And this is our castle

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Because Kerry and I are good and proper U.S. citizens, did we decide to spend our economic stimulus check on saving or paying off debt? HECK NO! We went out and bought a freakin big play set for Joshua!

This was really suppose to be his birthday present, but because of the delivery delay we just got it. I have to admit its awesome. The thing has 3 swings, a rock wall, rope ladder, step ladder, a 8-foot wavy slide, and a club house. Joshua loves it and so do the rest of the kids on the block. I have a feeling the wine circle will start residing in our backyard from now on.

Hola!

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Tía Megan huelgas de nuevo! Esta vez sus viajes llevó a Mexico y Arizona, lo que arroja un sombrero y poncho para Josué (y tequila para mamá y papá). Él piensa que son super cool a desgaste e incluso divertido para ver a mamá, papá y tía Megan.

Zattoo Euro2008

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The few people in my personal life who have insight into what I do at work know I've been working night & day the past few months to get Zattoo ready for Euro 2008.

Zattoo (the TPTV startup I work for) mostly streams live television in Europe right now. This weekend the Euro 2008 soccer tournament started. This cup features all qualifying European soccer clubs, battling it out, twice a day, for 3 weeks. The viewership is huge and completely trumps anything the U.S. has seen (including the superbowl).

Here is Daddy and Son, hard at work at the opening of Euro2008 bringing soccer to all the fans in Europe. Enjoy.

some perspective

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Obviously we've been feeding him well:)

Kerry and I are also very happy his nose corrected itself . (for those who don't know, Joshua's face and Kerry's pelvis had a boxing match during labor).

2 years and going strong

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Today is Joshua's 2nd birthday. Waking up this morning I couldn't believe its been 2 years since Kerry and I were at the hospital meeting him for the first time. What seemed like a pretty scary start has turned into a wonderful two years.

Before we had Joshua more people that I can count gave us this piece of advice:

"Having kids will be the most challenging and rewarding thing you will ever do."

Looking back at the last 2 years I'd have to agree, parenting is the most challenging thing I've ever taken on. That being said when looking at the picture above, it is definitely the most rewarding thing I'm pretty sure I will ever do. We've loved every second of the last 2 years and we can't wait to see what next year has in store.

Happy Birthday Joshua.

Let the good times roll

Only took a few months to get me through the process.  Let the good times roll.

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Flickr Adds Video support

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We use Flickr (www.flickr.com) for all of our photo sharing, and if you haven't seen the 2,000+ photos we've uploaded, we use it a lot.

Now flickr allows uploading video files. To test it out here is Joshua taking his first steps, obviously a while back. I'm really impressed with Flickr's video support and it adds a lot of value to an already affordable service.