O's Photography!!!

Asked O to take a picture of my Sunday outfit for me today. After posing me, readjusting the lighting, standing on a chair, and counting to six, NOT THREE, six, 

 This was the result!!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

#ILoveThatKid

♥Mary Frances :)

The UNlikely threat!!!

Sooooooooooo Odin has realized that, IF Aunt Mary gets married, she's GONE, if Mommy gets married, she stays!!! (As in, obvious the kid will be staying with his mom weather she's single or married!) Well with this realization, he told me NOT to get married! Mommy can get married, buuuuuuut NOT YOU!!! 

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Weeeeeelllll randomly, I was leaving the house to run errands the other day and before walking out the house, I went by O's room and he was busy playing and building stuff with his magnetic blocks, I asked for a hug goodbye, buuuuuut he was BUSY, he didn't have time to say bye to me...

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Soooooooo as I walked towards the front door, I YELLED OUT, fiiiiiiiiine then Odin, I'll just LEAVE, I'll GO GET MARRIED!!! He was like, NO! Aunt Mary! You better NOT get married!!! I will be sooooo mad if you do!!!

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I was liiiiiike, okaaaaaaaaayyy fiiiiiiiine, come give me a hug goodbye and I'll just run some errands instead...

just to be be nice ya know!?!?!;))) 

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Well this WHOLE threat of getting married as a threat has been greatly amusing me!!! IF ONLY the kid knew JUST HOW much he does NOT need to be worrying about it!!! Sooooooooooo the last time I threatened him with, FINE THEN, I'll just GO GET MARRIED!!! He was like, Nooooo! Aunt Mary, you can't get married, your too young, YOUR ONLY 37!! Wait till your older!!! Please Auntie MarMar, just wait till your 72!!!

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I'm liiiiiiike Heeeeey, If could have kids at 72, I would TOTALLY BE FINE with waiting til 72...I mean hey God can make up for lost time...if he wants do it, HE CAN!!! That'd be kinda cool...I would just straight up tell me kids to call me GrandMom! Like a 2 for 1 deal!!! BAHAHAHAAA!!!

Pentecostal kids 2020!!!

 You might me a Pentecostal Child in 2020 WHEN...

When your quoting Acts 2 and instead 

of saying cloven tongues you say...

 COVID TONGUES!!!

 True story folks!!! So the kids at LCA, our church school, are memorizing Acts 2 and O started saying COVID tongues...I waited for the school to correct it just cuz it made me laugh so hard and I wanted everyone else to laugh too!!! (I BELIEVE Pastor has corrected him though! HAHA!!!) 

Thankfully, COVID tongues are NOT

 the evidence of the Holy Ghost!!! 

"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." (Acts 2:1-4)

♥Mary Frances :)

Odin's 4th of July Greeting!!!

Soooooooooo we had a quarantined 4th of July celebration this year(Insert eye roll) buuuuuut we met at my brother's house for fireworks in the street, which everyone, including a lot of neighbors on the street, and as the fireworks went off, this was O's greeting to EVERYONE...

It was quite HILARIOUS!!! Uh, wrong Holiday O!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Just washing his hands!!!

Soooooooo the other day I take Odin to the splash pad in the Scottsdale Quarter. As I mentioned in a previous post in an O adventure at Scottsdale Quarter, it's a very ritzy outdoor shopping center. Well before we head over to the Splash pad, I figure it would be a good idea to use the restroom BEFORE hand this time!!!

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So while Im in my stall here little O, who is '"supposed" to be washing his hands say, SORRY Aunt Mary, I'm not in trouble, I'm NOT. I'm like, great, WHY would I have a reason to think that you are??? So when I come out of the stall he is standing at the sink, just waiting for my like a PERFECT LITTLE GENTLEMAN, he is holding the whole entire sink faucet in his hand and is like, let me help you Aunt Mary, you just stick your hands under the water and let the water go over your hands.

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Now I'm pretty impressed with this sink set up, so this is how fancy-shmancey things are in SCOTTSDALE, we have a whole entire faucet that comes out of the wall, kinda like a shower head. So I get some soap and let him be a gentleman and hold the faucet over my hands as I wash up...AWWWWWWWW Scottsdale, this is THE LIFE!!!

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Then as I'm washing up, I NOTICE something, if this is some kind of fancy faucet, WHY is it hanging from wires out of the wall??? I gasped, ODIN!!! That's WHY YOU WERE SAYING SORRY, YOU BROKE THE SINK!!! He's like, it's ok, Aunt Mary, you washed your hands, I helped you, GOOD JOB!!! I'm like, LET'S GO!!!!

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I'm like, WOOOOOWWWW!!! I can't even go to the bathroom without my child breaking a SINK!!!! A sink you guys, he broke a SINK!!! Who does that??? AHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAA!!! Am I like the WORST BABYSITTER EVER???

Heeeeeeeeeyyyy NOW...

before anyone starts passing judgment on my babysitting skills, I just wanna say this...

BUUUUUUT HIS HANDS ARE CLEAN!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

I want CORN!!!

Sooooooooo the other morning Little O was begging me for corn for breakfast! Corn Aunt Mary, I want to eat CORN!!! I was like, REALLY? You want corn?! WOW!!! I mean the kid NEVERRRR begs for his veggies!!! Actually, I think THE ONLY veggie the kid eats is FRIES annnnnnnd sometimes you can sneak some stuff onto his pizza, soooooooooo really CORN???

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I was excited that my nephew was asking for CORN!!! I mean, it may NOT be the healthiest veggie around, buuuuuuuuuuut still, it was a VEGETABLE!!! (WOOOHOOO) Soooooooooooo I search the pantry but to my dismay, there is NO corn! I'm like, SORRY O, buuuuuut we don't have any corn!!!!

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllll that just freaked him out when I said NO CORN!!! He was like YES AUNT MARY!!! CORN! CORN! CORN!!! I'm like, Odin, I just looked, we do NOT have any corn!!! CORN! AUNT MARY, PLEASE! CORN! I'm like, Ok Odin, GET ME THE CORN AND I"LL GIVE IT TO YOU!!! 

See, CORN AUNT MARY, CORN!!! 

It was the INDUSTRIAL size thing of uniCORN pop tarts my sister had bought for the Sunday School Kids!!!

Yes, REALLY MY FRIENDS,

 this is O's version of CORN!!! 

(Aren't they so cuuuuuute?!)

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd 
so the kid had HIS CORN!!! 

Btw: DID YOU KNOW THAT ONE POP TART IS 200 calories??? A serving is ONE, buuuuuut you all know you gonna eat 2, cuz that's what comes in the package...which is just wrong that they put 2 in a package buuuuuut a serving is ONE...liiiiiiiiike seriously??? Anywho, one package of pop tarts is 400 calories!!! SOOOOOO RIDICULOUS!!! Buuuuuuuuut maaaaaaaan I want a pop tart right now!!!( thankfully, we don't got any!!!!)

♥Mary Frances :)

Odin's Adoption Party!!!

David and Goliath themed party adoption party...everything turned out GREAT!!!

Special thanks to our sis-in-law Grace for making the wall art of David and the giant Goliath and the picture collage and to Sis. Abbott for doing the table décor and to our brother John for doing the food annnnnnnnnnnd to Frys AKA: Kroger for the AMAAAAAZING looking and tasting cake!!! 

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At a Ginty party, it's NOT been a successful party IF...

EVERYONE at the party is NOT taking home leftovers!!! 

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The bombest bounce house everrrrrrrr!!!! DOUBLE SLIDES FOR RACING!!! You all shoulda heard Odie when we pulled up and he saw it, he literally SCREAMED for joy and ran into it!!!

Everyone would come annnnnnd I'd be like, to all the adults, COME ON, get in the bounce house, race down the slides!!! And they'd be like, I WILL IF, YOU WILL!!! I'm like, OKAAAAAAAAAAAY, lets go then, cuz I've ALREADY BEEN DOWN 6 TIMES...I'll RACE YOU!!! 

 We even had a GOLIATH piñata to beat up!!! We couldn't find one that we thought looked like Goliath, so my sis came up with just printing a pic from offline and tape it on!!! It worked great, the kids loved it!!!

 I will say that it was one GOLIATH of a piñata too!!! El Super really does have THE BEST pinatas and at a GREAT price!!!

Goliath's sign says the scripture, AM I A DOG??? Everyone was saying, Goliath looks SO MEAN! It's like, UMMMMMM...it's GOLIATH...He's SUPPOSED TO!!! LOL

One God and God is BIGGER than YOU!!! 

 Overall, it was a GREAT PARTY!!! Everyone was like to my sis, MAAAAAN you really know how to throw a party!!! It's kinda A GINTY THING!!! Hee, hee!!! 

Thank you everyone for your love, prayers and support as we welcome, embrace and THANK GOD for our NEWEST LITTLE GINTY!!! To God be ALL THE GLORY!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

When Your Nephew learns how to cut....

Soooooooooo every week I take Odie to his therapies and his occupational therapist is SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED because he is doing sooooooo well with his CUTTING SKILLS!!! Annnnnnnnnnnd I'm trying to be excited with her, buuuuuuut ALL I'M THINKING IS...

THE LAST THING THIS KID NEEDS TO LEARN  IS HOW TO CUT STUFF!!!!! 

He learns HOW to cut ANNNNND THE DOG GETS A HAIR CUT!!! Buuuuuuut at least that's ALL...so far!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)
#HappyAdoptionDay
#Officially-A-Ginty!!!

Please!!!!

Soooooooooo my lil nephew Odin, that came to live with us last January, when he came to my sister he hardly said any words at all, due to the horrible environment he spent the first years of his life in, he was hardly exposed to anything and combined with the fact that he is special needs and diagnosed with autism!!! but in this past year his vocabulary has increased sooooo much he now says so many words, he is very much a VERY LOUD little chatterbox, but I think our favorite was when he finally decided to start calling my sister MOM!!!

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Weeeeeeeellll anyway, we were trying to get him say Stultz for when he'd see Jonathon annnnnd he FINALLY did it the other day! And its sooooo cute the way he says it, like, STOOOOOOTZ!!! LOL  So now when he sees him its like, Stoootz! Stoootz! Stoootz!!!

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So last night we were all driving around looking at Christmas lights, well Odin has this game  he likes to play where he says your name and calls for you until you say, WHAT?! As soon as you say, WHAT?! He goes right to the next person and starts saying their name! So last night he's doing it and then he decides to start saying, Bye Stoootz! Bye Stootz!!!

So Jonathon is like, BYE??? I'm not leaving!!! And Odin is just like, Bye Stootz!!! So Jonathon's like, You want me to leave?! And without missing a beat and with the sweetest tone Odin says,

"PLEASE!"

We were sooooo NOT expecting him to say that!!! We seriously, DIED laughing, it was, THE FUNNIEST thing everrrrrrrr!!! I don't know that I've ever even heard him say please before that and it was in the RIGHT context too!!! ANd WHO says it while asking someone to LEAVE?!?!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! He's such a little crack up!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday From ODIE!!!

HAPPY MONDAY!!!

Brought to you all today by my adorable little nephew Odin...

Soooooo yesterday morning, during the preaching, pastor is talking about Jezebel and right when he says, and when Jezebel realized that all her FALSE PROPHETS WERE DEAD... Odin happily and loudly says, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! And starts clapping and cheering!!!!

His cheering was for something ELSE buuuuuuut it was PERFECT TIMING!!! Gotta loooooove the funny moments at church!!! Whoever says church is BORING has NEVERRRRR been to MY CHURCH!!! Hee, hee!!!

♥Mary Frances :)