November 2017 we moved to Arkansas!

Hey everybody! I haven't written for this blog in a very long time but I want to try to make that a new normal thing again and so I thought I would start out by catching you up with a few of the major highlights! Throughout this time we did continue to record YouTube videos and share those on our channel, which you can find here;

Our YouTube Channel; LittleFarmBigDreams

In June 2017 I started making plans and publicly sharing on our videos my desire/plan to move back home to Arkansas! It took awhile and we went through many ideas between camper living, living off grid and whether to buy a new or used RV and all these different grand plans!

Here are some of our YouTube videos of the actual move itself!

This was our last day in Arizona packing up and getting ready to hit the road!

After a brief stop in New Mexico to see Chad's 4 kids we hit the road for the final leg to Arkansas!


When Chad, the boys and I left Arizona we were fully intending on moving to my dad's 100 acre farm within a month or two, after we found a camper locally! Our home base to prepare all of that was going to be my Mom's home in Blytheville where she had JUST enough room for us but not enough room for us to all get too comfortable.

After our first visit to my Dad's land and then the unexpected loss of my grandfather (my dad's father) our plans to move to his farm were put drastically on hold, if not permanently. Many people didn't love the idea of our plan although my Dad was good with it but we didn't want to make waves in the family after just moving back to Arkansas so we chose to consider other alternatives first.

It was fun checking out other properties for sale, although we weren't sure how we were going to pay for one but we began searching nonetheless, utilizing a local realtor who knew the area very well!

Below are the only two land options where we filmed and shared videos of the properties, these were our favorite two.

21 Acres with an off grid tiny hunting cabin but over an hour away from all of our family

AND...

5 acres of raw land, mostly wooded with no utilities or structure

In the process of hunting for land we were looking for campers and that wasn't going well. Any we could find that were affordable needed too much way to buy outright and put all this money into if we were also going to be building a cabin so why spend money building 2 homes when we just needed one?!? And then in order to find one big enough for all 8 of us (when Chad's 4 kids visit) and that didn't need any work, even if it was older, was ranging from $8-15k even in Arkansas. Even though that is cheaper than in Arizona, we just didn't have that much money saved up AND we needed to buy some place to put it!

In our next blog post I'll share what route we ended up choosing!

xoxo,
Elizabeth

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