The answer to that question is found in the story about how I was motivated to create this blog in the first place.

Throughout the winter and into the spring of 2017, I kept randomly seeing and hearing about blogs, bloggers, and blogging. Once it was in a movie, another time it was from a brother-in-law who suggested the idea, and another time it was a blogging webinar that I unexpectedly stumbled across online. I honestly don’t even remember what all kept bringing the subject to my attention. I couldn’t seem to shake the concept of blogging off my mind.

This struck me as odd as blogging was never really something I ever thought of pursuing. Finally, I reached the point where I could no longer just keep ignoring this. I started praying about it. Weirdly enough, this was one of those things that deep down inside I knew that I was supposed to pursue even before I really started praying about it. I definitely don’t believe that it was just chance or irony that blogging was constantly being put in front of me last year.

Interestingly enough, my husband was actually not very excited about the idea of a lifestyle blog when I brought it up with him. He prefers living his life privately, but in reflection of his character, he believed following through with what the Lord had laid on my heart was most important and supported me in this endeavor.

All that remained was to start educating myself about domain names, web hosts, WordPress, etc. and then actually create my blog. I was by no means a guru when it came to such things. Actually, ignorance would probably best describe my level of knowledge in this area.

Then I ran into the road block. I couldn’t come up with a name for my blog. No amount of head scratching or brainstorming could seem to produce a satisfactory option that was still available as a domain name. I considered everything from “everydaydreams.org” to “lifeatlalones.com”. Part of me wanted to pick something generic, so I could just get started. Instead, I waited. Inside I knew that this whole idea was God’s idea. He placed it on my heart to pursue, He must have a name for it too.

One day I was sitting at our dining room table researching hosting sites, etc. when suddenly I felt (more than heard) a still, small voice say, “Go in and sit down by the living room window; I am going to give you the name of your blog.”

That urging would have been really easy to ignore, but I had been waiting for God to inspire a blog name, and I knew I had to be obedient even though I had my doubts that today was going to produce any more answers than the day before.

After sitting down by our big picture window, I began taking in the landscape. I could see the workshop, various pieces of farming equipment, and the 50 acre calving field stretching out alongside the driveway as it disappeared over the rise. I began pondering the memories of driving in that two mile driveway to surprise Dean the summer before, all the hours I had spent helping Dean as he worked on the ranch, and even the very first time I laid eyes on it all about a year before.

Amazement, gratitude and excitement,  started hitting me all at the same time. Amazement of how far God had brought us, gratitude for the dreams He had already fulfilled, and excitement over what He still had planned for us.

Just like that, I heard that same still, small voice whisper, “I am unveiling adventure in your life. Name the blog ‘Unveiling Adventure’.”

I immediately went to my computer to see if that domain name was available. Sure enough, it was unclaimed on the world wide web. That was confirmation enough!

Thus the creation of this blog began. God showed me that He has many adventures (and lessons) big and small in store for us, and He is raising up this blog as a place to record and share with you what He does in our lives. My desire is to portray them truthfully and  accurately, in a way that you can enjoy (and learn from) them as much as I (we) are!

–Amanda