About Our Family

From Soil to Soul: What Our Life Is Really About

We have a real passion for growing things…
All kinds of things.

We grow babies.
We grow plants.
We grow ideas and businesses.
And whatever else the Lord places in our hands and hearts,
we grow it together.

Our favorite thing of all to grow as a family…is love.

Our name reflects our mission

We’re here to grow God’s family and nurture God’s love—a love that is patient and pure, merciful and true. It starts in our home, grows in our hearts, and flows outward to bless others for His glory.

We love him, because he first loved us. ~ 1 John 4:19

IF YOU LIKE PERSONAL, REAL, LAID BACK PHOTOS & STORIES OF LIFE, FAMILY & LOVE THAT SHOW LOTS OF PERSONALITY, WE’RE YOUR FAMILY!

A little about our family…

We’ve been inseparable since 1999 when we met and were married in just 3 short months. We have 8 blessings from God – 6 beautiful children on earth (2 girls and 4 boys, including baby boy who arrived December 2016 and baby boy who arrived in 2021 during mama’s TBI) and 2 sweet angels in heaven! We are devoted to our exciting, growing, beautiful family life full of love.

Our engagement photo in November 1999.

November 1999

In 2015, we started this blog to share our blessing filled life with family, friends, customers and others who want to see into our amazing world. It can be messy at times, but so much fun, especially when we see what we can accomplish when we put our minds to it. We love sharing God’s love, most of all.

grow family love harvest 2015

One of our many, many harvests from our family garden in 2015

We also share about our family’s journey through Traumatic Brain Injury. Find our family on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Google. Take a look around, if you like what you see, let us know. We’d love to hear from you!

Growing Family Love in 2014

Our Family 2014

Thanks for checking out our family blog! Welcome to our journey!

Blessings and love from our family to yours,

❤️ Norm, Heidi, Merci, Graci, Noah, Nehemiah, Nazareth, and Neziah Olsen

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

~ 1 Corinthians 13:13

Norm and Heidi Olsen stand with their six children on their Ozarks farm, cradling newborn Neziah - their miracle rainbow baby born almost 12 pounds in 2021 during the pandemic. Celebrating God’s faithfulness after TBI, loss, and healing.

Our Family 2021

Stories Rooted in Love From Soil to Soul:

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
~ 1 Timothy 6:12

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ
~ 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
~ John 16:33

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
~ Isaiah 40:28-31

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
~ Romans 8:31