November Weekend Smorgasbord!!! Youth Rally-Hike-Birthday-Thanksgiving-Feast-2016!!!

LPC YOUTH RALLY 2016

Starting off with this past Friday, we had an AWESOME Youth Rally!!! Bro. Garrett preached a very much needed message to us all about living for God and if we want to make it to heaven and if we want to live for God it's NOT going to happen UNLESS we do something about it, we're not just going to make it coasting along!!!

 After wards all the young people had a great time socializing, eating and playing games. We had out fire pits, a coffee bar, an air hockey table, a ping-pong table and of course basketball!

Annnnnnnnnd we had something VERY COOL at our thing and that is a HOT COOKIE TRUCK...it was GREAT!!! A big hit!!!

Deedee's First Hike

I took Deedee up to Fountain Hills early Saturday morning and we hiked! She absolutely LOVED it! She's so athletic, I'm all hauling myself up the hill and she's like, YOUR TIRED??? LOL I was just a little disappointed tho that the fountain wasn't going, its soooooooo BEAUTIFUL and I wanted her to see that, buuuuuut oh well NEXT TIME!!!

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BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnd after the hike Deedee and I headed over to Scottsdale Ranch Park for the birthday party of some of my favorite kids, Arie, Sammy, MaKenna and Isacc!!!! Their parents decided since all their first 4 kids birthday are real close together in the fall that they would have one big party for all of them! It was great and funnnnn!!!

It was Arie's actual birthday tho!!! Love this girl, she's such a sweetie and fun, pretty much has my love life all planned out...I'm glad someone's working on it, bahahahahaha!!!

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 Us ladies even joined the potato sack race!!! I was the first one to volunteer to join...LOL!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnd off we go!!! Hopping like bunnies!!!

 Sis. Abbott WON! She's basically an athlete runner now...;))))

Annnnnnnnnnd there I am, coming in LAST and cheering for myself!!! LOL!!!

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Deedee!!!

I LOOOOOOVE THIS GIRL!!!

 MJ, I looking cute!!!

And games and FUNNNNNNNN!!!

 It was a great time, so glad I got to join!!!

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THANKSGIVING FEAST 2016

Had a great time today with my church family!!!

Its an LPC tradition to have a Thanksgiving Feast every year, memories of this from when I was a kid, was one of my FAVORITE times...LOVE IT!!!

Candy Rain after wards...parents were like, MORE CANDY??? Lol weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllll some of them...some of them were OUT THERE GETTING IT!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

 

Annnnnnnnnnnnd that was my awesome Smorgasbord weekend!!! I'm so grateful for such a funnnnn and busy weekend!!! Looking forward to MORE funnnnnn this week!!! Thanksgiving, birthdays, pizza making with my bro, black Friday shopping, a play...Wooooooohooooo!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

How was YOUTH ALIVE?!?!

Youth Alive was AWESOME!!! I had soooooo much fun and it was sooooo COOL being at an amusement park with so many fellow Apostolics!!! At one point this guy that isn't Apostolic walks by me, looks at my skirt and just kind of mutters under his breath, "National Skirt Day" HAHAHAHA!!! I was like Oooooooo yeah!!! It's been "National Skirt Day" for me, EVERY DAY since I was about three years old! (Which I'm glad about that, CUZ i previousley had to wear ALL of my brother Joe's HAND-ME-DOWN pants!!! Don't ask what happened to Theresa's pretty clothes...THEY WERE ALL PUT ASIDE AND SAVED FOR HER---->THE FIRST BORN!!! This is what happens when your THE MIDDLE CHILD!!!LOL!) Soooo on the way home, the question was asked to me;

 WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF YOUTH ALIVE? I was like hmmm...cuz there was A LOT of stuff goin on with this trip... Church, Preaching, THE PARK, THE RIDES, The Singspiration, The socializing...UH yeah...I stopped there...THE SOCIALIZING was FOR SURE my favorite part of the trip!!!! LOL! Sorry if it seems TOTALLY unspirtitual of me to say that, BUT its the HONEST TRUTH!!! I love going and getting to see all my friends that I don't get to see very often AND just makin memories with my youth AND meeting new people!!! I got to meet SOOOO many people for the first time on this trip AND I LOVE THAT!!! I love making friends!!! Its just sooooo AWESOME! AND it's not something that I can just do ALL the time!!!  I LOVED the preaching, but I have good preaching at my church! I enjoyed the singing, BUT my church is filled with talented singers!!! I LOVED praying, but I can pray ANYWHERE, ANY TIME!!! For that matter God is EVERYWHERE, however, I AM NOT...which is what makes socializing SOOOO AWESOME!!! LOL Thats my story and I'm stickin with it!!!

YOUTH EVERYWHERE!!!

Ashlyn & Denae

These two girls are sisters, I didn't know them but they found me and said that they read my blog and I got to hang out with them a little bit...they were really sweet AND soooo PRETTY!!!

Me & Kendra!!!

I FINALLY got to meet this girl!!!

She is soooo cool, wish we coulda hung out longer AND I am kinda BUMMED that I didn't actually get to hear her sing at the second session of the singspiration! (We had to head back to AZ) I have heard that she is an AWESOME singer!!! WCC?!?!?!

Kendra & Brendan Thaler

Awww... they are sooooo cute!!! :)

 Me and Sis. Kendricks...

We read each other's blogs and she reconized me...

So OF course we had to get our pic together!!! :D

Leah & Yvette!!!

These two girls were SOOOOO funny!

They had all these Apostolic Male Models picked out for me & they kept trying to show me this one guy's green eyes...LOLOLOL!!! I'm glad I got to meet you girls and THANKS for reading my blog!!!

THE one person that I did NOT get to meet in person is SIS. KATHY, from Bro. White's church in Burbank! We have been blog friends FOR SOOOO LONG and We like totally had it ALL planned but it just didn't work out!!! I saw her though sittin across from me during the preaching but didn't feel it would be apropriate to go say hi, right then...HAHAHA! She was soooo busy helpin run stuff with her church and was behind stage the WHOLE day at Knotts...SHE didn't even get to ride any rides!!! Any of you all that sang, probabley got to meet her...The pretty blonde lady with a clipboard! :)

Oh I also got to meet the little miss Meghan Rowell, this REALLY cool girl named Elissa, (WHO'S mom gave our youth these AWESOME brownies she made, and I REALLY hope she text messages me, cause I was hangin out the van window, givin her my number and I didn't get hers!!! LOL) AND there was some other people that I met to, soooooo I'm sorry if I didn't say anything about you or if I didn't remember your name or get a picture...We'll do it for SURE @ WCC!!! FIND ME!!!

Woooooohooooooo!!!! Can't wait!!!

YUP...SOCIALIZING was fo sho....

MY FAVORITE PART of YOUTH ALIVE!!! :)

View my picassa album of THE WHOLE trip HERE