Me too...MINUS!!!

Sooooooooo I'm UBERRRR excited in general about our church going to the Heritage Conference next week. The plan IS, leaving at 3 AM on Tuesday morning,  getting there for the Meet and Greet BBQ singspiration on Tuesday Eve, then Wednesday during the day, which ALSO happens to be MY 35th BIRTHDAY, (Not that it's a big deal or anything;)  we are going WHITE WATER RIVER RAFTING!!! I am BEYOND excited about this if you couldn't tell, everyone at my church knows that I have NOT SHUT UP about this for the last month...NO JOKE...I've literally talked about it more than the whole entire conference, they're like, is there a conference this year??? WE JUST KEEP HEARING ABOUT WHITE WATER RIVER RAFTING!!! Ahahahahahahaaaaa!!! 

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You guys don't understand, I couldn't do this BEFORE my weight loss, AND NOW I CAN!!! This is WHY I lost weight, SOOOOOOOOOOO I COULD GO WHITE WATER RIVER RAFTING!!! (And horseback riding, and hiking and to run races and fit on ALL the crazy rides, and to not need a seat belt extenstion on the airplane to wear cute belts and cute dresses, oh annnnnnnnd also to be healthy and NOT to die on early death!!!;) THEN on Thursday in between church services to go to WHIT'S END...(that's ANOTHER reason I've lost weight, to go down Wooton's slide and not worry about getting stuck...ahahahaaaa!!!) Okaaaaaaaay I haven't gotten that officially approved yet, buuuuuuut I'm pretty sure I can PUSH it on through...hee, hee!!! 

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Sooooooooooooo my good friend, Courtney Thaler, is joining our church group for this trip, which I'm absolutely ESTATIC about!!! Anywayz, she was texting me about some details of the hotel and such and then she's like, So do you just roll your clothes when you pack and then iron when you get there???I was like, 

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!

MINUS THE IRONING PART!!!! 

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Roswell & Ruidoso!!!

I had to do things to entertain myself on the 10 hr drive to Roswell...Hee, hee!!!

Writer's gonna write, write, write, write, WRIIIIIIIIIITE,  write it up, write it up!!!! 

Soooooooo when we got to Joe and Anali's in Roswell, THE FIRST thing lil Miss Alina did after she saw me, was reach for the toy I had given her for Christmas!!! Not sure if it was a coincidence or NOT, buuuuuuuuuut I LIKE TO THINK that she remembered that I had given it to her!!! Hee, hee!!! 

MAKING HER to get pics with her Auntie Mary!!!

The three of us, look at that lil smile on her face!!!

The next day we headed out to Ruidoso about 1.5 away from Roswell

What I looooove about this town is that theme is BEARS...Liiiiiiike MAR BEAR...sooooo my home!!! hee, hee!!!

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Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay so Anali told us about this AMAAAAAZING lil coffee shop in Ruidoso called SACRED GROUNDS, if you all go there, YOU HAAAAAAVE to try it, it's SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!!!!

BREAKFAST TIME!!!

My sister and I split the breakfast sandwich, egg, ham, pepper jack cheese and green chilis on  a FLUFFY cheddar cream cheese biscuit...it was SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD!!! and honestly it was HUGE!!! I ate half of my half and then saved the other half of my half for later!!!

The thing that was sooooooooo cool about this café was that there was an outdoor deck that you could sit on to enjoy eating from...with the forest and a creek to overlook, with GORGOUSE WEATHER...it was PERFECT!!! 

After breakfast were going to go down to the creek, buuuuuuuuut ANOTHER man that was eating breakfast on the deck, told us that the town of Ruidoso was having a BED-RACING-FLOAT-PARADE-RACE that was starting in 10 minutes, weeeeeeeelllll of course we couldn't just miss an a once in a life time opportunity like this....LOL...

Really, it almost seemed like the kinda thing that would be going on in ROSWELL, only it woulda been ALIENS in UFOs … HA!!! 

After the parade, we walked back to Sacred Grounds and went exploring behind by the creek, 

it was sooooooooooo PRETTY, I just loved it!!! 

The End of Heritage 2016!!! (Part 3)

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay soooooooooooooo,

BACK TO HERITAGE!!!

Thursday for Lunch we went to this place called Mint Thai, it was sooooooooooo GOOOOOOOD!!! This is another pick by Hanna and I must say, she is VERY good with finding stuff on YELP!!! And plus we all had so much fun together!!! Daisy and I had several laughing fits about who knows WHAT!!! So then Stultz is like REALLY GOOD at taking large group pictures, so we were saying that he's like the King of GROUPIES!!! And I'm the Queen of selfies and how the next time Stultz preaches its going to be about how its NOT all about your SELFIE, you NEED to include the whole GROUPIE...annnnnnnnnnd then I come running to the alter laying down my cell phone...LOL...Well you had to be there!!! Plus we had a REALLY funny waitress that was just adding to the craziness with her own funny comments!!!

OH annnnnnd the ICED THAI TEA WAS AMAZING!!!

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Jen Lord and I, I love Jen! We have our talks, several times a month, here we are catching up during choir practice!!!

Someone getting a ticket from a cute cop...NOT ME...
I wouldn't of been taking a picture otherwise!!! LOL

Friday we went to lunch at a pizza place called Fargos...

I didn't think their food was all that, buuuuuuuuuut we had funnnnn together!!!

And the décor was SUPER cute!!!

"That's NOT a CHANDALIER!!! THATS A HUGE DIAMOND NECKLACE, HANGING FROM THE CIELING!!! (AIO quote)

Hanna Photobombing my selfie...buuuuuut I LOVE this picture of us!!!

ACTUALLY, I loved this outfit too!!! SOoooooo CUUUUUTE!!!

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Melissa Garcia and I!!! I can't believe she's all grown up now!!!

Hanna, Wendy and Ashlyn..annnnnnnnnd CHECK OUT THAT PHOTOBOMBER...I have to say that's a pretty AWESOME PHOTOBOMBING!!! LOLOLOL!!!

Symphony and I...Shes soooo cute!!! Her signature photo pose for me thus far has been sticking out her tongue!!!

Met these two lovely girls from Kansas...

Thanks for reading blog ladies!!! :)))

Friday night we all had a BLAST at Perkins, buuuuuuuuuuuuut no pics!!!! I told a few life stories and we got to meet, THE PENTECOSTAL SANTA CLAUSE!!! LOL (Inside Joke!) Oh ANNNNND THEN when I was talking one time, unbeknownst to ME, the guys decided to COUNT how many times I said, "LIKE" they said 14 times in like 20 seconds...WHATEVERRRR!!!  

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Then after that we went back to our hotel, we got there at like 2 AM and Jonathon and Aaron were like, should we go check out the ballroom to see if anyone is still up there??? I was like, I think they said that it closed at 2 am, buuuuut we went up there anyhow and let me tell you something, THE PARTY, was STILL ROLLING in FULL SWING!!!

I finally got MY FIRST, LATTE ART!!!

Starting the LOOOOOOOOONG drive home!!!

I just noticed that Colorado Springs is BEAUTIFUL!!!

My toes talking to Stultz...they were saying turn on the audio story...

He said he don't talk to FEET!!!

I said, YEAH, buuuuuuuut

YOU talk to my PALM

ALL THE TIME!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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We listened to audio story dramas all the way home!!! I was surprised that Stultz's favorite story was "Jessica's First Prayer" anyway, As we drove Jonathon said that we couldn't listened to "The Haunted Room" till it got dark!!!LOL And it was super cool cuz it was storming in the story while they were driving, THEN it started storming as WE were driving...Buuuuuuuuuuut then my sis and MJ got freaked out when we got the part where the house servant is talking about the "ghosts" LOL

Soooooooooo we listened instead to "The Hiding Place" Which is an ABSOLUTE amazing story!!! I now want to go one day to Holland and visit The Ten Boom's home where they built their secret room...that would be AWESOME!!! Anywayz, we listened to that story til we literally GOT HOME!!! ALL In all it was an AWESOME TRIP!!!

Can't wait for Heritage 2017!!!

♥Mary Frances :)