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Summer 2003

June 30, 2016 by Heidi Olsen Leave a Comment

Our family in Summer 2003

This is a throwback to our family in Summer 2003 when we only had 2 children! It’s also one of my very favorite family pictures. My how time flies when you’re having fun! Back then, we had been married only 3 1/2 years, Merci was only 2, and Graci was just 6 months old! Norm had just […]

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Our First Business

January 21, 2016 by Heidi Olsen 2 Comments

Our First Business Vehicle - 1984 Ford E350

Hard to believe we started our first auto repair service business in this truck over 13 years ago! Our 1982 Chevy Blazer was our 4 wheeler and just a toy, so we thought! God had bigger plans for it and for us! We started our first business in 2002, when I was very pregnant with Graci […]

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The Girl Who Made Me a Mommy

January 14, 2016 by Heidi Olsen 2 Comments

Merci 9 years

Happy Birthday, Sweet Mercedez! This is one of our first family pictures in October 2001 when she was just 9 months old. We’re celebrating‬ the girl who made us a mommy and daddy!! I can’t believe our girl is 15!! Where has time gone? She’s my first pregnancy, she’s my first baby, she’s my first child, […]

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Our Fourth Toddler

January 9, 2016 by Heidi Olsen Leave a Comment

Nemi playing in the backyard

Happy Birthday, Sweet Nehemiah! My baby boy is 2 and my fourth toddler! Time goes by faster with each child we add to our family. I remember the day Nehemiah was born like it was yesterday because 2 years definitely feels like yesterday for this mama. He’s my longest pregnancy (so far), he’s my rainbow baby, and he’s been […]

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Laughing Babies

January 7, 2016 by Heidi Olsen Leave a Comment

I love to hear my children laughing. It makes me so happy! This was taken at the shop in the office of our family auto repair shop, Mastermind Enterprises in June 2012 when Noah was 8 months old. Merci and Graci got Noah laughing a lot while they were doing their school. Mama had to […]

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My Second Teenager

December 26, 2015 by Heidi Olsen Leave a Comment

Graci at Daddy's Shop 2006

Happy Birthday, Sweet Grace! I can’t believe my girl is 13!!! Where has time gone? I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday. She was my easiest pregnancy (so far), so I should have known that her labor would be memorable, too.  Thirteen years ago today, my husband and I headed to the hospital […]

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Thanksgiving Throwback

November 25, 2015 by Heidi Olsen Leave a Comment

We love Thanksgiving at our home because it is so much more than a great meal. We are celebrating a successful harvest and most importantly the love of our family. It is such a great time to come together and enjoy all the hard work we put into our city farm all year. This is […]

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My Best Friend

October 9, 2015 by Heidi Olsen Leave a Comment

Best Friends, Lovers, Soulmates

I love you so much, Baby! 💞 Happy Birthday to you, my husband, my best friend, my soulmate, my lover, my hero, my everything!! 🎉 May this be your best year EVER!! 👊🏻 You are AMAZING! 💗Always remember that! 😉 Thanks for picking me as your wife! 💍 I love you always! 😍 ❤️ Heidi

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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.

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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

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