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Wynne Christmas Party

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Sunday started off somewhat lazily, with everyone lounging around in bed still trying to recover from a couple of late nights and over eating.  Jake had to serve at 11:15, so there was no rush to get everyone out of bed.  The only bummer was that Brett was [...]

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Dinner at Bucca Di Beppo

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Christmas Morning 2009

Santa came to the McMenamin house and the kids made out really well. We didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 ish and we hung around in our pj’s until it was time to head off to mass at 11:15. My mom came over as soon as we woke up to watch the [...]

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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 [...]

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Back again, ugh?

Talk about neglecting my duties as a blogger, I’m noticing I haven’t posted anything since July 8th.  I guess it’s not too bad, that’s only 77 days without an update and I’m sure there isn’t too much that’s happened since then.
I really want to update this thing with regularity but I for one reason or [...]

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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 [...]

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Weekend Update June 7th

We had another fun filled weekend at the Mac Shack.  It included: sleepovers, Mom’s weekend at the beach, soccer practice, coach pitch baseball, playoff baseball, five lacrosse games, a swim party, CYO Awards ceremony, and a graduation party at our friends Tom and Nancy Hewitt.  Just another run of the mill weekend. 
The highlight for me [...]

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An Evening With the Giovinco’s

Saturday night we had a nice little cookout with my family (mom, sister Kate, brothers Jeff and Casey, as well as Jeff’s friend Rob).  It was one of the few occasions when almost all of us were able to get together.   
We had a crazy day running around with the kids, so we started a [...]

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