. I digress...

So I didn’t get ALL the new things ( ) but I did get a few.

Turmeric (holy crap, I’m excited!), charcoal mask, Rise Above Oil (convention oil), and a reformulated shampoo and conditioner (thank the Good Lord because it NEEDED reformulation...hmmm maybe the witchdoctors did this?).

So enjoy my shenanigans and the intolerable amount of laughing I do at myself.

Happy Thursday, friends!

I held back a little yesterday.I surprised you with our two new Jerseys, but what I didn’t tell you was...Sølvi is PREGN...
04/15/2021

I held back a little yesterday.

I surprised you with our two new Jerseys, but what I didn’t tell you was...

Sølvi is PREGNANT!

That’s right! We have a little calf joining our family right around August 1st! Are there such things as Calf Showers...you know, like a baby shower, but for cows? If so, I’ll take one. I’m registered at Tractor Supply. We can have little calf booties, and little knitted calf scarves...maybe a fun game like “find the teat”? Sounds like fun to me!

We prayed for this calf. We intentionally prayed that God would give us a pregnant cow. I don’t know if it will be a boy (bull) or a girl (heifer), but we are praying for a heifer!

So if you see me obsessing over this girl over the next three months, it’s because I’m going to be worried over mama and baby for a while.

God’s blessings are many if you know how to look for them.

Thank you, God, for giving us more than we could have ever imagined.

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