4 McIntosh Apples

Vacation Pictures – Vacation 2009

Now back in Indiana, I’m missing the beach, sun, and heat already.

Here are some photos, slide, and link back to the full album of our memories in Cocoa Beach.

From Vacation 2009

Slideshow:

To see the full album of vacation photos, click

Sea World – Vacation 2009

We didn’t think we were going to make it to Sea World on this trip after we started looking at the prices. Then we found some 50% off coupons at the condo where we were staying at.

The 4 McIntosh Apples all headed over there on Saturday for a very hot and sweaty day.

The kids all enjoyed the shows as well as the exhibits, especially the dolphin show with the aerial acrobatics and Macaws. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any video or pictures of the dolphin show because we were too engrossed in the show. April and Ean went and fed the dolphins as well although Ean got splashed in the face and wasn’t happy after that.

Here are some pictures, a slideshow of photos, and a link to the photo album.

From Sea World 2009

To see the full photo album, click here.

Downtown Disney – Vacation 2009

The family went down to Downtown Disney one day last week to hit the Lego Imagination Center and let Ean go shopping. My Dad came down and joined us for the afternoon.

We ended up eating lunch at the Rainforest Cafe, which Ean did not like in a previous visit to the Nashville one. After several long minutes, we convinced him to sit down and at least try it. We made it through the meal.

Here are a few photographs from the afternoon as well as the slide show and link to the photo album.

From Downtown Disney 2009

To look at the full album, go here.

Vacation Officially Started

Today is the first official day of the 4 McIntosh Apples vacation. We had the last minute goodbyes with the grandparents and we are off early tomorrow afternoon. Ella has a checkup at 11:00am, then we will finish packing the car and head down to April’s cousin Katrina’s house.

Then we fly out early morning Tuesday with an ETA in Orlando around 2:30pm.

We are getting excited now. However, looking at the forecast looks like a bunch of isolated thunderstorms around the area. Just hoping that it all misses us.

Gearing up for Vacation

Conversions are finally complete and major to-do list items are being worked on. I finally can afford to take a two week vacations. We are heading to Florida for seven of those days, and doing stuff around the area for the other days.

Looking forward to beach, pool, beach, pool, maybe the beach, and then the pool again. Oh yeah, we might eat some and take a trip to Sea World during that time too.

Lots of pictures to come in the next couple of weeks.

Bubbles

Yesterday, April, the kids and I headed over to my Mom’s house. The day ended up being beautiful and we spent a good portion of the afternoon outside playing with bubbles and balls.

Here are some images of the day:

A day at the park

Last week on my day off, April, the kids and I went down to the park to play around. We flew some kites (well…. attempted to fly). playing on the playsets and just lounged around on blankets. When we got home, Ean broke out his bike and Ella got a kick out of honking the horn.

Here is a slide show of the day:

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Warm Spring Days

It is nice to finally have some warm weather in these parts. The sun has finally come out from the clouds and we are having some temperatures above 70 degress consistentely now. This kid’s cabin fever is starting to break as well as they get more time outdoors. We think Ella may have some allegeries as everytime that she is outside she ends up with red eyes and a runny nose. Either that or she is eating too much hemp cereal.

I hope you enjoy the pictures as the kids are really enjoying the outdoors.

A Geek dads day with his geeky family

We went to the Indianapolis Children’s museum and it was a geek’s dream for his geeky son. Star Wars, Comic Books, Legos and Dinosaurs. What else would you want?

Here is the slide show to show all of the geeky day: