Can't believe these girls will be a year old soon. They're now crawling all over the place, cruising around our family room, and Piper can say "HI" while Sydney can say "BYE BYE". Goes pretty fast...
A couple years ago, my team at Microsoft was thrilled to be asked by Disney to help out in designing/constructing the "Innoventions Dream Home" at Disneyland, and after quite a bit of work from many at MS, the attraction just opened this past Monday.
I got the opportunity to come down and do a bunch of press interviews and represent Microsoft as a speaker at the opening ceremony... so I suppose my dream of being a cast member at Disney has kinda now come true. Kristina and Alexander came with -- and Alexander may have done better than me with his the press coverage... he was so photogenic visiting the exhibit that both CNET video and the AP picked up his image for use in their press stories! Check them out!
- Our family photos from the Innoventions (and Toy Story Mania) Grand Opening... big milestones for Alexander: he riding Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain!
- Alexander's photo runs with AP story (Yahoo and other places)
- Alexander appears in CNET video story about the event
Sure was fun. Hope we open a Dream Home in Orlando, too!
The whole family spent 3 weeks in Florida visiting Joe's family during the month of May and part of June. Aah, it was a great time and so nice to see everyone as much as we did. We posted some pictures on Flickr, check them out. here's one of my favorites:
3 days after we got back, the following headline ran in the Seattle Times:
Yes, that's really real. Sigh.
How fortunate... on June 1, in sunny florida, Alexander decided it was time to get behind the boat, with a little help from Daddy. His first attempt was a total success (not so in round 2!).
Enjoy!
CLICK HERE to watch the video.
Yesterday Alexander and I spent 24 hours at Disneyland ... I had the good fortune of being invited to talk about our partnership with Disney for CNBC's "Street Talk", so I figured this would be a great chance to take Alexander out for a special day with Dad... photo slideshow is here.
The exhibit is coming along super nicely -- I'm really excited for opening day on June 16th!
We had a terrific time attending Dave (Tuniman) and Zuleyha's wedding in New York City last weekend... it was a quick trip, but tons of fun, including
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"Wicked" and terrific dinner at "Spice Market"
- Hanging out in Greenwich Village, lunch in Little Italy
- Mariners vs Yankees at Yankee stadium (thanks for scheduling your wedding to coincide! perfect!)
- Super fun wedding, complete with belly dancer, gondola, slideshow, two bands and dancing to some of our favorite 70s and 80s music.
Photo slideshow is here. Probably more will be coming to Zuleyha and Dave's space, so check that out too.
This is one of our best, in our humble opinion.
Alexander plays "I Can't Stand Losing You" on Rock Band... all parts. At the same time. (Well, kinda...)
Enjoy!
http://www.belfiore.org/2008/videos/2008-04-06,%20Axel%20Ryo's%20Rock%20Band%20-%20for%20web.wmv
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