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Mia Graduates from Early Childhood Class

Jim McIntosh — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:24:16 +0000

My daughter Mia graduated from her Early Childhood education program today. Kelly, Ellie and I couldn’t be more proud of her. Check out the video and see how well she walks across the podium.

The girls switched to showers!

Jim McIntosh — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:58:31 +0000

We’ve made a change at the McIntosh house from bath time to shower time. This video if of the first night we made the switch.

McIntosh Holiday Update 2009

Jim McIntosh — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:05:39 +0000

This was our first Christmas and holiday season in Indianapolis. If this was 1997 I’d embed a recording of Jim Nabors singing Back Home In Indiana, but I spare you of that. Instead you can follow the link I put around the title of the song.

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.

McIntosh Thanksgiving 2008

Jim McIntosh — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:11:00 +0000

Today is the end of our 2008 Thanksgiving vacation. Last Wednesday Kelly visited the girls at their school for a Thanksgiving feast and party.

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.

Buddy Walk 2008: our first in Indianapolis

Jim McIntosh — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:19:27 +0000

We look forward to this day each year and this was our first Buddy Walk in Indiana. Mostly we look forward to the family bonding time. In Salt Lake we were used to a small get together in a local park with around 300 people. And to be completely honest, getting the new tee shirt (or pajama top) each year was just about the high light. As a game we would often guess what color the T-shirts we were going be. We did enjoy seeing familiar friends and helping to support the community, but we really don’t set out to network at those events. The event is sort of private to our family.

Well, the Buddy Walk in Indianapolis is a much, much bigger deal. Check out the pictures and you can see. I don’t know exactly how many people there were but it had to be more than 1200. There were celebrities like Chris Burke, best known for his role as “Corky” on the TV series, “Life Goes On”, and the president of the national Down Syndrome Society in attendance. There were all kinds of activities, music and games. Additionally, this event raises much more money than we were used to, a good thing of course.

The weather was unseasonably warm with the temperature around 80 degrees. This was a drastic difference from last years event where the McIntosh’s got all bundled up to walk in sleet and rain. Kids were rapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.

After applying our sun screen we were off to walk along the river walk in down town Indianapolis. The official rout was a little short of 4 miles but we cut this short. Ellie did the most walking but she and Mia took turns riding in the stroller. We had a great time and most importantly we are all wearing our matching blue T-shirts.

The Indiana Down Syndrome Foundation did a great job and more importantly raised more than $125k. We are looking forward to next year already.