HighPointe Farms

08/27/2026

Soft Launch Tomorrow!!!
Bring a beach blanket and a mat/towel
$10 only tomorrow bc we aren’t totally sure what we are doing!!!! JOIN US!!!!!
9am in the Arena!

08/25/2026

This is our school district… and especially following the heart breaking loss on Sunday gathering for prayer is vital!! Please come and pray together!! It can be lonely in life but we are NEVER alone! ❤️

08/21/2026

When your best friends come to Michigan from out of town and you want to show them your place…. It’s just what you do!! Especially on a perfect Michigan morning like this!!

Had the best morning watching our sweet rider Laura enjoy time with her precious friends here from out of town!! Seeing this place through fresh eyes is always a gift.

08/20/2026

The best morning with these amazing girls celebrating our Sweet Evie and her last week here before college!!

08/19/2026

How we teach our babies!! Mavericks first canter!! Ride #7…. Well bred ponies are brilliant ponies!

08/18/2026

Nothing like watching that sun peak over the trees in the morning…. Not looking forward to the days getting shorter.

08/17/2026

08/17/2026

Sweet friends!!

Came home after no phone or social media for a few days to 147 text messages…. Many just sending me love! But overwhelming to respond to so decided to just compose a text to cut and paste!!

Being alone for a few days is hard for an extrovert!!! But had some precious time with the Lord…. Some quiet time, some time in his Word, some active time moving my body, some time in prayer, some time letting my mind just wander and dream. It was so beautiful and I came home filled up and refreshed.

But I also came home with the knowledge and assurance that I can’t sustain the same pace I’ve been running at- I do need to make some changes. Still processing through exactly what that means and now I make those changes happen…. Please continue to pray for me as I navigate all of that and start to work through what that means.

Camp is going to be reduced to 3 weeks next summer… maybe even less but for now that sounds like a doable number to me. More things to come but this is a good start…. Thank you for your prayers. Excited for this new season.

08/14/2026

Exactly 10 years ago we bought the farm. It was a complete miracle in so many ways and Wanda Shurlow maybe saw more in us than we even saw in ourselves. We will forever be grateful to her for trusting us with her farm and her dream!

Ten years ago today we HIT the ground running….. we dreamed, we built, we grew, and we worked and worked and worked.

Every single year we took on a giant new project- automatic water, run ins, indoor arena remodel, new stalls, hayfields replanted, new footing, an outdoor arena, a party barn, new bathroom and kitchen, a new driveway, new paint… and the list goes on and on! We… a peverbile we… as most of this work was done by one great man… my husband!

And on the other side it was me- trying to figure out how to end up in the black and keep this massive farm that we took on afloat and the bills paid and pay off chunk after chunk of what we owed. Two weeks after we opened I hosted the first birthday party and at the end of the first month we had 5 new horses and a small little lesson program up and running. The first summer we right away kicked off our camps and we’ve been going strong for 9 summers with hundreds of kids coming each year and now over 50 horses at the farm.

The barn has breathed life into so many souls. We have hosted birthday parties, people have gotten engaged and married here… we’ve done simple riding lessons and then we’ve done major life events here. I wake up each morning and I LOVE this place. I will NEVER be not thankful for the opportunity to live such an amazing life with some of the most amazing people. I’m married to the most amazing man in the world and together we have given our kids the gift of this place and taught them what it means to work hard and love big.

But ten years later I’m tired. Really tired. Yesterday, I finished 8 weeks of summer camps rolled into a few horse shows, birthday parties, sick horses, employees quitting with zero notice, hosted several non profit events… and worked so many hours it all blurs together. I have dropped the ball in many areas of my life. I’m doing A LOT but I’m not sure I’m doing anything really that well.

Today I’m taking 36 hours to go up north… just driving north to some beach somewhere and finding a hotel and I’m taking some time to really search my soul. Spending time with my FIRST LOVE… letting HIM breathe a little life into my own soul. I’m going to spend some time evaluating what needs to go and what needs to stay. I cannot continue this pace and I have come to the realization that I don’t need to nor do I want to! This ten years has been so magical…. And the next ten years hold so much more. I’m so excited to see what is in store for the farm, our family, and each person who drives up this driveway and gets to be a part of a little piece of heaven on earth.

Please pray for me these next two days… I’m not one to ever really love being alone with just myself and I can’t say I’ve ever done this. But I have big plans in store and no plans at all… so I will see where the spirit leads me and unplugging from everything else.

08/11/2026

In honor of Pony Finals Medal Finals we set our course to the same (well not quite as spectacular but pretty great ) course and one of my very best friends came over and worked our riders really hard!!!