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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.

A Busy 5th Birthday Weekend for Mia and the McIntosh’s

Jim McIntosh — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:26:19 +0000

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.

A Nice Sunday Afternoon In Early March

Jim McIntosh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:37:26 +0000

Kelly and I had Kelly’s brother and wife along with her mom and dad over for dinner last Sunday. But, before my father and mother in-law arrived the girls played with their cousin, Monty, in the drive way.

This was one of those weekends that lul you into a falls sense of spring; 70 degrees and partly cloudy. I’m not the only one fooled, the trees in our front yard started to bud. I’m old enough to know that spring in Indiana always has a surprise or two. I just hope it doesn’t snow again.

Check out the full set of photos at my Picasa photo gallery.

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.