Build a Life You Actually Love.
Believe it. Build it. Become it.
This isn’t a how-to manual. It’s an invitation. A collection of real experiences, lessons, and perspectives from our journey, in hopes that it sparks something in you.
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Small Book.“The book is the beginning...
The real story is what happens next.”MEET OUR STORY ↓
Kenny. Kara. Little Kenny. K3. We're a family built on love, communication, togetherness, health, happiness and one pretty simple belief: this life is ours to actually live. What you see here isn't us pretending everything is perfect. It's our real life. Our book is open. Nice to meet you.
The website tells our story. Social is where we keep living it.
Come live it with us. ♡
Goat Path Financial is the financial side of the same philosophy: education, protection, planning and creating more choices for the life you actually want to live.
We'd done the grind. New Jersey. Catering. Sales. The office. The schedule. We wanted out on our own, so we pointed an old truck and camper west.
Colorado Springs was a start, but eventually it felt like the same rat race with prettier scenery. We kept asking what we actually wanted our days to feel like. The answer led us southwest to the San Luis Valley.
Not an escape from life. A chance to actually live it.
Freedom isn't about never working or chasing some lavish version of life. It's being able to slow down on a Sunday, grind when something matters, grow food, travel, learn, raise our son together and decide what deserves our time.
We didn't wake up one day with a perfect plan. We started asking better questions.
More time together. More mountains. More creating. Less waiting for someday.
No. We learned solar, plumbing, framing, water and septic because real life kept handing us the next lesson.
Not just a house. A home. A family rhythm. A base camp. A life that actually felt like ours.
Not “why can't we?” but “what would it take?” That question changed the direction of our lives.
There was nothing here. Dirt. Chico bush. Cactus. Open sky. An old pickup truck. An old camper. And a dream. We didn't arrive with a finished house, a pile of money or a master plan. We learned as we built. We screwed things up. We rebuilt things. We kept going.
Board by board. Piece by piece. Year by year. Tear by tear.
At first, power meant one car battery, one solar panel and a tiny inverter. We learned amps and watts because we had to. We ran a water line hundreds of feet. We dealt with frozen pipes and a frozen septic system. YouTube and Google became pretty good friends.
Kara was pregnant while we were building. Then when Little Kenny needed a bili blanket after birth, the question wasn't abstract: how much power does it draw, and can our off-grid system run it? That's what learning looked like out here. Real life gave us the test first. We figured out the lesson next.
We were building a home. And even that wasn't really the goal. We were building a life.
The mountains through the windows, the projects, the greenhouse, the chickens, the mornings, the mess, the quiet, the freedom to leave and the feeling of coming back. Home Base became exactly that: our base camp for living.
This was the view we were working for. Not just the mountains. This life.
Living small, building from nothing and figuring things out together gave us a million opportunities to learn how to be a team. Communication became everything. We work together. We live together. We love together. We grow together.
“Little Kenny didn't just grow up in the life we were building.
He grew up watching us build it.”THE LIFE BEHIND THE IDEA
Road trips. Vans. Mountains. Deserts. Campfires. Random weekday adventures. Sometimes the best plan is simply pointing at something beautiful and asking, “Why not?”
We're builders, problem solvers, opportunity finders and lifelong learners. We've done logging and fire mitigation, cultivation, consulting, siding, painting, roofing, building, rentals, property development, camper builds, vehicle projects, websites, financial education and plenty more.
Sometimes we work like crazy. Sometimes we create room to breathe. If something changes, we pivot. We make money to support our life. We don't build our life around making money.
LivinNLovinLife isn't one project. It's the life connecting all of them. The music came from the same place as the book: real moments, family, freedom, mountains, mistakes, gratitude and the things worth remembering.
Our life doesn't need to look like yours. That's the whole point. This isn't a blueprint for how to live. It's proof that you can question the blueprint you were given.
So... what's your WHY NOT?
We're not here because we think we've figured out life. Quite the opposite. If something we've learned, built, written or experienced finds the right person at the right moment and makes them appreciate their life a little more, or finally ask “Why not?”, then sharing it was worth it.
The website tells our story. Social is where we keep living it.
Thank you for being here. ♡