Cold & Wet to Hot & Dry

We're off and so glad to be headed away from this dreary weather and toward the warm sunshine! We're all packed and ready to fly out VERY EARLY tomorrow morning. Brooke has been packing since Saturday...are we excited or what?

Needless to say, we are ALL needing some time together as a family to just breathe and realize that we all actually made it through the winter! It hasn't been easy for any of us...Kyle has survived multiple lay-offs and logged countless miles as a pack mule (lots of equipment/little help) producing features across the U.S., Joel's job is good but follows him wherever he goes hungrily trying to eat every moment of his life, Jo has survived her last year of fellowship and has secured a full time academic position at UCSF, Brian has survived a brutal interim year with 3 months of ICU and hours that would kill a mere mortal, Brooke bore the brunt of all else during Brian's brutal hours and Ted has endured ME plus huge changes in his business.

So as I take the rest of the week without a blog post, envision all of us on Alisa's pool deck, gazing at a sunset, enjoying lots of fun banter back and forth while enjoying a bottle of wine and just breathing a huge sigh of relief! We made it!