I'm an intuitive that specializes in animal communication for the past 17 years. My family and I moved to Arizona 4 years ago and went on an alpaca tour shortly after arriving. In addition to becoming good friends with the ranch owners, it has been my privilege to communicate with the alpacas and use my certified aromatherapy skills to create holistic products for their health needs. I also act as a backup tour guide and help at the ranch when the guys are gone at the shows. My husband Steve and I opened the Trinity Healing Connection store at the ranch offering healing crystals, essential oils and holistic products to visitors.

We started this adventure with the parents. We helped turn 10 empty acres with only a perimeter fence and a well, into a working alpaca breeding ranch. We built pens, shelters for the alpacas and landscaping. We have learned basic care, shearing, breading and birthing. In 2019, our son Irie was born and joined us on this journey. His first word was "alpaca" and his first chore was to hold the hose to help fill water buckets. Papa looks forward to Irie joining him at the shows in the future. We all have enjoyed helping in putting together fun alpaca days for the kids, as well as partaking in tours. Who would have thought outside the working world we were used to, that we would be enjoying the alpaca world.

After working and living our entire lives in the city, we decided to retire to a more rural area. While looking for property we did an alpaca tour on a Friday morning in 2017 the following Monday morning I surprised Valerie of our first purchase on an alpaca. She knows how I jump into things. With no experience in livestock let alone the unique alpaca, we started this adventure. We quickly realized there was a business opportunity in alpacas, and we went from wanting a few pets to a breeding stock ranch within a month. We now produce and recognized as a top quality and competitive breeding program nationally. My favorite thing to do is mentoring new people successfully start their own adventure with alpacas at all levels from pet owner to a national breeding program. Some of my duties at the ranch: tour guide, mentoring, breeding decisions, buy and sell alpacas, shows and basic upkeep of farm and animals.

We started this adventure with the parents. We helped turn 10 empty acres with only a perimeter fence and a well, into a working alpaca breeding ranch. We built pens, shelters for the alpacas and landscaping. We have learned basic care, shearing, breading and birthing. In 2019, our son Irie was born and joined us on this journey. His first word was "alpaca" and his first chore was to hold the hose to help fill water buckets. Papa looks forward to Irie joining him at the shows in the future. We all have enjoyed helping in putting together fun alpaca days for the kids, as well as partaking in tours. Who would have thought outside the working world we were used to, that we would be enjoying the alpaca world.