Wednesday, March 30, 2016

That Awkward moment...

When your about to walk through the front door
 and you sneeze SOOOO LOUD
 
 that the neighbor across the street, three houses down says,
"BLESS YOU!!!"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

#AIOCrushes!!!

What Female Apostolic/Pentecostal, Adventures In Odyssey fan can't relate with this????
Credit: Victoria B. | Jason Whittaker | Tasha Forbes | Adventures in Odyssey meme:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *Momentarily pauses from laughing to fix her halo! ;) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Monday, March 28, 2016

Joseph's RULE!!!

Sooooooooooo as I've been telling you all, my brother John and I made homemade ravioli for Easter, annnnnnnnnd they were soooooooooo GOOD, anyway, it just sooooooooo happens that my nephew Joseph LOOOOOOVES ravioli!!!
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So yesterday he a plate full of them, and let me tell you, FOR JOSEPH to actually eat that much is a BIG DEAL, he's NOT a big eater!!! So then his mom comes outside and is like, Joseph, did you eat that ravioli that  you dropped on the floor earlier? (Apparently, she had been looking for it to clean up) Joseph was like, YUP, I sure did!!!! Soooooooo we all started laughing!!! And i'm like, YEAH, that's MY BOY!!! Cuz I DESPISE when THE FOOD I MAKE GETS WASTED...I don't care if its store bought, BUUUUUUT IF I MADE IT WITH MY HANDS...yeah...
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So we're all laughing and Joseph says, well the reason why I ate it is because I have a rule about ravioli!!! We're like, a RULE????

He says yes, a RULE!!! It's,
The NO RAVIOLI LEFT BEHIND RULE!!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That's a very ITALIAN rule!!! I like  LOVE it!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Happy Easter!!!

Easter was such a nice day this year....
We got all the Sunday School girls Easter dresses!!!!
They looked sooooooo BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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Attitude???
WHAT ATTITUDE???
These two are sisters...
Awwwwwwww my precious beautiful little Christina, I adore this little one!!!!
With her big sister Deedee!!!
I looooooove Deedee too!!!!

Friday, March 25, 2016

Easter Cooking!!!!

Soooooooooooo there is an Italian tradition in our family to make what we call Easter Pies! Easter pies are NOT a dessert, but a meal! Kind of like a calizone, buuuuuuuut BETTER, waaaaaaaaaayyyy BETTER!!!
The long ones are my favorite, you fill them with ricotta cheese and sausage or ham...these ones are my favorite!!!! The round ones are filled with muenster cheese and all kinds of meats, solidified together with egg...these ones are good, but a little to rich for my liking!!!
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I believe the round ones are from my mom's mom side of the family and the long ones are from my mom's dad's...buuuuut it could be the other way around!!! Traditionally speaking, Catholic Italians would make these pies on Good Friday and eat them on Saturday before Easter to break their period of fasting from meat during lent! Obviously our family doesn't do this that way, we just enjoy them during this time of the year!!! :)))
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I admit that we are a little bit stingier with passing these Easter pies out than we are with our Christmas cookies! The reason being is that they are quite pricey to make, annnnnnnnnnd NOT EVERYONE LIKES THEM!!!! We don't want them to go to waste, so yeah!!!
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BUUUUUUUUUUUT ITALIANS KNOW, how good these pies truly are. This was my uncle's response when I sent him a pic...
YUP, HE'S ITALIAN!!! :))))
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Today we started a NEW Italian-Easter tradition....
HOMEMADE RAVIOLI!!!!
I went to my brother John's this afternoon, we're a pretty good team in the kitchen, pretty much cuz I do whatever he says!!! LOL
Little Bethany, MORE THAN READY to help out her daddy!!!
Working...
WORKING....
YUMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!




With the dough we had left, I said, lets make ONE really big ravioli!!! My grandpa said his mom used to make them just ONE really big ravioli, the size of a bowl!!!
Its as big as my hand!!!
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd of course we taste tested our ravioli,
it was SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!
Makes the store bought stuff really dim in comparison to THE GINTYS!!! Olive Garden ain't got NOTHING on us!!!
Mom would've been SOOOO PROUD!!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

BUGS ON MY CAR UPDATE!!!

So if you read my post below, "Scary Bug Moment" you all will be happy to know that I ACTUALLY FOUND OUT WHAT THOSE "BUGS" ARE!!! Last evening, I got a very informative message from a lovely little friend...
Oooooh, SOOOOOO THATS WHAT THOSE ARE?!?!?
I tell ya, you learn something new, EVERY DAY!!! WOW!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Thursday, March 24, 2016

SCARY BUG MOMENT!!!

Sooooooooo the other day i'm driving along when I noticed this HUGE beetle like bug sitting on the hood on my car...
I just about had a HEART ATTACK!!!!
It was just sitting there, lurking on my hood, staring at me through the window with those big OH HUGE bug eyes!!!!
Annnnnnnnnnnd THEN I NOTICED THAT THERE WERE TWO OF THEM...IDENTICAL TWIN BUGS ON EITHER SIDE OF MY HOOD, JUST STARING AT ME!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!
Then I realized, that's soooooo ODD that they're on THE SAME EXACT SPOTS ON MY CAR...
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WAIIIIIIIT....
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I don't THINK THEY ARE BUGS....
Oooooooooooh THEY'RE NOT!!!
Aparently, in the 2.5 years that I have owned this car, I NEVER NOTICED THESE THINGS ON THE HOOD...I guess its part of the car design or something...Oooooooops!!! ;D
♥Mary Frances :)

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Uh huh...THATS RIGHT!!!

So true!!!:
♥Mary Frances :)

I voted!!!

Soooooo Tuesday, I VOTED!!!
I waited 2.5 hours to do so!!!! It was CRAZY!!! It took me foreverrrr to even find a parking spot!!! I almost just walked away, THE ONLY THING THAT STOPPED ME was knowing the fact that I had just a month earlier waited line for 3.5 hours to see the Hello Kitty Café Van...I was guilted into waiting!!!
The chick behind me literally talked THE WHOLE 2.5 hour wait!!! Thankfully it was NOT TO ME but to the older gentleman behind her...I suspected a slight crush on his part...he seemed ENTHRALLED by her!!! LOL She eats horse meat...In case anyone was wondering!!! AHAHA!!!
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The thing that bummed me out was that after ALL THAT WAITING, they were out of the "I voted today!" Stickers!!! I was like, seriously??? I waited 2.5 HOURS...I WANT MY STICKER!!! Grrrrrrrr!!!!
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Then, immediately after I turned in my ballot, they announced that Trump had won for the Republican party...I was like, yeah, I'm sooooo sure my vote just DID NOT EVEN COUNT FOR NOTHING!!!!! I'm sooooo doing the early ballot for November!!!
♥Mary Frances :)
 


Tuesday, March 22, 2016

What got my mom in church!!!

I was thinking the other day, about WHAT it was that got my mom in church??? The answer hit me and I was like, WOW!!! It was HER PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER!!! God used those traits to get her to a Pentecostal church!!!
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How so??? Well, my mom was stubborn, and altho she was no longer going a Catholic church like she had been raised in, she was STILL CATHOLIC!!! She believed the doctrine through and through, she had other reasons for NOT attending church which i'll explain in another post!!! So when her neighbor across the street, Sis. Kathy invited her to church, she said no, over and over again.
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HOWEVER, this is where God stepped in and used my mom's personality to get her to church. One day, Sis. Kathy and her husband did not have a way of getting to church. Being fairly new converts themselves, they desperately wanted to be in church, so Sis. Kathy went across the street and asked my mom if she would give them a ride to their church. Of course, being the considerate and helpful person that my mom was, she said YES!!!
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Annnnnnd once they got to the church, they said to my mom, well, now that your here, why don't you just come in...my mom did annnnnnnd from that moment, she NEVER LOOKED BACK!!! God knew that if she just GOT THERE!!! Buuuuuut the thing that stands out to me is this,
EVEN BEFORE MY MOM WAS IN CHURCH,
 SHE WAS BRINGING PEOPLE TO CHURCH!!!

Bringing people to church,
is LITERALLY WHAT
 GOT HER IN CHURCH!!!
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Bringing people to church is what brought my family to THE TRUTH!!!
Bringing people to church is IN MY BLOOD!!!  
How can I NOT bring people to church, when this is the very thing that brought me to my own salvation! Bringing people to church is NOT my obligation, it's MY BLESSING!!!
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Thank you MOM,
for being WILLING to bring people to church!!!
I am eternally grateful!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Monday, March 21, 2016

Happy Monday!!!!

Oh yeah!!!
YOU CAN DO IT MY FRIENDS!!!
No pouting cuz it's Monday!!!!
Drink some coffee (Or OJ;) annnnnnd have...
 a GREAT, HAPPY MONDAY MY FRIENDS!!!
 
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)
♥Mary Frances :) 

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Happy Sunday!!!


" I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." (Psalm 122:1)
♥Mary Frances :)

Saturday, March 19, 2016

You MIGHT BE APOSTOLIC...

IF you can relate to THIS....
Adventures in Odyssey:
ahahahahahahahahaha!!!! SOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO SOOOOOO TRUE!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Friday, March 18, 2016

Hello Kitty!!!!

Soooooooooooooo this past month, I was an amazing auntie and waited with my niece for 3.5 hours to go see the HELLO KITTY CAFE VAN!!!!
Was it worth it???
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Buuuuuut after waiting and hour I was COMMITED!!! LOL
 
Annnnnnd plus now I can add it to my list of totally RAD things I've accomplished in life!!! :)
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd LOOK the hub caps even have pink bows on it!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!! Awwwwwwwww!!!!
Annnnnnnnnnnd I found out that their were WAAAAAAAY crazier, ADULT Hello Kitty fans than ME!!! I mean, I'm like, MILD compared to these folks!!! The girl in the above pic was DRESSED like a Hello Kitty-Kat, the girl behind me was ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW HER DREAM IS TO GET MARRIED AT HELLO KITTY LAND IN JAPAN!!! Yes, there really IS a hello kitty land and YES, I want to go there, buuuuuuuuuut NOOOOOO I don't want to get married there!!! I mean, COME ON PEOPLE!!!
And then the mom in front of me, her daughter has to go to the bathroom, so she just PICKS HER UP, and has go by the tree!!!! I was like ummmm, We're in SCOTTSDALE, THE SCOTTSDALE QUARTER, this is NOT the best place just have your daughter PEE on the rocks..."I'm jus sayin!" I woulda GLADLY saved your spot for you in line had you SIMPLY ASKED ME!!! You shoulda seen MJ tho, her mouth was hanging open, then the two of us could NOT stop laughing!!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!
Finally we're there, and our sales lady was this adorable lil Asian chick...Asians LOVE Hello Kitty, she was created by one of their people!!!
Stultz just couldn't UNDERSTAND WHY I would pay $3 for a water bottle!!! I'm like, Jonathon, its PINK, Its HELLO KITTY, and its in the SHAPE OF A BOW, need we ask ANY MORE QUESTIONS???
Annnnnnnnnd LOOK at this cookie...
ITS A PINK BOW!!!
No, it really didn't taste to good,
 the Hello Kitty Café van REALLY needs to HIRE ME!!!! :)
I'm JUS SAYIN!!!
♥Mary Frances :)