• Thursday evning we had Mia’s official family birthday celebration. See the video above and the pictures in the photo section of the site.
• Friday evening we had Kelly’s parents and brothers over for the Tschohl version of Mia’s 5th Birthday. She really enjoyed the evening and had fun playing with the cousins.
• Saturday morning we packed up the car and drove to Indiana Beach (2 hr. drive) to meet Grandma McIntosh.There we played and road rides all day. It was good to see Grandma. Lake Shaffer is pretty cool too. It was the first time I’d seen it.
• Sunday was Race Day (the Indy 500). This was our first time being in Indy for the event. Who knew they were going to black out the race on local TV.
• Sunday afternoon we visited the Stump’s for a fun filled afternoon of bounce houses, listening to the race on the radio and playing on the slip and slide. I think there were 15 kids there and 5 families.
• Monday afternoon we all went to Grandma and Grandpa Tschohl’s to visit once again with family and take a ride around the lake with the kids.
• Tuesday, I’m back to work for a relaxing day of building software.

We’ve been so fortunate with the move and really enjoy living her now. This December we have;

• Attended our first ExactTarget Holiday party (jim’s new job)
• Figured out a new place to put the Christmas tree (all Kell)
• Devised a new exterior lighting scheme (all me)
• Hosted our first Christmas Eve Party for both McIntosh’s and Tschohl’s, and
• Visited Santa at the mall!

All in all it was a very busy December for the McIntosh’s. We love our new home, being near family but we miss many of our friends in Utah. Happy Holidy’s and best wishes in 2009.

There should be some Christmas pictures in the photos section of my site soon.

On Thursday we visited Kelly’s parents in the afternoon for a nice relaxing no stress Thanksgiving dinner. Dinner was great and the girls and I played a few games of 9 Ball with Grandpa Tschohl. He beat us 4 out of 5 games.

Friday Kelly hit the Black Friday shopping scene in the morning and I taught the girls how to jump of a couch into a bunch of pillows – Father of the Year… Friday afternoon I visited with some friend at the Sandstone Bar and Grill where I used to be a Friday afternoon regular before taking the job with ExactTarget. I miss it but am very happy with my stable job thank you.

Yesterday’s weather was wonderful, and we all took time to enjoy it. Kelly went for a run, I put of the Christmas lights, the girls played in the yard and we went out to dinner in Broad Ripple with the Wilkerson’s. We ate at Broad Ripple Stake House. It was nice to get out with grown-ups to a nice restaurant again.

Today we wok up to a fresh coat of about an inch of snow. Before lunch we bundled up the girls and went out to play in the driveway. We also discovered we have a nice little sled hill in our front yard. The girls came inside and had hot chocolate and I’m getting ready to watch the Colts game at 1pm today.

This was a great few days with the family.