Ginty Thanksgiving 2023!!!

Ginty Sisters!!!! 💕 

Pie 🥧 is my favorite part!!!

My Thanksgiving Day outfit cuz by Thanksgiving Day I was bored with wearing fall colors!!! Lol 😝 

I had to make a little tray of lasagna cuz ya know… that’s what Italians be doing!!!

Juliana’s shirt said give me the mashed potatoes and no one gets hurt!!!

My full plate 

My plate when I was full!! 

Going for a walk after eating 🍽️ 

Bethany won 🥇 the turkey 🦃 hunt!!!

Cherry 🍒 pie 🥧 

 It was a really, really nice Thanksgiving day and then you always think, how could I have had such a good time when my brother just died and wasn’t there and you start to feel guilty but then you remember that they’re having a waaaaaaay better time than you could ever be having down here and that they would want you to have a good day too!!!! I’m so thankful that we have a hope that goes beyond the best and worst times down here!!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

You know you live in AZ when…

It’s just an AZ THING!!! It doesn’t start looking 👀 like fall here till it’s actually cold 🥶 which usually isn’t until after Thanksgivingish!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

The Case Of The Missing Kate Spade Shades!!!

Sooooooooooo my sister had gotten me these ADORABLE glittery, Kate Spade sunglasses for Christmas one year!!! I gave her only like A MILLION AND ONE hints that they were what I really wanted! I was pretty sure she was going to get them for me, buuuuuuuuut I wasn't sure if she had gotten them, I searched her room and closet for them and could NOT find them...it was kind of a mixed feeling, cuz I WANT TO BE SURPRISED with my gifts, buuuuuuuuuuuut I also want to know, buuuuut I want to be surprised too!!!                         

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 Anywayz, much to my dismay, I did NOT find them, soooooo I was SURPRISED on Christmas morning!!! YAAAAAAAYYYY!!! I looooove being surprised, buuuuuuuut I'm pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to be surprised, because I'm ALWAYS WATCHING and paying attention even when it seems like i'm NOT, I really am!!!! I notice EVERYTHING!!! 

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Anywayz, I ADORED MY GLASSES!!! 

They’re on my Christmas Present 🎁 Favorites list along with yellow beach cruiser bike and OF COURSE my favorite of all time, MY BLACK BABY DOLL… oh wait that was my 5th BIRTHDAY 🥳 , NOT Christmas!!!

I've worked really hard with taking care of them and NOT losing or misplacing them!!! Every time I take them off, I carefully put them in their case!!! Weeeeeeeelllll one day I was out shopping and I forgot to put them in the case before I got out of the car. Instead, I put them on top of my head and walked into Ross! I was on a hunt for a BLACK FUR VEST!!! 

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Well after trying on several things, and NOT finding what I was looking for. I headed back out to my car. I got in, put the keys in the ignition, started the car, started blasting my Jesus music(The Abbott's CD, you guys NEED to get it!) As I'm bumping to my music about to back out, I reach on my head for my adorable-glitter-pink-gold sunglasses and gasp, they're NOT THERE!!! 

WHERE ARE THEY!?

I reach into my pocket, 

NOT THERE!!!

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I check the seat next to me, 

NOT THERE!!! 

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I check the floor of the car,

 NOT THERE!!!

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I'm more than disappointed with them being missing, disappointed is when a kinda cute guy flirts with you one time, then ignores you THE NEXT TIME he sees you, that's disappointed!!! Buuuuuuuuuuut, life goes on!  “Ain't nobody got time to dwell on it...there's always more cute guys, buuuuuuuuuuuuut THIS, this is MY ADORABLE-GLITTERY-GOLD-PINK-KATE-SPADE-SHADES!!! They can NOT be replaced!!! (Okaaaaaaaaaay they can, put who wants to spend $90 on sunglasses???;) soooooo anyways, I am truly beyond disappointed….

I'm devastated!!!

ABSOLUTELY HEART BROKEN!!!

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I'm about to get out and search the store, as I'm on my way out, I glance in the rearview mirror annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd WHAT DO YOU KNOW????

THEY'RE ON MY FACE!!! 

Yes, true story peeps, I couldn't find my sunglasses because,

I WAS WEARING THEM!!! 

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MORAL OF THE STORY: Next time your missing your sunglasses,

 CHECK YO FACE!!! 

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Fluffy Monday!!!

To say HAPPY MONDAY!!!!

Get it guys???? Fluffing in??? AND I"M FLUFFY AND IT'S PINK FLUFFY COTTON CANDY!!! Pink+Fluffy+Sweet=ME!!!  GET IT???? AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

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♥Mary Frances :)

Shout out to ALL THE FLUFFY MOMMAS out there!!! ;)

Black Friday!!!

Soooooo it’s a tradition to hit the mall on Friday after Thanksgiving, I just love seeing alll the Christmas decorations and music and that’s when I officially switch from fall to Christmas outfits for the next monthish!!! 

So I mostly bought stuff from SHEIN…lol… buuuuuut my sister got me THE CUUUUUTEST EVER SWEATSHIRT from Anthropology-it’s green and in pink it says New York! Buuuuuuuut she’s wrapping it up and I can’t wear it till Christmas!!! Green and pink are like my favorite combo everrrr!! 

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Buuuuuuut there’s so many sale pushes I’ll probably be skipping the rest, I mean tomorrow is small business Saturday, Monday is cyber Monday, last Friday was Pink Friday which is basically the same thing as small business Saturday, I looked it up cuz PINK FRIDAY sounded like the coolest day everrrr!!!! Haha so yeah, I can’t buy EVERYTHING!!! Bahahahahaaa 

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The men in our church ⛪️ boycotted Black Friday and all went out shooting together!!! Lol 😂 

Happppppppyyyy Thanksgiving!!!

At least someone is thankful for vegans… Bahahahahaaa 
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Remember, THERES NO SUCH THING AS CALORIES ON THANKSGIVING!!!! Eat, eat, EAT and eat AGAIN!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Not YET!!!!

I’m one of those people that… CHRISTMAS does NOT START until Thanksgiving is OVER!!!! Do NOT decorate before!!!

Tomorrow I will be wearing a festive Christmas outfit in the mall, buuuuuuuuuut TODAY it’s still THANKSGIVING!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Birthday John!!!

Your first birthday 🥳 in heaven John!!! We tried to recreate your pizza that we did together every year buuuuuut of course it wasn’t quite the same!!! Buuuuuut it wasn’t bad, it tasted like the year you made pizza for mom’s birthday and I told you to pizza wasn’t your thing, stick to cheesecake!!! Buuuuuut hey it was still bomb.com, I only said that to be annoying!!! 😜 

And we released balloons for you cuz you always liked doing that for people, I told Grace, John always liked doing that, as long as he didn’t have to buy the balloons!!! Bahahahahaaa 

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Abe made cheesecake and it wasn’t to shabby, Richard said it tastes like dad’s!!! Buuuuuuut I have to say, I’m working on cheesecake recipe that is going to outdo both of your guys cheesecake… it miiiiiight even get me a husband… IF I can find a single guy to actually eat it!!!! Bahahahahaaa 

Happy Monday!!!

Weeeeeeeellll that is THE TRUTH!!!

 I may not be a parent but this is soooooo TRUTH!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Sunday!!!

“ “Unto Him that is able He is to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think.” (Ephesians 3:20)

♥Mary Frances :)

Single Saturday!!!

This is such a good idea, considering one of my hands is always randomly cold buuuuuuuut NOT BOTH!!! Liiiiiiiike it’s just waiting to be held!!!! Awwwww!!! Bahahahahaaa 

♥Mary Frances :)

Guess my #1 character trait!!!

Soooooooo one of my friends gave me this link for a FREE character strength test… I looooooove stuff like this!!!!

https://www.viacharacter.org/

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Soooooooo I took it aaaaaaaand guess what my #1 character strength is??? 

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Are you guessing????

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GUESS!!!

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.LOOOOOOOOVE!!!

I honestly was NOT surprised!! I know I’m a loverrrr!! Loving comes so easily and naturally for me and many people have told me before that I’m a very loving 🥰 person!!!! WHEN I love someone, it’s whole heartedly and with everything… I’m not a mediocre lover!!! That’s why I’m a kid magnet… they know where the fluffy teddy bear 🧸 is!!!

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  Put me in an orphanage in the Philippines for two hours and I’m attached to them just like that!!! My brother was liiiiiike how can you and that girl be attached in two hours??? I’m liiiiiike SHE NEEDS ME!!!  I could be her mommy!!! 

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#2 character strength is: humor

and weeeeeeelll…

 I think we ALL KNOW THAT ALREADY!!!! 

My biggest character weakness is: UH… prudence!!! That means basically thinking things through before making a decision or speaking or taking a risk…and then regretting it later on… only thing is that I usually neverrrrrr really regret it either… I’m just liiiike weeeeeeeeeellll that was awkward…Oooooops…OH WELL!!!

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I think I can be summed up as, 

loving 🥰, hilarious 

      AND cRaZy 😜!!!!

What do you think 🤔????

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Check out your character strengths  HERE

♥Mary Frances :)

Joseph WHO???

Sooooooooo my friend is telling us all in a group text the other day this really cute story about her son. The jist of the story is that he wanted his Auntie at church but she couldn't take him at the moment because she was praying with someone. So the little boy is like, I'm JEALOUS, like Joseph's brother's!!! And walks away!!!

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So you have to understand that in the moment that I read the story, I was in the middle of doing some stuff… I’m just thinking WHO is Joseph and WHY are his brother’s jealous???

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So all the other girls are writing back like, Oh wow! He's so funny! Too cute! What a cute kid! Annnnnd I'm just sitting there and in my head i'm thinking like, I don't get it!!! What soooo funny??? 

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So then his mom writes in again and is like, The kid sure does know his Bible! Annnnnd it HIT ME...THE BIBLE...sooooooooooo I finally write my response, "And I'm sitting over here like, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHO JOSEPH IS???"

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Yes, my friends, TRUE STORY!!! I read her lil story and thought, "I don't know any kids from her church!!! Joseph?! How am I supposed to WHO JOSEPH is, let alone his brothers??? BAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

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Annnnnnnnnnnnnd YES PEOPLE, 

I DO KNOW WHO JOSEPH IN THE BIBLE IS!!!

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The story of Joseph is ACTUALLY one of my all time favorite stories...His attitude amidst his circumstances and the fact that you just NEVERRRR know what God is working out in the middle of YOUR MESS!!! What man meant for evil...GOD MEANT FOR GOOD!!!  

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Buuuuuuuut yeah… don’t be jealous like Joseph’s brothers!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday!!!

I was liiiiike this is sooooo me buuuuuuut I had to add in ONE MORE WORD to truly be me!!!

Aaaaaaannnnnd whateverrrrr you do…

Do NOT FORGET THE BEAUTIFUL PART!!! 🙌 

♥Mary Frances :)

And He came here just for ME and YOU!!! 🤗 

♥Mary Frances :)

Light The Night2023!!!

White Light-Survivor or loved one

Red- still fighting or loved one

Gold- remembrance for someone 

♥Mary Frances :)

Single Saturday!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Soooooooooooooooooooo TRUE!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Then Peter Said Game!!!!

So right now the Sunday School rooms are in a bit of a rigamarol so the really young kids are combined with the next age up which means the lesson has to be really simple and short to keep the attention span of all the kids so even with songs and a craft there’s still about 10 extra minutes… so I was trying to think of a game that would interest both age groups…

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Well the only thing that came to my mind was Duck, duck, duck  GOOSE!!! Buuuuuuuut I was thinking there’s like no spiritual aspect to this game… how can I make it spiritual so it’s NOT just a game to fill time??? 

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Hmmmm… oh I knoooooow…. I could make it Biblical… liiiiiiiike…. And I got the inspiration from God and ALL THE KIDS LOVED IT!!!! 

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Instead of Duck, duck GOOSE!!! We played, Then Peter said!!

Sooooooo you play it just like duck, duck GOOSE!!! Buuuuuuut you go around saying, Then Peter said, Then Peter said, Then Peter said, Then Peter said, Then Peter said, Then Peter said, REPENT!!!! Annnnnnnd if you’re the one they touch then you have to run around and get back to your spot in a prayerful/repentant position!!!!

It went soooooo great! The kids had a blast and the best part is that the Sunday School kids are memorizing the first part of Acts 2:38 without even trying!!!!

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If we have time, we will probably play this with the kids this Sunday again and I plan to play this with my nieces and nephews and the next family get together!!!

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Of course, I’m sharing the game on here BECAUSE, I’d love for you all to play the game as well!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

Sooooooo it was literally THE CUTEST thing everrrr...A few years ago... WHEN ODIN WAS STILL LITTLE...We went to a little kids Christmas play and as we were walking in, there was a group of people there for another show and OF COURSE little O just has to talk to everyone on our way into the theatre! Hi! I'm Odin, what's your name?

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 So he sees this husky, older gentleman, wearing khaki slacks and a plaid shirt and who just happened to have a white beard and he greets him as usual, "Hi, I'm Odin!" and the man says back to him, I'm Santa Clause!

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Odin just stops dead in his tracks, mouth agape, his WHOLE FACE JUST LIGHTS UP in sheer shock and joy! Then, without saying anything, he just walks over to the man and throws his arms around him in a HUGE ODIN HUG!!! 

The look on his face was liiiiiiiike NO WAY, I'M ACTUALLY MEETING SANTA!!! Everyone was laughing soooooooo hard and it completely made the man's night!!! It was literally THE CUUUUUTEST, FUNNIEST THING EVERRRRRR!!! Gotta love this kid, there's just no one quite like him!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

LPC Thanksgiving Feast 2023!!!

We had an absolutely lovely and delicious 😋 Thangiving feast at our church ⛪️ yesterday!!! 🙌 

The WHOLE MEAL… it was sooooooo gooooood!!!

We had mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mac and cheese, salad, cranberries, ham, and pastor’s BOMB.COM smoked Turkey!!! I knoooooow it’s A LOT of work for my pastor when he makes the turkey, buuuuuuuuut it really does taste best when he does it!!!! It’s like soooooo juicy and flavorful!!!! No offense to anyone else who has ever made an LPC Turkey, they were GOOOOOOOD, pastor’s is just Bomb 💣 though!!!

My mashed potatoes 🥔… not as good as my green bean casserole or stuffing or my chocolate chip cookies 🍪 and definitely not as good as my brother’s, BUUUUUUUUT… not as bad as someone’s from YEARS AGO… Bahahahahaaa 

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My plate of DELICIOUSNSS!!! #FeastMode

My new brown butter icing sugar cookies… man those were gooooooood!!!

Carrot cake with the brown butter icing

Chocolate chip cookies 🍪 THAT ARE BETTER THAN CHIC-Fil-A!!!!

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KIDS’s Church ⛪️ 

Brother Garrett preaching 

Sooooooo I had this Mac and cheese and it was sooooo, soooooo, sooooooooooooooo goooooood, it was ALMOST as good as Chic-fil-A’s!!!!! If only my brother Abe could get his recipe to reach CFA status… IF ONLY!!! 
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You guys, it’s WAR BETWEEN US!!! Two weeks ago, he told me that my chocolate chip cookies 🍪 were almost as good as CHIC-Fil-A!!! I can’t show you exactly cuz I don’t have three hands, buuuuuuuut he said it was CFA COOKIES 🍪, then mine and then McDonald’s right under me and you have Noooooooo idea how absolutely offensive it is to me that ANYTHING i make is even in the running with MCDONALDS!!!! CFA, I could see being right below me, which he put right above me, buuuuuuut how is McDonalds even in THE RUNNING???? You should’ve seen the look on his face when I told him that about his Mac and cheese at church yesterday… HA!!!! 

I  took leftovers, just to make this little leftover sandwich yesterday!!! I mean you can make homemade rolls buuuuuuut why bother when there’s Hawaiian rolls??? Turkey, Mayo, stuffing and cranberry sauce… I thought of this and then all these restaurants copied me!!!! 🙄 Buuuuuuuut I did it for years hearing oh your weird Mary… Now it’s cool… well I was cool before it was cool to be COOL 😎 

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Annnnnnnd that’s the whole day…

Oh waaaaaaait, you guys said you were just dying to see my outfit… I almost FORGOT!!! 😜 

OF COURSE ILL SHOW YOU MY LOVELY THANKSGIVING DAY FEAST OUTFIT!!! 😘 

I have my fall line up of outfits for church ⛪️ ready now through Thanksgiving, then there’s two services between Thanksgiving and December which I’ll give everyone a breather before I transition into a month of Christmas outfits!!!

Don’t worry… I’ll show you guys EVERYTHING!!! 😜 

♥Mary Frances :)