A New Job

It’s official – I gave notice at 26NY where I have worked for the past eight years and will begin with Avanade (www.avanade.com) one week from Monday (January 8th). I’ve been thinking of leaving my position at 26NY for about a year. I started interviewing at a variety of firms last spring and decided I wanted to join Avanade over the summer when one of my friends joined them. Six interview and innumerable phone calls later, and I sent in my papers today.

Avanade is a great company. It was founded as a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture a few years ago because each company wanted to work more closely with the other and a JV was deemed the best way to go forward. Today there are about 6,000 Avanade consultants and the company is expecting to earn around $1BB next year (2007). I’m entering the company as an Account Director – it’s a great position for me, and one I am extremely excited about taking.

Zina in Color

Here's another great shot from Jimmy O! Zina still has blue eyes, but otherwise looks much like Razzy did at two months. She get's to go for her first trip this week to visit with Milda's family - looking forward to seeing everyone!

Holiday Party

We had a little Holiday party yesterday afternoon over at our place - about a dozen people came over - 2 with friends for Erazmas to play with. There was lots of food and fun for all.

Raz and Milda are Fine!

Last weekend on te way to see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, Milda and Raz had a taxi misshap. The taxi they were in had to stop suddenly to avoid a car that cut accross 4 lanes in front of them - and Raz and Milda were bumped around a bit. Unfortunately, Raz bumped his mouth on the car door and came away with a bloody lip and sore teeth.

We took him into the dentist on Tuesday to check things out and after she took an x-ray we could all see that the teeth were broken below the gum-line and up in the jaw. We had to bring him back in on wednesday to have the 2 teeth extracted. Raz was amazing and brave through the whole process, and the dentist was wonderful. It took about 40 minutes to get ready for the extraction and 5 for the actual event.

This picture is from yesterday and shows him healing nicely, but with a big gap where one of his front teeth and the smaller tooth next to it used to be.



As you can see, he's in pretty good spirits!

The Holiday's Have Arrived

Here's Raz engaged in the time honored tradition known as "watching a Christmas special." This might be Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, but I'm not sure.

Zinal Modeling Pic #3

The project has turned out some really nice photos - here's another from James Oligney - take a look at his website (see the links on the right)!

Another very cute picture of Zina

Another glam shot from James Oligney! Apparently the session went well and the model was relatively cooperative.

Raz' Modeling Gig

Check out the site at http://www.artebebe.com/ to see some more pictures of him modeling other garments. My crazy friend Aubree has posted one of these pictures on her "MySpace" she likes them so much - yes her friends are worried about her. But she's really nice... really... she is...

Zina's Modeling Debut!

Zina posed for a friend of ours who is a professional photographer on Monday - they got some beautiful shots! Thanks to our friend Jimmy Oligney (check out his other work and rates at http://photography.oligney.com/)!