Jim, Jean, Jake, Abby, & Brett
Saturday night was a night out for Jean and I. We went to Jean’s brother Mike’s house for his wife Dottie’s 40th Birthday party. It was good to get out without the kids. We hired a sitter, Megan, who watched our kids as well as my niece Hannah. We drove over [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 30th 2006
I apologize for having to do this, but I had to turn on moderation for my comments. Someone decided to ruin all of the fun for the rest of you who bother to post comments.
Feel free to leave those comments, they just won’t post immediately until I have a chance to approve them. [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 30th 2006
Monday night was the Halloween Parade in town. The weather was really chilly, low 40’s with a stiff breeze, but we bundled the kids up and headed out. It was the normal Halloween parade, with the various costumes, bands, fire trucks, and floats.
The big kids got lucky by meeting a few [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 24th 2006
Saturday night we had a visit from Grandmom Phil. She just returned home from her trip from Mexico, and she was checking in to see what we were up to. It was the first Saturday since August that we didn’t have one soccer game to take the kids to, so we decided we would try [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 24th 2006
Friday night was Basket Bingo over at Sacred Heart. It’s an event where the ladies of the church get together and raffle off a bunch of theme baskets. Jean’s really involved in the event, and she helps to organize it. Some of the baskets are really cool. From what I remember Jean telling me, among the [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 24th 2006
What a way to disrupt the household. Jean was picked for jury duty this morning, so the McMenamin household is at the whim of the Montgomery County Judicial System today. Hopefully, it’s just today, but you never know with jury selection? It’s a big payday for Jean, I think she’s going to [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 17th 2006
I don’t think we ended up doing much this weekend, but in retrospect it looks like everyone kept pretty busy. You feel like you haven’t done anything, but you never get to set on your rear end and relax.
Friday night:
Jake went to the St. Pius game with the McGuigan’s
Jean and Abby went to a [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 16th 2006
It’s that rotten time of the year where the kids are starting to develop the wonderful cold symptoms that are out there. Brett is our first casualty of the season, and last night was flat out miserable. He was up the entire night coughing and wheezing, which led to a sleepless night for [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 13th 2006
This weekend, Abby had a soccer tournament down in Cape May. The girls had two games on Saturday, and one game Sunday morning. We ended up driving down on Friday night and staying the weekend.
Here’s a picture of the squad and all the parents. Abby is right in the middle of the [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 9th 2006
Gram and Pop decided to have the grandchildren over to paint some pumpkins on Friday night. I showed up on my way home from work, but Gram and Pop had picked up a bunch of pumpkins and had set up a table in the garage for the kids to paint. They ordered some [...]
Filed under Uncategorized Posted on October 2nd 2006
