The Mac Shack

Dinner at Bucca Di Beppo

Story best viewed at The Mac Shack.
Saturday night we went to Bucca Di Beppo for an early birthday dinner. Italian food is easily my favorite, and I love the way that Bucca serves everything family style. Veal Parmigiana was the number one item on my hit list, and Jake and I polished off [...]

Read Full Post »

2009-The Year in Review

Now that 2009 is behind us, I thought I would take a few moments to review the year that just passed.
The year started with us off in Africa visiting Erin and her family in Tunisia. The trip began with us flying out of Philly early in the evening on Christmas Day and touching down in [...]

Read Full Post »

Christmas Day 2009

After church, my family (Mom, Casey, Katie, and Alex) came over for Brunch. We had our traditional holiday fare of baked eggs, pork roll, bacon, and sticky buns (If Dr. Miller is reading this, I abstained from eating any of this food which is not so good for my blood pressure/cholesterol [...]

Read Full Post »

Christmas Eve 2009

We spent our traditional Christmas Eve with Jean’s family over at Mike and Dot’s house.  All her brothers and sisters were there with family, so it was a full house (23 of us).

In previous years we’ve had seafood or roasts as the main fare, but this year we went with an Italian [...]

Read Full Post »

Crazy Vacation/Work/Camp Week

Things are a little odd this week with the McMenamin family all spread out.
For those who didn’t know, my mom rented a beach house in Ocean City, NJ for 6 weeks, beginning June 20th and running until August 1st.  We went down to the house that first weekend (Father’s Day) to open it [...]

Read Full Post »

Kindergarten Graduation

Friday June 5th was Brett’s kindergarten graduation.  It’s hard to believe our littlest one is going into first grade.  Brett’s posse of family in attendance included Jean, Gram and Pop, and my niece Isa.  Jean and Gram were babysitting Isa so that my sister Erin could spend time with my Mom down at the hospital. 
I [...]

Read Full Post »

Soccer, Jewlery, Pizza, and Johnny Dangerously

Saturday was a busy day in the house, and we were all going in different directions.  It took some planning and a little bit of help from others to make it all happen, but we got it done.
It started with Brett’s soccer game at 8:30.  The Haffey’s stuck around until 10 the night before, so [...]

Read Full Post »

A Day Off from School

For some reason, the kids had a day off from school on Friday.  It was a bit of a scheduling nightmare because Jean had already made plans to spend part of the day observing one of her fellow Neumann classmates teaching his class.
Jake spent Thursday night at his buddy Patrick’s house for a sleepover and [...]

Read Full Post »

Dinner With Gran & Pop

Wednesday night was a bit laid back.  The Phillies played their first playoff game at 3 pm (which they won 3-1) and Abby’s head coach went to the game.  That left me in charge of the evening’s practice, and with rain falling the entire afternoon and more in the evening’s forecast, I took the liberty [...]

Read Full Post »

4th of July

The Giovinco family trip to the beach would not be complete without the South Ocean City Bike Parade. It’s become an annual tradition that started when Jake and Abby were tiny kids and one that the kids still look forward to.

For the second straight year, Jean’s family was also down for the week. [...]

Read Full Post »