Every year we go to Colombia to visit Danielaās family for a long stretch over winter, and this was one of the best. For 6 weeks we had no alarms and no hard schedules. We changed places every week and lived life on top of each other. I spoke rough Spanish everywhereā yo se mi bebidas y comidas. Daniela and I went on dinner dates almost every night. The girls swam, read books, did school sheets, met animals, fought and bonded. I laptopped a bit more than anyone wanted. Just about everyone had a few tantrums (not me just the girls š« ). Danielaās endearing family cooked meals, threw parties, and joined us around the farms, cities, and jungle. Today we showed up at the airport to fly home and learned that our flight was actually yesterday, but we got home anyway.
40 feels good!
Grateful for these girls and some fresh perspective on what it means to live another decade. In our 30s we started a family, did a lot of child raising, launched (sometimes too many) businesses, moved out of LA to the mountains for 5 lovely yearsā and then moved out of California to a farm near family in Wisconsin. Weāve been traveling, working on mindfulness, and moving our bodies when we can. Excited to keep living and building from here.
āElena is covered in mosquito bites!ā
I look at Elena. She starts vomiting chocolate milk.
Everything is fine, but we do have bug bites, and we cancel our plans for the day because Elena isnāt feeling well. She got a cold on the flight out and depending on the time she might be totally fine or needing all the love.
Amelie is thrilled we can stay home. She draws in her journal. Daniela reads the girls a book. I sit by the nice view and tend to my laptop. At some point, we all swim. The day goes by and then we all figure out who is sleeping in which beds, while we tend to bug bites and congested noses. A week goes by.
This year Daniela and I will both turn 40 and celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our first dateā¦ and in 10 more years we wonāt have two little girls in our home anymore (or at least they wonāt be so little). This is a sweet time to be here.
Thanks for the photos! @karirosemariephotography
2024 was intense. We put a whole lot in motion in 2023 ā¦ and this year it took us for a ride, every month, whether we liked it or not.
It was lot of time to spend out of our comfort zone, but somehow we kept it together every step of the way and grew a ton ā and weāre already blathering about more āfunā ideas for 2025, so we must like it.
If Daniela and I were married to anyone else they would have divorced us š @growinguprooted
Cheers to more growth and adventure in 2025. āØ
2023 was a huge year!
I had planned for it to be a calm grounded year ā nesting at home, saving, and strengthening everything we had built so far.
Instead we travelled everywhere, launched a startup, sent Danielaās business into orbit, and closed the year by opening a shop in town. It was all chaos and I am not totally sure how it all worked, but it was pure magic and I think weāll always remember 2023 as an explosive turning point.
Good job honey š @growinguprooted
āFeed Meā was the first horror short we made right after moving to Wrightood in the summer of 2020. Amelie uncovers something mysterious in the cellar and it has some requestsā¦ š»
With āBird in the Cageā by @dentistband š¤
