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 :)

My Christmas Sweater!!!

Soooooooo with Thanksgiving being over, it is officially CHRISTMAS TIME for me!!! I wanted to get a Christmas sweater but couldn't decide for sure what I wanted buuuuuuuut when I found this one I KNEW I had to get this one!!! The one I chose just cracked me up...I got it especially in honor of Stultz this year...

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It's this adorable gingerbread man and it says,

OH SNAP!!!

Annnnnnnnnnd the leg is broken!!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you don't get WHY its in honor of Stultz, refresh your memory HERE!!! Oh SNAP...LOLOLOL!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

 

Guidelines for engagement...

This past Sunday morning Pastor Abbott said he was going to teach a lesson "Guidelines for engagement" of course my ears perked up ANNNNNNNND since I was still sitting on the platform from praise singing, EVERYONE felt the need to look at me...not to sure WHY...buuuuut hey, if they're all believing in faith for me, I'LL TAKE IT!!! AHAHAHA!!! Even Pastor Abbott was like, Mary are you ready?! I'm like, YEAH... liiiiiiiiike, ten-years-ago-ready!!! BAHAHAHA!!

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Soooo I figured the lesson was going to go something like this...

TURNS OUT THAT...

Pastor's message was completely SPIRITUAL!!! "Guidelines for engagement", IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE!!! LOL (Okay I know spiritual warfare isn't funny, it just was in this context! LOL) Sooooooo at the end of his message, Pastor was talking about how there are things that we will have to cut out of our lives at times, but then he read this scripture...

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"When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:" (Deuteronomy 20:19)

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He was talking about how we need to cut out the things in our lives that GO AGAINST THE THINGS OF GOD! The people that want to fight against God and don't want peace with God and His people. BUUUUUT we need to be careful that we're not cutting out EVERYTHING in our lives that see things a little different from us. We need to have good friends, good fellowship, family to spend time with...He was just saying, if you were to cut out EVERYTHING that isn't JUST LIKE YOU, your not even going to have somewhere to spend Thanksgiving this year.

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And that's what Deut. 20:19 is talking about, if they destroyed the trees, they would be destroying their own shelter and food, their own life source. Annnnnnnnnnnd from that aspect, I GOT MY OWN, MARY-VERSION GUIDELINES CONCERNING ENGAGEMENT!!! Wait let me clarify that I didn't think this all up on my own, as I was struggling to make spiritual clarity between pastor's analogy and my own, THE COMPLETED word came through Stultz...Such an anointed brotha...AHAHAHAHA!!! Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay...Are you all ready for this???

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So after church as Pastor was walking by, someone was like thanking pastor that message and I was like, YEAH, I'm sooooooo ready for marriage now!!! AHAHA!!! Then I was like, soooooo basically what I got from the end of that message was this, If I want to get married, the answer is NOT to destroy all my fellow single sistas standing in my path, BECAUSE IF I DO...then I was like, stumbling for WHY this wasn't a good idea, I'm like ummmm...The answer is NOT to destroy all the singles girls... BECAUSE...uh...And Stultz says, BECAUSE IF YOU DO...

 YOU WON'T HAVE ANY  BRIDESMAIDS TO STAND WITH YOU WHEN YOU GET MARRIED!!!!

Ok that was GOOD!!! ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! YES, that is WHY I must NOT destroy them... They are NOT my enemies...I NEED BRIDESMAIDS!!!
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Who would straighten my dress???

Who would carry my veil???

WHO WOULD CATCH MY BOUQUET???

Yes, yes, I'll refrain from cutting some of you trees down as I battle in the war of getting married...I just MAY need you for my wedding!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sooooo basically, any of you girls that get to stand with me on my wedding can say thank you to Pastor Abbott and Stultz!!!! LOLOLOLOL

♥Mary Frances :)
P.S. Really, I love all of  you my single and NOT single sistas!!! Mar Bear Hug!!! Purrrrrr!!!

AMA and breaking news!!!

It's time for my A Mountain Apart post... Let's go back, waaaaay, WAY, waaaayyy back to the beginning of June! Now really, that DOES seem like foreverrrr and a day ago!!! Buuuuuut HERE we go, this post is about A Mountain Apart and some BREAKING NEWS!!! Wamp, wamp, wamp...

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So it was ME, T, MJ and Stultz driving together to camp!!! Stultz was the official driver!!!

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This game at Cracker Barrel basically always tells m that I'm STUPID!!! Hee, hee!!!

On the way there we stopped at Cracker Barrel... Got my FAVORITE, blueberry pancakes, with a side of hash brown casserole...YUMMMM!!!

Here we are at camp, Bro. Andrew leading or something... Doing his announcements probably!!!

Sooooooooo we got through one day and after lunch I went to my room to take a nap. Set my alarm to get up in time for CHOIR PRACTICE...YES, I did say, CHOIR PRACTICE!!! A Mountain Apart and MY CHURCH are THE ONLY choirs I join!!! For many reasons, one being, I HATE RISERS...they scare me to death, #2 They take away from my socializing time #3 Theres usually MORE than enough people to sing, SOMEONE has to stay in the congregation to actually enjoy the choir and worship!!!

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 Buuuuuuuuuuut anyway, I ALWAYS go to choir at AMA...ever since the year I ditched in order to do a really cute hair-do, Sis. Devi NEVER let me forget that for the rest of the camp...I learned don't mess with a pregnant mamma...AHAHA...the hair do was REALLY CUTE tho by the way, ANNNNNND I still remember that I looked SOOOOO GOOD that night!!! It was soooo worth the rebuke just to look at myself in the mirror and take a million selfies...AHAHAHA!!! WAIIIIIT let me see if I can find the pic...Okaaaaaaaaaay i'm back...I couldn't find it!!!

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Anywayz, back to AMA 2015 annnnnnd THE BREAKING news I told you all about... Soooooooo I'm on my way to choir practice and I think that i'll stop at the gym to see whats going on. As soon as I walk in all the girls are like, MARY! Jonathon just broke his leg! I'm like, Haha!!! Funny guys...they're like, NO REALLY, Mary he broke it! I'm like, WHEN??? They're like, JUST NOW!!! I'm like, WHAT??? WHERE??? They're like, RIGHT oVER THERE!!! I'm like, OH...annnnd there is Stultz, laying on the ground with his LEG BROKEN!!! See, I told you guys I had...

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

(Buh-dump. Chhh!!! AHAHAHA)

This is him, obviously, laughing in pain at something I had just said!!! LOL Well I didn't know what else to do to try and make him feel better, I'm NOT like a nurse or something!!!

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Then Bro. Foster had me call his mom...cuz ya know, they really only know our family with us being neighbors and all...then his dad called me...when I saw Stultz at the hospital I was like, DUUUUUDE your dad sounds JUST LIKE YOU ON THE PHONE...I mean like, right down to the awkward pauses...BAHAHAHA!!!

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Here he is being RESCUED by the paramedics...a long winding drive to the nearest hospital...eeeeks...Poor guy...buuuuut even in his pain, HE STILL managed to witness to the paramedics about JESUS NAME BAPTISM!!! Go Stultz!!! He's just bomb like that!!!

The drive to the hospital, T and I drove there too since he was gonna be having surgery and all, as you can see, we were basically out in the middle of NO WHERE!!!

All went well with the surgery and he was able to leave the next day...thank God cuz the next nurse that came in seemed WEIRD...Her greeting to him was,"Hey Guy!" I'm like, ummmm...I'm NOT a nurse, buuuuut I'm pretty sure that's not very professional...I'm JUS SAYIN...LOL!!!
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Oh annnnnnnd then we had this adventure in K-mart cuz Stultz went there to pick up some supplies he needed with having his broken leg and everything, sooooo I went inside to get him an electrical cart and the one was DEAD and the other one I saw some teen taking...So when I told Stultz he was incredibly frustrated cuz he was still pretty worn out from everything and wobbly on his crutches still!!! and it was taking forever for him to get anywhere in the store. He was like, SO ANNOYED that this teen, who was perfectly capable of walking, had gotten the cart...we were gonna report it...buuuuut then we realized that they had gotten it for their Grandma!

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So everywhere Stutlz would hobble and struggle to get to in the store we would end up passing this grandma in the electrical cart and Stultz and I would just look at each other...cuz HE NEEDED IT!!! AHAHA!!! Sooooooooooo THEN we're finally up front, he's paying for everything ANNNNNNNNNND this Grandma comes CRASHING up front in the next line over!!! She's like, I guess I don't know how to drive this thing... We were like, WOW!!! Then we just started laughing!!! It was pretty funny!!!

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Anywayz, BACK TO CAMP...We made it back for the last service!!! Here is the kids choir singing, Denae was their director and they did great!!!

Me and lil Miss Gally!!!

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Joe Momma...he was being a good friend and carrying all Stultz's stuff to our van..

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Oh this was funny, sooooooo we're standing out on the porch of the dorms a bunch of us and I'm walking by Sis. Devi's room and I look in and see she's packing their stuff up...buuuut a bunch of it was just being organized or whatever but it was sprawled out on the bed, I was like to everyone, OoooooH WOW, you guys, Sis. Devi's room is ACTUALLY A MESS!!! Buuuuuut what I didn't realize was that...

THE WINDOW WAS OPEN!!!

I can't remember what she said to me buuuuuuuut I was just like, OOOOoOOOOPS!!! Then like HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Here's Stultz again...Awwww poor guy...buuuut it did get him A LOT of girl attention!!! Something about a guy being hurt and every girl wants to tend his wounds....AHAHAHA!!! Plus even the guys were talking to me about what A MAN he was! They're like, He was just so chill about it! He jumps up, falls and yells out, I broke my leg and just lays there, They're like, HE DIDN"T EVEN CRY, now that's a MAN!!!" AHAHAHA!!! That's Stultz, the King of NON dramatic!!! The only time he yelled out was when this man, that was a volunteer paramedic I believe, when they were moving him and Stultz said his leg some how got caught in the man's big belly...He said, THAT WAS PAINFUL!!! Eeeeeks...LOL!!!

My sis was like, So I guess this means your NOT driving home!!!  AHAHAHA!!!

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Everyone saying their goodbyes...

Me and Miss Daisy...OH yeah girrrrrl, you DID have braces at camp...NOW I see them!!! AHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! We didn't get to hang out as much at camp buuuuut we made up for it at Joe and Anali's wedding...Hee, hee!!!

Joe and Sergio...

Lil Gally again...

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Our group pic...Stultz in the middle, everyone said he was the camp HERO...

Buuuuuut if you ask me he was just the camp's wounded hero, I MEAN, I don't see how breaking your leg makes you a hero... I say he was ALREADY a hero because he's been living for God on his own since he was 12, being an example to other young people that you can make it living for God in an ungodly environment...that's what's heroic to me...I mean come on, he didn't even make the shot...Ahahahahahahahaha!!! Juuuuuuust kidding STULTZ...JUST KIDDING!!! :))))

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Ooooooh I ALMOST FORGOT...Broc!!! You wanted me to make mention of you on my blog and I said only if you did something that was mentionable annnnnnd this is what I noticed...HOW you ACTED like you were ALL EXCITED to see me when you arrived whenever you got there...buuuuuut...what you were REALLY doing was standing there talking to me so you could take cuts in the dinner line!!! Uh huh...don't think I didn't know!!! AHAHAHA!!! I just didn't say anything cuz it was YOUR BIRTHDAY...dinner line cuts was kinda like my birthday present to you...Yes, soooo giving of me...YOUR WELCOME!!! :)))

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All in all, it was a good camp...UNEXPECTED events happened buuuuut still very memorable!!!

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Writing this post I started going through old AMA posts ... I could NOT stop laughing when I read THIS post, "Knocking on the floor!" Read it you guys!!! Annnnnnd if you happen to be reading this Alahondra, I MISS YOU being at AMA!!! COME HOME!!! :))))

 

This BLOND MOMENT!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

 

Sunglasses Funeral!!!

 

AMA 2012 memories!!! AWWWW!!!

Peach UNfestival!!!

Sooooooo I've always heard that this farm in AZ, Schnepf's Farm, has a peach festival in spring every year! I have always wanted to go buuuuuut every year I miss it, due to the fact that weeeeeeellll its NOT like I really think about anything going on in the spring!!! We always go to the Pumpkin Harvest festival in the fall but always forget for the peach one! Annnnnnd I had been hearing that they sell peach food EVERYTHING!!! Which is REALLY cool in my world!!!

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Sooooooo I convinced some of my friends from church to go! Me, T , Stultz and my lil man Regan were going to go meet the Karlson's and their girls there in Queen Creek! So the first part of the trip was me telling Stultz all the latest on my life, if you all think my life is exciting from this point, just think if you got to hear ALL THE BEHIND THE SCENE JUICINESS OF MY LIFE!!! Buuuuuut there are ONLY a few that are actually blessed enough to hear all this stuff, YOU ALL KNOW WHO  YOU ARE!!! HEH, HEH!!! Anywayz, I was like, I think this hr drive is a review of the 9 hr trip to AMA in New Mexico, this summer, T in the back snoozing and me running my trap to Stultz and him acting like he's listening...AHAHAHAHA!!!

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Weeeeeeellll when we're almost there Janelle calls me and says that there is NO Peach festival today and that pancake breakfast was canceled too!!! I was like, WHAAAAAAAT????? Peach pancakes, i'd been DREAMING ABOUT THEM!!! I'm like, HOW CAN THEY JUST CANCEL???? Its like, ON THEIR WEBSITE!!! ANNNNND its an hour drive to Queen Creek!!!! Of course there is NO customer service number on there but I guess that's to be expected, after all, its A FARM!!! AHAHA!!!.

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(Selfie, with the peach trees behind me!)

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Buuuuuuuuut then Janelle called back and said that they were STILL selling all kinds of peach baked goods down there, INCLUDING THE PEACH CINNAMON BUNS!!! We were then soooooo excited then because after all, the food was THE MAIN attraction of us all going anyways!!!

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When we got there we headed over to the petting zoo...in which I realized that I have NO DESIRE TO EVER MARRY A FARMER!!! It smelled soooooo bad!!! There are flys EVERYWHERE on the animals annnnnnnnnd I was itching like crazy!!! I dont' really consider myself prissy buuuut I'm NOT huge on animals unless they are extremely clean and they have to PROMISE NOT TO LICK ME!!! I'm sorry but that's just DISGUSTING!!! Anywayz, I DO LOVE STUFFED ANIMALS!!! Hee, hee!!! And cute little puppies and kittens annnnnnnd well you get the point!!!

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After washing up from that we then headed over to the Peacocks, they were stretching out their feathers from afar and it was so pretty!!! That's what they do to get a female's attention, I told Stultz he should try that at the next conference, I'td be pretty AWESOME!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! Well by the time we got over their they were done and I said that's what they ALSO do when they are scared to scare off the enemy so WHY don't we all try scaring them??? I won't say WHAT ALL WE DID buuuuuuuut...Stultz, Regan and I tried very hard to scare them, buuuuuut in the end the birds ended up scaring me with this ridiculous SQUACK!!! I jumped and screamed sooooo loud!!! Stultz was laughing soooo HARD!!! HA WHATEV!!!

 

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It was then time to CHOW!!!

Peach cinnamon rolls, it filled the WHOLE ENTIRE PLATE!!!

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Cinnamon rolls, Peach cobbler, peach pie, peach French toast,

 

PEACHES!!!

I'm still kind of bummed that we didn't get any peach ice cream, peach PIZZA, peach lemonade annnnnnnd PEACH PANCAKES, buuuuuuuuuuuuut my wallet and all the clothes i'm trying to fit into for this summer THANK shnepfs farm for NOT havin any of those!!!

THEN after we chowed we all decided to go on the train for a tour of the whole entire farm!!!

LOOK at my lil man, isn't he soooooo has MY HEART!!!

The kids were

 sooooooo EXCITED!!!

Meanwhile, us adults were having a total blast too!!! it was just like the old days...You guys remember when we would ALL go to Rawhide and THE WHOLE youth group would get on the train, and we'd hop seats while it was going, scream like it was a wild-crazy ride and then the guys would jump out of the train to show off to us girls, annnnd THEN they would chase the train and jump back on, I don't know HOW MANY CELL PHONES were destroyed while they "tried to WOO us"!!! Anywayz, this was like a milder rerun of those days, except we had kids with us this time annnnnd the WILD part was trying to grab a peach from the tree while we were going through!!! Janelle succeeded buuuut her husband FORBID her to eat it without paying for it, EVEN though it had a worm hole in it!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!!

Anywayz, it was a BLAST!!! Lotsa laughing!!! I think that's the thing about FRIENDS!!! Life changes, We may not always get to be with each other, or hang out like we used to, BUUUUUT WHEN WE DO, we just pick up where we left off, like nothing had ever happened!!!

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After that we headed to this Olive Grove right up this street, there was basically all kinds of ummmm OLIVE OIL...LOL....Buuuuuuut they also served really good food!!! Stultz, like any typical man decided that it was time to eat again, I kinda wanted to...buuuuut was feeling really WEIRD in my stomach...soooo I asked my sis if she just wanted to split with me...

Annnnnnnnnd I got orange juice!!! I don't know why you guys buuuut I have been having this OBSESSION with ORANGE JUICE!!! Like I can't stop drinking it!!! Then I SAW THIS and was like OMW that's sooooooo funky WIERD I gotta try that!!! I love trying WEIRD things like this, an like peach pizza,  buuuuut NOT weird things like nasty fish and sushi and animal guts and that kinda junk!!!

 

Yes, PRICKLY PEAR LEMONADE!!!

It was superrrrrr GOOOOOOD!!!

 

(Prickly pear is a cactus here in AZ!)

Then our buzzers went off to get our food, little man was THRILLED when it lit up and started buzzing!!! He was like laughing hysterically!!! It was pretty awesome!!!

Annnnnnnnnd him and Stultz were total buds the WHOLE day,

they just got a long great, it was sooooo CUTE!!!

And he was snatching some of Stultz' chips off his plate, it was superrrr funny!!! I was like, Say Please Stultz!!! he was like, PULEEEEZE!!! Of course Stultz said yes because who can resist the cutest lil boy in the whole entire world???

I told Stultz, you know its QUITE an honor for the Little Man to like you!!! He doesn't JUST LIKE ANYONE YOU KNOW!!! Buuuuuut I also told him not to be surprised if next time he gets snubbed!!! BAHAHA!!! He better have some chips and COKE ready!!! Hee, hee!!!

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Annnnnnnnnnd then it was time to go home!!! It was raining and as we drove home I started feeling sicker and sicker!!! I was like, OMW I think I'm gonna throw up!!! Stultz was like, NO! Not till we get home!!! I'm like, don't worry ill go out the window...He's like, Come on Mary you can do it, we're almost to your mom's...I was like, I hope this really ISN'T A REVIEW of the trip to New Mexico...annnnnnnnnnnnnnd....I DID MAKE IT TO MY MOM'S PEOPLE!!! AHAHAHA!! Anywayz, even that didn't take away from the fun!!! It was a great day, even IF it was an UNfestival!!! Hee, hee!!!

♥Mary Frances :)