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Our log shop and garage among the pines in the hills above Chelan at dusk

Our story

Michael & Raichelle

A husband and wife, four kids, a little over twenty acres in the hills above Chelan, and a company we’re building together.

Where it started

Two kids who grew up together

Michael and Raichelle as teenagers in a studio portrait

Sixteen or seventeen

Michael and Raichelle at prom in 2001

Prom, June 2, 2001

Michael and Raichelle in blue graduation gowns with 2001 stoles

Graduation, 2001

Raichelle riding piggyback on Michael in evergreen woods

Right before Michael left for the military

A faded selfie of Michael and Raichelle

The day before Michael left for the military

Michael and Raichelle smiling through bubbles on their wedding day

Our wedding day, June 21, 2003

Where we come from

MiRa is our two names put together: Michael and Raichelle. We graduated high school together in 2001. Shortly after 9/11, Michael joined the military to help our country.

We were married on June 21, 2003, and shortly after, Michael left the military under honorable conditions. We’ve been building a life side by side ever since.

In 2005 we bought our first house, in Port Orchard, Washington, and Raichelle graduated nursing school and started her nursing career. Today she’s a semi-retired Registered Nurse. Michael is a 100% disabled Veteran. Together we’re raising four children.

In 2006 Michael started InnoScale. It took seven years of building before it paid him his first paycheck in 2013. That’s the kind of patience most of what we do has required.

In 2017 we moved from Port Orchard, Washington, to Las Vegas, where we built a very nice house with an in-ground pool. Life was great there.

We’ve been through a lot. It taught us what matters: family, honest work, and showing up for the people around us.

Life on the hill

Then came 2021. Right after COVID, food was getting hard to get, and with a family to think about, we made a big decision. We moved to Chelan, Washington. We wanted a homestead, a more vested interest in our food and our lives, and to slow down a little. We’ll be honest: some days we wish we hadn’t moved. But we’re here, and we’re building.

We own a little over twenty acres in the hills above Chelan, where we live the homesteading lifestyle, with our own chickens wandering the yard.

Nothing up here came easy. Prices went crazy, and even a small home of about 1,400 square feet cost a great deal. We had to drill 605 feet down to reach water. While we built, all six of us lived cramped together in an RV.

In 2023 we finished our custom log-home ADU, and it’s where we live today. We’re more comfortable now, and there’s still work to do: a driveway, finishing the lofts, and the bonus space above the garage. Slowly but surely.

20+Acres in the hills
605′Drilled for water
4Children
2003Married

Building the log home, 2023

Log by log

Front of the log home under construction with a white pickup truck
Building our log home, 2023
A worker on a ladder at the gable end of the log home
Finishing the gable end
The long side of the log home with its new metal roof
The metal roof goes on
Granite kitchen island inside the log home during construction
The kitchen coming together

The timeline

  1. 2001

    Graduation, and a calling

    We graduate high school together. Shortly after 9/11, Michael joins the military to help our country.

    Graduation, 2001

    Graduation, 2001

  2. 2003

    We got married

    June 21, 2003. Michael and Raichelle, the Mi and the Ra. Shortly after, Michael leaves the military under honorable conditions.

    Our wedding day, June 21, 2003

    June 21, 2003

  3. 2005

    A first home, and a nurse

    We buy our first house in Port Orchard, Washington. Raichelle graduates nursing school and begins her career as a Registered Nurse.

  4. 2006

    InnoScale is born

    Michael starts InnoScale, the first of our ventures.

  5. 2013

    The first paycheck

    Seven years in, InnoScale pays Michael for the first time.

  6. 2017

    Las Vegas

    We move from Port Orchard, Washington, to Las Vegas and build a very nice house with an in-ground pool. Life was great.

  7. 2021

    Home to Chelan

    With food getting hard to get, we trade Las Vegas for a little over twenty acres in the hills above Chelan, drill 605 feet down for water, and move all six of us into an RV.

  8. 2023

    A log home of our own

    We finish our custom log-home ADU and move in. Still to come: a driveway, the lofts and the bonus space above the garage. Slowly but surely.

  9. Next

    A bigger house for a big family

    Our goal is a larger home for all six of us. MiRa Ventures is how we get there.

“MiRa Ventures is our platform to get there: building apps and businesses together, running them honestly, and trying to do some good in the world.”

Run an honest business

Fair prices, plain language, and doing what we say we’ll do.

Bring benefit to the world

Make things that leave people, and the places they live, better off.

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