Movin' to the country

After 7 fantastic years in San Diego we decided to move to Davis, CA. We loved living in San Diego where we had a wonderful house in a wonderful neighborhood. But with 2 kids we were starting to outgrow our house and after 9 months of teleworking I was able to convince my bosses that I could do my job remotely. So we decided to sell our house and move.

It really was a bit of a perfect situation. Carly and her brother co-own the property she grew up on, and her brother's family was living in the house (the one she grew up in), but they had decided to move into town, and so the house was available for us to live in. So a few days after they moved out, we moved in. 

The new view from my office

We're now living on 29 acres just a few miles south of Davis and we're planning to spend the rest of our lives here. The property has a horse stable and an orchard with lots of fruit and nut trees. There are 4 barns and plenty of old cars and trucks on the property that I'm dying to get back into working order. But with so many projects and so little time, I'm not sure when I'll be able to do any of them. We also have dreams of building a new house that suits us on the property and possibly starting a wedding venue on the site someday (we had our wedding here).

It was a dream that was a long time coming to move back here. There is a sense of security knowing that you're where you want to be long term. In San Diego we always had in the back of our minds that we would eventually sell our house and so many things we did were for the impact to the "resale value". But it's freeing to know that anything we do here, we do for ourselves and not a potential buyer.

Carly collecting pecans out in the Orchard

Blogging might be light in the future (happy 14th b-day to the blog btw) with the amount of work we need to do, but it feels like were finally chasing a dream we've had and that feeling is terrifically breathtaking. It's hard to describe the feeling of looking out across a big field and knowing that it's yours and the only limitation that you have is your imagination and willingness to work hard to make it what you want it to be.