It might not have made sense to anyone else. But when we gathered up our family of five (including three, young daughters), and made the trek from the Midwest to northern New Mexico in 2001, we knew we were doing the right thing. We were able to raise our girls in the mountains, with nature all around them. We found a way of life filled with hiking, skiing and snowshoeing, elk and birds and big blue skies, togetherness laughter and snuggling together by the fire. Over the years we have built businesses in real estate and construction that have helped families like ours discover the wilder, more wonderful kind of life.