Mood:  celebratory

Here is the promised pic of Brenna my new niece of two and one half weeks.

Posted by Big Mike at 9:32 PM CST

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Mood:  happy

This blog is a month late but I want to share a beautiful event I had the esteemed pleasure and honor in attending and being a part of the wedding of good friend of mine from high school up north...North Texas. This is the very friend that used to put me through UIL Number Sense Boot Camp--Don't ask. I still twitch when I think about it. :-) The beautiful bride first requested my presence at the wedding as a server to assist the priest in the Mass, to which a graciously accepted. Not long went by when she contacted me again and begged for my "beautiful voice"--Her words not mine--to sing or chant the Responsorial Psalm. Again I accepted graciously. I was very happy to be apart of her (and her soon to be husband's) wedding. And finally, soon before the wedding date, I received one more email that requested that I do the prayers of the faithful. Yet, again my answer was positive. I wanted to do what I could to help get these two love birds hitched, as we say in Texas. I didn't mind, and was actually honored, to be the go to guy to pick up the slack as it were. Had I been able I would have married the two, but last time I checked this was not possible until my bishop ordains me and grants me the faculties. But then the bishop of Dallas would have to concede and all that good stuff, but I digress back to the join of Sandra and Will. The wedding went off with only one minor mistake. I chanted the response a little wrong, but fixed it because there was no way I could remember how I had accidentally done it the first time. After the wedding, the wedding party and the guests made their way to the hotel where the reception was held and great food, fellowship, and fun was had by all. Now for you girls who are interested in the decoration...and don't tell me you weren't wondering what the wedding looked like. Well in all my masculine, testosterone infested perception of d?cor, the decorations were very "Autumny." The colors were the color of the changing leaves...that is oranges, reds, yellows, not green then brown like most trees of the south. I had a true sense of what Autumn is in other parts of the country. Another, thing I thought was unique, at least to me because I have never seen it, was that the brides maids had one color dress, something like a redish brown, but very pretty and fit the "theme" of the decoration very well (forgive me Sandra the I don't know the color). The maid of honor had a cream colored dress, which set her apart from the other girls in the wedding part sort of in a place of honor as she is the maid of honor. Anyway, it was a very beautiful occasion and I am very happy and proud to have been present.

Posted by Big Mike at 12:01 AM CST

Updated: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 1:38 PM CST

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Mood:  celebratory

Yesterday morning at 8:00, I received "the call." When it came in I knew it had to be it, but my phone was not unlocked yet, so I couldn't answer it right away. I entered the code and received this message: "The access code is incorrect." Again I entered the code, and againg the message lit up the screen. Frustrated, I slamed the phone off and then back on to reset its stupid little brain so that it would accept my code. I finally got into my phone and saw that yep my brother did call, which gave more evidence that it was "the call" that I had been waiting for since early this month. I called him back as quickly as possible, and luckily got him before he returned upstairs where cell phones were not allowed. We talked and he told me what I thought he was going to tell me repeating much of it due to the "great" Shiner cell phone reception. Since he had to go and get back upstairs and I had to get on a bus headed for Houston's Holocaust Museum with the Catholic school's sophomores, we ended the phone call to be continued later or on Thursday in person.

Oh, in case you are wonder what "the call" was, my neice, Brenna Rother, was born at 7:01, Monday November 22, 2004!

[Pictures to come when I receive them from the proud new parents or grandparents.]

Posted by Big Mike at 12:01 AM CST

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Posted by Big Mike at 12:01 AM CDT

Updated: Friday, 3 September 2004 6:24 PM CDT

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