Hey guys, it's me Catie. I'm on the way to church right now. My family and I are staying at my grandparents house for the holidays.

It's been... A little crazy, I guess you could say.

Yesterday my Grandad recruited me to help him make maple syrup. Have you ever done that? It's a lot of hard, back breaking, patient, and dangerous work.

You have to get enough kindling to keep the fire at a high temperature all the time. And getting the sap is no easy task. Usually a maple tree has about 10 gallons of sap. Carrying that up a hill is not a piece of cake!

The sap has to be boiled over an extremely hot fire. Someone has to continually watch check on it. And you can't relax for a second near the stove. My dad was caught off guard last year and his pants literally caught on fire.

And all this work? 40 gallons of sap boil down to ONE GALLON OF maple syrup. It's worth it though. We still have some from last year.

At my grandparents house, there is a bug infestation. Gigantic flying ants have taken over.

I don't know if you can see in the picture, but there's literally bugs in the lamp.

Not only that, but they're falling from the ceiling too. Those little buggers have gotten all over the house.

In beds, in the bathroom, the kitchen, and even in my little brother's Ninjago underwear.

Grandad says that I'm being dramatic, but I prefer bugs not falling in my Easter basket while I open my candy, thank you very much.

I dyed eggs this year.

I have to say, I'm quite proud of it. But my nana left it in the refrigerator... And now they are painted egg rocks. I worked so hard on them! I don't know if you can see it, but I even put glitter on them and everything!

Here are some AWESOME things I got in my Easter basket.

Now I have THREE star wars shirts. I can totally wear one every single day!!

This is Darth Vader lip balm. It's chocolate favored too. SIMPLY. FANTASTIC.

My mom sure knows how to get me to wear chapstick XD

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It's later. We went to church. It was extremely crowded because people who don't usually come to church come on Easter. My nana calls them Chreaster Christains because they go to mass on Christmas and Easter only.

There was a little kid in front of us and OH MY GOSH, HE WAS ADORABLE!!! I was just thinking, if you slapped some green hair on him, he would be the spanking image of Jacen Syndulla.

Kriff, I'm such a Geek.

After Mass, I went up to the priest to make a very helpful suggestion. Instead of splashing the holy water on the congregation, he should've used a water gun. He laughed and said that the Catholic Church did not condone violence. But he also said that he would think about it. So I'm kind of crossing my fingers....

To kill some time before going off to brunch, we went to the world's largest kailediscope, which was a few miles down the road. We watched a 10 minute show with the kailediscope.

To be honest, while watching it, I felt like I was on hardcore drugs.

We had brunch at a buffet. My nana tricked me into drinking a bloody Mary. It had vodka, horse radish, and salt and pepper in it. Disgusting!
My mom was NOT HAPPY about that. Nana didn't see what was so bad about it. After all, when she was a kid in Ireland, she smoked and skipped school to read books. Well, I spit it out right away and chugged down 3 glasses of water.

So... Yeah. That was my Easter. How was yours?

Peace out and may the force be with you,

Catie ❤️😉😍😉😎😎😁😍😁🤗😉🤗🍏🍒🍎🥝🍎🍓🥝🍏🥝🐯🐈🐂🐱🐅🐎🐅🐱🐅🐅🐱🐅🐱🐅🐱🐅🐒🐅🐒🐅🐱