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When I moved to California almost 4 years ago (say what?!! my how time zooms by!) I never in a million years truly imagined being here for very long. I think I was just in love and a little in lala land about the whole thing. But here I am 4 years later, married & living in Orange County, CA.

I have mentioned many many times my lack of love for the OC. It has been very good to me, and very good to us (me & the hubby). But it lacks a lot of things we want out of the place that we live. It has been a wonderful for the time. But it has been a VERY long time coming for us to get the heck out.

Back in March I mentioned, here, that we were considering the possibility of moving to Austin, TX. In our minds it seemed like the perfect compromise. I desperately wanted to move home to Oklahoma (the hubby not so crazy about the idea) and the hubby desperately didn’t want to leave California, but if he had to he thought Austin sounded like as good a place as any. It would be closer to my family, but still have a very California feel. Well God had much different plans. (It was hard to not mention all of this when we returned from our road trip, but it just wasn’t the right time to share.) We both loved Austin! It was funky, very different from the rest of Texas, and filled with great food & music! But something just wasn’t quite right when we imagined the two of us living there permanently. We felt discouraged, like we were back to zero. So we prayed and prayed. And God brought us back to a conversation we had that at one time seemed like it could never work, like a fantasy.

Due to the nature of our very flexible jobs, we can work from anywhere. So after much prayer and a lot of late night discussions. We have decided that we are going to live in 2 places. We are going to split our time and live part of the year in California and part of the year in Oklahoma.  We feel beyond blessed & over the moon excited about this new journey and adventure!

As you well know, we currently live in Orange County, CA and aren’t huge fans.  So we are moving to the Central Coast of California…to San Luis Obispo. And we are moving in 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS PEOPLE!! We just signed a lease on an adorable little house filled with lots of charm that is within walking distance to downtown that we have never even seen in person. (My mother-in-law saw it for us and sent tons of pics & videos!)

So the next two weeks are looking extremely busy with purging and packing and saying our goodbyes to the very few close friends we have here in Orange County and heading off on a new adventure! We will be there until end of Spring, early Summer, of next year and then we will head to Oklahoma. Eeeeek!!

I know this may sound like the craziest idea ever. And maybe it is. But for us it is the perfect time to try it. And it will give both of us the opportunity to live where the other one really wants to be. So the Orange County door may be closing, but two others are opening! I am so looking forward to all that God has in store for us during this time!

Get ready for lots of fun house decorating posts!! xo