In todays Episode of The Chronicles of Kayla we’re breaking records .. left and right .. another few thousand bales to find a spot in the barn for! We haven’t baled over 35,000 small squares in a single year since 2019 (prior to me starting the YT channel) .. so let’s recap.

At the end of 2018 I left my finance career .. I did not intend to completely walk away. It just sort of happened after a very. hard year. In ’19 we had 2 hired hands .. I simply was a “farm wife”. I cooked meals, I baled AS needed – I moved equipment, I was raising our children and … yes I was full time barrel racing and training horses … I thought this was the LIFE … I got to do what I loved.. with who i loved .. and then the world crumbled .. in 2020 we no longer had Hired Hands. It was chaos and Jason asked me if we thought we could “do this” on our own.. It was one of the hardest years we ever faced.

I thought I had made a mistake leaving my financial career, I thought our marriage was going to break and my depression was probably the worst it had ever been in my life. I was so lost — to be bluntly honest. I kept a really good “im okay” face on camera — but behind closed doors I was in a black pit of hell.

2020 Was such a learning curve for so many people. For me it was learning to not only be home with my kids, but also my husband and also try to work with him on a daily 10-16+ hour days .. then come home and be wife and mom not just farmer kayla. Clearly we got it lined out .. and our marriage is probably in the best place its been in over the 11 years — we found our groove .. the kids are getting older and that has also helped. Jasons realized i am not exactly “his hired hand” but his partner in all this..

God has a plan – even when it seems dark and ugly. I am so thankful that I had someone help me find the light again. The light I refuse to let “dim” out .. one I constantly battle to shine for others .. I am so blessed and I have so many great things .. that I never could of imaged when I first said “I am quitting”.

Watch the latest vlog dropping today, at 10am …

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