September 10, 2025 • 41 mins
In this family-room conversation, Jay and Stacey sit down with their youngest son, Reece, and his wife, Kayla, to talk about marriage in the early years, big life transitions, and staying rooted in Jesus through it all.
From grad school grind and launching a small business to spontaneous “God’s Creation Tour” trips and serving together at church, they share how opposites can balance each other and why intentional time matters.
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From grad school grind and launching a small business to spontaneous “God’s Creation Tour” trips and serving together at church, they share how opposites can balance each other and why intentional time matters.
What we cover:
- How Reece and Kayla met, got engaged during 2020, and just marked 4 years married
- Taking a leap of faith: leaving a 9-to-5 to buy a pressure washing business
- Grad school, long commutes, tight budgets, and learning to communicate needs
- Being first-born vs youngest and navigating family dynamics with grace
- Dating your spouse in busy seasons and turning errands into connection
- Traveling before kids and their Zion National Park “Angels Landing” story
- Serving together on the worship team and with students, and keeping Jesus at the center
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- Practical ways to stay connected when schedules are packed
- Encouragement for young couples taking faith-filled risks
- Real talk on teamwork, humility, and choosing each other daily
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hey everyone, and welcome to the Love Like Crazy Podcast.
We're your hosts, Jay and Stacy Coleman, and today we
have gathered at our home where we are going to
have a little conversation with our youngest son, Reese and
his wife Kayla. But before we get into the conversation,
I just want to say thank you to all of
our listeners. Thank you for subscribing to YouTube if you're watching,
(00:45):
or that you're liking and sharing and helping us spread
the word about this podcast. We hope it's helpful in
building stronger marriages and families. So, hey, Jay, we're here
today with our youngest kiddos. Thank you for joining me today.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Jay, it's good to be here with you, Stacey and
your home.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You're in our home.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, yeah, actually I built this house for you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What did you tell me? Exactly? Said you, if you
built a church, you can build me a house.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's right. That's right. I did say that. And then
of course we encurred a natural disaster and had to rebuild.
So so welcome to our rebuilt house.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hopefully it all goes well. I'm going to build you
another house. Oh we're downside an empty nest season oh,
that's another episode.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You're making lots of plans. I am, well, we have
we have guests with us today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's a lot of fun. We're gonna have some fun
today because we have Both of you have actually been
on episodes, but this is the first time you have
been on here together, and we're going to have some
FUNCHI looked a little like you're a little nervous about this.
Caln looks like okay, good.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah. So you guys had guy talk at some point.
We aired an episode with that, and then uh, and
then we had an episode with the girls, all the
daughter in laws and so so now we want to
talk to you guys with find out where you are
with life, and so tell us a little bit, tell
(02:09):
our listeners a little bit about yourselves.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, we met in twenty eighteen at a Rodney Atkins
concert Oh and lovers. So I actually didn't even know
where we were going. Bryce was like, hey, bro, coming
to this concert with me and I'm going with this
girl named Sarah. I said, okay, it.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Sounds cool, and me and Sarah were best friends. We've
been friends of our whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Now I got a question for you, tod Rees. I mean,
was this kind of something Bryce was setting up for
you two to meet.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I don't think it was planned.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We me and Sarah did mention though. Sarah was like,
he does have a brother, because I was freshly out
of a relationship and I think so was he. So
I was like, I don't know, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So I was just yeah, we're going to going to
hang out with my brother and friends, and didn't think
much about it. Drove down from I was living in
Rustling at the time, came down, went to a concert.
We ended up talking a little bit, dancing on the
dance floor in our cowboy boots.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
So that's where we that's how we met.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, and then we got engaged, I think about almost
two years after that.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, you got engaged during the pant pandemic twenty twenty, Yes,
that I remember. And then we got married.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That was kind of a weird thing him and you know,
proposing to you with a mask on.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
That was kind of like that did not happen outside
of the mask.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, So we got engaged and then got married about
six months after that. So we actually just made four
years married on this past weekend, So yeah, the other.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
For four years. Yeah, congratulations, happening annursary.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It has flown back. I cannot believe now, y'all. This
is kind of something thing that when Tyler got married,
we participated in the wedding, but I didn't get to
do his wedding. For y'all, y'all wanted me to do
your wedding, and that was that was a cool experience
for me to be able to do y'all's wedding and
be able to, you know, just be a part of
y'all stepping into that covenant together. So that's pretty cool
that way.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now, I know that the last couple of years for
y'all have been I don't know if I would say challenging,
but they've been a little bit different because y'all, you've
been so involved at school. You've been going after your
undergrad degree, and you're one month from graduation. Is that
about right?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So I graduated from LSU in twenty twenty one and
then took a gap year, worked full time, and then
got accepted into grad school to pursue my master's degree
in occupational therapy. So I've been going to school in
New Orleans. So that also was a crazy time having
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to commute to New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Each day to take you to drive to get.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
There about like an hour and a half hour and a.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Half one way, you know, and you help, what is
the how many days a week are you having to go?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Most semesters were five days a week.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Woo God. I don't know if I realized that. I
do know that the last few years, we haven't really
seen a whole lot of your parents, like KK come
to family nights or whatever. Yeah, because you've been so
tied up with school and whatnot. Yeah, has that's been
stressful for you too? Because I know you've been tied
up with school and not been able to work, and
Reese has been running a pressure washing bit. So has
that been stressful for y'all as far as finances and
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all that kind of stuff?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I mean, sometimes not not consistently. I mean there's you know,
you have hiccups where it's a little bit stressed, where
maybe I'll work a few days where it's twelve fourteen
hour days, you know, something like that. And she's got,
you know, maybe had a test or something. She's been
studying all week, and so we're both kind of like
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just frustrated. You know, we got a lot going on,
We're stressed out, and you know, maybe that leads to
an argument or something. So yeah, sometimes it's stressful, but
for the most part, not really, I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah. I think that starting out when I first got
accepted into grad school, you had just recently taken on
pressure washing full time, and you know, took that leap
of faith of quitting your nine to five to pursue
what the Lord was calling you into. And so I
think that in itself was a huge, huge, not really
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stressor but just like a step and a huge change
for us because I knew that I wasn't going to
bring any income in being full time at school, and
then him just fully trusting the Lord financially and with
bringing in business was huge. And so I think that
for both of us, stepping into a huge change definitely
led to stressors where we had to be much more
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intentional with communicating with each other what we needed, what
we wanted, and what we needed to do to be
able to balance each other out.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And that's like a lot of I mean, it can
be a lot of pressure on a you know, newly
we've been married a short amount of time and stuff.
So that's good to be to be intentional with that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't know if y'all have discussed this in past
episodes or not, but Reese is the youngest in the family.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, we've discussed it, Okay, he is.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He's the baby of the family. And so when you
guys met, when y'all started going, you know, first going out,
Mama Bear kind of the claws kind of came out
a little bit. I want to bring it because we
were laughing about this earlier. But miss Stacy, she didn't
like you whenever, y'all that's not true.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That is okay, I'm not lying. I always tell the truth. Well,
the truth of the matter is this that, yes, Reese
is the youngest, get harassed all the time by his
older brothers that, oh, well Reese is the baby, and
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you do whatever Reese wants to do. And well, what
had happened was that, like you said, you were in
a relationship precially come out of a relationship when you met, Well,
so did so did Reese. And so that relationship, I
don't know, just kind of made Mama Bear very protective,
very protective, and so yeah, I was like I was
(08:27):
checking checking Kayla out, making sure that, uh, that was
going to be what was good for my youngest son.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Because like like y'all would leave to go like out
or whatever, mistakes, you'd be like whatever that believe that
she's really she's really a nice girl. I think that
she was, you know, so I had you back, got
you covered.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We're good. Now, we were good early.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
On, we were we were well.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I was just being protected.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I will say this much. What I think is about
it is I could kind of see early on on
the chemistry between you two, and I could tell like
this might be the girl that's going to be a
part of her family. And you know, we already we
already saw that with with Bryce and Sarah as they
were moving in that direction.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But then you come into the equation and I'm like,
she really makes him happy. You know, I can see
that that he's fallen in love with her. And so,
you know, I kind of suspected that you would be
a part of the Coleman crew. And I'm I'm blessed.
I love I love Kkane loves She's part of her family.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So and it's a blessing for us to see that,
you know, the compatibility, you know, of of those that
are that were coming into the family, and that it
was going to be a it was gonna be a
good thing.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And I think that was an interesting dynamic too, because
I'm the oldest in my pretty much in my entire family,
only have one older cousin, and so coming into it
with him, you know, being like the baby of the
family and me being the oldest, we definitely were very
opposite in ways, but I think that it really worked
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out for us and we balance each other out very well.
I think that he does a really good job at
keeping me grounded and more disciplined, especially through school, because
a lot of times I would try to just do
everything myself, not really want to ask for help and
be like I got it, and that might lead to
(10:23):
miscommunication with us, because he is more the type of
person who wants to communicate more and wants to tell
me exactly how he's feeling and wants to know exactly
how I'm feeling, and he I think on the other
hand of that, I don't know if you want to
speak about this, but I feel like being in grad
school while he was taken on a business I really
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needed to be there to be his support system and
to be very encouraging to him.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Because.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I think that he needed more of that physical and
emotional connection for being supportive of him, being supportive of
his business.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
All Right. So, I don't know if I've ever told
you this or not, but Reese was the one out
of all the three boys, that I was the most
worried about, you know, being the youngest in the family.
It's like, what is life going to look like for him?
You know, like what's his career going to be?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He had some aspirations, but I kind of wanted to
see him get there a little bit quicker I guess
than he was. And honestly, it was just like whenever
he got to a certain age, just like something clicked
inside of him. And I think a lot of it
has to do with meeting you as well as like,
you know, I need to do these things with my life.
And out of the three boys, I mean, running a
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successful business, hard worker, loves the Lord actively and get
not just engaged in church, but like actively serving within
the church. And so you know, I come out of
this and I'm looking like, you know, how whenever he
got to that point where he just I don't know what,
I don't know if he's just maturity.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He met a good woman.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, he met a good woman. Meeting the right woman
will do a whole lot in your life, and so
you know recent I'm proud of.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, So Rees, why don't you give us your perspective?
You know, like your dad saying he had all these
concerns about you, But I mean, did we really have
anything to be concerned about? How did you feel during that?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Not really? I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I don't think i'd voice my opinion that much about
the topic. I knew probably, I would say, beginning of
junior year of high school, I knew I was going
into college to pursue some type of engineering. I didn't
know exactly what I wanted to do, but I knew
I liked the whole design aspect of you know, just
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building things and designing things and then watching those things
be built, and so I kind of knew, Okay, I
kind of want to go into engineering something like that.
And then I got into college did that. I loved
it all through college. We met and then it was actually.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And you were actually going I guess I should have
known you're gonna be all right because I mean you
you had pretty good business head on your shoulders when
you were a dealer your senior year.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, it was actually started a dealer dealer.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, he did. He did do that in high school.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Remember he shows up cash and I'm like, where did
you get that? And he's like, I've been selling honey
buns and yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah that was not.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Technically legal, but he made something wasn't like morally wrong,
it was just you weren't allowed to do it at school.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I had one teacher threatened to I guess I should
have been worried about you. But I just think sometimes,
especially as a dad with his sons, you know that
that maybe you're going to have some concerns and worries
about them, like what is life going to look like
for them? But I will say this much meeting a
good woman does bring out the best, and are meeting
a good woman who is the right woman brings out
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the best in you?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So, re So you went into working, like she said
in nine to five, and with the engineering you know,
aspect the type of job you were doing, but that
wasn't really once you got into it. I don't think
that that's really what you enjoyed and so which led
you to move forward with your side hustle, which was
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pressure washing, reof washing and all of that. So tell
us how you ended up like moving from from that
into this owning your own business kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So originally it started with it was not too long
after we met, maybe six months after we met. I
decided to start doing that while I was in college,
and it was called Signature washing Services and did it
on the weekends and stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
You know, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I actually started doing it because I wasn't making enough
money at my part time job and I knew I
wanted to marry her. I said, I need to save up.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Wait, weren't you working at the church?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah? Enough money? So I'm getting the point across.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I like that little dig Like, yeah, weren't paying me
in that.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Right, right?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
We're scrubbing them toilets, and like, come on, I need
a raise.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
No, But it started because I wanted to save up
to buy her an engagement ring. Those aren't the cheapest,
so I needed to make some more money and so
I started pressure washing. Ended up saving up enough money
got our ring, and I was like, man, I think
I'll just keep doing this.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I mean it's I enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I like being outside, like the extra doing the work,
you know. Yeah, And it was just enjoyable in general.
Then we graduated college. We got married right before we graduated,
and I was still doing it on the side. And
then I graduated, I got that nine to five. I've well,
I had another one.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But you hated that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I just do not like sitting there at a
desk by myself drove me nuts.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah. You need the interaction, yeah, with other people.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah. Yeah, And so I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We talked about it multiple times, like I think I
might just quit, you know, and she when was that?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Was that right before you went into grad school?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah? I think that we both I had noticed that
he was not happy about what he was doing. And
it's not even that he didn't like engineering. He loved engineering.
He still does. Yeah, But I think, like he said,
he's the type of person who he wants to put
himself out there. And that's actually one of the biggest
attributes that attracted me to him is is his work
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ethic and he has that business mindset like you said about,
like he always just wants to pursue more, and he
loves being his own boss and just being able to
have the freedom to make the choices that he wants
to make and make his own schedule. And so I
think that it was kind of a mutual agreement of
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like we had to come to terms with taking that
leap of faith.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, now, so with you getting ready to graduate college,
you kind of feel like, oh, the pressure sticks to
be off. I won't be the only breadwinner in the household.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're both ready for that.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Tell us a little bit though about how you stepped
out to have your own your own business.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yes, it was originally in the business I started and
did that up until about two years ago. And so
we were about two years married, and we had been
talking about it. I know, we were praying about it
for about six months before, and I was thinking about
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just doing it, but I was just so nervous because
she was in school. I'm like, how are we gonna
make it work? Like what if I don't get enough jobs?
One way or another, I'll make it work. But it
was kind of nerve wracking. And then I was doing
a job one day and a random guy pulled up
on the side of the road, and said, you know,
we just got talking and he said, oh, yeah, you know,
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I actually been doing this for eight years now, and
I'm looking to retire. And he was in his fifties
and he's, you know, yeah, I'm looking to retire and
sell my business. And I was like, okay. You know,
I didn't think twice about it. And then I get home.
We start talking and I'm like, wait, why don't I
buy this business so I can do it full time?
(18:37):
Like That's what I've been wanting to do. And so
we sat down and talked about it, and yeah, I
mean I ended up actually working with his son in
the past.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Had I didn't get any of.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
His contact information, I said, well, I think this was
his name, reached out to the sun. Sure enough, that
was his dad, and so one thing kind of led
to another. I think it was maybe a week or
two later we were talking and then sure enough started.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
To buy the business. Through my two weeks in at
the at the other job. At the other job, I'm
done with this.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And it probably wasn't the best time to buy it
because it was right at the end of the busy season,
so everything was slowing down.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
But you know, I definitely think that it was a
huge godwin, you know how people say, like, you know,
it kind of just fell into our laps. And it
was really cool because the previous owner of the business
is also a believer, and he was very much so like,
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had no pressure over Reese. He wanted to get to
know Reese to make sure like he was in the
right season to be able to do this, and even
met with y'all too.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, I kind of became a mentor to you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah. Yeah, and it's just it's just become a great
friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That was just a huge step of faith. So, I mean,
in the first few years of marriage, that was a
lot of decisions that you were making, you know, big
decisions with going to grad school, starting your own business,
and but I mean God's been faithful, definitely.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I want to ask a question on this. You said
something earlier about being opposites and all that kind of stuff.
I know that the way maybe I'll look at things
or think things through a little bit different. How do
you How do y'all balance each other out with that.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
She overthinks everything I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
This is true.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
This is true. I'll be spirling and he brings me
back down.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
It's simple. It's one thing.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
No, I definitely I think that I am really good
with you know, in our relationship. I'm really good at
trying to see what he needs. However, when I'm in school,
it definitely became something that we had to work through,
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and I think that it started to become Okay, I
need all of these things, and I am stressing about
all of these things, and sometimes I would lose focus
and I would forget like, oh wait, But like he
also has all of those stressors, and he also has
the burden of providing for me and providing for us,
and so I think that being able to be that
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support and be encouraging did take more effort once I
stepped into that season. But I wouldn't I don't think
I would have been able to be that support and
be that encouragement if he wasn't keeping me grounded and
helping me to work through those stressors and work through
that anxiety that came with the school and tests and
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things like that. I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well reach. Just so you know, I think all women overthink.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Well, you know, you were saying that you were the
first born and he's the youngest. It's the same in
our relationship to say I'm the firstborn and you're the
you're the babyby you're a family, right.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
My mom still calls me your baby, and I'm just
like aggravating. But she said, I always look at you
as my baby.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well that's that's true.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That is how how I always look at your baby.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I'm sure he's.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Grown man.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, he's my youngest, and yes he's a grown man.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And the boys do say that he is your favorite.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I know they're all my favorite. I don't know what
on earth.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Lying again on the podcast, this is what they said.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
This is my response, he's my favorite. Everybody says, well,
everybody knows that is your favorite, and Bryce is your favorite.
I'm like, hey, honestly, I don't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So that's not true. That is not true. No, that
I mean that. I just I think that dynamic of
like firstborn and youngest, you know, married, I think it's
a good balance. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now, I know that you two have had some some
interesting things because a lot of times when you get married,
you know, you go through the honeymoon period and all
that kind of stuff, and you're so in love with
each other and everything's perfect and all this kind of stuff.
Well then you it wasn't long after you jump into
grad school. So how have y'all your marriage keeping it
healthy and keeping it strong? Of y'all have y'all actively
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had to pursue one another and date one another and
do the things of that nature to keep the marriage
healthy and moving forward. Or because I know that school
has the tendency of taken over. You know, it can
take your life.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think that it can definitely there. It kind of
goes in ebbs and flows. You know, some seasons I'm
not as stress and then some seasons it's really stressful.
Like right now, I'm about to step into a season
of finding a job and also taking my huge board exam,
So I know that that's going to take up a
lot of my attention in time. And I think that
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it did take a little while for us to get
used to that dynamic and be understanding of each other.
So I knew that, you know, I was at school
all day and getting very like having a lot of
socialization with people and also learning and using a lot
of brain power. And then he was pressure washing, like
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a lot of times he was alone, and so he
didn't get to talk to people all day long like
I was, and so when I get home, my social
battery might have been lower, and so we had to
kind of figure out how to spend that quality time
together without it causing that stress. I don't know if
you want to piggyback on that, but like of things
that we've done to do that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
And I think it's we kind of take advantage of
when we have free time. So like in the winter,
I pretty much don't work for a month. I tried to,
but nobody wants, say, ay, thing done, and.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So you save up for the winner.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, yeah, we save up for the winner. And that's
like we take a trip, you know. We spend a
lot of time through December and the beginning of January.
We try to take advantage of like when I'm not working.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I mean even.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Sometimes she's studying and I'm knocking on the door, you know,
let's let's go get something to eat. You know, She's like,
I have to study for this test. I'm like, I
don't care. We're going to get some eat.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
And so.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah, even like through the small things, like even whenever
we're going to the grocery store, make that something that
you're you're spending that intentional time together, or when he
goes and gives quotes, I can study in the car
and at least just be with him. And we just
like to do that. We like to go to the
grocery store. We like to go get quotes together. And
sometimes he'll need help with business stuff, and then sometimes
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I ask his help for school stuff, like the other example,
the other night, the night before our anniversary. This will
be really funny, romantic story.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I had to do.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Project for my clinical rotation. I didn't make like a
game for the clinic, and it was super late. Again,
time management. He has to keep me in check with
that because I am a procrastinator and I'm a night
out too, so I don't mind staying up and doing things.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But I also just worked for this, and I worked
all day that day, like ten hours.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Oh, by the way, I have to make It's like
that when you tell your mom, like, oh, I have
a project due tomorrow and I need a poster board.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It was kind of like that.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I was like, by the way, I have fifty clear
ballpit balls that I need to label, and and so
he was like, oh, okay, this is how we're spending
the first hours for anniversary.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And so we literally sat the table and didn't really
talk that much, but he labeled all of those balls
without even complaining once. And I was just like, it's
even in those moments where you can use things, even
just being and like sitting in each other's presence when
he's working at working on something outside or when I'm studying.
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We say that that helps as well, just like being
into those presence and then being intentional with the free
time that we do have.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Yeah, that's another example.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Like I have a bunch of equipment that breaks all
the time, stuff has to be worked on, and so
I'll sit outside and work on my stuff and she
just comes and sits with me and hangs out and
we'll just you know, sit on the bench or on
the swing, I mean, and and just talking while I'm
working on stuff and she's studying on our computer or whatever. Yeah,
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just trying to take advantage of all the time we can.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But now there's a couple of things. One of the
things y'all have done that really has been a blessing
to me is y'all like to travel. Yeah, I know that,
Sasan and I we love to travel. But when we
were first married, we we didn't have the money. And
then the next thing, you know, she starts having babies,
and it was just kind of like it, that's off
the table. And for y'all, you know, one of the
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things I tell you, hey, if you've got the opportunity
to go, do these things. And I've always kind of
pushed all y'all to do that travel, do the things
you want to do before you have kids. And so
why don't y'll tell everybody a little bit about your
travel adventures.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Okay, so it's yeah, So it started off like when
we were what was our first trip?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Was it Disney?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah? And I didn't really want to go to Disney.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, did your mom spoil you on not wanting
to go back to Disney? You didn't love that trip
I planned years ago?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Well, it wasn't that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It was just like, like you made him right. It's
a small world, after all, you him.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Out the big roller coaster.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I want to do like the I'm like adrenaline junkie
a little bit when it comes to that stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh, I thought maybe I just ruined Disney World.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
And it was also it was also way too expensive
for what it was just a first opinion anyway, it's
so overpriced, and I just went, we know, so that
was our first bargain shopper. She really wanted to go
to Disney, and you know, we were and said, okay,
we're coming from my I guess we're.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Going to Disney. And that one was fun. It wasn't
necessarily my cup of tea. She loved it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I enjoyed it, but I'd rather something else. So then
the next go around, and said, let's go to Universal
because you know, I'd rather that, And so we went
to Universal.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Loved it.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
We both loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And then after that, I don't know what it was.
Something just kind of clicked. We said, we just want
to see everything that the Lord has made.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
And I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
We just said, let's just start going to National parks
and stuff, get out in nature.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And we actually planned so our thing now is like
winter trips. And we had decided spontaneously twenty four hours
before we were going to leave. This was not this
past year, but the year before. Yeah, that we were
going to drop a pin on a map and wherever
it said. We were going to go to land On, Kentucky. Yeah,
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to talk about.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, it was. So we were at Chick fil A.
That's we got the Lord's Chicken. Yeah, he's spent way
too much money there. But we were at Chick fil A,
dropped a pin on a map and it landed on
Kentucky and like, I don't know what's in Kentucky banjo music,
I mean, that's about it.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Kentucky chick Yeah, yeah, ok.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
See, So we started researching. This was I'm trying to
think what Tom was. I mean, it was like lunchtime
and then we woke up that next morning and left,
so it wasn't even twenty four hours. It was I
don't know, maybe twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Very spontaneous.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Yeah, and so we researched.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It probably wasn't the best idea because it stayed up
to almost two in the morning, like just planning out, Okay,
this is where we're going to go. And so we
kind of hit a couple of things, but the big
thing was Mammoth Cave National Park, biggest cave system in
the US, and so that was awesome to see, and.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I think that kind of sparked our interests like, Okay,
we want to do this more, we want to see
more and He's always mentioned to me he wants to
take those types of trips because he loved going skiing
with y'all every like in the winter, and he wanted
I think he was like creating that, like you know,
adventure and then I'm just always like, yeah, let's go
(31:14):
for it, go with the flow. And this past year
we decided to go to Arizona, Utah.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Where else we went to Nevada for one day, but yeah,
it wasn't really well. The main thing we were going
to was Zion National Park in Utah, and on the
way there, we deemed like, this is what we're going
to do from now on. I don't know unless we
say we're not. And we deemed it the God's Creation Tour,
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and so that's what we call it. And so yeah,
we're just going to keep hitting all the national parks.
But Zion was that was the most beautiful thing we've
ever seen. And it was also we did a couple
of things that were a little risky.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I know, you were.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Kind of freaking well, mom, and I was just like, yeah,
you go have fun.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Have you heard from them they're off the grid? Are
they on the grid? We're not sure?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah, Yeah, we did a hiking couple.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You want to road went into Zion and you hiked
Angels Angels landing.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, so that was like the raffle one where you
have to get selected or sorry, lottery, I mean, and.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Kayla, you didn't go all the way at the top
of Rece went all the way you did.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Okay, But I think I was going to talk about
that that was an experience that definitely took a lot
of faith. I I don't mind heights, I've never been
afraid of heights, but it was definitely on my comfort
zone because all you see on social media is like
America's like deadliest Hike or whatever, and I'm like, wait
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a second.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
That's all It's the second second.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And so getting to the point where you know it's
already a hard hike just to get up to the
point where you climb the cliff. And so that in
itself was a challenge, and I think that we grew
closer from that because we were both like very encouraging
of each other and he wanted to make sure like
I was still comfortable, even though it was me taking
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a risk and going out of my comfort zone. But
once we started, like we worked together and I felt
like the world around us kind of just stopped, and
it was like, okay, like I'm fine, everything's fine. I
know that he is going to protect me no matter what.
And we did it together. And when we got to
the top, we were both just like speechless because we
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were like wow, like we got to do this together.
Look at what the Lord has created. And we sat
up there for like over an hour just taking.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
It all in.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, did y'all watch the Sevester Stalane movie Cliffhanger? Did
you watch it before you went and made that climb?
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Absolutely not good because you probably wouldn't have climbed it.
I love stuff like, Okay, you made me curious when
you said Kentucky Fried Chicken. Did y'all eat Kentucky Fried
Chicken in Kentucky?
Speaker 5 (34:07):
We went to the original kids.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Because I just googled it to make sure, because a
lot of times things don't necessarily start in a state.
But it was Corbin, Kentucky. In the nineteen thirties, Harland
Sanders opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So it was the coolest little place. They have all
the like everything from the beginning, just on the walls,
and they have or was it like his bedroom or
something like his childhood home.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah, it was kind of something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Of the trips on the agenda
ething coming up.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
We think we're going to California next. We don't exactly
know where. We just want to go over there.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Can we go?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I was going to say, can we like guys, this
is kind of a I don't think so we did?
We did like Yellowstone and what was the other hold on?
I mean you we.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Drove through yellow we have stuff, did a lot of
high I did hike.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I did.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We did a lot of hi there.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
So I think what you ought to do is you
have to take your mom and dad and you ought
to take like we all go together family trip.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I mean we can do that when Disney World.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'll go with you to Disney, Kayla.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
But I think that that is one of like my
favorite parts of this season that we're in is that
like we get to do these things and even though
we do have to make sacrifices of you know, being
in a waiting season to have kids because I'm in
grad school and you know that's it's just not our
time for that yet. I think that There's something so
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so special about being able to have this quality time
together and building our marriage on a foundation of quality time,
and building our marriage on a foundation of the Lord.
Because we love to serve together at church. That's something
that we do a lot together.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
You want to talk about that, Oh, yeah, you know we.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Oh man, I don't know how long I've been playing
base in church. I think I started when I was eleven,
and then y'all let me start playing when I was thirteen.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I think I start young.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, so I've been playing base in the church for
a very long time.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
And so then I don't know, just just kept playing
like normal. We when we met, I knew you kind
of sang, but I kind of had to get it
out of you, like, hey, I.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Think you should was a little nervous, Yeah, yeah, what
you do.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
And then I had to audition with Tyler, who was
my new future brother in law. That was intimidating.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Well, I did not know that because Tyler, when he
left for college, I said, do not come back here
unless you know, like without if you're going to bring
a woman back, make sure she can sing. And he failed.
This miserable because Brittany, I've heard Britney sing.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Definish, but it's okay. Everybody can sing, they're just not maybe.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Is made up work because Kayla's got a tremendous voice.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, we love seeing y'all worship, playing bass and singing.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Y'all work with youth group as well.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Yep, we love it.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
That's also.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
When did you start singing a church three years ago? Yeah,
but then it just kind of evolved into it. When
the Watson campus started, we said, okay, we're going to
go over there, and that's where we're we're going to it,
you know, yeah, we're playing it. We're going to try
to start working up the worship team, not like leading it,
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but you know, this is where we're gonna be. And
so we pretty much are there almost every Sunday, you know,
every now and then we got to miss, but majority
of the time she's singing, I'm playing bass, and we
just really just love being together getting to do that
on Sundays. Yeah, that's that's just one of the things
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we do. And then Sundays are pretty much an all
day thing.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Because it's.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Supposed to be there at seven thirty, we're usually fifteen
minutes late. And then that's not my fault and in
that role. You know, I don't know what time we leave,
eleven thirty or something like that. We usually go to
Walmart and then we get back for youth and that's
another I don't know, three hours and so yeah, serving
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on Sundays as a full day, well, we love it
though we've been doing it for all I know.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
It's Yeah, it's a blessing for us to see you
guys serving together. And you're not just serve, not just
going to church. When I say that, I mean you're
actively you have a relationship with Jesus and you're growing
together in that. But it's serving within the church together.
So so I want to say this though, before we
wrap this episode up. Kaylee, you know I have a
knack for calling this on when episode sometime back, I
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made a prediction. Uh, some people might say it was
a prophetic word about babies. So face I'm wondering if
maybe by the time that this episode airs that we've
gotten the news. We've gotten the news.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Well, she's about to graduate grad school. Let her get
started on your.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Jobs right now.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Right now are known as KK and Uncle Ree, And
I think that we love that.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
We thank you all for coming to day to spend
time with us. Yeah, and to have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, it's been great to hear like just your commitment
not only serving in the church, but your commitment to
each other. And and I love the example of hiking
up Angel Landing where you're his teamwork, teamwork, and that's
so important when you're building your marriage and to have
a healthy marriage.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Well, today, it's been great to be able to spend
time with you and talk with you about all these
different things. See what the Lord is doing in y'all's life.
And you know, everybody knows this podcast is about building
a stronger family and a stronger marriage. And it blesses
us to see y'all's marriage moving in the right direction
as you are focused on your relationship with Jesus, but
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also one day as you have a family, to see
your family founded on the Lord.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And see God's faithfulness in your life.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Absolutely, so, I want to thank all of our listeners
today for being a part of this podcast. As Stacey
said earlier, make sure that you like this podcast, click
that little subscribe button on the YouTube channel and if
you have a comment that you'd like to drop, we
love to see those comments. If you've got perhaps the
suggestion for a topic for a show, let us know.
And it's been a great time spending time with our
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youngest and his beloved KK. And as always, I'm.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Jay and I'm Stacy and this is.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
A love like crazy godd
Hey everyone, and welcome to the Love Like Crazy Podcast.
We're your hosts, Jay and Stacy Coleman, and today we
have gathered at our home where we are going to
have a little conversation with our youngest son, Reese and
his wife Kayla. But before we get into the conversation,
I just want to say thank you to all of
our listeners. Thank you for subscribing to YouTube if you're watching,
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or that you're liking and sharing and helping us spread
the word about this podcast. We hope it's helpful in
building stronger marriages and families. So, hey, Jay, we're here
today with our youngest kiddos. Thank you for joining me today.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Jay, it's good to be here with you, Stacey and
your home.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You're in our home.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, yeah, actually I built this house for you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
What did you tell me? Exactly? Said you, if you
built a church, you can build me a house.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's right. That's right. I did say that. And then
of course we encurred a natural disaster and had to rebuild.
So so welcome to our rebuilt house.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hopefully it all goes well. I'm going to build you
another house. Oh we're downside an empty nest season oh,
that's another episode.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You're making lots of plans. I am, well, we have
we have guests with us today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's a lot of fun. We're gonna have some fun
today because we have Both of you have actually been
on episodes, but this is the first time you have
been on here together, and we're going to have some
FUNCHI looked a little like you're a little nervous about this.
Caln looks like okay, good.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah. So you guys had guy talk at some point.
We aired an episode with that, and then uh, and
then we had an episode with the girls, all the
daughter in laws and so so now we want to
talk to you guys with find out where you are
with life, and so tell us a little bit, tell
(02:09):
our listeners a little bit about yourselves.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, we met in twenty eighteen at a Rodney Atkins
concert Oh and lovers. So I actually didn't even know
where we were going. Bryce was like, hey, bro, coming
to this concert with me and I'm going with this
girl named Sarah. I said, okay, it.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Sounds cool, and me and Sarah were best friends. We've
been friends of our whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Now I got a question for you, tod Rees. I mean,
was this kind of something Bryce was setting up for
you two to meet.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I don't think it was planned.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
We me and Sarah did mention though. Sarah was like,
he does have a brother, because I was freshly out
of a relationship and I think so was he. So
I was like, I don't know, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So I was just yeah, we're going to going to
hang out with my brother and friends, and didn't think
much about it. Drove down from I was living in
Rustling at the time, came down, went to a concert.
We ended up talking a little bit, dancing on the
dance floor in our cowboy boots.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
So that's where we that's how we met.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, and then we got engaged, I think about almost
two years after that.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, you got engaged during the pant pandemic twenty twenty, Yes,
that I remember. And then we got married.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That was kind of a weird thing him and you know,
proposing to you with a mask on.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
That was kind of like that did not happen outside
of the mask.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, So we got engaged and then got married about
six months after that. So we actually just made four
years married on this past weekend, So yeah, the other.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
For four years. Yeah, congratulations, happening annursary.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It has flown back. I cannot believe now, y'all. This
is kind of something thing that when Tyler got married,
we participated in the wedding, but I didn't get to
do his wedding. For y'all, y'all wanted me to do
your wedding, and that was that was a cool experience
for me to be able to do y'all's wedding and
be able to, you know, just be a part of
y'all stepping into that covenant together. So that's pretty cool
that way.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now, I know that the last couple of years for
y'all have been I don't know if I would say challenging,
but they've been a little bit different because y'all, you've
been so involved at school. You've been going after your
undergrad degree, and you're one month from graduation. Is that
about right?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So I graduated from LSU in twenty twenty one and
then took a gap year, worked full time, and then
got accepted into grad school to pursue my master's degree
in occupational therapy. So I've been going to school in
New Orleans. So that also was a crazy time having
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to commute to New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Each day to take you to drive to get.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
There about like an hour and a half hour and a.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Half one way, you know, and you help, what is
the how many days a week are you having to go?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Most semesters were five days a week.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Woo God. I don't know if I realized that. I
do know that the last few years, we haven't really
seen a whole lot of your parents, like KK come
to family nights or whatever. Yeah, because you've been so
tied up with school and whatnot. Yeah, has that's been
stressful for you too? Because I know you've been tied
up with school and not been able to work, and
Reese has been running a pressure washing bit. So has
that been stressful for y'all as far as finances and
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all that kind of stuff?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I mean, sometimes not not consistently. I mean there's you know,
you have hiccups where it's a little bit stressed, where
maybe I'll work a few days where it's twelve fourteen
hour days, you know, something like that. And she's got,
you know, maybe had a test or something. She's been
studying all week, and so we're both kind of like
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just frustrated. You know, we got a lot going on,
We're stressed out, and you know, maybe that leads to
an argument or something. So yeah, sometimes it's stressful, but
for the most part, not really, I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah. I think that starting out when I first got
accepted into grad school, you had just recently taken on
pressure washing full time, and you know, took that leap
of faith of quitting your nine to five to pursue
what the Lord was calling you into. And so I
think that in itself was a huge, huge, not really
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stressor but just like a step and a huge change
for us because I knew that I wasn't going to
bring any income in being full time at school, and
then him just fully trusting the Lord financially and with
bringing in business was huge. And so I think that
for both of us, stepping into a huge change definitely
led to stressors where we had to be much more
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intentional with communicating with each other what we needed, what
we wanted, and what we needed to do to be
able to balance each other out.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And that's like a lot of I mean, it can
be a lot of pressure on a you know, newly
we've been married a short amount of time and stuff.
So that's good to be to be intentional with that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't know if y'all have discussed this in past
episodes or not, but Reese is the youngest in the family.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, we've discussed it, Okay, he is.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He's the baby of the family. And so when you
guys met, when y'all started going, you know, first going out,
Mama Bear kind of the claws kind of came out
a little bit. I want to bring it because we
were laughing about this earlier. But miss Stacy, she didn't
like you whenever, y'all that's not true.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That is okay, I'm not lying. I always tell the truth. Well,
the truth of the matter is this that, yes, Reese
is the youngest, get harassed all the time by his
older brothers that, oh, well Reese is the baby, and
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you do whatever Reese wants to do. And well, what
had happened was that, like you said, you were in
a relationship precially come out of a relationship when you met, Well,
so did so did Reese. And so that relationship, I
don't know, just kind of made Mama Bear very protective,
very protective, and so yeah, I was like I was
(08:27):
checking checking Kayla out, making sure that, uh, that was
going to be what was good for my youngest son.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Because like like y'all would leave to go like out
or whatever, mistakes, you'd be like whatever that believe that
she's really she's really a nice girl. I think that
she was, you know, so I had you back, got
you covered.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We're good. Now, we were good early.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
On, we were we were well.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I was just being protected.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I will say this much. What I think is about
it is I could kind of see early on on
the chemistry between you two, and I could tell like
this might be the girl that's going to be a
part of her family. And you know, we already we
already saw that with with Bryce and Sarah as they
were moving in that direction.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But then you come into the equation and I'm like,
she really makes him happy. You know, I can see
that that he's fallen in love with her. And so,
you know, I kind of suspected that you would be
a part of the Coleman crew. And I'm I'm blessed.
I love I love Kkane loves She's part of her family.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So and it's a blessing for us to see that,
you know, the compatibility, you know, of of those that
are that were coming into the family, and that it
was going to be a it was gonna be a
good thing.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And I think that was an interesting dynamic too, because
I'm the oldest in my pretty much in my entire family,
only have one older cousin, and so coming into it
with him, you know, being like the baby of the
family and me being the oldest, we definitely were very
opposite in ways, but I think that it really worked
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out for us and we balance each other out very well.
I think that he does a really good job at
keeping me grounded and more disciplined, especially through school, because
a lot of times I would try to just do
everything myself, not really want to ask for help and
be like I got it, and that might lead to
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miscommunication with us, because he is more the type of
person who wants to communicate more and wants to tell
me exactly how he's feeling and wants to know exactly
how I'm feeling, and he I think on the other
hand of that, I don't know if you want to
speak about this, but I feel like being in grad
school while he was taken on a business I really
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needed to be there to be his support system and
to be very encouraging to him.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Because.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I think that he needed more of that physical and
emotional connection for being supportive of him, being supportive of
his business.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
All Right. So, I don't know if I've ever told
you this or not, but Reese was the one out
of all the three boys, that I was the most
worried about, you know, being the youngest in the family.
It's like, what is life going to look like for him?
You know, like what's his career going to be?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He had some aspirations, but I kind of wanted to
see him get there a little bit quicker I guess
than he was. And honestly, it was just like whenever
he got to a certain age, just like something clicked
inside of him. And I think a lot of it
has to do with meeting you as well as like,
you know, I need to do these things with my life.
And out of the three boys, I mean, running a
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successful business, hard worker, loves the Lord actively and get
not just engaged in church, but like actively serving within
the church. And so you know, I come out of
this and I'm looking like, you know, how whenever he
got to that point where he just I don't know what,
I don't know if he's just maturity.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He met a good woman.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, he met a good woman. Meeting the right woman
will do a whole lot in your life, and so
you know recent I'm proud of.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, So Rees, why don't you give us your perspective?
You know, like your dad saying he had all these
concerns about you, But I mean, did we really have
anything to be concerned about? How did you feel during that?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Not really? I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I don't think i'd voice my opinion that much about
the topic. I knew probably, I would say, beginning of
junior year of high school, I knew I was going
into college to pursue some type of engineering. I didn't
know exactly what I wanted to do, but I knew
I liked the whole design aspect of you know, just
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building things and designing things and then watching those things
be built, and so I kind of knew, Okay, I
kind of want to go into engineering something like that.
And then I got into college did that. I loved
it all through college. We met and then it was actually.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And you were actually going I guess I should have
known you're gonna be all right because I mean you
you had pretty good business head on your shoulders when
you were a dealer your senior year.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah, it was actually started a dealer dealer.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, he did. He did do that in high school.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Remember he shows up cash and I'm like, where did
you get that? And he's like, I've been selling honey
buns and yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah that was not.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Technically legal, but he made something wasn't like morally wrong,
it was just you weren't allowed to do it at school.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I had one teacher threatened to I guess I should
have been worried about you. But I just think sometimes,
especially as a dad with his sons, you know that
that maybe you're going to have some concerns and worries
about them, like what is life going to look like
for them? But I will say this much meeting a
good woman does bring out the best, and are meeting
a good woman who is the right woman brings out
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the best in you?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So, re So you went into working, like she said
in nine to five, and with the engineering you know,
aspect the type of job you were doing, but that
wasn't really once you got into it. I don't think
that that's really what you enjoyed and so which led
you to move forward with your side hustle, which was
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pressure washing, reof washing and all of that. So tell
us how you ended up like moving from from that
into this owning your own business kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
So originally it started with it was not too long
after we met, maybe six months after we met. I
decided to start doing that while I was in college,
and it was called Signature washing Services and did it
on the weekends and stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
You know, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I actually started doing it because I wasn't making enough
money at my part time job and I knew I
wanted to marry her. I said, I need to save up.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Wait, weren't you working at the church?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah? Enough money? So I'm getting the point across.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I like that little dig Like, yeah, weren't paying me
in that.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Right, right?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
We're scrubbing them toilets, and like, come on, I need
a raise.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
No, But it started because I wanted to save up
to buy her an engagement ring. Those aren't the cheapest,
so I needed to make some more money and so
I started pressure washing. Ended up saving up enough money
got our ring, and I was like, man, I think
I'll just keep doing this.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I mean it's I enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I like being outside, like the extra doing the work,
you know. Yeah, And it was just enjoyable in general.
Then we graduated college. We got married right before we graduated,
and I was still doing it on the side. And
then I graduated, I got that nine to five. I've well,
I had another one.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But you hated that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I just do not like sitting there at a
desk by myself drove me nuts.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah. You need the interaction, yeah, with other people.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah. Yeah, And so I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We talked about it multiple times, like I think I
might just quit, you know, and she when was that?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Was that right before you went into grad school?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah? I think that we both I had noticed that
he was not happy about what he was doing. And
it's not even that he didn't like engineering. He loved engineering.
He still does. Yeah, But I think, like he said,
he's the type of person who he wants to put
himself out there. And that's actually one of the biggest
attributes that attracted me to him is is his work
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ethic and he has that business mindset like you said about,
like he always just wants to pursue more, and he
loves being his own boss and just being able to
have the freedom to make the choices that he wants
to make and make his own schedule. And so I
think that it was kind of a mutual agreement of
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like we had to come to terms with taking that
leap of faith.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, now, so with you getting ready to graduate college,
you kind of feel like, oh, the pressure sticks to
be off. I won't be the only breadwinner in the household.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're both ready for that.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Tell us a little bit though about how you stepped
out to have your own your own business.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yes, it was originally in the business I started and
did that up until about two years ago. And so
we were about two years married, and we had been
talking about it. I know, we were praying about it
for about six months before, and I was thinking about
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just doing it, but I was just so nervous because
she was in school. I'm like, how are we gonna
make it work? Like what if I don't get enough jobs?
One way or another, I'll make it work. But it
was kind of nerve wracking. And then I was doing
a job one day and a random guy pulled up
on the side of the road, and said, you know,
we just got talking and he said, oh, yeah, you know,
(18:16):
I actually been doing this for eight years now, and
I'm looking to retire. And he was in his fifties
and he's, you know, yeah, I'm looking to retire and
sell my business. And I was like, okay. You know,
I didn't think twice about it. And then I get home.
We start talking and I'm like, wait, why don't I
buy this business so I can do it full time?
(18:37):
Like That's what I've been wanting to do. And so
we sat down and talked about it, and yeah, I
mean I ended up actually working with his son in
the past.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Had I didn't get any of.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
His contact information, I said, well, I think this was
his name, reached out to the sun. Sure enough, that
was his dad, and so one thing kind of led
to another. I think it was maybe a week or
two later we were talking and then sure enough started.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
To buy the business. Through my two weeks in at
the at the other job. At the other job, I'm
done with this.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And it probably wasn't the best time to buy it
because it was right at the end of the busy season,
so everything was slowing down.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
But you know, I definitely think that it was a
huge godwin, you know how people say, like, you know,
it kind of just fell into our laps. And it
was really cool because the previous owner of the business
is also a believer, and he was very much so like,
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had no pressure over Reese. He wanted to get to
know Reese to make sure like he was in the
right season to be able to do this, and even
met with y'all too.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, I kind of became a mentor to you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah. Yeah, and it's just it's just become a great
friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That was just a huge step of faith. So, I mean,
in the first few years of marriage, that was a
lot of decisions that you were making, you know, big
decisions with going to grad school, starting your own business,
and but I mean God's been faithful, definitely.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I want to ask a question on this. You said
something earlier about being opposites and all that kind of stuff.
I know that the way maybe I'll look at things
or think things through a little bit different. How do
you How do y'all balance each other out with that.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
She overthinks everything I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
This is true.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
This is true. I'll be spirling and he brings me
back down.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
It's simple. It's one thing.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
No, I definitely I think that I am really good
with you know, in our relationship. I'm really good at
trying to see what he needs. However, when I'm in school,
it definitely became something that we had to work through,
(20:58):
and I think that it started to become Okay, I
need all of these things, and I am stressing about
all of these things, and sometimes I would lose focus
and I would forget like, oh wait, But like he
also has all of those stressors, and he also has
the burden of providing for me and providing for us,
and so I think that being able to be that
(21:21):
support and be encouraging did take more effort once I
stepped into that season. But I wouldn't I don't think
I would have been able to be that support and
be that encouragement if he wasn't keeping me grounded and
helping me to work through those stressors and work through
that anxiety that came with the school and tests and
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things like that. I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well reach. Just so you know, I think all women overthink.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Well, you know, you were saying that you were the
first born and he's the youngest. It's the same in
our relationship to say I'm the firstborn and you're the
you're the babyby you're a family, right.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
My mom still calls me your baby, and I'm just
like aggravating. But she said, I always look at you
as my baby.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well that's that's true.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That is how how I always look at your baby.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I'm sure he's.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Grown man.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, he's my youngest, and yes he's a grown man.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And the boys do say that he is your favorite.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I know they're all my favorite. I don't know what
on earth.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Lying again on the podcast, this is what they said.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
This is my response, he's my favorite. Everybody says, well,
everybody knows that is your favorite, and Bryce is your favorite.
I'm like, hey, honestly, I don't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So that's not true. That is not true. No, that
I mean that. I just I think that dynamic of
like firstborn and youngest, you know, married, I think it's
a good balance. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now, I know that you two have had some some
interesting things because a lot of times when you get married,
you know, you go through the honeymoon period and all
that kind of stuff, and you're so in love with
each other and everything's perfect and all this kind of stuff.
Well then you it wasn't long after you jump into
grad school. So how have y'all your marriage keeping it
healthy and keeping it strong? Of y'all have y'all actively
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had to pursue one another and date one another and
do the things of that nature to keep the marriage
healthy and moving forward. Or because I know that school
has the tendency of taken over. You know, it can
take your life.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think that it can definitely there. It kind of
goes in ebbs and flows. You know, some seasons I'm
not as stress and then some seasons it's really stressful.
Like right now, I'm about to step into a season
of finding a job and also taking my huge board exam,
So I know that that's going to take up a
lot of my attention in time. And I think that
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it did take a little while for us to get
used to that dynamic and be understanding of each other.
So I knew that, you know, I was at school
all day and getting very like having a lot of
socialization with people and also learning and using a lot
of brain power. And then he was pressure washing, like
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a lot of times he was alone, and so he
didn't get to talk to people all day long like
I was, and so when I get home, my social
battery might have been lower, and so we had to
kind of figure out how to spend that quality time
together without it causing that stress. I don't know if
you want to piggyback on that, but like of things
that we've done to do that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
And I think it's we kind of take advantage of
when we have free time. So like in the winter,
I pretty much don't work for a month. I tried to,
but nobody wants, say, ay, thing done, and.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So you save up for the winner.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, yeah, we save up for the winner. And that's
like we take a trip, you know. We spend a
lot of time through December and the beginning of January.
We try to take advantage of like when I'm not working.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I mean even.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Sometimes she's studying and I'm knocking on the door, you know,
let's let's go get something to eat. You know, She's like,
I have to study for this test. I'm like, I
don't care. We're going to get some eat.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
And so.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah, even like through the small things, like even whenever
we're going to the grocery store, make that something that
you're you're spending that intentional time together, or when he
goes and gives quotes, I can study in the car
and at least just be with him. And we just
like to do that. We like to go to the
grocery store. We like to go get quotes together. And
sometimes he'll need help with business stuff, and then sometimes
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I ask his help for school stuff, like the other example,
the other night, the night before our anniversary. This will
be really funny, romantic story.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I had to do.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Project for my clinical rotation. I didn't make like a
game for the clinic, and it was super late. Again,
time management. He has to keep me in check with
that because I am a procrastinator and I'm a night
out too, so I don't mind staying up and doing things.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
But I also just worked for this, and I worked
all day that day, like ten hours.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Oh, by the way, I have to make It's like
that when you tell your mom, like, oh, I have
a project due tomorrow and I need a poster board.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It was kind of like that.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I was like, by the way, I have fifty clear
ballpit balls that I need to label, and and so
he was like, oh, okay, this is how we're spending
the first hours for anniversary.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
And so we literally sat the table and didn't really
talk that much, but he labeled all of those balls
without even complaining once. And I was just like, it's
even in those moments where you can use things, even
just being and like sitting in each other's presence when
he's working at working on something outside or when I'm studying.
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We say that that helps as well, just like being
into those presence and then being intentional with the free
time that we do have.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Yeah, that's another example.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Like I have a bunch of equipment that breaks all
the time, stuff has to be worked on, and so
I'll sit outside and work on my stuff and she
just comes and sits with me and hangs out and
we'll just you know, sit on the bench or on
the swing, I mean, and and just talking while I'm
working on stuff and she's studying on our computer or whatever. Yeah,
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just trying to take advantage of all the time we can.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But now there's a couple of things. One of the
things y'all have done that really has been a blessing
to me is y'all like to travel. Yeah, I know that,
Sasan and I we love to travel. But when we
were first married, we we didn't have the money. And
then the next thing, you know, she starts having babies,
and it was just kind of like it, that's off
the table. And for y'all, you know, one of the
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things I tell you, hey, if you've got the opportunity
to go, do these things. And I've always kind of
pushed all y'all to do that travel, do the things
you want to do before you have kids. And so
why don't y'll tell everybody a little bit about your
travel adventures.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Okay, so it's yeah, So it started off like when
we were what was our first trip?
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Was it Disney?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah? And I didn't really want to go to Disney.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I mean, did your mom spoil you on not wanting
to go back to Disney? You didn't love that trip
I planned years ago?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Well, it wasn't that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It was just like, like you made him right. It's
a small world, after all, you him.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Out the big roller coaster.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I want to do like the I'm like adrenaline junkie
a little bit when it comes to that stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh, I thought maybe I just ruined Disney World.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
And it was also it was also way too expensive
for what it was just a first opinion anyway, it's
so overpriced, and I just went, we know, so that
was our first bargain shopper. She really wanted to go
to Disney, and you know, we were and said, okay,
we're coming from my I guess we're.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Going to Disney. And that one was fun. It wasn't
necessarily my cup of tea. She loved it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I enjoyed it, but I'd rather something else. So then
the next go around, and said, let's go to Universal
because you know, I'd rather that, And so we went
to Universal.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Loved it.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
We both loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And then after that, I don't know what it was.
Something just kind of clicked. We said, we just want
to see everything that the Lord has made.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
And I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
We just said, let's just start going to National parks
and stuff, get out in nature.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And we actually planned so our thing now is like
winter trips. And we had decided spontaneously twenty four hours
before we were going to leave. This was not this
past year, but the year before. Yeah, that we were
going to drop a pin on a map and wherever
it said. We were going to go to land On, Kentucky. Yeah,
(29:56):
to talk about.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, it was. So we were at Chick fil A.
That's we got the Lord's Chicken. Yeah, he's spent way
too much money there. But we were at Chick fil A,
dropped a pin on a map and it landed on
Kentucky and like, I don't know what's in Kentucky banjo music,
I mean, that's about it.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Kentucky chick Yeah, yeah, ok.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
See, So we started researching. This was I'm trying to
think what Tom was. I mean, it was like lunchtime
and then we woke up that next morning and left,
so it wasn't even twenty four hours. It was I
don't know, maybe twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Very spontaneous.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Yeah, and so we researched.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
It probably wasn't the best idea because it stayed up
to almost two in the morning, like just planning out, Okay,
this is where we're going to go. And so we
kind of hit a couple of things, but the big
thing was Mammoth Cave National Park, biggest cave system in
the US, and so that was awesome to see, and.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
I think that kind of sparked our interests like, Okay,
we want to do this more, we want to see
more and He's always mentioned to me he wants to
take those types of trips because he loved going skiing
with y'all every like in the winter, and he wanted
I think he was like creating that, like you know,
adventure and then I'm just always like, yeah, let's go
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for it, go with the flow. And this past year
we decided to go to Arizona, Utah.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Where else we went to Nevada for one day, but yeah,
it wasn't really well. The main thing we were going
to was Zion National Park in Utah, and on the
way there, we deemed like, this is what we're going
to do from now on. I don't know unless we
say we're not. And we deemed it the God's Creation Tour,
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and so that's what we call it. And so yeah,
we're just going to keep hitting all the national parks.
But Zion was that was the most beautiful thing we've
ever seen. And it was also we did a couple
of things that were a little risky.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I know, you were.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Kind of freaking well, mom, and I was just like, yeah,
you go have fun.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Have you heard from them they're off the grid? Are
they on the grid? We're not sure?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah, Yeah, we did a hiking couple.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You want to road went into Zion and you hiked
Angels Angels landing.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah, so that was like the raffle one where you
have to get selected or sorry, lottery, I mean, and.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Kayla, you didn't go all the way at the top
of Rece went all the way you did.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Okay, But I think I was going to talk about
that that was an experience that definitely took a lot
of faith. I I don't mind heights, I've never been
afraid of heights, but it was definitely on my comfort
zone because all you see on social media is like
America's like deadliest Hike or whatever, and I'm like, wait
(32:53):
a second.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
That's all It's the second second.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And so getting to the point where you know it's
already a hard hike just to get up to the
point where you climb the cliff. And so that in
itself was a challenge, and I think that we grew
closer from that because we were both like very encouraging
of each other and he wanted to make sure like
I was still comfortable, even though it was me taking
(33:18):
a risk and going out of my comfort zone. But
once we started, like we worked together and I felt
like the world around us kind of just stopped, and
it was like, okay, like I'm fine, everything's fine. I
know that he is going to protect me no matter what.
And we did it together. And when we got to
the top, we were both just like speechless because we
(33:40):
were like wow, like we got to do this together.
Look at what the Lord has created. And we sat
up there for like over an hour just taking.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
It all in.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, did y'all watch the Sevester Stalane movie Cliffhanger? Did
you watch it before you went and made that climb?
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Absolutely not good because you probably wouldn't have climbed it.
I love stuff like, Okay, you made me curious when
you said Kentucky Fried Chicken. Did y'all eat Kentucky Fried
Chicken in Kentucky?
Speaker 5 (34:07):
We went to the original kids.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Because I just googled it to make sure, because a
lot of times things don't necessarily start in a state.
But it was Corbin, Kentucky. In the nineteen thirties, Harland
Sanders opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
So it was the coolest little place. They have all
the like everything from the beginning, just on the walls,
and they have or was it like his bedroom or
something like his childhood home.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah, it was kind of something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Of the trips on the agenda
ething coming up.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
We think we're going to California next. We don't exactly
know where. We just want to go over there.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Can we go?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I was going to say, can we like guys, this
is kind of a I don't think so we did?
We did like Yellowstone and what was the other hold on?
I mean you we.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Drove through yellow we have stuff, did a lot of
high I did hike.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
I did.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We did a lot of hi there.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
So I think what you ought to do is you
have to take your mom and dad and you ought
to take like we all go together family trip.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I mean we can do that when Disney World.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'll go with you to Disney, Kayla.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
But I think that that is one of like my
favorite parts of this season that we're in is that
like we get to do these things and even though
we do have to make sacrifices of you know, being
in a waiting season to have kids because I'm in
grad school and you know that's it's just not our
time for that yet. I think that There's something so
(35:46):
so special about being able to have this quality time
together and building our marriage on a foundation of quality time,
and building our marriage on a foundation of the Lord.
Because we love to serve together at church. That's something
that we do a lot together.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
You want to talk about that, Oh, yeah, you know we.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Oh man, I don't know how long I've been playing
base in church. I think I started when I was eleven,
and then y'all let me start playing when I was thirteen.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I think I start young.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Yeah, so I've been playing base in the church for
a very long time.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
And so then I don't know, just just kept playing
like normal. We when we met, I knew you kind
of sang, but I kind of had to get it
out of you, like, hey, I.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Think you should was a little nervous, Yeah, yeah, what
you do.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
And then I had to audition with Tyler, who was
my new future brother in law. That was intimidating.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Well, I did not know that because Tyler, when he
left for college, I said, do not come back here
unless you know, like without if you're going to bring
a woman back, make sure she can sing. And he failed.
This miserable because Brittany, I've heard Britney sing.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Definish, but it's okay. Everybody can sing, they're just not maybe.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Is made up work because Kayla's got a tremendous voice.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, we love seeing y'all worship, playing bass and singing.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Y'all work with youth group as well.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Yep, we love it.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
That's also.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
When did you start singing a church three years ago? Yeah,
but then it just kind of evolved into it. When
the Watson campus started, we said, okay, we're going to
go over there, and that's where we're we're going to it,
you know, yeah, we're playing it. We're going to try
to start working up the worship team, not like leading it,
(37:45):
but you know, this is where we're gonna be. And
so we pretty much are there almost every Sunday, you know,
every now and then we got to miss, but majority
of the time she's singing, I'm playing bass, and we
just really just love being together getting to do that
on Sundays. Yeah, that's that's just one of the things
(38:05):
we do. And then Sundays are pretty much an all
day thing.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Because it's.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Supposed to be there at seven thirty, we're usually fifteen
minutes late. And then that's not my fault and in
that role. You know, I don't know what time we leave,
eleven thirty or something like that. We usually go to
Walmart and then we get back for youth and that's
another I don't know, three hours and so yeah, serving
(38:33):
on Sundays as a full day, well, we love it
though we've been doing it for all I know.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
It's Yeah, it's a blessing for us to see you
guys serving together. And you're not just serve, not just
going to church. When I say that, I mean you're
actively you have a relationship with Jesus and you're growing
together in that. But it's serving within the church together.
So so I want to say this though, before we
wrap this episode up. Kaylee, you know I have a
knack for calling this on when episode sometime back, I
(39:02):
made a prediction. Uh, some people might say it was
a prophetic word about babies. So face I'm wondering if
maybe by the time that this episode airs that we've
gotten the news. We've gotten the news.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Well, she's about to graduate grad school. Let her get
started on your.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Jobs right now.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Right now are known as KK and Uncle Ree, And
I think that we love that.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
We thank you all for coming to day to spend
time with us. Yeah, and to have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, it's been great to hear like just your commitment
not only serving in the church, but your commitment to
each other. And and I love the example of hiking
up Angel Landing where you're his teamwork, teamwork, and that's
so important when you're building your marriage and to have
a healthy marriage.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Well, today, it's been great to be able to spend
time with you and talk with you about all these
different things. See what the Lord is doing in y'all's life.
And you know, everybody knows this podcast is about building
a stronger family and a stronger marriage. And it blesses
us to see y'all's marriage moving in the right direction
as you are focused on your relationship with Jesus, but
(40:20):
also one day as you have a family, to see
your family founded on the Lord.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
And see God's faithfulness in your life.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Absolutely, so, I want to thank all of our listeners
today for being a part of this podcast. As Stacey
said earlier, make sure that you like this podcast, click
that little subscribe button on the YouTube channel and if
you have a comment that you'd like to drop, we
love to see those comments. If you've got perhaps the
suggestion for a topic for a show, let us know.
And it's been a great time spending time with our
(40:47):
youngest and his beloved KK. And as always, I'm.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Jay and I'm Stacy and this is.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
A love like crazy godd
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