On our first date, we jumped into the Puget Sound during a rainstorm.
Set up by mutual friend Mia in the summer of 2017, we were both working for ourselves and in school, with Laurel living on Bainbridge and Trevor in the city. Nature provided an escape we could share, and we fell in love exploring the limits of our spontaneity.
In June of 2019, we moved into our current home in Wallingford. Laurel got hired by a Consulting company and set up a work-from-home station in the living room, and Trevor began seeing clients in the spare room.
We've learned how to successfully work from home together, appreciating shared lunches and pots of coffee, as well as front-row seats to one another's careers. Laurel loves getting to see Trevor's sense of accomplishment after each client, and Trevor gets a kick out of her stern project management voice.
We share a love of scheming and dreaming, but our relationship is rooted in our ability to share our responsibilities.
On top of work, we've nurtured a house plant collection and outdoor garden, enjoyed the Burke-Gilman Trail, kayaked around Lake Union and experimented with canning, pickling and fermented goods.
We have been privileged to pull off two multi-sport super-trips in our time together, the first in 2018 being a week kayaking through the Broken Group Islands in Barkley Sound off Vancouver Island. Salty long paddles led to cozy beach nooks on the edge of mossy old-growth cedar forests. From there, we jaunted over to Idaho to backpack through the stunning Sawtooth Wilderness.
In 2019 we spent a sunny week sailing on The Narnia in Desolation Sound with the Currans. After disembarking a floatplane back in Seattle we grabbed our packed bags and drove up to the Pasayten Wilderness, where we started a week-long backpacking trip to the fabled tundra.
Twenty miles in, on Day 2, after setting up camp and huddling under our most recent last-minute tarp purchase for a quick rainstorm, we scrambled up Cathedral Peak for sunset. Laurel absolutely lost her mind at views stretching North into Canada and West into the North Cascades. The open, rolling scape was surreal and unfamiliar, and the game of identifying old peaks from new angles had her in giddy delight. Before what came next, that was the best moment of her year.
Next, Trevor got down on one knee and promptly lost the ability to speak, allowing Laurel's already explosive vibe to embrace a new topic! We held each other and laughed and cried and shared our intentions for the future together. We relished the next few days alone in the wilderness basking in our togetherness, before spontaneously huffing out two days worth of mileage in one day to treat ourselves to a cabin and hot tub in Winthrop.
This photo was taken around our original wedding date and venue. While covid presented many challenges, it also gave us extra time in the mountains and led to the purchase of our first home. Thank you for taking the time to check out our story. We are so excited to celebrate with you!