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