Happy New Year!  As is our tradition, Kathia and I are sending this newsletter out to all or friends and colleagues with our annual update.  We hope this news finds you and yours doing well and looking forward to a great 2011!

Big News for 2011

Kathia and I were pleased to welcome our first child into the family.  Miles Sakamoto Reynolds was born on February 23, 2010 at 4 pounds, 7 ounces.  The little guy took us surprise and came 7 weeks early.  That, and complications for his mother, kept us in the hospital for the better part of a month.  Miles took life by the horns though and has been growing and thriving ever since.  Our little joke is that he is "miles ahead with miles to go". 

Where We Are...

Kathia and I continue to live, work, and play in Atlanta, Georgia, where we have a home near Grant Park, Turner Stadium, Downtown, and the Atlanta Zoo. 

Mom and Dad continue to enjoy their retirement and divide their time between Crested Butte, Colorado and  Boise, Idaho, plus where ever the airline sales take them.  This year, they traveled to Budapest and Vienna with our Aunt Mimi and Uncle Ross.

My sister Courtney lives in Boise, and Ellen lives in Asheville, North Carolina.  Kathia's family are in Brazil in São Paulo, São José dos Campos, & Paraná.  In the U.S., she has cousins and Aunts in Florida, Detroit, San Francisco, San Diego, and Atlanta.

Everybody reports they are good health and doing well!

What We are Doing...

Kathia continues to work as a sonographer at Grady Hospital, Atlanta's largest public hospital and home to Emory's OB/GYN residency.  2010 was the year Kathia got to be both caretaker and patient.  

In January, I started work for BayTSP, a leading provider of anti-piracy and business intelligence services for media companies, where I am heading up Product Management for the company. 

Our Year in Pictures

With the new job, arrival of the baby, and back-to-back family visits, 2010 went by like a blur.  Here is a short summary of our year in pictures: 

Jan - Feb: Kathia is very, very pregnantFebruary 23: Miles is born 7 weeks early!

Mar - July: Eat, Sleep, Poop. Eat, Sleep, Poop. Mommy, Daddy tired. (Especially Mommy)

July: Happy, healthy baby passes all his checkups and gets his vaccines

Apri - Oct: Everybody comes to visit!November: Ross runs a 10k on Thanksgiving day, and we all settle in for the holidays!

Miles does his Christmas dance! (Click the picture to see the video.)

More pictures from our year here.  (Password protected-- email us if you don't have the login.)

Stay in Touch!

Kathia and I are on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and (occasionally) Orkut, so look us up if you're not connected with us there already.   We wish you a wonderful 2011 and look forward to staying in touch. 

All the best,

Um abraço,

Saludos,

Tanti auguri,

Ross & Kathia Reynolds



It is with great pride and joy that Kathia and I would like to announce the birth of Miles Sakamoto Reynolds on February 23 at 10:33am. 

 Baby Miles came into the world with an auspicious start, by surprising us a few weeks early.  He is now doing well, and feeding and gaining weight like a champ.

Kathia had some surprise complications that kept us in the hospital for the better part of a month, but she is fully recovered now and taking care of Miles.

Thanks to all who reached out to us and supported us these past few weeks.  We are thrilled parents and cannot wait to introduce baby Miles to friends and family. 

All the best,

Ross & Kathia

P.S.  We will be sending out an email with a formal birth announcement to a larger group soon.  The surprise delivery and long hospital stay has us behind on everything. 

Happy New Year!  We hope this annual email finds you and yours doing well.  As is our New Year tradition, we're sending out this newsletter to all our friends with our latest news.  

Where We Are...

Kathia and I continue to live, work, and play in Atlanta, Georgia, where we have a home near Grant Park, Turner Stadium, Downtown, and the Atlanta Zoo. 

Mom and Dad continue to enjoy their retirement and divide their time between Crested Butte, Colorado and  Boise, Idaho, plus where ever the airline sales take them.  My sister Courtney lives in Boise, and Ellen lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Kathia's family are in Brazil in São Paulo, São José dos Campos, & Paraná.  In the U.S., she has cousins and Aunts in Florida, Detroit, San Francisco, San Diego, and Atlanta. 

What We are Doing...

I spent the last year working for Attributor, an Internet company that Turner was invested in.  They sold my section of the business just before the holidays and I started this week at BayTSP.  BayTSP is a company that has been providing copyright enforcement services to major media companies since 1999 and is a leading brand in the business. 

Kathia joined the Grady Perinatal Center in late 2007 as an OB sonographer.  She has fantastic co-workers who all take care of her and provide a great collegial environment.  She's been working with them since she moved to Atlanta in 2004, as a visiting professor initially, and a researcher for two years. 

For those who humor all our dog stories, Hobbes, our Labrador Retriever, is all grown up and a master of his world.  He can sit, lay down, and stay (in Portuguese and English).  He is the master of playing hide and seek with toys and small children.  For security, he has learned how to trigger all the motion sensor lights around our house and when to bark (possums or strange people out back) and when not (postman dropping off Netflix).  We've decide his new hobby is cooking because he watches Kathia cook obsessively from the kitchen floor and samples everything that falls his way.  (Kathia is waiting for the day when we'll come home, and he'll have dinner ready for us.)

Milestones this Year...

This year, Kathia's cousin, Agda, and husband Marcelo moved to town.  With all her family half-way around the world, it has been great having relatives here so close, and especially when we have so much in common. 

We had several visits from family this year: 

Aunt Martha and Uncle Doug, along with Lisa Sorensen visited, and we tracked down the original home in Decatur where my Dad, Uncle Gyp, and Martha grew up.

Kathia's parents Martha and Kazumi visited in July, and we went to Asheville to celebrate the 4th of July the old American way with bluegrass music and fireworks.   

Kathia's brother Ivan and his wife Kaori visited us in September, and we went to Crested Butte, Colorado to visit Mom & Dad.  We had a great time with Ivan and Kaori.

Just before Thanksgiving, Kathia's youngest brother added another baby to the family.  Vítor arrived on November 4 to proud parents Ivo and Marina and has been spoiled by all the attention ever since. 

We spent Thanksgiving and the holidays right here at home with Mom, Dad, Ellen and Ron and the Howard clan up in Marietta. 

Our New Addition to the Family

This fall, Kathia and I were blessed with the best news of all:  We are expecting a baby boy in April 2010 (exact EDC 04/15/2010... tax day!).  After helping so many women go through this process, Kathia couldn't be happier to be experiencing it herself.   He looks just like us!

We're both excited to be starting a family.  We're taking suggestions on NAMES (the harder to pronounce the better).  We'll send out a birth announcement when the little guy arrives. 

Stay in Touch!

We've posted pictures from all our adventures this year.  We're also on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and (occasionally) Orkut. 

Life continues to be good in the Reynolds household.  We hope that all is well with you and yours and hope to hear news from you soon! 

All the best,

Um abraço,

Saludos,

Tanti auguri,

Ross & Kathia Reynolds

Hey, Almost a year has gone by and no news!  Kathia and I are working on an end of year newsletter with big news for everyone.

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Ross & Kathia

Hey everyone!

Ironically, it was our Aunt Mimi who first let us know that a tornado had passed by our neighborhood a couple of blocks to the north of us. Kathia and I were at home safe watching a movie. Hobbes, our usual early warning system for all things out of ordinary, was agitated, but we thought he was just mad we were watching a movie and distracted him easily with a chew toy. There was hail and hard rain around 9:30. The tornado passed by at 9:45. We wrapped up the movie at 11:00 and would have gone to bed not knowing any better if Mimi hadn’t called to check in on us.

The Tornado that passed through Atlanta was an “F2”, which according to Wikipedia, can cause “Considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; light-object missiles generated.” Not growing up in Florida or the Midwest, “light object missiles” is a new phrase for my vocabulary. This is the first tornado to ever pass through downtown Atlanta. Lightening strikes more often.

I got up this morning and ran through Grant Park, which is as beautiful and intact as ever, aside from some twigs on the ground and a few earlier bloomers that lost their flowers. The Atlanta Zoo security tells me they lost power but no animals were hurt. The local T-League had a morning game and decided to play on.

Cabbage Town and the Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts were not so lucky. CNN Center, Centennial Park, and the Downtown buildings all suffered a lot of damage. Fortunately, even with all the March Madness fans in town, no one was hurt. To date, there have been NO FATALITIES from the downtown tornado.  A couple in Polk county was hit directly by another twister.  Our heart goes out to their families.

The front of CNN Center lost several windows. My side of the building was not too damaged. My own office is a ways back from the windows anyway. I now get to kid all my senior colleagues who have one of the few window offices at CNN Center.

To see the aftermath, check out these pictures on iReport.com:

Cabbage Town Damage:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-3748

Downtown / Centennial Park Damage

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-3847

Lots of love, Abraços, e tudo de bom!

Ross, Kathia & Hobbes