January youth rally 2013

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay sooooooooooo...as I said yesturday, this past weekend was such a blast!!! It started out Friday night with the youth rally at Bro. Brown's church! Weeeeellllll I had ACTUALLY thought about NOT going...LOL!!! Not cuz I think I'm to old...NEVERRRR...hahaha...buuuuut cuz I was realllllly scared about the looooooooooooong drive to Avondale from Paradise Valley....eeeeeks the freeways scare me!!! (I only like the  51!!!) annnnnnnd EVEN tho I DID drive to Avondale myself for the LAST youth rally...weeeeeelllll lets just say that some STUFF has happened since then that I'm trying to be EXTRA careful!!!)  HAHA!!! Buuuuuuuuuuuut I decided to offer my vehicle to everyone if SOMEONE would be willing to drive it for me!!! Turns out I had some takers!!! Denae and Sheree drove to my house, then we went and got Selena, Delora then we drove to Glendale and got Aurora then we headed over to Avondale, where we were met with Monae...cuz she was gonna be with me for the rest of the night but our youth leaders picked her up...Which I've really been enjoying helpin out with the teens... they are sooooo entertaining!!! LOLOLOL!!! 

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 Soooooo I FINALLY got to hear my song that I've been BEGGIN all the song leaders at my church to sing, ♪I Know It Was The Blood!♪♪ I don't know WHEN or WHERE I heard that song buuuuuuut.... I have been like reealllly wantin to hear that song...The night we did communion I just kept singing that song and Bro. Sam said that he didn't have enough SOUL in him to sing it...LOL...weeeeellll I got to hear it at the youth rally...FINALLLLLY!!! Our song leaders NEED to get some SOUL in them and sing that song!!! Then Faith Hopkins sang a solo annnnnnd it was sooooooooo gooood!!! I've actually NEVERRR heard her sing a song all by herself...just in choirs and courtets and stuff...man that girl can SINNNNNG!!! Idk why she doesn't have her own CD out???? Like HELLLLOOO!!! LOL Okaaaay prob the same reason I don't actually have a book written...its easier SAID then DONE!!! HAHA!!! AnywayZ, sooooo THEN they had fresh fire and all the young men did such fabulous job!!! The fresh fire preachers were Tyler Shirk, Brett Rotenberger, Collin (Idk his last name) and Sammy Ramerez! (A former AMM) I was very proud of all of them!!! Then Bro. James, an evangelist from Bro. Garrett's church summed everything up with a really great message for young people!!! 

Sooooooooo after church the funnnnn immediatley began!!! My buddies, Andrew and Chris found me and immediatley started posing for pics!!! HAHA!!! Annnnnnnd just to let you know LADIES...these to guys are  really, really, really, REALLY good guys...On fire for God and sold out...soooooo yeah...you girls should ALL try to meet them...hee, hee!!! 

APOSTOLIC WARRIORS...

 ALL THE WAY!!!

(I think the ONLY thing that could rank these young men HIGHER, is IF they attended Bible College...AHEM, AHEM...HINT! HINT!!! Btw- WHEN is BC starting this semester???) 

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Ooooo now they are being joined by SOME more great guys posing...Glenn and Jessie...Now GLEN ladies...he DOES attend Bible College...soooooo that brings him UP a few notches higher...Altho...I think he ALSO told me that he NEVERRR wants to see his face on MY BLOG...HAHAHA!!! Sooooo...that right there just brings him back down...BAHAHA!!! 

Annnnnnnnnnd we have some pretty little photo bombers that you all should take notice of...LOL!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd that would be MONAE'S arm presenting the young men to you all...aaaaahhhh MONAE...You all will be hearing A LOT about her from now on....buuuut I'll do a special intro post about her for you all!!! 

Then we had a youth night at the gym....and some of us girls AND ROBBY...haha...had a great game of basket ball!!! 

(Robby is one of those annoying people in my life... Like I've told him many times...I wouldn't bother being his friend...buuuuuut...I gotta make money SOME WAY annnnnd...his pastor pays me soooooo well..HAHAHAHa...J/K people...this is a LOOOOOOONG going joke with us...He's alright...lol...Like I told him, he is the little brother I NEVERRRRR WANTED!!! :))))

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My part in the playing MAINLY consisted of A LOT of screaming...annnnnnd....A lot of LAUGHING!!!

Annnnnnd SINGING...♪Jesus take the Baaaaaaallll....I'm LETTING goooooooooooo....♪♪

JUST GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE!!! ♪♪♪

Annnnnnnnnnnnd I FINALLY made it through the HOOP!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOO!!!

My cRaZy socks...I Just HAD to buy them....Btw...thats my toes SMILING!!! Yes, my toes can smile...they can frown too!!! :)))

Ooooooo annnnnd here is Gleeeeeeeeeeeeen again....his face is saying....man I don't wanna be on her blog!!! Buuuuuut she is sooooo cool... 

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Me: OMW!!! DO YOU TWO LIKE EACH OTHER???

Annnnnnnd I won't tell you what they said...you can ask them yourselves..hahaha!!!

Annnnnd here is Adriane, Faith, Mary-Elizabeth, Cheramy, Megan, Delly isblockin someone annnnnd then LILY!!!

We had all had fun telling stories and stuff...I entertained everyone with my latest driving adventures and then I didn't feel TOO BAD after I started hearing everyone elses!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Ooooo btw LADIES...the guy in the suit...thats ADRIENNE(Don't know how to spell his name) AnywayZ, he is a GREAT guy also annnnnnnd he IS SINGLE annnnnnd I think he is like 22 and he is a really great guy annnnnd I'm on the look out for a girl for him...LOL...sooooo if any of you girls are interested...EMAIL ME!!! MaryFrancesWriting@gmail.com (Oh buuuuut he doesn't go to Bible College either...LOLOLOL) Buuuuut he is AWESOME!!! 

AnywayZ, it was a FANTASTIC NIGHT!!! Thankful for all my good friends and the great fellowship!!! Can't wait for us all to hang out again...don't forget to invite me to stuff...I got WHEELS NOW people!!! Annnnd I KINDA know how to use em!!! BAHAHA!!! ;) 

Next partaaaaay is Cheramy's WEDDING!!! (I'm gonna be the barrista...Coffee server and TESTER..LOL) 

♥Mary Frances :)
P.s. Tomorrow is about the SNOW TRIP!!! Ooooo that was soooo much FUNNNN!!! 

My white man!!

Soooooo I'll expand MORE on my weekend later on this week...it was such a blast buuuuuut...I'll start off by telling you all that I GOT A MAN!!! AHAHAHA!!! We went up to the snow with our youth and Travis and some of the others decided to build me a HUSBAND!!! LOLOLOL!!!

They said that I would just HAVE to accept a white man...it was the BEST they could do for me!!! HAHAHA!!! I was like, MAN he's WHITER THAN ME!!!! AHAHAHA!!! I mean he is soooooooo WHITE  I don't even think he could be considered VANILLA!!! LOL!!! Sooooo yeah...me and my man...

IT WAS INSTANT LOVE!!! 

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Buuuuuuuuuuuut I quickley learned that our relationship together would be DOOMED to FAILURE!!! Cuz you see...He is just TOO COOL...annnnnnnd weeeeellll you know ME....I kinda tend to make COLD MELT!!! Hee, hee!!! ;) Soooooooooo yeah...if we stayed together I would be destructive to our marriage...heh, heh!!! Being the UNSELFISH person that I am...I decided to let my WHITE MAN GO!!! Sooooooooooooo the good news guys...is THAT...

I'm STILL SINGLE!!! 

(annnnd I'll the single Apostolic guys breath a HUGE sigh of relief!!!;) 

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy 60th Dad!!!

Bored!!!

I'm like sooooo BORED!!! Im sittin in the ER waiting for my dad to get admitted into the hospital!!! He can't walk hardly!!! Something like the arteries in his legs closed up and an infection in the bone in his foot! Buuuut I Dnt think it's a huge deal... Like they said if quits smoking the arteries will naturally open right back up... So keep him in your prayers!!!! Anywayz I am soooooo BORED!!! I'm just sitting here in the waiting room and these random men keep saying hi... I'm like okaaaaay!!! Annnnd my mom just keeps laughing and raising her eyebrows at me!!! Lol I'm like, MOOOOOM!!! Annnnd trust me they ain't cute either!!!theyre like in their late 40's!!!! Ewwwww!!! I think one man mighta even been 50!!! Double ewwwww!!! Then my mom like has her back to the TV buuuut she is arguing with it about politics!!! CNN is talking about Obama being the FIRST black president... Annnnnd my mom is like, HALF BLACK!!! He is ONLY HALF BLACK!!! Soooo now my phone only has one bar left... I'm like if this phone dies before I get leave I think that IM GONNA DIE!!!

Freezing AZ!!!

Sooooo miracle of all miracles it is like really, really, REALLY COLD this winter in AZ!!! It's like cRaZy!!! I mean the pipes in our back yard have been freezing annnnnd EVERYTHING!!! It's currently colder here right now then in NYC!!! The last time it got this cold in AZ was in 1988!!! Like OMW!!! Wow!!!
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Annnnd trust me, I know just how cold it really is... Cuz for some ODD reason, I hav a window that is permanently down...FOREVERRR on my van!!! LOLOLOL
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But Jac said she just busted up laughing cuz she heard someone say, yeah but it's NOT that bad, cuz it's a DRY COLD!!! Bahaha ... If you don't get that it's cuz you've NEVER been to Arizona before!!!
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Buuuuuut heeeey at least we don't have to worry about any blizzards like in NEW YORK!!! Cuz there is NOOOOO RAIN to freeze!!!

Are you?!?!

Soooo me and my gwapo lil nephew Jose were having a lil conversation with each other the other day!!!

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I said, "Jose, are you Filipino?!?!" He says, "No! I'm NOT FILIPINO!!!" So I was like ooooo okaaaaay then!!! Weeeeellll then are you Italian?!!? He says, "Nooooo!!! I am NOT Italian!!!"

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Soooo I'm like, well Jose, if your NOT Filipino annnnnnd your NOT Italian, then what EXACTLEY are you then?!?!

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He just kinda looks at me befuddled like, then says, "I'm Jose Aunt Mary!!!" I'm just Jose!!!" Ahahaha Love my lil gwapo Jose!!! :)
♥Mary Frances :)

The mind of a man...

Sooooo us woman, we think that it is soooooo HARD to understand MEN!!! Buuuuuuut after reading this one little paragraph from the Autobiography, "The Family Nobody Wanted" by Helen Doss, everything has been made clearer for me!!! I'm pretty much positively SURE this is EXACTLY the way a man's mind works!!! :))))) ahahaha!!!

Buuuuuuut heeeeey... As far as im concerned...If he's payin the bills... I'm cool with it!!! ;) lol that's the way MY MIND WORKS!!! Hee, hee!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

Insurance Blessings!!!

Sooooo with my amaZing driving skills, my sis decided that it was TIME for ME to stop paying her for my insurance every month and get MY OWN car insurance plan!!! Sooooo my sis is with Geico annnnd we ALL know that Geico is the cheapest RIGHT??? HA!!!

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So my sis cancels my van off of her insurance and then I'm talking to them to get my insurance plan! After they get all my info he is like Oh wow! You have an IMPECCABLE driving record!!! I'm like YUP!!! NOTHING ON MY RECORD...its completely CLEAR!!! (Thanks to TRAFFIC SCHOOL!!!:) they tell me that it will be $80 a month for JUST LIABILITY.... i'm like whaaaaat??? I was only paying $50 a month on my sister's plan! My agent is like, ma'aam thats a VERY LOW price is there something you have a question about????

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I'm like, well yes! You see my brother and his wife just have liability for TWO cars and its only $90 a month. He is like, Oh weeeeeelllll that is probabley because they are married!!! (In my mind: Ooooo NOOOOO YOU DID NOT JUST SAY MARRIED PEOPLE GET A BETTER DEAL!!!) I'm like, wait, soooooooo you Geico discriminates against people cuz they're SINGLE??? (Isn't that called like SINGLECIST??? You know, Racist, Sexist??? SINGLCIST??? LOL)  He is like, Well no ma'aam, its just that they probabley have a family plan which makes their rates cheaper! I'm like soooooooooo basically what your saying is that in order for me to get a cheaper rate, I NEED to get a HUSBAND??? (Keep in mind since you can't hear my voice I was joking with the agent NOT being rude!) He starts laughing and is like, NO Ma'aam!!! You are STILL young (I am???)  and have a lot of life ahead of you... YOU don't NEED to be tied down yet! ( I don't???;) 

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I asked my brother about it and he said that Geico was KNOWN as being the cheapest insurance company and my sis said the same thing, soooooooo I was going ahead with it, $80 a month...Grrrrrrr!!!! And my agent was like, okay I need your license number...soooo I give it to him...he says he needs the date on the license that I got my license...soooo I look and it says March 2010...

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I tell him the date and he is like, so now this date that your giving me on your license, this is when you got it renewed? I'm like HUH? He is like, you got it renewed when you were 26? I'm like, Uh nooooo...thats when I got my license...for THE FIRST TIME!!! There was a looooong pause...I felt like he was wondering WHY I didn't start driving till I was 26 sooooo i'm like....yeah...I'm kind of a LATE BLOOMER!!! (Sooooo I waited ten years AFTER the legal age to start driving...big whoopity-do-da! Have I mention that my mom has also been VERY against the idea of ME driving...pretty much since before I was even concieved...LOL!!!) He says, so what your saying ma'aam, is that you didn't start driving till you were 26???

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Ooooo annnnnnnnnd as SOON as he asked me that question I KNEW that if I answered it HONESTLY my insurance rate was going to get EVEN HIGHER!!!! I hesitated....Oooooo I can't like to you all...it was sooooooo TEMPTING to lie for a cheaper rate....buuuuuuuuut I knew I was NOT going to lie...I was like, YES! Thats what I'm saying!!!

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He is like oh ma'aam that is going to change EVERYTHING!!! For some reason we had it in our system that you have been driving since 1999!!! (1999??? Okaaaaaaaay that was like FOREVERRRRR ago...WHY would they have that date??? what in the world was I even doing back then I have NOOOOOOO CLUE!!! LOL) I'm like, WHHHHHYYYYYY??? He says, because that means you ONLY have three years of driving experiance!!! (NOOOOO I've had my license for three years...buuuuuuut... actually I ONLY have 6 months of driving experiance!!! Cuz ya know...I was a late bloomer buuuut I wanted to get it soooo that I didn't feel STUPID when people asked me if I had my license yet....buuuuut then I was waaaaaaaaaaaay to scared to ACTUALLY use it till I was kinda forced to this past May!!! LOL) So he is like just a minute ma'aam while I redo your plan!

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So he redoes it, gets back on and is like, Ok, it has gone up a bit, buuuuut ma'aam this is STILL a really low rate, your new rate is $127 a month! ME: OMW!!! Thats like INSANE!!! Between paying for gas, my iPhone bill, the gym and insurance...there goes ALL MY MONEY!!! Buuuuut heeeeey at least I would lose some weight cuz I would have like NOOOOOO MONEY to buy food!!! HAHAHA!!! Okaaaaaaaaaay I may be exaggerating slightly buuuuuut still!!!

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He is like are you ready ma'aam to get  your insurance, sooooo I hesitated and I was like ummmmm....hold on a sec...soooo I tell my sis and she is like WHOA thats really, really, HIGH!!!  I was like so what do you think??? Should I do it??? She is like, I don't know, I guess its up to you, do you WANT to drive or NOT??? Buuuuuuuuut you can NOT drive around AT ALL without insurance!!! Soooooooo i get back on with him annnnnnd I was just about to say YES, lets go through with it...mainly cuz I couldn't bare the thought of going ONE WHOLE day without my independent freedom...buuuuut THEN Idk...I decided against it!!! I was like, ummmm you know, I think i'm just going to call around and see if I can find something for cheaper!

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He was like, Well ma'aam we can save this rate for you but we ARE known for being the cheapest insurance company, I was like, yeah, weeeeelllll...I think I'll just WAIT!!! Annnnnnd when I got off the phone tho I was feeling sooooooooooo BUMMMMMMMED!!!! I mean, I couldn't  help but feel like BEING HONEST was costing me to pay MORE!!!!!

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I called my mom and she said that it WAS really high buuuuut that it WAS true that I didn't have much driving experiance or that I had ever had insurance before and all this stuff...she was just like well its up to YOU!!! So I was driving with my sis and she was like well it sounds like thats the best deal your gonna be able to get cuz I had called ANOTHER place and it was even HIGHER!!! I was like, yeah...I guess so!

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So we were talking MJ and Ash to eat at Burger King before church on Wednesday night and while we were sitting there i got on my iPhone and googled Geico....

THIS IS WHAT CAME UP ON MY PHONE...

Sooooo I look at my phone and see the websites for geico buuuuut I figured that it would be easiest to just click on the link on my phone that had the number so that my phone would just automatically call Geico! Sooooooo its like REALLLY loud at Burger King and I can't hear what all the answering macines is saying but I finally hit the right numbers to get in touch with an agent! i'm talking to this lady and I tell her that my info is already saved and she is looking it up and she says sorry but NOTHING is saved for you!!!

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I'm like oh okay well I guess we can just REstart!!! Sooooo she takes all my info and tells me that my rate is going to be $67 a month!!! I'm like OMW!!! Sooooooo EXCITED and I was going to get my insurance buuuuuuuuuuut I didn't have the registration with me!!! Awwwwwwww MAN!!! Sooooo she tells me just to call back later cuz they are open 24/7!!! Soooooo I tell my sis the rate they gave me and she is like, DID they know how long you've been driving?!?! I was like, IDK...buuuuut they didn't ask me either....soooooo its NOT like I lied!!! Buuuuuut I still have to wait till after church and see if I still get the rate!!!!

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Annnnnnnnd the whole way home in my sister's van I'm just like PRAYING that God would let me still get this cheaper rate!!! I decided that I should REMIND God of all the reasons WHY I should get a cheaper rate!!! I'm like

God I was...

1. I was HONEST!!! God YOU KNOW, that I easily could have lied....buuuuut NOOOOO!!! I told the truth!!!

2. Its NOT my fault I'm NOT married!!! I don't really think its FAIR that my singleness is being used against me for a HIGHER RATE!!! I'm like GOD, I'm single BECAUSE OF YOU!!! IF I really wanted to be married, just to be MARRIED... I COULD BE MARRIED!!! Buuuuuut NO GOD, I'm waiting ON YOU annnnnnd I'm seeking YOUR WILL for my life!!! I'm like God, I don't even FLIRT TO CONVERT!!!

3. Annnnnnnnd last of all...GOD I use my van to BRING PEOPLE to church!!! And while I don't mind at all doing this and I LOOOOOOOVE having the opportunity to do this, I ALSO thing that you should take it into consideration for helping me to get a better rate!!! 

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Weeeeeelllll as soooooooon as I got home from church I called back the last number I had called on my phone and i'm laying on my bed listening now to the answering machine for GEICO and as I listen I hear WELCOME TO ALLSTATE insurance!!! I was like OMW!!! Nooooooooo waaaaaaay...its a completely different company!!!

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Sooooooo I get to talking with the agent and OMW....I ended up with the SAME rate $67!!! Which was ACTUALLY ten dollars CHEAPER than IF I had lied to the Geico agent!!! When she gave me the quote i was ACTUALLY blowing kisses to God...FOR REALZ!!! LOL She was like, Welcome to the Allstate family!!! I was like YAAAAAY!!! Then me and her started talking to each other annnnnnnnd in the end I told her about my blog and she was going to go check it out right then and there as soon as we hung up....sooooo SHOUT OUT to my Allstate agent (if your reading this feel free to email me MaryFrancesWriting@gmail.com!!!) God is GOOOOOOD annnnnd.... Your doing an AWESOME job!!! :)))) 

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AnywayZ, I totally think that GOD was guiding my finger on my phone cuz ALL the other links on my phone were for GEICO....buuuuuut... I just happened to hit Allstate!!! You can't tell me that WASN'T GOD!!! See you guys,  I thought because I was HONEST I was going to have to pay MORE ....buuuut really.... because I was HONEST ...i ended up with an even BETTER deal!!! 

♥Mary Frances :) 

P.S. I didn't even have to get a husband either for the the cheaper rate!!!!!! ;) 

P.p.S. It REALLY would be cheaper tho IF I had a husband...NOT just cuz of the insurance going down BUUUUUT because HE WOULD BE PAYING MY BILL!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!!

Starbucks laughs!!!

Sooooo i'm sitting here at Starbucks and I just totally busted up laughing!!! This group of boys ranging from the ages of 11-13 come walking in!!! They are just like grinning at each other like, they are sooooooo COOOOOL to be at STARBUCKS...WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS!!!!

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The first boy goes up to the barrista and says, Do you have a Virgin Pina Colada?! She is like, A WHAT??? He is like a VIRGIN PINA COLADA?!?! She just looks at him like he has lost his mind and shakes her head NOOOOOOOO!!!! It was soooooo funnnnny!!! Like helllllooooo this is STARBUCKS, they sell coffee...NOT A BAR!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!

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Annnnnnd then you could tell that it was totally their first time ordering by themselves when the one boy ordered a frapp and then he was like, Ummmmmmm can you like SUPER SIZE IT for me?!?!? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Aaaaahhhhh the days of innocence...Sadly, I don't think I remember NOT knowing how to order a Starbucks drink!!! LOLOL!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Keep calm annnnnnd...

My friend Jen Connell made this for me the other day!!!

 Sooooo FUNNNNNY annnnnnnd sooooooooooo TRUE!!!

 ♥Mary Frances Aka: Mar Bear :) 

Something COOL!!!

Soooo I know this is going to sound weird and cRaZy when I say this buuuuut... I think MJ saw a angel yesturday!!!
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I took her and Ash to McDonalds and then when we got home I went and sat on the rocking chair in the living room, and MJ and Ash went to her room to play!
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Then my sis yells out from her room are the girls home?! I was like YEAH!!! I yelled this still from the living room I hadn't gotten up!
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About two minutes later MJ comes walking into the living room and is like ummm did you just cross from my room to your room? (Our rooms are directly across from each other) I was like, uh NO!!!
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She is like, oh, because I saw something just cross from my room to your room!!! She seemed to think it was odd but then she says, oh well it just must have been my mom then!!!
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I was like hmmmmm... buuuut tI didn't say anything cuz I didn't want to freak her out... Buuuuut.... I knew that whatever she had just seen was NOT my sister!!! Cuz my sis was still in her room... I knew that!!!
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Buuuuut then I just forgot about it cuz i took MJ to piano lessons and then i went to prayer at church and i would have completely forgotten about it all together buuuuuut last night I heard MJ TALKIN...
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Now there is something you hav to understand about my niece, once she starts talking she will just ramble on and on and on annnnnnnd ON!!! Lololol
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So it's bedtime and she sleeps with my sis and she is just blabbering away, and I'm in my room reading my Bible before I fall asleep, well I'm not paying attention to anything MJ is saying until she says, and yeah mom, I saw something cross from my room to Mary's room, buuuuut I think it was just you mom!
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When I heard her say that I just felt goosebumps!!! I was like omw!!! She must have really seen something!!!at first I was like what if it was an evil spirit or something??? Buuuuut then I remembered that I had prayed specifically the last two days that God would send His angels to surround our house and to take charge over us, you know, like the scripture in the Bible says!!!
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I mean I really felt in my heart like it was an angel buuuuut I didn't want to like freak my sis out or nothing sooooo I jus kept my mouth shut for the night!
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But this morning when MJ got up and my sis was already at work I called her in and questioned her! I was like, so Mary Jo, you think that you saw something cross from your room to my room???
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And she just like looked at me her eyes all BIG AND WIDE!!! And she didn't say NOTHING!!! I was like Mary Jo, do you think what you saw yesturday was a angel?!?!?
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Her eyes were still really wide and then she jus simply nodded her head up and down!!! I was like omw that's soooo cool MJ!!!
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Now she wasn't scared anymore, yeah Mary I think it WAS an angel! She said when she first saw it she was scared cuz she didn't know what it was! It was just something white that crossed from her room to my room!!!
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Soooo now she is all hyper annnnd we called her mom who was at work and my sis was like I did not even hear wahat she was sayin last night! I was like I know and I wouldn't of even paid attention except that she had already said something to me about it earlier in the day! Then my sis said that she saw an angel once when we still lived in NYC! She said she just remembers seeing like a wing go behind our brother Joes crib!
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So then my sis said that she wanted to talk to MJ... So she gets on the phone annnnnnd this is when it started to exaggerate and her child imagination comes in! I hear my sis say, Hey girl! So you saw an angel? Annnnnd...
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Mary Jo is like yeah mom I did! She is like and it was wearing a white costume and it had a crown on its head and it had wings ANNNND I saw it flyin from my room into Mary's room!!! Okaaaay fly?!?! Lol before it was jus passin buuuuut now it's flyin!!! Aha!!!
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She is like OH annnnnd the angel had black skin!!! Now when I heard her say this I just BUSTED UP LAUGHING!!! I guess it was kind of loud cuz my sis couldn't hear what she had said, she is like I said the angel had BLACK SKIN!!!
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I was like wait sooooo like your saying that the angel was CHOCOLATE???? She just looks at me with total MJ attitude like DUH and is like YES MARY!!! It was a CHOCOLATE ANGEL!!! Ahahaha!!! Like hellllllooooo!!! Of COURSE it was a CHOCOLATE angel...
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I mean like DUH...it was going into MY ROOM!!! How could we expect MY ANGEL to be anything else buuuuut CHOCOLATE??? Ahahaha!!!
(I GOTTA SAY THO... I'm pretty much 100 percent sure that angel wasn't really black cuz her first thought was that it was ME... And we all know that it would be pretty hard for anyone to mistake me for black! Cuz im pretty white...Lol;)
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Okaaaaay so I know that this latter part of the story was just MJ's wild imagination, cuz then by the time she was getting on the bus she was seeing little angels flying around EVERYWHERE!!! Lololol annnnd when I walked outta the house when she got home from school she like jumped and was like OH I THOUGHT YOU WERE an ANGEL!!! Ahaha!!! I was like yeah... That's what ALL THE GUYS TELL ME!!! Hee, hee!!! ;) ;) ;)

buuuuuut I know that the first part of her story was truth!!! Just for the way she was about it!!! She was sooooo questioning and nervous about it!!! She showed me where she was standing at the front of the hallway by our kitchen and it must have been almost like something just passed by so quickly she didn't know what she saw buuuut she knows she saw it!!!
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I really believe she saw a angel you guys!!! Annnnnd this is such a faith builder to me!!! Cuz ya know in Sunday my heart felt so tender towards God, like I was crying and praying on the way to church it just felt so close buuuut man these past two days I was praying in the morning annnnnd I am NOT even gonna lie!!! I didn't feel NOTHING!!!
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I mean I was praying but ya know it jus felt like me doing A buncha talkin... Ya know!?!? Buuuuut I was praying about our house and all that stuff cuz I really feel like that's important to do!!! I specifically said, God send your angels to stand charge over us!!! And I know that there really are angels and we know that God is a prayer answering God, yet when he shows us the proof we often find excuses and doubt the reality of it!!!
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And I just felt like God was letting me know that no matter how we are or are not feelin when we pray, he DOES HEAR OUR PRAYERS annnnd no matter how we are feeling when we pray, we need to just KEEP ON PRAYING!!! God is not like us! He doesnt base what he does on our feelings but by our obedience to him!!! Prayer really does work!!!

SAVE THE DATE!!!

Heeeeeey everyone!!! Mark your calenders annnnnnnnnnd save the date for June 3-6, 2013!!! These are the dates for this years A MOUNTAIN APART YOUTH CAMP in the mountains of Sacramento New Mexico!!!! This camp is such a BLAST!!! Seriously, there is NON-STOP FUNNNNN and activities going on...My favorite activity would HAVE to be archery!!! I say we end the week with a BIG WATER FIGHT this year???? That would be AWESOME...the goal would be EVERYONE GET BRO. ANDREW FOSTER!!! BAHAHAHA!!!! 

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Of course the SPIRITUALNESS part of this camp is what is really THE BEST!!! The services are fantastic and there is such an emphasis on drawing away to God and PRAYER!!! You really just leave feeling revived!!! 

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Annnnd if your an OLDER single young person like ME...the other AMAZING thing about this camp is that you do NOT have worry about impressing any guys or finding a spouse...BECAUSE THERE ARE NO GUYS!!! AHAHAHA!!! No really tho, it is kinda nice just going somewhere that you can just have fun and focus on NOTHING but having FUN and GOD!!! I remember thinking that when we were driving home this past year, its nice to just leave without feeling any kind of disapointment, because there was NOTHING to be disapointed about!!! LOLOL!!! Now of course, ALL the younger girls feel differently about this...there has even been one couple that has gotten married since the first camp!!! You can read my post about last years camp HERE!!!

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Also, I just wanted to say THAT, this is a GREAT place for families to go!!! So many activitities to do together!!!Even though its called YOUTH camp, there are these amazing rooms with AC for families to stay in if they want!  They pretty much look like hotel rooms buuuuuut there is just no room and cleaning service...LOL! My sis and I are going to bring my mom this year...I know she is gonna LOOOOOVE it!!! 

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AnywayZ, they have an excellent line up for preachers this year!!! i am SUPER excited about it!! If you want to see who they are GO HERE!!! Also they have posted pictures from last years conference and if you would like to view them go HERE!!! Of course I'll keep you all updated and REMINDED!!! Hope to see you there!!! :) Don't forget HERE for all the details of 2013!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

FIXED!!!

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:
 I will sing and give praise (Psalm 57:7) 

What did David mean when he said this?

 I looked up the word fixed in the dictionary. It says;
fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.rendered stable or permanent, as color. set or intent upon something; steadily directed: a fixed stare.
definitely and permanently placed: a fixed buoy; a fixed line of defense.
not fluctuating or varying; definite: a fixed purpose.

WOW! When you read the scriptures before this in the Bible you will see that David cried out this prayer to God at a time in his life where he felt like everything was falling apart, yet he was still holding on to God. He was litarally living his life on the run! He was hiding out in a cave from the APPOINTED, CHOSEN, ANNOINTED man of God that had been put over the children of Israel!

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Can you imagine how David must have felt knowing that THE KING of Israel wanted to take his life?! We know that David didn't like it or understood it, YET he told God, MY HEART IS FIXED!!!

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There have been times in my life were i just didn't get it!!! I didn't LIKE the things that were going on. Things that in my heart I knew, I KNEW they wern't right! There have been times in my life where I have told God, I'm sooooo confused, I don't understand, I'm unsure of EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING...all I KNOW, is that I LOVE YOU JESUS!!! OH I LOVE YOU JESUS!!!

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"Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." (John 6: 67:68)

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This scripture has been on my mind all day today- I just keep thinking about it. Driving to church I  started crying...I just couldn't help myself. I told God, I HAVE NOTHING outside of you!  I can't imagine EVER leaving! Others may leave, but I won't, I CAN'T, because like Peter said, TO WHOM SHALL I GO???

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I've had some HARD times this past year. I've hurt, i've cried, I've wondered, I've questions, I've pondered and I've cried SOME MORE!!! Buuuuuuuut even in it all, I've NEVER wanted to leave God!!! NOT because I'm UTLRA spiritual, BUUUUUT BECAUSE I KNOW in my heart, beyond a shadow of a doubt...

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 Life without God is MEANINGLESS, POINTLESS, WORTHLESS to me. God IS MY LIFE!!! I have NO HOPE except IN HIM!!! I don't understand when people leave God. I just don't get it! I can understand what has made them upset or sad or depressed or confused...buuuuut WHY LEAVE??? You may not like your circumstances, BUUUUUUT you may as well just stick with Him, because we have NOTHING outside of God anyways!!! In Jesus are the words of ETERNAL LIFE!!!.

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I think that in life, in our walk with God we all come to a place that we have to make up our mind. A time where we stop wondering IF we are gonna make it and JUST decide I AM gonna make it!!! It doesn't mean that we don't have struggles or questions. It doesn't mean that we won't make mistakes or trip. It just means that IF I do fall, I'm gonna get back up!!! I am gonna HOLD on to God NO MATTER what!!!

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"My heart is fixed..."

FIXED!!! What does it mean??? 

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fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.rendered stable or permanent, as color.set or intent upon something; steadily directed: a fixed stare.definitely and permanently placed: a fixed buoy; a fixed line of defense.

not fluctuating or varying; definite: a fixed purpose.

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It means even though people have done you wrong, even though you don't understand, even though you don't like your situation, even though your confused, even though your hurting, YOUR GOING TO STICK IT OUT...your gonna keep praising him...Your going to live right...Your gonna KEEP ON, KEEPING ON!!! If you re-wrote the scripture to go with the dictionary definition to make it more clear what David was saying, I think it would go like this-

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My heart is fastened and attached to you God. It is planted firmly and cannot be moved. It is stable and permanent. My mind is intent on You and steadily directed by You. It is definite, permanent, not changing from moment to moment or by the circumstances around me. My purpose is to praise you God, therefore, I will!!! 

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My heart is fixed, 

O God, my heart is fixed:

 I will sing and give praise (Psalm 57:7)

♥Mary Frances :)

Embracing it!!!

Soooooooooo I saw this big O car yesturday at PV MALL ....it just cracked me up!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! annnnnnnnnnd

I juuuuuuust HAD to take a picture in front of it!!!

White trash...its kinda an INSIDE joke with a loooooooong story behind it!!! You can read PART of how it started HERE!!! LOLOLOL Any wayZ, I was like OMW what a COOL CAR!!! I would soooooooooo LOOOOOVE that for picking up Sunday School kids...SEE LOOK it has THREE DOORS on EACH SIDE!!! THEN I thought about trying to SWITCH LANES IN TRAFFIC annnnnnnd I was like okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay NEVER MIND!!! Bahahaha!!!

Then TODAY I went and got a VANILLA SPICE Frapp from Starbucks....soooooooooo NOW I feel like I'm REALLY embracin my Ethnicity!!! I gotta say tho...Carmel and Chocolate is just BETTER tasting...TO ME!!! Jus sayin!!! ;) 

Sooooo YEAH...I'm REALLY proud of myself cuz I been EMBRACIN my ethnicity the last couple of days...NOW all I gotta do is go to Bath and Body works and get me some WARM VANILLA SUGAR LOTION...WOOT, WOOT!!! ;)

♥Mary Frances :)

A Ginty Christmas!!!

Weeeeellll i decided that I MUST blog about my Christmas!!! It was a LOOOOOONG and FUNNNNN celebration!!! See, I've discovered that I am a VERY FESTIVE person...I know...BIG surprise right??? Soooo of course there are a few things I forgot to add on here...LIKE our ladies cookie exchange and bringing cookies to our neighbors...buuuuut heeeey this post is LONG ENOUGH!!! LOL! 

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Sooooooooooo MJ was the WHALE in her class Christmas pagent....

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AnywayZ, sooooooo Saturday night before Christmas we went and picked Layna to spend the night annnnnnnnnnd we got the kiddos Krispy Kreme for breakfast, WHICH YOU KNOW meant hyperness for church...LOL...

Sooooo she spent the WHOLE day with us and we partied it out!!!! Then we gave her some presents!!! I got her Candy Land cuz YOU KNOW every kid NEEDS that game!!! HA! Then my sis and MJ gave her this adorable lil doll!!! Actually, I had talked my sis into buying it for MJ for Valentines day cuz it was this beautiful chocolate baby doll annnnnd okaaaaaaaaaaay HONESTLY I was kinda wantin it for myself EXCPET that at ALMOST 30, I think that I am OFFICIALLY TO OLD FOR BABY DOLLS!!! *Sigh! Sooooo T said that MJ had ENOUGH stuff she was getting and that Layna should have it!!! 

I could tell she really, really, REALLY liked it!!! Annnnnnnnnd she even named the baby after me!!! Soooo... There is a lil chocolate baby doll named after ME now...Awwwww!!!!

Me and LAYNA!!! Love MY GIRL!!! 

My MOMMY!!!

Soooooooo I was playin with my gwappo lil nephew Jose a few weeks ago at my mom's house and I was jus talkin to him and stuff annnnnnd then I leaned over to MY MOM and said to him, "Jose, this is MY MOMMY!!!" 

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He was like NOOOOO!!! Thats NOT your mommy!!! Thats GRANDMA!!! I was like, "No, Grandma is MY MOMMY!!!" He is like NO SHE IS NOT!!! Grandma is MY GRANDMA!!!" Sooooooo I tried to explain it to him, I'm like Jose, you no how YOUR MOMMY has baby Jullianna in her tummy? he is like, YES! I'm all like WEEEEEELLLL...when I was a baby I was in GRANDMA'S tummy!!! He was like, NO YOU WERN'T!!! (My brother Joe, his daddy was like, Okaaaaaay MARY!!! That right there is YOUR PROBLEM!!! He is having difficulty in his 3-year-old mind, TRYING to imagine YOU, ever small enough to fit into ANYONE'S stomach!!!!" )(Har, har! LOL) 

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He was just sooooooooo insistent!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!! Grandma is NOT your Mommy Aunt Mary!!! Soooooooo finally I was like, Well Jose, If Grandma isn't my mommy, THEN WHO IS my mommy????

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He gave me the biggest, darkest glare, then WITHOUT even hesitating he says, AUNT THERESA IS YOUR MOMMY!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!! I just busted up laughing, then I was like, You really think that Aunt Theresa is MY MOMMY??? He just smiled sweetly now and said, YES! She is!!! OMW I guess in his lil mind it makes sense...I live with her, I ride with her, I come with her annnnnnnnnd she tells me what to do annnnnnnnnnnnn I LISTEN!!! Bahahaha...I guess when it comes to the bossin around and listenin part that means my younger brother John is MY DAD then!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Conquror's Conference 2012!!!

Okaaaaaaaaaaay soooooo CC 2012 was  amaZingly AWESOME!!! Really, the services and preaching were just superb!!! Now...i must say, these pics are totally OUT OF ORDER!!! Blogger and the iPhone just mixed them all up...sooooooooo i'll just talk out of order...LOL!

Okay so this lil boy was just sooooo CUTE!!! I can't remember his name but he just came over and joined our game of PERFECT SENSE!!!   It w a s soooo funny ! I kept e xclaiming to him...YOUR SOOOO CUTE!!! YOUR SOOOOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUTE! I was like, I know! Ok lets PLAY!!! AHAHAHA!!! Then we asked him who's church he was from and he just shrugged his shoulders! It was super funny!!!

Bro. Wilkins from right here in Chandler AZ preached the morning services and it was soooooo GOOOOOOD!!! He preached a message called, "What about the cross?" Basically, what it was saying was that NO MATTER WHAT, what about the cross? What about what Jesus did for us! NOTHING can ever change that! And he was talking about carrying out our cross...DYING to our flesh...SIN!!! It was sooooo GOOOOOD!!!

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay soooooo NO i'm NOT kissin the air for those that asked!!! BAHAHA!!! I'm TRYING to catch a marshmallow in my mouth....buuuuut I was UNsucessful I must say!!! LOL!!!

Sooooo the last night I had forgot my purse in the lobby of the hotel and thought that I had lost it....anywayz, I waz very relieved when I did find it annnnnnd sooooo I was tellin Heather from Las Vegas about it and she said something about Organizing and she was like sooooo is  your closet color cordinated and I looked at her twice to see if she was joking...AHAHAHA...buuuuut she wasn't!!! Soooooo i took this pic SPECIAL for her...my suitcase packed and READY to zip to go home!!! AHAHAHA!!! What do YOU think HEATHER??? ;)

Happy new year!!!

2013 is gonna be AWESOME!!! Im gonna turn 30 this year annnnnd God is gonna do great things!!! In Jesus name lets get this year started!!!