One Last Birthday 🥳 Gift 🎁

Soooooooo August 21st... Liz gave me the birthday 🥳 present 🎁 from their family, they’ve had it since before John died buuuuuuuut with everything going on obviously they didn’t have a chance to give it to me and she said John had specifically picked this out for my 40th birthday present!!! when she showed it to me I screamed and laughed and wanted to cry all at the same time!!!! He definitely 💯 knew his big sister!!!! Lol 😂 it’s very much A MARY GIFT 🎁 🥰 😂

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WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS????

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Are you guessing???

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KEEP GUESSING!!!!

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Pastor guessed a husband....

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BUUUUUUUUT IT wasn't quite that amaaaaaZing...

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buuuuuuuuuuut ALMOST!!! ;)

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IT'S A...

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Thanks Mark!!! (Part 1)

Part 1

I was thinking about another story the other day from WAAAAAAAAAY back in the day, I was probably in my early 20's at the time, and I had a rumor that a certain you man that like me was going to give me a VERY BIG BIRTHDAY PRESENT...this may or may NOT be the same guy from, "Just Two Cups Of Water" My brother's all told me, he said he's going to give you $100!!!

 

 I was like, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT??? I mean, that may NOT seem like an EXTREMELY big gift, buuuuuuut when you have NO INTEREST in the guy, it KINDA IS!!! LOL!!!

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Well I was superrrrr excited about this gift, I mean, being jobless at the time, the possibilities for what I could do with $100 seemed ENDLESS!!! I couldn't wait...$100...better NOT let mom find out about this!!! Hee, hee!!!

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It turned out that on my birthday, July 18th, (mark your calenders folks;) this guy wasn't even going to be here. Him and my brothers and several other guys from our church were going on a missions trip overseas...AW bummmmmerrr...no $100 for Mar Bear!!! Then my brother's told me, no, he said he's  going to leave your birthday present at the house when we leave early in the morning!!!

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So the guys left for the airport at like 4am annnnnnd there was NO WAY I was getting up that early to see them off!!! Buuuuuuuuut when I woke up that day, sure enough, sitting by my pillow was a beautiful gift bag with a card.

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I was like YEEEEEEESSS$$$!!! I didn't really care what trinket was in the gift bag, OF COURSE the first thing I did was tear open the card.

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I opened up the card and it was some flowery-rose card with eloquent poetry, blah, blah, blah, I didn't bother reading it or ANYTHING that was written in the card...buuuuuuuuuuut much to my dismay, there was NO $100 in it! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat???? It was such a fancy card it had all these little layers of pretty papers and I searched EVERY LAYER AND STILL NO $$$$$$!!! Ugh!!!

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Weeeeeeeellllll maybe it was in the gift bag, like in a box or something!!! I open the gift bag and all that's in it was a FANCY ROSE PICTURE FRAME...with a picture of THE TWO OF US IN IT!!! I'm like, seriously??? A picture of us??? I don't want no picture of US...I don't even look good in the picture...LOL

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Oh well, I shoulda known a $100 gift was just all talk!!! Not wanting to clutter up my room, (See how organized I am?:) I simply walked into our kitchen and put the whole gift in the trash can, CARD AND EVERYTHING!!! Then, I just went about my day...ta, ta!!!

 

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Well later my brother calls and asks me if I got the gift? I was like, Oh yeah...he's like did you get the $100??? I was like, NOOOOO!!! There was no $100, just a picture of us!!! He's like, well you were supposed to look for it!!! I'm like, I DID!!! I searched that card high and low and there was NO $100 in it! He's like, where is the gift now? I'm like, IN THE TRASH!!! He's like, what??? Mary go get it out!!! I'm like, WHY? Its just a picture of us at a banquet that I don't want!!!

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He's like, JUST GO GET IT OUT!!! I'm like, Okaaaaaaaaaaay...then he says, open up the back of the frame, SO I DID, he's like, now move the card board piece, so I did, annnnnnnnnnnnnd LO AND BEHOLD...there between the picture and the cardboard in the back of the frame was $100!!! $weeeeeeeeeet!!!

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My brother is like, I can't believe you almost threw that away!!! I'm like, Okaaaaaaaaaaaay well hows a girl supposed to know there was a $100 bill in it??? He's like, well you were supposed to LOOK FOR IT and then if you didn't find it when we got back from the trip he was going to show you...I was like, OH! He's like, I mean, he wasn't planning on YOU throwing his stuff gift in the trash!!! LOL Oooooooooooops...my bad!!! Hee, hee!!!

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*BRO TIP: Buuuuuut hey guys, just a heads up, if you like a girl but she doesn't like you back and your going to give her $$$ and you plan on hiding it somewhere in another gift, you may want to tell her so she doesn't throw it away...Jus sayin!!! ;)

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Soooooooooooo NOW I had the $100... fresh and in MY HAND...

NOW WHAT???

(To be continued!!! Stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow!!!;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Just two cups of water!!!

The other day I was thinking about a time waaaaaaaay back in my teens and I busted up laughing!!! There was this guy that like, absolutely ADORED ME!!! Like, anything I wanted he would do! He liked me for like, EVERRRRR!!! He bought me expensive stuff that my mom always made me give back if it was to high, he took me to banquets, he just pretty much kissed the ground I walked on...NO JOKE!!! LOL He went to our church at the time and was good friends with my oldest brother.

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Well one day, this guy and me and my sis and my brother  and I'm not sure who else may have been with us, but we went to the drive through at Jack-in-the-box. I'm NOT sure where my mom was, but we had her van, which the transmission was going out on it so it was CONTINUALLY stalling! #poorLife

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Weeeeeeeellll as we were going through the drive through, I don't know WHY, for some reason I was getting up and switching spots with someone in the van. Well when I got up, the VERY OBNOXIOUS guy in his big O pick up truck yells out to me, Fat @*^%$@ I was like, kind of embarrassed but at the same time I was just like, Dude, your stupid whateverrrrr!!!

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 I didn’t even acknowledge the comment, But I mean, no matter what, comments like that still hurt you and put a damper on your spirits! No one in the car really said anything much about it just like, oh just ignore him, he's being stupid. But this guy that liked me just sat there and didn't say anything!!!

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So when we got up in line to order, we all said what we wanted and this guy that likes me says, "Just two cups of water for me!" So we're like, your not gonna eat? He's like, NO! Just two cups of water! We're like, OKAAAAAAAAAY...I hope he's NOT sick because he was also known for having the most random bouts of sickness!!!

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So we get our food and we're about to pull out on to the street and this guy says, No pull over in the parking lot and he starts to open his door! We're like OH GREAT! He's going to get sick!!! Now people are really going to say stuff! Well he gets out of the van and he's still holding his two cups of water. Then he looks my brother in the eye and he says, “GET READY!!!”

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NOW we're like, OH NOOOOOOOO!!! He then walks DIRECTLY to the big O pick up truck, goes up to the passenger side where this rude guy's girlfriend is sitting and he says to her, "HEY!" and when she turns her face to look at who said that to him, he throws the first cup of water in her face! Well having NO CLUE what had just happened to her, SHE SCREAMS!!! Like,

AAAAAAAUUUUUUHHHHH!!!

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Meanwhile, we're all siting in the van like, TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!!! Oh no, we're all gonna die!! What if this guy has a gun??? What are we going to do? What if he tries to chase us? What if the van stalls while we're trying to get away!!!

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Weeeeeelllll...When she screams, of course her rude boyfriend turns to see what is going on and upon seeing water all over her, he's like, WHAT IN THE @&^%$????? Just cussing up a storm and like a champ, when he turns his face to look out the passenger window to see what is going on, this guy that likes me takes the second cup of water and throws it in HIS FACE!!!

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 Which was EXACTLEY what this guy had planned to happen...he threw the first cup at the girlfriend, TO MAKE SURE, this obnoxious RUDE guy, turned his face to the passenger window so he could REALLY GET HIM...RIGHT IN THE FACE!!!

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Well now this guy in the truck is OBVIOUSLEY IRATE!!! He's yelling and screaming and cursing, revving his engine, BUUUUUUUT there is NOTHING he can do BECAUSE, there is a car in front of him and a car behind him now...HE'S STUCK!!!

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My devoted lover liker comes RUNNING BACK TO THE VAN at full speed, we have the door open and my brother just TAKES OFF OUT OF THERE!!! Thankfully, much to our relief, THE VAN DID NOT STALL!!! The Lord had mercy on us all!!! Finally when we were at a safe distance from Jack-in-the-box, we're like, LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY!!! I can't believe you did that...that's soooo STUPID...that's SO AWESOME...your an IDIOT...buuuuuuuuuuut DUDE THAT WAS AWESOME!!!

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He's just like, NOBODY, TALKS ABOUT MARY!!!! Awwwwwwww!!! Isn't that sooooo sweet??? Annnnnnnnd I have to say, had he had all his ducks lined up and been where he needed to be spiritually, weeeeeelllll I may have considered him!!! LOL!!! Cuz as idiotic of a move as that was, as a teenager, I was STILL pretty impressed by his bravery to do something soooooo STUPID, in order to STICK UP FOR ME!!!! Like seriously, AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

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As for that rude-obnoxious guy, first of all, I HOPE that his girlfriend realized she was dating a JERK and dumped him and second of all, I hope that every time in his life since then, when he goes to make fun of a fat girl, I HOPE HE REMEMBERS...

TWO CUPS OF WATER

Annnnnnnnnnnd THE MOST STUPIDEST ACT OF CHIVALRY EVER KNOWN TO MANKIND!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. And I'm honored that the act was done FOR ME!!! Hee, hee!!!

4th of July 2022!!!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll it all started on the weekend....

I pretty much got THE WHOLE church to dress up patriotic last Sunday...EVEN MY PASTOR!!!

Annnnnnnnnnd of course the CUUUUUUUUUTEST one of us all!!!

CAMILLE MORELAND!!!!

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I'm pretty sure an eagle would DIE and not fly if I ever tried to sit on it,

 buuuuuuuuuuuut HAPPY 4th anyHOW!!!

Made fried chicken BETTER THAN JOHN'S!!!!

   

Odin said, OH WOW AUNT MARY!!! Your chicken is gooooooooood...

..soooooooooooooo much better than LAST TIME!!!!! I was liiiiiike DUUUUUUDE, you wouldn't even TOUCH IT the last time I made it!!!!

Jus sayin HEE, hee!!!

For little Manny!!!!!!

The MAN with THE GOODS!!!!

Had to OUT DO me with his outfit and cake...it's ONLY cuz he's got my DNA now!!!! I was liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike John, I've noticed since last August such and Improvment in your cooking!!! He's liiiiike, I didn't get the transplant from you till SEPTEMBER, soooooooooo if your gonna say stuff AT LEAST get the date right...oooops...ahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!

POOL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

 FIREWORKS TIME!!!!

BOOM!!!

BOOM!!!

BOOM!!!

I'm VERY PROUD of this picture I took!!!! 

! Cooking, eating, swimming and illegal fireworks....Can't complain!!!!

All in all it was a good 4th of July!!

♥Mary Frances :)

AMA Trip 2022(Part 2)

June 8th-Last Day…waaaaaaah!!!

GooooooooooodMorning!!!

Me and the big sis…

 both of us pretty desperate for a triple shot ASAP!!!

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Ginty adults chilling at the pond!!!

#ShowerHairDon'tCare

Btw: this was my brother Abe and his family’s first year at camp and they loved it!!! They said they’re definitely getting walkie talkies for next year soooooo they don’t keep losing they’re kids…I maaaay… ahem…need some too… 😝 😇 

What happens at the pond, stays at the pond… unless you get splashed… THEN it goes home with you… EWWWWW!!!

Soooooooooo the whole week Odin and Kyle were having a contest for who could make more friends at camp🤣🙄😂 the final analysis was that Kyle made 8 new friends and Odin made 15… annnnnnnnnnd one of his 15 friends was a girl, not a girlfriend, buuuuuuuuut a friend that happened to be a girl and she was also his favorite friend too!!! Awwwwww 🥰

Me and Anali…. Sooooooo Alan wouldn’t let me hold him… buuuuuuuut he would say my name when I walked by!!!!

Btw: this is sooooooo my favorite hairdo everrrrr!!! I wish I could do a Dutch braid!!! I would do it every day of my life instead of just my normal plain side braid!!!! Buuuuuuut I can’t soooooo I get it once a year when I see Liz at camp!!!

Me and RayD!!!

Me and Alina!!!!

Cutie!!!!

Sooooooooo this is mine and Jenny’s tree cuz this is where we originally met when AMA was still small...we think in either 2014 or 2015 and we just sat there and talked about guys...she mentioned the guy I liked that he was cuuuuuuute and at the time I told her oh yeah he's like my brother...buuuut NOW i've i told her that really at the time, when she even mentioned him, INSIDE MY CAT CLAWS went out...ahahahahahahahahaaa... buuuuuuut the main guy we talked about was RYAN🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 AKA: The Nerd...and we talkedabout any girl Ryan looked at Besides Jenny… buuuuuuut in the end...she won 🏆 

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ME ON THE OTHER HAND... won a few battles buuuuuut lost...cat claws or NOT!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! Buuuuuuuuut at the same time...if it's NOT God's will...then in losing you kinda liiiiiiiiiiike, ACTUALLY WON too!!!

Me and Keri!!!

You guys isn’t my shirt soooooo cuuuuuuute!?!?? #Boba LOVERRRR

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Hanging out after an absolutely amaaaaaZing with a capital Z church ⛪️ service!!!

 1and a half songs and the Holy Ghost just poured out upon us all!!!! Bro. Joe Velez led song service that night...See girls I KNOW the GOOD GUYS...soooooo far I've ONLY BEEN WRONG ONCE...and it was for MYSELF... Soooooooo IF I TELL you a guy is a good guy...PRAY ABOUT IT!!!! Jus sayin!!! 

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And since I'm jus sayin...you older teen girls should consider guys from my church...Judah and Christopher are really good guys and they'll be graduating next year with two years of college BAM...done and Judah is also really funny and Christopher got the Christian Character award and both of them are nice to others...I watch...you may not think i am buuuut I AM...you girls should watch how a guy treats others and NOT JUST YOU!!!! Annnnnnnnnnd for young but kinda older guys that don't go to my church you should be looking at Bro. Franks grandson from Portales...I forgot his name buuuuuut you guys know who he is...sooooo nice and just an all around good guy... and everyone has good things to say about him...Oh Brendan i think...i've never heard anyone say anything bad about him....well aside from jumping in the guys dorm...bahahaahaaa...buuuut all good stuff besides that...jus sayin LADIES!!!!

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Pedro and LaCrecia October 2022!!!

Awwwwwww I’ve literally known Pedro since he was a little boy!!! Look they’re matching outfits, even they’re Bible matches!!!

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I made a new friend too!!! Naomi!!! Naomi and her husband are from Texas, the part that has an ocean... and they're so much fuuuuuuun!!! I’m still laughing 😂 about saying you’re more introverted these days... cuz girrrrrrrrrl I don’t see it!!!!

Naomi...I keep wanting to call you RUTH!!! LOL I think if you have a daughter you should name her Ruth Naomi!!! 

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Me and the girls!!! Oh I got to know Donaya better at camp this year- she's from Glendale is also a really good SINGLE girl and a lot of fun...she’s only been in church since 2018 buuuuuuuut you would think she was born and raised in church ⛪️ ain’t that just like the Lord???

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Jenny and me in my battle outfit… only my sister and Jenny knows what that means!!! Buuuuut it may or may not involve cat claws!!! Lol 😂 Buuuuuuut it’s my favorite article of clothing I have…well church article… my favorite is my Italian Girl hoody!!!! ;)

 Anywayz, this shawl/shrug is from MY FAVORITE everrrrr JOHNNY WAS!!! It literally just speaks MARY when you walk in!!! Its like really brightly colored, boho, exotic Asian flaired clothing geared actually for rich older woman buuuuuut I claimed it too!!! ANNNNND its soooooooo expensive!!! The only thing I own from it is this one thing and it was 75% off and I still had to lay out a pretty little penny for it....buuuuuuut I LOVED it and I'll NEVERRRR consign or sell it like I end up doing with most of my clothes after 6 months!!! 

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Okaaaaaaaaaaay…. Sooooo this is soooooo wrong buuuuuuut I was hanging out with Joe and Anali the last day and then Anali had to go inside cuz Alina biffed into the water fountain and had a bloody nose… well Alan starts crying hysterically for mommy and he puts his little hands over his face liiiiiike he is sooooooo heart broken 💔 well this cracks me and Joe up and I’m liiiiiike oh I gotta get this on camera!!!! sooooooo we can pull this out when he’s 16 and all cool…. Buuuuuuut I didn’t get it in time soooooo I’m like Joe make him cry again so i can get this!!! So  he starts saying stuff about mommy being gone til poor little Alan did it again…. I knoooooow soooooooo wrong buuuuuuuut we’ll need this picture one day!!!! Bahahahahaaa 

June 9th

Good bye time…waaaaaaaah 😢 😭 

Me and Liz Segovia- I think we could be twins!!!!

And YES Joseph....I'm glad my friend married you...because IF SHE HADN'T...she wouldn't be at camp annnnnnnnnnnnnd IF SHE WASn"T at camp....I wouldn't get my favorite hairdo once a year!!! Hee, hee!!! And plus we also wouldn't have the adorable little Bethany WHO looks JUST LIKE HER BEAUTIFUL MOMMY!!! Haha!!! Hit me up when you two come to AZ and I'll cook some good food for you guys oooooh and we can play one of my games i've been wanting to play since Christmas and I can't think of anything more FUUUUUN then beating Segovia in a board game...BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

Martin and Lucero!!!! I’m so, so, so, soooooo glad they got to come!!!! They just barely got their application in on time buuuuuuuuuut they did… basically!!! lol I was like talking to Sister Devi Foster and I’m pulling for them in case it didn’t get there in time…I’m liiiiiiiike weeeeeeelllll you know they’re on Mexican time!!!! She’s like well there’s A LOT of Mexicans at that DID get their applications in on time…. I’m liiiiiike awwwwwwwww maaaaaan you guys… that’s not going to work here!!!!

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Saying GoodBye to Naomi and Ashton Stephens...

                                                     

                                                        Maybe i'll come see you guys eventually in Texas by the ocean...and don't forget ARISE in September, in ABQ NM...you guys should really, really, really COME!!!! 

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Saying Goodbye to Jenny!!!

This is also the part where apparently my family couldn't find me...I was up the hill...with Jenny and Ryan...helping them find little besties bottle

Hey you know what her husband, THE NERD said about me??? He said that I'm really a closet Karen!!!and that I should rename my blog Classic Closet Karen Moments and IF I did he MIGHT actually consider reading my blog....WHATEVERRRR RYAN!!! LOLOL JUST Because I'm EXTREMELY oppinonated buuuut I  keep it to a few people... sooooo sue me cuz I know how to keep my mouth shut about my oppinion...I mean YES I have a back bone....you can NOT have been raised by Sister Fran Ginty and NOT be oppinionated about stuff...buuuuuuut unlike my mother...i've learned it's not always, in the words of our night preacher, expedient to go around telling everyone what you think, EVEN IF you are right...sooooo i'm not being fake....I'm BEING WISE....the Bible says that a fool uttereth all... 

Saying Goodbye to Joe and Anali!!!!

Cya guys next week though...party in AZ!!!!

Bring your stretchy pants/skirt cuz i'm gonna cook up a STORM for you guys!!!

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Kyle pouting cuz he didn't want to leave camp...s

aid his parent's hardly let him even play...

which is sooooooooooooooo NOT TRUE!!! BAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

Question on the way home: What kind of Asian are you Grace???

Sooooooo last morning at breakfast, Martin was telling our table about how him and his wife made friends with the guys at Dunkin Donuts cuz they go there so much and he mentioned that they guy is Indian, I can't remember WHY he mentioned he was Indian...

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 sooooooooooo i interrupt and am liiiiiiike, OOOOOOOH does he make fry bread??? He's like no, not that kind of Indian, the ones from India...sooooooooooo i'm liiiiiiike OH CURRY!!! I liiiiiike curry too!!!! Well Ryan is sitting there just shaking his head......buuuuuut whateverrrr...I relate ethnicity with food- liiiiiiiike Italians are the GARLIC EUROPEANS (Also the best cooks everrrr and the best looking too and just all around amaaaaaZing;)

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So Ryan says, soooo what kind of Asian are we??? The Sushi Asians??? (He's Japanese-weeeeeeellll PART...I MEAN... Technically speaking, I'm MORE ITALIAN than he is Japanese...i mean i'm jus sayin...don't be jelly Nerd!)Soooooo I think about it and I'm liiiiiike yeah Sushi Asians or just straight up THE RAW ASIANS!!! It sounds cooler...

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Sooooooooooo on the way home, I explained the WHOLE conversation to my sister-in-law Grace, who is Filipino, and I was liiiiiike, soooooooo what kind of Asian are you guys??? She thought about it for a few seconds then she just busts up laughing and she says, We're THE DOG ASIANS!!! I was liiiiiiiike the dog Asians??? Like your calling yourselves dogs??? You guys know how I am about all things to do with your ethnicity and I was like about to lecture on being proud of your heritage, etc...and she says, NO! I mean, we're THE ASIANS THAT EAT DOGS!!!

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Then we both cracked up laughing and NOW MJ was extremely offended at us!!!! Cuz when MJ had a chiwawa (SP?) and we went out of town, my sister in law did dog-sitting for her and I told MJ she better be careful cuz in Aunt Grace's country they eat dogs!!! And then I told Grace and she  sent a picture for MJ of the little dog in a crock pot...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

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APPLE BARN

annnnnnnnnnnd then my sister in law threw up 6 times on the way home!!! We thought it was just car sickness buuuuuuuuuuuut then yesterday Odin got sick and GUESS WHAT??? HE THREW UP 8 TIMES!!!! I went over to their house yesterday to get my lap top Grace was fixing for me and I was like, You know how you threw up 6 times??? Weeeeeeeeeeeellllll ODIN threw up 8 times!!! Everything is a contest for O so Graces busts up laughing and says OH HE BEAT ME!!! BAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! 

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Anywayz...AMA WAS AWESOME AS USUAL...I vote it's changed to four days again and also...NO ASIAN FOOD...unless they get an Asian cook...bahahahahaaa!!! annnnnnnnnnnnnd

No Heritage this year for me!!!

SEE EVERYONE AT ARISE!!!

How about a different place to eat at then Jason's Deli????? That's soooooo boring brotherrrrr!!! Have you considered Mr. Pho??? Or Frontier??? (Frontier could host A LOT of people) Or Dion's again??? Cuz ya know, some of us have to watch our weight, every bite counts and it's not worth wasting calories on boring food...jus sayin! :) 

♥Mary Frances :)

p.S. Instead of Italians being The Garlic Europeans, MAYBE we should just be referred to as THE DELICIOUS EIROPEANS!!! Jus sayin...;)