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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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New Year’s Day 2010

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After getting in a little before 3, it’s easy to understand that our morning took a little time to get going.  Jean and I ended up going to 11:15 mass, where we met Jean’s parents and picked up Brett.
When we got home around 12:30, Abby was just starting to [...]

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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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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Brett, which is the 5th in the series of seven books.  Talk about time consuming; we started reading this series last October. We don’t read it every single night, but we get our reading in at least four or five nights of [...]

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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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Who Knew “Up” Was Potty Talk?

Sometimes it’s the little things that sneak up on you that make you giggle.   We had a rare event happen in our house last night; all 5 of us sat down to eat a dinner together during the work week.  It just doesn’t happen that often due to practice and school, which is a shame.
We [...]

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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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