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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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Report Cards Came Home

Congrats to all three of our little scholars. Friday was report card day and grades for the first trimester were outstanding.
Brett doesn’t get graded like the bigger kids, but he did very well. The only surprise was that the self-titled “Math Genius” only got a grade of VG in math, not O like we [...]

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Halloween 2009

I’m really behind in keeping up with our pictures, but here are the kids costumes from Halloween.  Brett was a robot, with a costume he designed and made on his own.  His buddy Liam is a gorilla.  Abby and her best friend Meghan went out as babies.
Jake was sadly too cool to get dressed up.  [...]

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All Saints Day

Here’s some video of Brett giving his St. Thomas speech for the All Saints Parade at Sacred Heart on October 30th.  You can’t really make it out to well, but his prayer partners (Jake and his friend Timmy) are holding up his St. Thomas sign.

I can’t do subtitles, but for those who need help understanding [...]

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Small Decisions That Shouldn’t Be Tough

Last night, Jake asked us if he was allowed to ride his bike to school this morning.  His classmates were planning to meet at McDonald’s to have breakfast at 7 am and then they were going to head to school by 7:40.
It’s only a 3 mile ride from the house to the school, so he [...]

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