A year???

One Year Later: A Little Life Update

A year ago this week, we were doing something absolutely wild: accepting an offer on our home in West Sacramento and preparing to move to Washington with no house lined up. Zero. None. Not even a “maybe.”

We booked an Airbnb for a month, packed everything we owned into pods, stuffed the Altima and Frontier with whatever personal items we could cram in, and hit the road around 8:30 a.m. on September 11th, 2025.

I still remember doing that final walkthrough of our West Sac home — the one we thought would be our forever home — and just losing it. Full tears. Life had other plans, apparently.

Fast forward to today: we’ve been in our mid‑century home on the Washington coast for ten months now, and yesterday (yes, yesterday) we finally finished our kitchen remodel. 

Add that to the electrical work, refinished floors, foundation repairs… honestly, at this point, the house should probably send us a thank‑you card. It’s been a journey, and it’s definitely not done, but we love it.

On the personal side, I’ve found a new church home and I’m studying to be a lay minister in the United Methodist Church — something I never would’ve predicted a few years ago, but it feels right.

Lucy, our 15‑year‑old pit bull, is happy, healthy, and living her best senior‑dog life. We’re so blessed to still have her with us.

And then this morning hit me with that weird time‑warp feeling: how has it already been a year? It doesn’t feel like a year. I still miss our old life sometimes — the familiar routines, the people, the comfort of knowing exactly where everything was. But I’m also loving this new chapter. It’s messy, unpredictable, and full of projects… but it’s ours.

Just wanted to share that today. Time flies. Life changes. And somehow, we keep finding our way.