Yesterday we attended mass at our church. Of course it was extremely full and they even had a 2nd mass going on in the parish hall. We attend a very large parish. It has about 3,300 families and many of those families have 4, 5 and 6 kids or more each. Our Sunday masses are always pretty full. And then of course we have Easter & Christmas - the 2 largest Christian holidays that for some reason seem obligatory for those who don't attend church the rest of the year. My sister call them "Christmeasters". I should be grateful they attend church on those holidays rather than not at all but, for those who are truly faithful and feel that attending church every week is important, it's hard not to be critical.
After church, we headed to my parents' house for brunch. My mom always over does it. Every year she promises she's not doing it again and without fail she doesn't keep her word. So of course there was a huge spread and we all stuffed ourselves.
Once we had finished stuffing our faces, we went and did an Easter egg hunt for the kids. We ran around hiding them so I burned off a few calories. It was fun to see Eriks and Emi run all over the yard. Emi was much more careful when it came to looking closely for the eggs. Every time she found one she screamed, "Found one!!" It was super cute. They didn't get anything but some Peeps in their baskets because I know they would get their fair share of candy from the egg hunt. Then we came in and had dessert. Let me tell you, I had the BEST homemade coconut cream pie I have ever put in my mouth yesterday. My sister rocked it with that pie. I honestly may never shut up about that daggone pie. Most of the coconut cream pies I have eaten have had a super thick, dry crust and have been sickly sweet that I can't eat it all. With this pie I almost licked my plate clean...almost. I tell my kids not to do it, so I figured it would be a bad example if I did something I tell them not to do.
Up next for me was nap time. I've been battling headaches and migraines for some time now. If they stay bad, I'll have to go in for a CT scan to see if there's something more going on in my brain. Yesterday I was still getting over a horrible migraine that started Friday and continued into Saturday. I'll have what I call "aftershocks" for a few days after I get a bad migraine. Sometimes I've had migraines that have lasted 3 or 4 days and then have had smaller headaches for another 3-5 days after. So I dozed for about 45 minutes or so. It felt great and I woke up refreshed.
Then...I got dragged outside by my son for a game of bocce ball. It was boys against girls (my sister & and me) vs. boys (my dad & Eriks). It was a heated battle that went back and forth. For awhile my sister and I were ahead by a bunch of points and then Eriks and my dad caught up and went ahead. It was at the very end that my sister threw the pallino in a great spot and the boys just couldn't get there balls there as well as we could. And of course the adults made jokes about the bocce balls..."my balls are really heavy"..."just kick my balls over here"...you get the idea. A few times we were laughing pretty hard about it.
By the time the game was over, it was dinner time so we sat down to leftovers from brunch. The weather was beautiful and we sat outside eating our dinner. It was time to head home and put the kids to bed after that. Enjoy the pictures!!
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