4 McIntosh Apples

America is another year older today. Jeez that makes me feel old for goodness sake. I still remember the bi-centennial quarter and that came out in 76.

Anyways, we spent last night at the Gerber’s for a day of sun, food and a very enjoyable spectacle of fireworks. The fireworks were a spectatular show and much better than alot of the smaller town fireworks that  I have a seen over the last few years. Thanks to Jerry and Heather for inviting us and Happy Birthday United States!

For Mother’s day this year, we decided to keep it low key and have everyone over for dinner.

A simple meal turned out to be something more than we projected. April was making a homemade cheesecake when the propane ran out on our stove and she had to run to her Mom’s house to finish it up. We also had to make Chris cook the lasagna because our stove wouldn’t be filled until the next couple of days.

We finally got through the scare and had dinner, which turned out ok. Not what we planned, but we made do. After dinner was finished, we sat back and enjoyed some laughs watching “America’s Funniest Home Video”

From Mothers Day 2010

From Mothers Day 2010

From Mothers Day 2010

Another holiday has creeped by us – the kids get plenty of candy and the grown ups start eating Peter Rabbit and the kids cry because they want eat the chocolate bunny’s head off. Ah, the candy cannibalism.

The kids are really starting to enjoy the hunt for eggs now. Ella undestands what she is doing and Ean has a hard time not taking her eggs. I just wish that it would be warmer around here around Easter so we could have a larger full scale easter egg hunt outside.

Enjoy the pictures. The kids all had fun.

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

From Easter 2010

With Ean being in preschool in the North Wells school district, we got our first taste of Spring Break this year.

Although, it was cold, we decided to head up to Chicago for a visit to Ikea and Legoland Discovery Center. Ean had a pretty good time, however Ella wasn’t really interested in being couped up some building as you can tell by the tears in her eyes in some of the pictures.

Once we got to open play area, Ella really started to enjoy herself. Ean says that his favorite parts were the 4D movies and the Dragon ride (which was similar to a carnival haunted house with the fright).

Here are some of the pictures of our trip in Legoland Discovery Center:

From Spring Break 2010

From Spring Break 2010

From Spring Break 2010

From Spring Break 2010

I know that I’m several weeks late, but April attended Ean’s preschool party for Valentines day. The kids had a blast playing games and eating cupcakes and cookies. They played with a parachute and silly races. Great fun by all!

Here is some pictures and a couple of video clips to show for you.

From Valentines Day

It looks like April’s great crafty skills has helped the Indiana McIntosh family win the 1st McIntosh Holiday Challenge.

Great job, April! I know how much you disliked the putting the icing on and the fact that you wouldn’t let me bloody the horses head and have the other animals eating it.

I know – crappy home videos that people dread watching, but I wanted to share them anyways.

Ean’s preschool class made a trip to the Christian Care retirement community before Christmas to help spread some Christmas cheer and some of their excitement. The kids sang a couple of holiday tunes, handed out cookies that they helped decorate, and show off some of their favorite toys to the residents.

I was really surprised at how open Ean was in sharing and talking to the guests. He tends to shy away from the large crowd type of activities. Maybe he is growing up after all.

Well, our Christmas holiday is wrapping up and we are working on retiring the old stuff (clothes and toys) and moving the new toys/clothes into the rotation.

Other than the snowy and cold weather, our holiday was a good one. Ella wanted nothing to do with unwrapping presents, but loved pulling socks from the stockings. Ean, on the other hand, loves opening presents so much so that he was unwrapping his presents and not waiting for anyone to watch him.

We still owe a couple of gifts and should get them out hopefully by the beginning of the new year.

I hope everyone had a great holiday as well.

While there is not a creature stirring in the house, we wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and safe holidays!