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Kim Hubers is the girl next door you need to know By Margaret Pennock Photos by Kelly Middlebrooks | Little White Dog Pet Photography
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iving just minutes outside of Sioux Falls on a sweet hobby farm with 140 adorable, almost storybook-like farm animals, Kim Hubers has found her place and her path. She is a wife, mother, Army veteran, home renovator, small business entrepreneur and consummate volunteer. Born in Iowa, Kim grew up on a family farm surrounded by open air and animals. Adventurous from day one, she decided to spread her wings to attend South Dakota State University to get out of her bubble and meet new people. Nearly two decades later she has served in the Army National Guard and has been deployed three times including a tour as a heavy vehicle operator in Iraq. “I saw the entire country change before my eyes. When I first got there the oil wells were on fire, there were babies barely able to walk on the hot asphalt and sand begging for water. On the way back the same children were wearing uniforms, going to school and waving at us.” This is also where she met her husband Clinton. “As ugly as war is, literally everything good in my life came from it.” Over the past several years Kim has dedicated her life to earning two Master’s degrees while raising their four children and working alongside Clinton to flip houses, for over the past eight years, as they lived in them. On top of that, she had four children in just six years and was a stay-at-home mom for them. “I was always jealous of stay at home mom’s until I actually became one! I thought it was a lucky and glamorous thing but, it’s not. They were the most difficult years of my life but I wouldn’t trade them for anything. The amount of time spent with my kids and the adventures and the creative things and exposures to the world I was able to give them was incredible.” She shares, “They got the best of me each day, and before when I was working, it was work that got my best and my kids got what was left when I came home. The closeness I have with my kids and the pictures and moments that I know I was so lucky to share with them are priceless!”
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SiouxFallsWoman.net | October/November 2021
