No matter where the family goes, we ALWAYS hear, “You have your hands full!” We do, but truly our hearts are even more full! Our lifestyle is focused on God and family, living simple and intentional lives.
Introductions
Jake: Jake (the dad) is a passionate bowhunter. He loves to hunt whitetail deer here in Ohio, and takes the opportunity to elk hunt whenever he can out west. Jake is a wonderful, hands on dad and a phenomenal husband. He has dedicated so much time to learning about how to be a good husband, raising children and strong relationships. He loves Jesus and always strives to put God first and follow the narrow path. He believes that true masculinity in our culture is lacking and misunderstood and he wants to help guys understand what it means to be a man. He has created the Hunt For Him brand to tie all of his passions together.
Mary: Mary (the mom) is a passionate mother and encourager. Her children are her world and every day is committed to them. She does the normal SAHM stuff, while homeschooling, running a graphic design business and sharing makeup. She loves to ride and train horses and do anything artsy. Mary encourages and inspires the people in her life by being positive, “real” and loyal. She has super strong faith in Jesus, which helps her to be content and fearless wherever life takes her.
Cora: Cora (the firstborn, 2010) is passionate about her family, art, animals and being “country.” She is off-the-charts sweet, extremely helpful and simply joyful about life. She works very hard developing her artistic talent every single day, creating beautiful art of animals. She loves to ride horses and has been competing in the Short Stirrup Reining. She also is becoming quite the figure skater! Cora loves Jesus, is very familiar with Bible stories and is excellent at memorizing Scripture.
Eliza: Eliza (the second-born, 2013) is passionate about mom and dad, dogs and justice. She is mom and dad’s little buddy and values time with them doing special activities above all else. She loves to do dog agility with her standard poodle, tracking with her dachshund and anything else involving the dogs. She also enjoys riding horses and being out in the barn. She is developing her archery skills and plans to go hunting with dad next deer season. Eliza is starting to understand and recognize the good and the evil in the world and will passionately tell you how she feels about it all!
Judah: Judah (the third-born, 2015) is passionate about tractors, tractors and tractors. His absolute favorite thing to do is drag the arenas with dad. He likes to play outside, shoot his bow and play with his sisters. He is also very into music and loves to hear his favorite songs on repeat. He spends a lot of time with the family pets and is happy just chilling. Judah is a laid back sweetheart who looks forward to being able to hunt with dad.
Ezra: Ezra (the fourth-born, 2017) is passionate about everything. He is always happy, crazy charismatic and makes best friends everywhere he goes. He is the busiest of the kids and loves being around people. If his siblings say or do something, he is sure to say or do the exact same thing. He loves to make people laugh and excels at making the most dramatic faces. His favorite thing to do is shoot his bow and look at bucks.
Arrow: Arrow (the European standard dachshund, 2018) is passionate about food and deer. He joined the Bowman family in December 2018. He began his deer tracking training right away and is picking up on it very fast. He successfully tracked a few deer in the 2018-2019 hunting season and will continue his training throughout the off-season. He loves to lick and nibble the kids with excitement and Jake is his favorite human. Alice, the poodle is his BFF. Hopefully he with sire other deer tracking dachshunds in the future!
Our Values
The Bowman family puts God first, then family (marriage followed by kids). We are all super close to one another and we work hard to maintain some old-fashioned family priorities. We embrace true masculinity and femininity and bringing them together to create a healthy family. We are beyond grateful to be able to homeschool and spend so much time with our children. Although our pets make our Bowman handful even bigger, we believe they are wonderful for the kids and help them become kinder and more responsible. We all pitch in and share everyday tasks and chores and don’t think anyone is responsible to do anything exclusively (except Jake is the only one who cleans toilets). We are extremely loyal, forgiving and transparent and we love to be silly. We don’t try to keep up with Jones’ and are proud to “live like no-one else, so we can live like no-one else” (Dave Ramsey). Our extended family is very important to us and we love for them to be a part of any of our activities.
Our Brands
We have been filled with passion and vision to create a few brands that embody what we stand for.
Jake has developed Hunt For Him, which “is the defining brand for the outdoorsman who wants to share with the world his zeal for the wild and his resolve to relentlessly pursue the track of the One that Matters.” It is a lifestyle apparel brand, with other products to help hunting families.
Faithfully Flawless is not really a brand, but a side-gig. Mary has found a love for makeup late in life but has become quite obsessed with making women feel beautiful, the social aspect and the art involved. It’s about keeping makeup fast, simple and compact for “normal” ladies and the SAHM. It’s providing a way for us to feel beautiful among the chaos.