Archive for June, 2008

Margaritaville

Saturday night Jimmy Buffet came to town and guess who was lucky enough to get some tickets?

How often do you get a chance to have your picture taken with a parrot on your arm? This picture was taken from one of her friends cellphone.
Jean went down with her friend Kim (Jamesey’s Mom) and [...]

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Our Scholars

School is finally out, and I think everyone (parents and children) is relieved to have the break.
The big news was report cards, and Jake and Abby both came home with second honors. It’s been a really good year for both of them, and we’re really proud of how well they’ve done. It’s nice [...]

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Blackout

The heat finally broke last night, and it looks like temps will fall all the way to 88 today.  I don’t really count that as a break in the heat, but the weather stations are playing it up.
Last night we had some awesome lightning storms, and there are many downed trees in our area.  We [...]

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Jake’s Playoff Game Winner

Monday night, Jake’s Spring Ford baseball team played a semi final playoff game.  They jumped out to a 4-1 lead, fell behind 8-4, rallied to go ahead 10-8, and held on to win 10-9.  It was the best little league game I’ve watched, and Jake got the big hit to win the game.

His team scored [...]

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Dinner With The Reist’s

Sunday night we were lucky enough to be visited by my cousins from Kansas, Terri and Steve. They were in Baltimore for a Oddessy of the Mind competition, and they were able to sneak up to Pennsylvania to visit. They were with my mom Friday and Saturday for a tip to New York [...]

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The Allentown Iron Pigs

Saturday night was supposed to be a family night out to see a baseball game.  Jake’s CYO baseball team planned a trip to Allentown to go check out the new minor league baseball stadium in Allentown.  Everything didn’t work out exactly as planned, because Abby was cooked from her all day soccer tournament.  Jean ended [...]

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Soccer Saturday

The Cheetahs had a tournament all day Saturday over at Eastern College. First game started at 9 am, second at noon, and the third at 3 pm. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but Saturday happened to be 95 degrees with high humidity.

It was a struggle for the girls to play; by the [...]

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We’re Back!

Welcome to the Mac Shack! This is our website designed to keep you abreast of all the latest news coming out of our household. We took a bit of a break from our old site following some security issues, but we think we’ve overcome that by making this new site password protected.

The reason we’ve come [...]

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