I want to eat here!!!

Okaaaaaaaaaay sooooo ONE thing you have to all know about me is that I absolutely LOVE the ocean!!! I love going in the ocean, wave jumping and riding the waves...I just LOVE feelin the waves move me...annnnnd when I'm NOT in the ocean I could sit at the sea shore all day long just watching the waves and writing away...I'm just fasicnated by the ocean!!! With THAT being said,

I SOOOO want to eat at this RESTURAUNT!!!

Doesn't this look like SOOOOO much FUN??! I'm still trying to figure out where exactley its located sooooo if anyone knows PULEEEEZE let me know!!! :)

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Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay know, THIS looks like THE MOST romantic place EVERRR to eat at it!!! A private, secluded lil island that you get rowed out too!!! OMW people...like SERIOUSLEY how romantic is THAT??? I would sooooooooooo SWOOOOON!!! LOL DUUUUUUDE...like HOW perfect of a spot would this be for a guy to PROPOSE??? Heeeeey i'm jus sayin guys...if you wann like really WOW your girl...I mean its only in some place called Maldive...soooo I mean you would have to figure out HOW to get her there with her being suspicious annnnd alll..but you know...LOL

Ooooooo BUUUUUUUUUUT make sure that you do NOT forget to take a chaperone!!! Don't forget that my services as THE BIBLE are STILL available!!! (Go HERE for more info if you feel you may need my services!) OMW could you all imagine ME chaperoning a proposal there??? The guy would be like on one knee to the girl and all like "Will You Marr..." and I would be like,

Oh just pretend i'm NOT even here...

CANNON BALL!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :)

Name THAT puppet!!!

Soooooooooo there was this HUGE community yard sale going on this past weekend up in some niiiiiiice neighborhoods and me and my sis ALWAYS have to go to them!!! Soooo we're at this one yard sale and ALL of the sudden I see this ADORABLE lil fluffy puppet thing!!!

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I practically squeeled when I picked it up!!! I mean, I am soooooo NOT in the puppet ministry...mainly cuz my hand is soooo BIG it does't fit in the puppets and plus I just plain HATE doing it and NOT being able to actually SEE the puppets...YES...I just LOVE seeing them for myself...I know...SPECIAL...  buuuuuuuut, I have a BFF that sooooooooooooo IS!!! LOL! Soooooo I ask the lady HOW much it is and she like LOOKS at the puppet in like UTTER disgust and is just like...Like a dollar...I was like OH I'll TAKE IT!!! I'm like handing her the money and telling her that my best friend is a total puppet FANATIC!!! She just takes the money and looks at me like, WEIRDOS!!! AHAHAHA!!!
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Really tho, JAC LOVES PUPPETS!!! Like this past summer it was soooooo FUNNNNY!!! I was like talkin to her on the phone and like tryin and tryin and tryin an TRYIN to tell her something that happened with some guy... buuuuuut EVERY TIME I tried to tell her she just kept talkin about PUPPETS...sooooo FINALLY I gave up and called Hanna and Anali....and then like two weeks later when I was FINALLY gettin to tell Jac, she was like, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WAITED THIS LONG TO TELL ME!!!! I was like, JACQUI...I TRIED!!! Buuuuuut you just kept talkin about PUPPETS...and I brought up the WHOLE convo and she was like, OH YEAH!!! LOLOLOL!!! It was super funny!!!

(If your wondering, WHAT happened with the guy that I wanted to tell Jac about...Hmmmm...I'm actually tryin to remember WHAT it was too...LOL...I just remember her NOT listenin to me...buuuuuut...I'm thinkin it couldn't have been anything to big...CUZ, I can't even REMEMBER which guy it was about!!! AHAHA...ANALI...don't EVEN say NOTHING right now!!!...me and Anali have this bEt CHALLENGE that she has presented me with...that I won't even be able to like the SAME guy till the end of this year! ANNNND I am like sooooo determined to prove her WRONG!!! Except, I'm going to be honest with you all...its gettin REALLY, REALLY, REALLY HARD!!!! I wonder if there is such a thing as CRUSH ADHD??? If there is I soooooooo have it!!! BAHAHAHA!!!)

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Sooooooooo ANYwayz, On Sunday, I presented Jac with my great yard sale find!!!

Annnnnd she squeeled...which made me HAPPY!!! :))) Then I was squeelin when she started makin it move and dance!!! Like OMW it was soooooo CUTE!!!

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Annnnnnnnd all the lil kids ABSOLUTELY adored it!!!

The way Jac got it to move sooooo good, I think the kids actually kinda thought it was REAL or something!!! AnywayZ, this is the CHALLENGE that Jac and I would like to present before you all...

WHAT's HIS NAME???

Yes, I said HE!!! We decided that he is definately a boy!!! LOL! Some people were saying he looks like a Dr. Suess character...WHICH I just want to clarify that he is ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! I do NOT like Dr. Suess and WILL HAVE NOTHING to do with him!!! LOLOL I'll tell you all WHY...some day!!! :) AnywayZ, I think he looks like one of the RAZZLEFLABINS from the Jungle Jam Radio shows!!! Jac looked it up online and this type of puppet is actually called a Bubaloo!

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Idk...I kinda think Ed is a cute name or maybe even Bubba!!! LOL What do YOU all think??? If you pick the NAME that Jac chooses...YOU WILL recieve a special, fun, gift from her!!! You can suggest as MANY names as you want...and you can give reasons WHY you think that your name is a GOOD name!!! Weeeeeeelllll....WHAT are you all waiting for???

NAME THAT PUPPET!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Who's the BEST???

Soooo three days a week, I watch my niece and one her best friend from church, Ashlee...and yeah its a pretty fun job!!! Well last week I was taking them for a treat to Baskin Robins and when we pulled into the parking lot and I told them where we were going they were like SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! YAY!!! Thank YOU MARY!!! I LOVE YOU MARY!!! Mary YOUR SOOOOOOO CUTE!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! I love how they totally go cRaZy about me....buuuuuut their mom's are the one's that give me money to take them!!! LOL

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AnywayZ, of course I was like totally INTO it!!! And I've taught the kids this lil song, when I say;Who's the best? They say, Mary is! Mary is!!! LOL yeah...I know...I'm SPECIAL!!! Soooooooo i'm like laughing and pulling into a parking spot and before we get out to get the Ice cream, I say to the girls ...

Okaaaaaaaaay girls....

WHO'S THE BEST???

Without even hesitating, Ashlee screams out at the TOP OF HER LUNGS...

"JESUS!!!"

I was like, OH WOW!!! I just got TOLD UP!!! Buuuuuut in a GOOOOOD way and I didn't mind a bit!!! It was soooooo good to hear a lil girl, without even hesitating say, THAT JESUS WAS THE BEST!!!  I was like like Ooooooo girrrrrrrllll...THATS RIGHT!!! JESUS IS THE BEST!!! It was sooooooooooo AWESOME!!! I was like soooooo proud of her!!! Its sooooooo TRUE!!! Jesus is the best!!! The best!!! THE BEST!!!

 THE BEST THING THATS EVER HAPPENED TO ME!!!

Who's the best???

JESUS IS THE BEST!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Bible College Notes Intro...

Soooooooo I am sooooo incredibley excited that Bible College has started back up again!!! When I hadn't heard anything about it I was SOOOOOO  disapointed!!! BECAUSE I LOOOOOOOVE BIBLE COLLEGE!!!

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Seriousley people, I feel like us AZ folks are SOOOOO blessed to have this extra opportunity to learn from men of God!!! Me and Cara Bear hav had many conversations about how much we LOVE Bible college and are sooooooo THANKFUL for it!!!

I have been pushing AS many people as I possibley can to go, go, GO!!! I even got my mom and sister to go this semester!!! I was like, COME ON...You  guys need to go!!! Its uplifting!!! My mom was like, Oh buuuuuut I'M OLD!!! I was like MOM...THATS OK!!! Old people CAN STILL go to Bible College!!! LOLOLOL!!!! Fo realz tho...how can we EVERRRR be to old to learn MORE about GOD??? We can't!!!

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Sooooo i know that i'm probabley one of the LONGEST going Bible college students EVERRRR...buuuuut...I don't think I'll everrrr stop!!! (Unless I get married and move to Africa!!!;) I asked someone one time if they were going, and they were like, NO Mary...I actually you know, HAVE A LIFE!!!! (OUCH!) I was like, OH okaaaaay!!!

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 Sooooo ya know, its ONE thing for people to say that I, Mary Frances Ginty, don't have a life...like whateverrrr...FEEL FREE to say that you have more of a life than me!!! Buuuuuuuut...You can NOT tell me that you are busier and that you have MORE OF A LIFE than these men of God, that take time out of THEIR busy schedules to teach us!!! I mean just look at Elder Fair!!! Last spring he was IN THE HOSPITAL, practically on his death bed...BUUUUUUUT as soon as he was out of that hospital, he was at the Bible College TEACHING!!! Its like WOW!!! To think that he would STILL, after all that,take the time to come teach us...How can we NOT take the opportunity that is put before us???

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AnywayZ, with THAT being said I am taking two classes this semester!!! First hour is Weightier Matters Of The Law; Taught by Bro. Myers!!! It is soooooooooooo INTERESTING thus far!!! I think its sorta like Spiritual Ethics...except Bro. Myers said he didn't want to use that word...haha!!!! When we were signing up my mom and I were asking WHAT the class was about ANNNNND then at the same time we were like, OH is it about WEIGHT LOSS??? Bahahaha!!!! That must have gotten relayed back to Bro. Myers cuz, he clarified RIGHT away that his class was NOT about weight loss!!!! THen he proceeded to tell us EVERYTHING he had eaten that day!!! I was like Niiiiiiice!!! LOLOLOL!!!

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Next is Bro. Garrett's class!!! What every Apostolic MUST know!!! Omw people...it was soooooo GOOOOOD!!! Sooooo I like ALMOST switched classes so that I was in Bro. Garrett's class FIRST and Bro. Myers second...soooo that I could be with MY GIRLS!!!!

Miriam and Megan!!!

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut then I was like, NOOOOO cuz what if there isn't enough people in Bro. Myers second session and he doesn't teach it then??? AND I really wanted to take that class....plus I told the girls, THEN I would be taking that class for THE WRONG reason...to be with MY FRIENDS...I gotta take the class for THE RIGHT REASON and then PLUS...We're IN CLASS...WITH BRO. GARRETT as our teacher...like DUH...its NOT like we would even be talking or socializin together in class ANYWAYZ!!!

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So yeah it was really funny the first Monday...cuz I KNEW Megan was right next door to my first hour class sooooo I was being a brat and sent her a text that said IS YOUR PHONE OFF??? Cuz Bro. Myers class hadn't started yet!!! No RESPONSE from Megan!!! LOL Sooooooo THEN when I'm in Bro. Garrett's class, SITTING in the FRONT AND CENTER OF COURSE...I get a text back from her that says, NO IT WASN'T!!! Is yours??? I was like Awwww man!!! Annnnnd of course the thing on my iPhone is this creepy bird chirping noise!!! Kinda hard to HIDE!!! LOL Sooooo yeah...I got paid back!!!

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Buuuuuuut YES...BIble college is AWESOME you guys!!! I was telling my mom tonight on the way home...Its just such GOOOOOD teaching!!! It just makes me feel sooooooo good!!! I'm sooooo glad her and my sis are going this semester!!!! i'M bummmmmmed that Jac has to work this semester tho!!! :( I don't think I can remember a time EVERRRR going without her!!!

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AnywayZ, what this blog post is REALLLLLLLY all about is to let you all know that I am going to try and do a weekly post with Bible College Notes about all the awesome stuff I am learning!!! I have friends from like ALL OVER, Cali, NM, Oregon, Texas, that say they really wish they had soemthing like this that they could attend!!! Some of them have asked me to take NOTES for them...buuuuut BETTER notes than THESE ones on THIS post!!! HAHA!!!

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Sooooo yeah...Ima do that for you peeps...weekly or bi-weekly, BIble college notes...annnnnnd of course I'll add in some of my personal thoughts too...maybe some humor...ya know...MAR BEAR THOUGHTS!!! LOL! Next Monday will be the first post of Bible College NOTES!!! The first two weeks...sooooo...Get ready!!! :)))

♥Mary Frances :) 

Italian eyes!!!!

Sooooooooo I don't know WHAAAAAAT it is about being ITALIAN, buuuuuut being Italian comes with a certain-EXTRA amount of a pride about your ethnicity!!! ANNNNNND when MY MOM is your MOM...weeeeeelllll...yeah...it gets a lil cRaZy...you mention ITALIAN to my mother and you can hear her whoopin and hollerin, cheering away with the tamborine!!! Its like OMW MOTHER...calm down!!! LOLOLOL!!! Nooooo I really LOVE IT...its HILARIOUS!!!

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 Soooo really, I don't  know WHAT exactley it is about being ITALIAN that gives Italians sooooooo MUCH pride!!! Maybe its cuz we're THE BEST COOKS EVERRRR...buuuuuuut MY MOM says its cuz THE ITALIANS were THE FIRST GENTILES to get the HOLY GHOST!!! "There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band..."ANNNNNND THAT MY FRIENDS is when it starts gettin cRaZy at church with my momma...LOL!!! Actually...thinkin about it...I'm surprised my mom didn't name any of her sons CORNELIOUS??? Hmmmm...Ooooo when I have kids I should name my son that and surprise my mom...could you imagine??? SHe would totally FLIP OUT!!!

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AnywayZ, sooooo this is the thing about being HALF Italian...ALL my life I get to hear about how I don't LOOK ITALIAN!!! Oooo Mary...you look Irish...Your NOT really Italian!!! Theresa and John are the ITALIAN carmel lookin ones and Me, Joe and Abe are the Vanilla Irish lookin ones!!! I mean it was sooooo extreme differences as a child I even had LIGHT blond hair...People would think me and my brother Joe were adopted!!! LOL! Soooo...I mean I can't lie, even tho I totally like my looks, "Just sayin" cuz thats the way God mad me...YA know?!?! Still..there has always been this part of me that WISHED I looked Italian!!! Cuz Like I said, its been imbredded in me that being ITALIAN(Half) is like the awesomest thing everrrrr!!!

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Weeeeeeelllll....Recently, at my brother John's wedding, my mom's second cousin, who is another FULL ITALIAN came out for the wedding!!! As soon as she saw me, she was like MARY!!! I'm your cousin!!! Im like OH HEEEEEY!!! (Hadn't seen her since I was like 12...LOL) THen she is like, YOUR EYES!!! They are soooooo pretty!!! I was like OH THANK YOU!!! (Awwwww sooo sweet)

THen later on she was talking to my sister and she was like OH NOW you LOOK ITALIAN!!! So she was sayin something else to me and I was just like, Oh yeah, I'm really light...I look like my dad's side of the family!!! So she looks at me and she says, OH so your dad has blue eyes like you??? Soooo I was like weeeeeeelllll...NO!!! His eyes are like a grayish color! SHe was like, I KNEW IT!!!!

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What she said NEXT thrilled my vanilla lil heart!!! She says, THOSE BLUE eyes are from your GREAT GRANDFATHER!!! (My mom's, Dad's, DAD) Weeeeeelllll...You don't even know HOW MUCH that meant for me to hear!!! She went on to tell me that I had the exact same shade of blue eyes as my great grandfather!!! Which makes sense cuz my uncle and two of his kids have blue eyes too and they are full blooded Italains!!! So yeah...she said I had the same shade of blue eyes as my great-grandfather that migrated over from Italy!!! Its soooo cRaZy when you think about the fact that I've never met this man, buuuuut there is a part of him in me...soooooo COOL!!!  

I HAVE ITALIAN EYES!!!

Break out the tamborine momma!!!

Woot! Woot!!!

Mary Frances :)

Being happy...FIRST!!!

I saw this quote and thought it was GOOOOOOOOD for all of us single folks to THINK ABOUT!!! :)))

Hang in there my single peeps...God's got GOOOOOD things in store for us!!! :)

Who wants me to do another SINGLES week???

♥Mary Frances :)

A good man!!!

 

I sooooooooooooo WANT THIS SWEAT-shirt!!!

 

Annnnnnd THEN when I get married Ima put on the back...

AND I FOUND ONE...

FINALLY!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Looking GOOD Self esteem tip! :)

Sooooo this past Tuesday evening when I went out with Jac, one of the cooks saw me and asked me if I was out on a special occasion or something cuz I had something in my hair and a flower on my sweater and ya know my hair was done! I personally did NOT think it was really fancy...So he was like what's going on? I was like, OH NOTHING...

I just like to look good!!!

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He just laughed and was like, WELL there is NOTHING wrong with that!!! Nothing WRONG WITH THAT!!! LOLOLOL It was soooooo funnnnnny we were all laughing!!! Seriousley tho people, one of the best ways to feel good about yourself is to just LOOK GOOD!!!
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There have been times where my brother's walk into the house and LOOK AT ME and are like, WHERE ARE YOU GOING??? I'm like NO WHERE!!! They're like, OK who's ALL THIS FOR as they kinda point out what i'm wearing...I'm just like ME!!! :))) Me annnnnnd GOD and ANYONE else that cares to see the sight of me looking GOOD!!! LOL!

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Someone recently said, Man Mary! Your always getting compliments blah, blah, blah...it must be nice to be THE PRETTY ONE!!! I'm like NOOOOOO! Its soooooo NOT like that!!! I don't get compliments when I'm in a rush, roll outta bed, throw on whatever and run out the door lookin like WHITE TRASH!!! Trust me, I'm just an average looking girl...I just take a lil time everyday and FIX MYSELF UP!!!



I'm NOT talking about like dressing fancy-shmancy in heals and wearing like Sunday church outfits everyday! You can rock a jean skirt and still look waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cute if you make it into an outfit! Find a simple hair-do that is easy but cute, put something in your hair add a few accessories and you wouldn't believe JUST HOW MANY COMPLIMENTS you will get from non-church people!!! Looking GOOD can be a WITNESS to the people of the world!!!

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I think sometimes us girls get into the habit of ONLY fixin ourselves up really nice if we know that a cute guy is going to around! BUUUUUUT we should be in the habit of fixin ourselves up all the time!!! IF you fix yourself up it will build your self esteem and the better you feel about yourself, the more attractive of a person you will be!!! Don't do it for a guy...do it for YOU and most importantly do it for GOD!!! After all...

we ARE representing HIM!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

 

 

Community Saturday #1 at the Lacour's Church!!!!!!

Sooooo our church has started a new thing that we are doing to sort of extend ourselves to the community within our own church and others as well. What we are doing, is on the FIRST Saturday of every month we do some sort of volunteer work together as a church.

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Sooooooooo for the FIRST Community Saturday EVERRRR... our church went and did work on helping with the building and of the Lacour's NEW CHURCH BUILDING!!! Which is really cool to think that we got to be a part of it!!!

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Sooooooo the day started out with me getting LOST!!! HAHA!!! I know, big surprise...RIGHT?!?! LOL! KIM is like HOW ARE YOU LOST??? I'm ummmmm...EASILY!!!Sooooo Kim comes and finds me at McDonald's and we felt like it was time for a (Iced-sugar-free-vanilla)coffee break...YES... a coffee break before I even got there!!! BAHAHA!!! Annnnnnnd it was like this HUGE Kim and Mary reunion cuz we havn't really had the opportunity to hang out in a while...(annnnnnd Me and Kim together is seriousley pure cRaZy-awesomeness!!! NO ONE can make me laugh like KIMMY KAT CAN!!! Like NORMALLY...I make people laugh...BUUUUUT KIM...makes ME LAUGH!!! Together we become this awesome TEAM...Annnnnd when we are TOGETHER...EVERYONE IS LAUGHING!!!) 
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THEN....when we DID FINALLY get there...The Lacour's had STARBUCKS coffee for everyone...I was like NIIIIIIICE!!! Soooooo i had MORE COFFEE!!! LOL...YES ANOTHER COFFE BREAK!!! Two Coffee breaks before we even started workin...AHAHAHA!!!

Sooooooooo After that I'm like OKAAAAAY KIM...we should probabley do something to like,  ya know...HELP!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! We look around and there is like total construction typs stuff going on EVERYWHERE...I'm like...ummmm yeah...I'm like a cookin-in-the-kitchen-washin-the-dishes-scrubbing-the-toilet-sweeping-mopping-holding-babies-changing-poopy-diapers-takin-out-the-trash-Kind-of-WOMAN!!! Buuuuuuut beyond all tha t...I AM CLUELESS!!!
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Soooooooo Kim and I look at the list of things to do and just like BUST UP LAUGHING!!! 

I'm like...YES!!! I am soooooooooo on torching the concrete and REBUILDING THE TOILET!!! (Heeeeey do know how to BREAK A TOILET!!! Just ask Bishop Abbott about THAT!!! LOLOLOL!!!) 

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Sooooooo we go and find Sis. Lacour and we're like, Sis. Lacour...WHAT would you like us to do to help out today??? She pauses a moment to think about it, then just kind of looks at me and Kim, smiles sweetly and says, I KNOW!!! Why don't your girls be the GREETING COMMITTEE!!! Just go around to the people working, ask them if they would like a bottle of water or if there is anything that they need!!! She is like, YOU KNOW...

Just look CUTE and be FRIENDLY!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I was like YES!!! Finally, there is someone that appreciates my gift of lookin cute and being friendly... You make be thinkin...OH THATS EASY...anyone can look cute and be friendly...buuuuut ACTUALLY....its complicated ya know??? I mean THINK ABOUT IT...there are people that can look CUTE, buuuuut they aren't always FRIENDLY!!! And there are people that are FRIENDLY...buuuut they don't look CUTE...LOL...buuuuuuut WE CAN LOOK CUTE ANNNNNNND BE FRIENDLY!!!! OOooo...Multi-taskin people!!! :P Wish there were MORE people that would appreciate this TALENT...(weeeeeellll I bet my FUTURE HUSBAND WILL!!! ;) 

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Weeeeeellllll....ANYWAYZ, we were done with THAT TASK in about 10 minutes...sooooo Kimmy Kat decided to TEST the faith of her pastor...she's like Watch this!!! Oh PASTOR LACOUR!!! Mary and i are just trying to figure out WHAT exactley you would like for us to do on this list!?!? NOW most people, would LOOK AT KIM AND I and very adamantley and with GOOD REASON say...NOTHING!!! LOL!!! Buuuuuuut, NOT Bro. Lacour!!! Soooooo he is looking over the list....THINKING...and he is like...

How do you girls feel about HEIGHTS??? Kim just looks at him and says, SCARED OF THEM!!! I look over at THIS ladder below and i'm like...WEEEEEEEELLLL....I'm actually NOT scared of heights...buuuuuuuuuuuut...

 

Its almost like HEIGHTS are scared of ME!!!

 Then i'm like, OMW KIM!!! Did I tell you about when I sang a solo at my church and when I was done I just fell off the platform??? She is like WHAAAAT??? Then she busts up laughing and is like, I have to hear this story!!! Bro. Lacour just looks up from the work list with his eyes all widened, then he is like, Im going to just think about a job for you girls and then be back!!!

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Soooooo we figured Bro. Lacour was just going to FORGET ABOUT IT!!! Buuuuuut NOOOOOO!!! He comes back and is like, Sis. Mary, How do you feel about painting??? Everyone around us that can hear this just like busts up laughing...Kim is like OH I am soooooo outta here!!! LOL!!! Sooooooo i'm like weeeeeeelllllll...I personally feel GREAT about PAINTING....buuuuuut I think THE REAL QUESTION is: Bro. Lacour, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MODERN ART????

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AHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Soooooo he explains to us HOW to do it...He tells me how to like kinda spread the paint out on the edges sooooo that it just kind of blends in...He says, You know, We don't want it to look like MARY WAS HERE!!! 

Buuuuuuuuuut yeah its pretty much IMPOSSIBLE for me to NOT make it look like I WAS THERE!!! They had told me that if I got it on the side with just to have a damp rag read to wipe...SOOOO I DID!!! Buuuuuut Idk WHAT happened cuz like, I wiped and then SOMEHOW the paint that I wiped on the rag I rubbed BACK on the door thingy...sooooo YEAH...it pretty much looked like...

MARY WAS HERE!!!

I showed Bro. Lacour and he said it was FINE...No big deal...buuuuut I'm almost POSITIVE its probabley ALREADY been REPAINTED!!! Ima go check at the opening services!!!! LOLOLOL!!!

They shoulda just sent us to watch the kids...NOW thats another thing I can ACTUALLY do!!! 

Now THIS is the church building...Isn't it BEAUTIFUL??? I soooooooooooooooo LOOOOOOVE the bell!!! The whole thing is just very ARIZONA looking!!! I can't wait till its complete!!!

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Also, I think its really cool that the Lacour's started their church in Cave Creek AZ...cuz that is totally where I grew up till I was 14 and we moved to Phoenix/Paradise Valley!!! For those of  you that are wondering, Cave Creek is like the BOONIES of AZ!!! I told Kim, this is my HOOD where I grew up!!! She is like, MARY! This is NOT A HOOD!!! This is THE DESERT!!!  Its like NOTHING but DESERT, Desert...DESERT!!! Except, actually, its a lot more built  up there in the last 15 years!!! When I lived there, there was ONLY ONE grocery store...BASHAS!!! Ooooo I was soooo happy to move to Paradise Valley...5 minutes from the mall...I ain't no country girl...I'm a CITY GIRL ALL THE WAY!!! WOOT! WOOT!!! Awwwww man...the memories I have up there, romping through the desert...BAREFOOTED... building forts...stepped in soooooooo much cactus growing up buuuuuuut NEVER a scorpian or rattle snake!!!

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Overall...It was a really, GOOD and FUN day!!! I'm glad I got to be a part of the building of this church...EVEN if the ONLY thing I personally accomplished was just lookin good and SOCIALIZIN!!! Heeeeeey...at least I didn't bury it...I USED MY GOD GIVEN TALENT!!! ;))))

♥Mary Frances :)

Guess WHO spilled it?!?!

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay sooooooo Jac got this appreciation dinner at this really fancy-prancey-shmancey 5 star resturaunt at the resort she works at annnnnnnnnnd invited ME to go with her!!! (Awwwww best friend perks!;) Soooooooooooo I just want you all to take a WILD guess at WHO, after only five minutes at this wonderfully-sophisticated place, just HAPPPPPPPENED to totally spill DUMP their drink EVERYWHERE???

MARY???

OR

JACQUI???

Okaaaaaaaaay NOW, I KNOW you all are thinking about THIS right now and are probabley like, OH YEAH...its soooooo MARY!!!! Buuuuuuuuuuuuut you NEVERRRRR know!!! Remember, JAC IS A BLOND!!!

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Okaaaaaaaaaay everyone, WHAT do you think??? Take a guess and join the FUNNNNN! The answer to "Guess WHO spilled it?!?!" will be posted NEXT week when I do a resturaunt review of our WHOLE MEAL AND EVENING!!! You WILL NOT want to miss this  review...

When White Trash,

And, AND, AnnndFine Dining,

MEET!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :) 

Greater PURPOSE!!!

I was talking to a close friend recently who is in college and she was telling me about how in school, she feels so torn in two different directions...like a tug-of-war within! She was telling me that since she was a child she has had the desire for a certain career, she has always felt that way and has prayed long and hard about it and has felt like it is the will of God to pursue it!

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However, she said that there is SUCH a push at school, that this is MORE than just a job what they are learning to become...it is their CAREER! Their Passion...Their LIFE!!!! And she said, I'm sorry but I just don't feel that way about it! SHe knows that what she wants to be is a serious job and NOT to be taken lightly...buuuuuuut its just NOT ever going to be her everything!

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She said...I mean...I want it but...when they talk about it like that there is a part of me that just wonders if maybe its not right...if I shouldn't go through with it, she said, BUT I did pray about it and truley felt like it WAS the will of God to go through school for this! So I was like, Weeeeeellll...being a college drop out and all...I'm NOT really sure I'm a good person to get college advice from...buuuuuut... I think that you just have to keep EVERYTHING in the right perspective!

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You have to understand, that THE WORLD is NEVER going to see things, the way WE SEE THEM!!! Whatever they teach you in school, you have to filter through a Godly, heavenly, perspective! We just need to remember to keep THE MAIN THING... (GOD) THE MAIN THING!!!

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We have to undeRstand, that THE WoRLd doesn't have a hope outside of this life. If you think aBout it thaT way, you can undeRstand WHY to them, tHe grEaTesT thing you coulD eveR accomplish is yoUr caReer!!! I told my friend, who is a very intelligent and well educated person, your going to get your degree and be GREAT at it, buuuuuut I told her, I'm NOT being a prophetess or NOTHING like that, buuuuuut MORE THAN LIKELY, you are NOT going be in that career FOREVER! Because she is such a Godly, ministry minded person, who is absolutely BEAUTIFUL on the outside and even MORE BEAUTIFUL on the INSIDE, I told her, Most likely, your going to end up being a minister's wife of some sort!  She was like, WHAT? I was like,  yup! Your going to spend  your life working for God!!! Thats JUST THE WAY I SEE YOU!!! Its just WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE!!!

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The world doesn't see success...the way we see it!!! As a writer, I do NOT define the success of my writing, by how much money I make from it (Which is NONE...LOL) OR by how many people read it!!! I define the success of my writing by IF GOD USES IT!!! The point of my writing is to glorify HIM!!! God gave me the gift, to help, to encourage, to uplift, to inspire, and more than ANYTHING ELSE, to help point souls towards HIM!!! Thats how I see the success of my writing...BUUUUUUT the world doesn't see sucess the way we see it! They don't see life the way we see it...We know that this WORLD IS NOT OUR HOME...we're just passing through!!!

We have a GREATER PURPOSE!!!

"According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." (Philippians 1:20-21) 

 

Our purpose, is to fulfill all the will of God in our lives, to live our lives in a way that glorifys God and to direct souls to the gospel message of salvation. The world doesn't understand THAT we are children of God, we have HIS NAME written on our hearts, we're living, just to live again, this world is NOT our home...

 we are HEAVEN BOUND!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Oooooo YEAH!!!

AHAHAHAHAHA This was the courtesy of Plunkers, One of the Apostolic Beauties,  at Bible college TONIGHT!!

Hmmmmm...I wonder HOW DISTANT of a relationship this REALLY IS???

♥Mary Frances :)

 

Cops!!!

Sooooo I don't WHY...lol...buuuuut...EVERY TIME I see police officers when i'm driving, I like have a HEART ATTACK!!! Sooooo the other day i'm out riding around with Kim and I see a police car, I'm like OH NOOOO KIM...theres a COP!!!

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So without missing a beat, Kim is like,

"OH QUICK...

ACT LIKE YOUR WHITE!!!

I was like HUH???

LOL...Oh Kimmy Kat...she is soooooo cRaZy!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

I'm a grandma... AGAIN!!!

I'm the official Vanilla grandma of lil Ciatta!!!

Jestina gave birth to this BEAUTIFUL little baby girl!!!

She is such a sweet lil momma...so loving and doting to her lil baby girl!!!

I found her and contacted her this past Sunday afternoon...annnnnnnnnnnd we're reunited this past Wednesday!!! She said, I'm back Vanilla momma!!! And she wants to start going to church again!

I was like, do you wanna know WHY and HOW I found you?! She was like, YES!!! I was like, BECAUSE God put an African GPS system in me!!! HAHAHA!!! She laughed and was like, WEEEEELLLL PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww SHE IS SOOOOOOOO ADORABLEY CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL!!! She just looks like this precious lil baby doll!!! Awwwwwwwww!!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :)

 

Happy Birthday Gwapo!!!

Yesturday, the cutest lil boy in the WHOLE WORLD, turned 3!!! I can't believe my lil gwapo Jose is ALREADY 3!!! I still remember the day you were born...it was soooooo exciting!!!

Your still my extra lil shot gwappo!!! Your the whip cream on my whip cream!!! Even when you TOTALLY ignore me!!!

 

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Here we are on the day you were born...I had brushed my hair...SPECIAL FOR YOU...before I came and saw you!!! I know, I know, EVERYONE has been telling me since your birth, that you didn't notice or care, buuuuut...I know, ONE DAY, you'll feel special cuz of it!!! ;) 

Annnnnnd here we are on your birthday yesturday!!! Annnnnd I just realized at the end of the day, that RANDOMLY, I was wearing the same shirt as the day you were born!!! Awwwww!!!

I LOVE YOU GWAPO!!! Always remember, Auntie Maria-Mar-bear, LOVES YOU!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

 

Plain O Vanilla?!?!?

Soooo people will as me, MARY why don't you like vanilla?! I'm like, honestly, I have nothing against VANILLA...its just sooooo PLAIN...sooooo BORING! (Seriousley, WHO WANTS VANILLA ICE CREAM???) So then people are like, Yeah buuuut MARY! Your VANILLA and your definatley NOT PLAIN!!!

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I'm like I KNOW...thats cuz I'm NOT just Vanilla!!! I'm like a combination of Coldstone's Sweet Cream Ice Cream and FUNFETTI Birthday cake!!!

NOTHING PLAIN ABOUT THIS GIRL!!! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

Flavors!

Soooooo at my brother's wedding I was jokin with my pastor about ONLY being interested in CHOCOLATE guys!!! And my pastor was like, WATCH...Your probabley going to end up marrying a man that is like SOOOOO WHITE!!!! I was like...NO WAY!!!!  WHATEVERRRR!!! I ran over to the chocolate fountain to emphasize my point!!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!!!

NEVERRRRR!!!

Soooooo the joke at church has been that I NEED to start trying different flavors!!! I'm like hmmmm...I don't know about plain O Vanilla...buuuuuuuuuuuuut...I gotta admit...That Starbucks Salted Carmel is REALLLLLLY GOOD!!! Maybe Carmel is the NEW Chocolate??? ;) AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

♥Mary :)

Good times!!!

We all had a really good time this past weekend joining in services and fellowship with other Apostolic churches of the valley!!! Friday night was Fresh Fire at Bro. Brown's church!!! All the guys did really good preaching!!! So proud of the aspiration of our young people!!!

 

(Collage stolen from Jac!:)

We'll FOREVER quote Delly talking about after getting the Holy Ghost again...

"Sports world, GONE!"

 

With my girlZ, Liz and Kensie!!!

 

 

 

 

Sweeeeet lil Grace!!! My cute lil Filipino friend!!!

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Me, Lily, Shelbie, Cara...Talk of the evening...gettin ready for WCC!!! HAHAHA!!!

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.I got soooooo lost on the way home from AVONDALE!!! OMW!!! I drove around for like TWO HOURS!!! Bahahahaha!!! FInally we drove to the to of this hill in the middle of NO WHERE that is a star gazing spot!!! Soooo we see this couple cuddling as they star gaze in this secluded place being all romantic...soooo I look and its TWO MEN!!! Weeeeeeelllll...I just could NOT resist!!! I pull up, hang out the window and say, "EXCUSE ME!!! I'm LOST!!! Can you all help us?!?!" AHAHAHAHA!!! It was the FUNNNIEST THING EVERRRRR!!!

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Then Sunday night after Jubilee service...Hanging out for HOURS at Red Robin with...

Micheal, Delly, Chris, Glen, Anthony, Tori and the girls from our church

The Joke the WHOLE night long was about US being on Facebook/any time I looked at my phone OH Mary's updating FB!!! ME: I don't have an account...Oooo Mary's Updating her sister's FB!!! BAHAHA!!! THEN ANY time I had a BLANK moment where I didn't understand something which happen quite often.... they were like OH she must be thinking about _______________!!!!!! (Fill in blank with random guy!)

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Then the RANDOM...heeeeeey lets go GEOCACHING!!! Great idea...we musta loooked soooo cRaZy!!! Buuuuut such a blast!!! Can't wait to see EVERYONE again soon...the plans are if NOT at Bible College starting on Monday, at Seth and Alyssa's wedding and if NOT at that EVERYONE IS GOING TO WCC!!! Wooooohooo!!!

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Thanks for good times this past weekend everyone and thanks to all the people that plan this stuff so that we can all get together and fellowship together!!!

♥Mary :)

  

Moments like this...

That I think...WOW...sooooooooo there really are people that have LESS of a life than...ME!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I mean, I get teased about UPDATIN my blog DAILY...like WHO has THAT MANY things to talk about??? BUUUUUUUUUUT I mean, WHO IN THE WORLD THOUGHT of making a PURSE outta soda pop tops?!?!?! Just for the record tho...its PRETTY cool...soooooo if anyone wants to make me one I will sooooooooo TAKE IT!!! :)))) (Waaaaay cooler than a Burberry!!! I want the clutch one!;)

♥Mary Frances :)