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If you found us through a video of David reading The Lord of the Rings to our daughter — hi. Welcome. We're so glad you're here.
That moment wasn't staged. He'd been doing it for nights already, just the two of them, the lamp on, a book open. We filmed one. The internet decided it wanted to see it too.
What surprised us wasn't that people watched. It was what they said.
I want to be the kind of parent who does that.
My dad never read to me. I'm going to read to mine.
I cried. I don't know why I cried.
This page is for the people who said those things. And the people who didn't comment but felt it anyway.
You're in the right place. Pull up a chair.
What this is
Prairie Creek Adventures is us — David and Kayla — living on a small piece of land in Arkansas with our daughter Savannah, our dogs, and a slow-growing collection of animals and habits and ordinary days.
It's also, we're realizing, something else.
It's a journal of hope and faith. A record of what slow living actually looks like — not the version sold to you, but the real one, with mud on it. It's story time around our home, recorded out loud so other families can borrow it. It's the long love story between two people who almost didn't make it and now have something we can't believe we get to keep.
Mostly, it's an invitation. To come sit by the creek for a minute. To read a chapter to your kid tonight. To remember that the good and quiet life is still here, and still available, and still yours.
How we got here
We met in college in 2010. Kayla walked into David's chest in a crowded kitchen at a house party. He had a shy smile. That was it.
We married in 2012. Almost lost the marriage by 2016. Rebuilt it slowly, painfully, and not by ourselves.
Then came thirteen years of waiting for a baby. Infertility. Miscarriages. Failed IVF. Adoptions that fell through at the last minute. A lot of pain, a lot of hoping, a lot of praying.
And then, on January 1st, 2026 — the first day of a brand new year — David got a phone call. A baby girl was about to be born. She needed parents.
Her name is Savannah. She is our joy.
The full story lives over on the About page if you want it.
Story Time
It started with David and The Lord of the Rings. It has since included The Chronicles of Narnia, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, and most of Little House on the Prairie. We don't read the kid version. We read the real one.
If you came here for the storytelling videos, follow us on TikTok and Instagram — that's where most of them live. Longer reads end up on YouTube.
Farm life
We have dogs, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, cows, and horses. A creek runs through the property. The pasture is bordered by deep forest. The barn is older than we are.
Most of what happens out here isn't exciting. A goat gets out. A chicken lays in the wrong place. The dogs find something they shouldn't have. We're learning as we go. We share the learning, too — over in Farm Life.
Hope and faith
We're believers. Not the kind who shout, and not the kind who hide it. We came to faith honestly — through the long way, the hard way, the way that involved actually losing the things we were holding too tightly.
If you're tired, or searching, or somewhere in the middle, there's room for you here. We don't have all the answers. We have a few. You'll find those over in Hope & Faith.
A few favorites to start with
If you want to get a feel for who we are, here's where I'd start:
- Our story — the long version
- Farm Life — the dirt, the animals, the daily rhythms
- Hope & Faith — the things we believe about the hard stuff
- Recipes — what we're cooking from my family's history
Stay in touch
We share most days on TikTok and Instagram. Long-form videos live on YouTube. And once a week, on Sunday morning, we send a quiet note to anyone who wants it — a paragraph or two from the week, a recipe maybe, a verse, a recommendation. Nothing to buy, nothing to click. Just a letter.
You can sign up for that here.
We're so glad you found us. Stay a while.