Weekend McGinty Style

After work on Friday Tim and I grabbed a quick dinner alone at Buca di Beppo. Buca is an authentic Italian restaurant that offers flavorful Italian dining. Dine with family and friends while enjoying the Italian traditions of food, friendship and hospitality. In the spirit of Italian culture, our dishes are served family style and are meant to be shared.

With bulging bellies we got home in time to get TJ and Callahan to basketball practice 6:30-8:30. It's great for them to get some exercise during this insane winter. Thank God for global warming otherwise we may have froze to death by now

Unfortunately Team Chriskie 3/4 grade lost their game on Saturday, but Callahan did win the Jump off to start the game

Team Chriskie 7/8 grade suffered the same fate on Sunday, but TJ did make an amazing 3 point basket which left him with a giant grin on his face

After shunning the idea of watching "Deadwood" for weeks, I finally gave in. Tim, again you were right. It is great, so great in fact that we watched 9 one hr episodes of season 1. Yes, I was up until 3am...I'm hooked and I make no apologies for it

http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/about/

ST PIUS OPEN HOUSE

After TJ's basketball game we headed to Karrick's open house. He gets so excited with any school function. Karrick takes us through EVERYTHING in his classroom. Again, he is not shy with his feelings and he was beaming with school pride. It broke my heart when he said "I want to stay at St. Pius forever". As much as I love St Pius with its strong academics and tight knit family atmosphere(not to mention all the baseball moms that I love, kids go there) It being a private school just can't compare to our Public School system and all the resources

that are available. Don't forget extremely high ISAT scores

Karrick running to get to his classroom

Karrick's winter wonderland

Karrick has moved on to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

and now shows up at sporting events as "Leonardo". Some of TJ's travel baseball teammates play basketball on opposing teams and their parents get a chuckle out of Karrick. Last time they saw him he was Batman...So yesterday