Easter Sunday

Today was one if the greatest days ever....Aside from celebrating the resurrection of the big JC, it was also just simply a great day haha. I had to wake up early to go to mass with my family which isn't my favorite thing to do especially after staying up late, but it was ok, I can't really complain cause I knew well in advance what time we were going. Mass was cool of course, celebrating the resurrection and all, you know, pretty ordinary stuff. ;) But man, family was pretty tight this Easter I must say. All saturday we just chilled and caught up.....then on saturday night we had our family easter vigil, which is basically a prayer service thing and me and my bro and his new girlfriend practiced some music and sang for the service...it was good times. But the real fun started later that night when we ate.....and oh man did we eat. I don't think I have eaten that much in a long time, even including thanksgiving which is the national "eat yourself to death day". We had like 3 kinds of meat and then potatoes up the wazoo (that's right, potatoes, not rice guys, my family being white and all), all kinds of vegetables, and tons of bread, rolls, biscuits etc. Man, I don't know how many times I went back to fill my plate, but I remember that we ate dessert like an hour afterwards and I was still full. But I didn't care, I ate a whole plate of dessert too. And this was no dessert-sized plate, it as a full on dinner plate piled with dessert. Unfortunately my eyes were a little bigger than my stomach and I couldn't finish the piece of cake we had, celebrating my brother's 30th bday, but thats ok, I got a bunch of pie and apple crisp so I was koo. After that, I had to chill for a few hours, let everything settle. I was afraid to move faster than a befuddled shamble, in fear of getting more sick. But it was worth it.
After that, since most of the family is musically inclined (except me and the dog), we chilled and played music, sang songs and generally had an awesome time. Man, I had forgotten how much I missed my family until that night, but it was so cool seeing all of them. Oh one thing I forgot, and I don't even know why I'm telling you all this because it's realy embarrassing and juvenile, but our family does a crazy hat contest every year and this year was one of the craziest. People were making the craziest and funniest stuff ever.....me and my brother in law, who is one of the funniest guys ever anyway, decided to have musically themed hats, his was a tambouringe taped to his cap, with a shaker on the back, and mine was a frame of drum sticks with a flute thing that my sister had, taped to them so I could playe it with no hands......ingenious. stupid, but ingenious. Yea so that was a nice silly activity that just exposed how weird my family is. None of you ever want to meet them now.
Anyway, today was fairly kick back, just went to mass, saw the 2-timer catholics (people who go 2 times/year, easter and christmas) Im just kidding, I know a a lot of them, they are really koo. But then after getting back we just ate more food, of course, and hung out with our priest friend who came from the mass. Fr. Steve is one of the coolest priests ever and he makes me laugh so hard.....it's really funny cause he's not trying to be funny but he says things about how certain people make him angry and he just seems so funny, I love it. I hadnt seen him since christmas so that was cool.
The rest of the day was ok....just more hanging and finally people started leaving around 3, first my sisters in-laws, then my brother Eli, going back to the seminary, and then my sister and her husband. It was rough seeing my brother go cause I haven't seen him in a long time and we only got to chill on saturday and part of sunday, but Ill see him soon hopefully so I'll be ok...I think. Anyway, I cant stay on much longer cause of this stupid dial up, but I am trying my best to blog often even while Im gone, just cause it's fun and everyone in my family goes to bed by 11pm so Im bored late at night. Hope ya'll are having a great break, and I will talk to you all soon hopefully. PeAcE and God Bless on his day of Resurrection!!!