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- Who are these kids?! Oh that’s Ashley and Jonathan 19 years ago in their first “date.” Or was it a “hang?” How did we go from two kids at a Goo Goo Dolls concert to parents of 4, full-time travelers, and homesteaders? You can ask us on this trip down memory lane.
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Just seeing this video, even though it's 3 years old. I love watching your channel. I met my husband our freshman year, I was 18. We dated a year, then he served a 2 year church mission before we married. 47 years later we're still going strong! 3 kids, now all in their 40's- where does time go??
May GOD continually bless your union and family. You both celebrated 20 years as a couple this year and will be celebrating 20 years marriage.
I'm seeing and feeling the love you have for each other. It's like you are still in the honeymoon stage. 🤗
Yes, love at first sight. We met & were married in 10 months. That will be 38 yrs ago this May. ❤ 25 & 28 at the time & now have 4 grown men. I would love to live off grid, especially now, but not the hubby, so I do what I can do on our little plot. I adore you guys. I'm bin-ging you right now to catch up.
we were just saying you two are the best live! Your humor and the back and forth without putting each other down. Just refreshing and so comical. Keep doing you, cause your awesome. Definitely not boring.
At 19, I came home from a party and told my mum that I met the guy I was going to marry. I didn't even know his last name!!! I tracked him down and seven years later (he was slow) we married. We have been together for thirty-four years now and have three sons. He is truly my soulmate.
A year after you recorded this delightful video, you now have far exceeded your10k goal!
Yep, was 100% sure on first date before we even had any significant conversation. Celebrated 35 years two days ago. And I’m still 🎶The happiest girl in the whole USA🎶. (That song came out in 1972 when I was 9 but I still remember it.) 😁
Handeeman on youtube also lives in Arizona desert, is also doing things just the way he wants to to be self-sustaining. He has some good ideas, too. Love the relationship you openly share with us! You two are something special!!
Like Gene M said...it is the 27th of June 2022...and thank you so much for sharing your story...I truly enjoy watching your videos which I only discovered this year. I live in Arizona and I am hopeful to meet y'all one day!
My husband worked with my Mother and was a friend while he went through his divorce. Then he was gone a few years. We ran into each other at my Mom's business, renewed the friendship. He knew them but to not spook me he said it would be great to have a friend to hang with, without the pressure of dating or sex. I felt the connection too but not as strong, so invited him to help me with my daughter's 8th birthday party tomorrow? He said yes! We saw each other every day, were engaged in 2 months, married in 6 and were married for 30 years till he passed away. His 2, my 1 and 3 more kids, 16 grandkids and 2 great grandkids later, he was the joy of my life! 💞 Appreciate every day while you can! 😉💞
Been watching and just ran across this video. We lived in Maryville for several years and our daughter got her first degree at UT( 2010 ).
I was 17, she walked through my friend's door and I knew it. Told her I was going to marry her one day, took a year before she said yes ...38 years later and three Beautiful daughters and four grandchildren.... you guys are rocking it....
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You're my kind of people can I come visit y'all I'll bring my dog Yogi can I come visit me and my dog Yogi I love you with which I did my name is Nathaniel Grant call me sometime both of y'all I love your family you're my kind of people
I knew right away and did the same as you .. came home and told my mom.. that's the man I'm going to marry ! :)
Great story. Zions is my wife’s favorite. We are from the south by way of Mississippi and Florida and now live in Utah. Love your channel. God bless
I admire you guys and Ashley you look so much like my daugther Penny it make me so lonely , I'm way in Québec,Can. and she lives in Casa Grande AZ. in fact both my daugthers , grand-kids and arriere grand-kids lives in AZ. I'm hoping to go see them in Oct. boundocking in a van with my sweetheart of 80 years.
Been married twice, neither was my idea, neither marriage lasted. Not that I didn't try, I married each time with the intention of staying married for life. I love seeing couples who make it work. AM so happy for you both!
Me two. I Never thought “true love” excited for the likes of me. But I thought a partnership was doable. But it did not last, bad partners who did not put in 50/50. So I’m alone and staying that way!
You too are very hard working and deeply committed in achieving future goals for the family
We met in April, my sweetie proposed to me in June, married in December the same year! This December it will be 46 yrs. We were so young but through it all we made a commitment to love each other, speak our thoughts in respect and always be truthful. We are still, silly and madly in love with one another.
I enjoyed just hearing you guys talk. Fun to hear you guys discuss the past and what you’re doing in the future. I enjoy watching your journey
Awe thanks for the kind words. Means a lot to us. Hope to do more lives after this 30 days of Solar Shed.
I am watching this a year after you did this video. You both just make me smile. I appreciate your journey and the love I see in both your eyes when you look at each other! My hubby & I both knew on first meeting! Still have that special feeling every time we look at each other - pushing 40 plus years now! What you guys have done is absolutely amazing. The kids are absolutely precious! (And yes…Texas gets sooo hot! Have lived lots of years cuz I married a Texas boy. Hoping to find a cooler place soon..LOL)
Great Iove story this wil shock you I went out and married my hubby in 11 days we had 37 years together before he died from cancer ❤️❤️❤️
When I met my second husband, I said uh oh trouble. That was in 1997. We've be together 25 years and will be married 20 years August 9th. Still hanging together. lol
We were 15 when we met. The night before--Halloween--was my family's first night in town. The next morning we went to a church pastored by a family friend. It was Homecoming Sunday with dinner on the grounds. A young man walked into the Sunday School room where my mother and I were eating, introduced himself and said, "Will you marry me?" and continued talking for a really long time. I thought something was wrong with him. After he stopped talking and walked away I said as much to my mother. We ended up getting married 3 1/2 years later. Three children, 4 grandchildren and 35 1/2 years later death did us part.
I just watched this for the first time. Y’all have come so far. You’ve blasted past you’re 10k subscribers goal. It’s been really enjoyable watching Y’all grow and build your lives over the last year. Thanks for the great videos. #FortheContent
Thanks so much! The last 2 years have been hard but amazing :)
What a small world we live in! My late husband and I moved from Texas to far northeast Tennessee in 2018, having never been there before. We ended up buying a house in Kingsport. We loved it there. But two years later, my husband was at work in Johnson City when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest and died. Thank my much for sharing your story and your lives! Such a beautiful family!
I LOVE YOUR STORIES AND YOUR SOULMATE CONNECTION ❤️❤️❤️🙋♀️
Been watching for a couple of years, and I joined today. Love your family it's a pleasure watching the kids an pups grow up.
My husband and I met when he was 23 and in college, and I was 31 and going through a divorce. We met at his younger sister's confirmation, via his older sister, who was a new friend. I didn't even know she had a brother his age. Well, long story short, at the end of the evening, he told his mom that I was the woman he was going to spend the rest of his life with. Everyone, except his sister (maybe), was against it. That was back in 1993. Today, we have 2 amazing young adult children, one of whom is married to a wonderful man we absolutely love. And us? Well, we couldn't be happier or more in love. After almost 30 years together, we're living our happily ever after. Next steps? The kids want to buy land and start a family homestead, which led us here. We have experience with gardening and livestock, and we plan to build an earthbag complex, too. I'm looking forward to watching all your videos!
Very cool love story:)
This was the perfect chat to listen to while I’m working. I hope that doesn’t sound like I was bored. I wasn’t! You made me chuckle and smile quite often. You two are fun.
🦋 I am really watching this video for the second time. I love your story.
😅🤣😂 I so love you guys! Nothing but pure down to earth Real!
Look at you guys now with 117K subscribers and growing, well done.
Beautiful story! Yes, when I saw my husband walk towards me my heart said “Hello, old friend, good to see you again!” Like our souls were already connected and together now 14 years and growing every day.
Yes, three months later we were married and 28 years later I had to bury him.
College to meeting to kids to traveling to homesteading. THE STORY. DROPPING THE DIRT. Ashley was a trouble child forced to go to Bible College. You heard Jonathan's band and fell in love. You signed guest book. March 7th 2002. Went home for summer. Jonathan asked to date at the Goo Goo Dolls Concert. Kind of first date. Jonathan has to meet her parents and asked to marry her. Jonathan was pentacostal and they didn't know him, not too excited with the news. Drove back and proposed. Got married a year from the day they met, March 8th, 2003. Tiny apartment for a year. Bought first house right up road from Jonathan's parents. There for 5 years. Then looking for more than 1000 square foot house for four kids. Got 2700 square foot house farm behind you and then got developed. Feeling of peace and quiet at that house. Home schooled your kids. Wanted to go do things. Downsized from September 2014 and left May 2015. House sold in 12 days. Got huge 5th wheel brand new and used F-350 and set off on a grand adventure. On the road for one year. Got tired of RV neighborhoods. Boondocking on National Public lands and be set up for it. Valley of Fire at Lake Mead at night with your big rig and stuck in mud and then more rain and flash flood warnings. Crazy. Wow, friends came and pulled you out! Fantastic. Cool, invited to Zion National Park to boondock with other boondockers. Needed different set up. Work camp in Oregon for 5 months. Decided to renovate an airstream and worked on it at Ashley's parents. Went out on road for 3 more years. Love of Off Grid and peace and quiet and the desert. Nine months on property now. Animals. Wow! That's a story!
The love story was great. I like the part where Ashley said she hoped for the goal of 10,000 subscribers. Lol
You guys are now close to 100,000. You've come a long way you two. And it's great.
Thanks for sharing you guys are both inspiring people in a positive way. 😁
You all are AWESOME! I really enjoy watching you & your family. I've always wanted to go adventure more & live off grid. My health is hindering me but I'm hopeful to someday live more free & happily. I feel like I can live vicariously through y'all. Until I am able to live my dream. Thanks so much for sharing so much! God bless. 😊🌷
The wonderful things your children are learning as builders, gardeners and farmers are lessons for life, no matter what happens, they have skills for life.
I was 12 when he came to my dads house with our uncle I told my step mom I was going to marry him the on a family trip we got together and when I left he showed up 3 days latter asked my dad for my hand it has been almost 42 years
I can see your faces...you blocked the sun and that helped. You two are quit together. I can see the love you have when you interact..you are amused by each others remarks. Meant to be looks like. Continued best wishes
I also have had a wild and very eye opening life.
I wouldn't trade it for anything.
To be in the world and try to go the path that really was not intended for me I felt out of place and just unhappy in so many areas of my life. I thought it was the way to go. I have done so many things that I eventually went this isn't right. A nagging feeling in the back of your head.
I know that you 2 are doing the right thing that leads to a life of real freedom.
So many want but just can't see the truth of it all.
You are teaching a generation that most of these kids nowadays are so lost.
Real future leaders.
You two were the same age my folks were when they married. So cool you were able to homeschool the kids.
Met online. We knew on the first email on Monday. First date Friday night. Date ended on Tuesday. Married in September. September 18, 2023 we will celebrate 10 years of OMG. We're both over 70. Life is good. Every day is Valentine's Day. Who knew? True love does exist. We can see in your faces.
Cheers
This is so nice for your children to look back on
Beautiful family story ❤
Y’all are too cute, love listening to y’all. You could never be boring...Keep havein fun
Sorry I missed the live stream but stoked to catch the video! Gotta love the back story to how you guys met and the tips of how you would have done things traveling (truck/trailer)! I'll make sure to stay tuned to your future "secretive" projects too! 🤘🏼
Thanks for watching Adam!
I’m watching on August 2022, and you have over 88k subscribers… little by little!
Love love love hearing you two laugh.
Faucet~~it’s amazing how many things are fixed by taking apart, cleaning and putting back together.
Y'all are so fun!! I've been watching your recent videos and this video suggestion popped up and it was really nice to get to know y'all better. Keep up the great work! Thanks for letting us tag along.
Not boring at all folks! Loved hearing how your journey started out!
I live in Kentucky so it's wild knowing you guys come from Indiana and Tennessee!
Hi, Ashley and Jonathan. What a sweet story.
I'm from a little village called Morley, TN (population approx. 250 people, way back when. Not half that number now.) I live in LaFollette, TN; a small town about 42 miles north-northwest of "K-ville" (what a lot of people call Knoxville). Nice to see "home folks" doing well in the world.
Thanks Anna - we called it K-Town and Knoxvegas 😂 Still have lots of family there :)
Your Story popped up again and have to say that I LOVED hearing about your story again. You two are so sweet.
You two work very hard!
I just found you. I’m watching this a year later. I knew the day I met my husband that he was the one. I told my mom and she laughed. We got married 2 years later and were married for 52 years when he passed.in 2018. 😊🤗
He proposed on the first date we married 4 months later and that was 41 yrs ago. He’s still my Prince Charming
I knew right away. The very first time I met my wife. That she wad the one. Just her presence alone would give me warmth and throw me off balance in a good way. She was with another guy back then. I made sure to stay in contact every now and then but eventually lost contact. Then about ten years ago she was pregnant and left to her own devices. Through a chance of one in a million we met at her work. Without any hesitation I asked her out. Like flatout asked her after ten seconds of talking. Right now I'm pretty much the luckiest guy on planet earth. She's a goddess and I have a stepdaughter and a son whom I both love and treat as my own. Sometimes I look at my wife and I'm still trying to figure out how a goof like me was given this woman. I still don't get it haha. On a sidenote, we also plan to homestead, just not off grid as our country does not allow it through law and rules. We really like the channel. Keep it up.
You guys are SO COOL!!!! I so wish we were neighbours!!!!
My wife and I met December and knew enough for me to ask her to marry me in mid January and for both of us to decide to get married in December of the same year. We lasted until she had a year with colon cancer, had a final surgery, got the word that she was cured followed two days after the surgery by getting a surprise embolism that killed her. We had prayed that God would heal her and that we would have our 50th wedding anniversary. We should have asked for healing AND the 50. While we were going together, 50 seemed unreal but they were a goood set of years.
So sorry for your loss.
Hard workers & amazing goals true grit & cute couple!
Just met you guys not too long ago, Love you guys. I haven’t really met your kids. I love the earth bag building you are working on. That’s how I landed on you channel.
It is the 27th of June 2022 and you now have over 70,000 subscribers, now that's not a bad growth rate well done and ty for your story.
I’ve been following you and loved the story - could you introduce your children? You have a beautiful family and love what you are doing!!!!
Yes. You need a tractor. And a utv. Utv.
If only we had money laying around. Ha.
I can't believe I haven't seen this one yet. It was recommended at the end of the new video. I always wondered how you guys met and how you got to where you are now...and now I know! Thanks for sharing! 🎉
This is my 2nd time to watch. It's so cute.
I knew when I saw his picture, we met online. Next year is our 10th anniversary.
Soo I was 15 and running through mojave Park in California ,to catch up with some girlfriends and while we were running ,god literally said and I heard him loud and clear say that will be the father of your children 😳😱😲 I stopped dead in my tracks and this guy was standing by a tree near the baseball field
My friend turns back and says what are you doing lets go , and I said god just told me that guy right there is going to be the father of my kids 😀
And she said oh that's John I'll introduce you to him later !!
So we met up with him and some of his friends went to mandys house , her parents were out of town and they had a full ooen bar 😳😱
So being teenagers we decided to help ourselves a little to much ,anyway I was dancing on the coffee table and fell backwards and John caught me and I said thank you for saving my life 😆
Anyway we ended up in Mandy bathroom and making a bubble pit 😲 with all the shampoo in the shower I mean there was like 6 of us kid's having a blast bubbles everywhere and drunker then skunks 😂😅😰 after all that we calmed down amd were all hanging out in the living room John was sitting in a recliner chair and decided to call his friend Jason to see.if he wanted to come over ,I was curious and Mandy said Jason was a good looking guy so I sat on John's lap and said let me talk with your friend Jason 😊 and John said no way your mine😊😍 Anyway we've been together ever since had our first son June 1995, I just turned 18 and John was getting ready to turn 17 😊 2 years later we had our middle son and 2 years after that we had our last a baby girl 😇😇😇
They are now 27 will be 28 this year , then 25 will be 26 and baby girl 23 will be 24 😲😱 they grew up so fast 😞☺
We married way down the road in 2009 😘 so all together we have been together 28 almost 29 years and counting 💕 and I wouldn't change a single thing ,we have definitely been through many many situations that could destroy any relationship ,we've been homeless together but we got on our feet quickly😊 we have had many many adventures together and so many beautiful memories that we will never regret or forget 😂😅
Our kids tell us all the time that they wouldn't trade us for any other parents ,because we raised them to be the wonderful people they are today 😇😇😇 They always say we out them first and gave them a wonderful loving life and the crazy thing is we were told that we didn't know what love was because we were to young to know and that teenage relationships really don't last especially when you get pregnant young ,but we proved everyone wrong and here we are going strong with a love for each other no one could ever separate 😍😍 He's truly my best friend ❤ Congrats to you both and cheers to you 2 god bless and many many more years to your beautiful love you have for each other 😍
Thanks. That was fun.
hello from kingsport tn, love your show and everthing you all are doing :D
We had a clue, after meeting on Yahoo! Singles (lol, remember that?). First date over coffee turned into 5 hours and "I have to go to work tomorrow," followed by a phone conversation to say "Thanks, I had a good time," that went until about 2:30 am. Married 9 months later, married 18 years this past February.
I'm twice divorced, too, but I love to see people that find their soulmates and stay together. My mother says when she met my dad, she knew.
My husband asked me to marry him on our first ‘date’ 😳
My mom told me I was going to marry him.
Oh, how I denied it.
That was 1983
Still married & we haven’t strangled each other yet 🤣🤣🤣
I was a junior and he was a sophmore. He gave me one of the those papers that said " If you give it back you owe me a kiss, if you throw it away you owe me a kiss, if you give it to someone else..." He was tall dark and handsome and had the legs of a runner. I was a dork. We just celebrated our 42nd anniversary. At the wedding people were making bets on how long we would last. We fooled them. If you ask him when he knew I was the one, he will tell you it was when I held his hand on our first actual date to a Christmas choir concert at Bethany college with my parents, grandpa and little sister. And we still look at each other the way the two of you do. I was 20 and he was 19 on our wedding day in 1980. At the end of the day its all about choosing each other, even when you don't like each other. And it really helps to start with a best friend.
Awww you are such a sweet couple. Your story is so beautiful.
Met my hubby at church. I was 16,he 17. I also knew right away I want to marry him when I am grown-up. This year we will celebrate 33 years together as husband and wife. We have three great daughters and our second grandchild is on his way.
I almost had love at first sight. We "met" on eHarmony, had a face to face in Nashville, and realized we clicked. He came to Knoxville and that's when I knew and he did too. He proposed in front of my fourth grade class at Berean with Rae's covert help (co-teaching). Been married 15 years, one son, homeschooling, minimalizing step by step, so blessed!
We knew ! Dated 2 weeks then engaged and married 1 month later ! 36 years ago!
yall are adorable
I'm watching now, with the benefit of time passage and a WHOLE lot more subscribers. From 7k then to 128k now, wow. I started watching when MLHS stopped posting very much, because they think you're wonderful and I liked you guys when they visited you. I just have to tell you that you guys are lovely. All the nerdiness, the way that all of you work together, your creativity, willingness to try new things, the attitude about failure being about learning...plus it's obvious that ya'll are so in love with each other after all these years! I always learn something when watching ya'll. It's much like MLHS, in that after awhile, you feel like family. In a sweet way, not all stalkery lol. Anyhoo...keep on keepin' on. You are delightful!
My first wife and I built our first house in 1980 for $52,000. Split level 1800 sq. ft. but no garage. 10 years later I built a 2 car garage for $39,000. 10 years made a huge difference in costs.
Hindsight is 20/20. You guys have done sooooo much right! List that haha.
I like the way you think. We spend too much time thinking about the wrong things that we forget to celebrate the wins.
Oh no. He was definitely NOT the one. His nickname in college, where I met him, was The Fonz. I got a blind date to a formal dance just to see who would go out with this guy. He showed up without a date just so he could dance with anyone he wanted to and not have to deal with an upset date.
Haha. Woah.
MY MOTHER was the one that said "he will marry my daughter" as his family walked into our church for the very first time! Native Texan here and even we Texans hate Texas in August (and July).
3/7/23; 112k subscribers. You're certainly not a failure! If ever I needed a family to adopt, I could only hope yours (typ) might be available!
Keep going strong!
All the things you’ve accomplished in such a short time. Love your love story.
You guys are funny
You guys are so awesome together, beautiful family. I am not good at relationships, lol. someday I will meet a forever friend.
Wow 2 years ago you only had 7000 and now you have117,000 I do love watching everything you have accomplished. Keep up the great work :)
Chuck and I met the very end of Aug. 1999 and we were married Nov. 20th 1999 been happy ever after.......
10k will be that much sweeter.
hi Ashley and Jonathan my name is Louise Carmichael and i have watched you from, Just when you you started the Kids Shed. I live in Queensland Australia, but i am from Tasmania,....... Have you thought of having Jonathon 's Band come and have a Concert there on your land for a few of your friend and have a bring your own picnic meal,,,
I am watching from Marion Ny upstate Ny I love watching you guys and I love your dog 99.
I have been with my husband for 40 years
Your pies look good to give away
OMG; The Best For Last ~ you guys just flashed that 20 year old photo of you two! TOO GREAT!
I love your story. Yes, we both knew. We were married March 7, 1970. I was 21 and she was 17. Just celebrated our 54th anniversary.
2003 was a great year!! You are such a colorful and interesting bunch for having come from such solemn and sincere roots. It's fun to watch you develop your dreamscape. Thanks for sharing your hard work and dedicated spirit.
Just think, back when this was recorded you were looking to be at 10K subscribers, now here you are homing in on 100K!
You two are so cute, I really love watching you and your family in your adventure! God bless you always ♥️
My husband and I are police officers of different departments. We met one weekend, and he moved in with me the next weekend. We have been married for 30 years and are now retired together and, of course, visiting grand babies
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You both have a great charisma on camera as I'm sure you do off camera. I'll bet longer video's and a bigger picture of what your hoping to accomplish will bring you more viewers, along with more adds. You also might want to reach out to sponsors for help and if you haven't already done the patron thing, you should get that started. You have a good story, and expanding on that can bring more people in, and your viewer base is family orientated which will also bring you a bigger base. The minimal life style is big right now so you fit in to the times. Myself, I plan to go underground. I haven't purchased my desert dream property yet but because of the heat and sometime freezing temps, it's smarter in my opinion to go down under.