Day 3 of THE BAY! (Hanna's Graduation Party!)

 Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay after another break, ITS time to finish up my trip to the bay in May!!! Soooooooooo day 3 started off with me making Biscuits and gravy!

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Weeeeeellll First we headed out to target to buy all the ingredients annnnnnnnnnnd would you believe that, GROCERY STORES IN THE BAY CHARGE YOU FOR PLASTIC BAGS???? The cashier had asked me if I wanted my groceries bagged? I was like, Uh yeah!! I'm thinking in mind, OK that was stupid of them to ask!! Hanna was like, oh here in California its 10cents a bag!!! I was like, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!? NEVER MIND THEN!!!

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Here are my two pans of Gravy...I pretty much have the recipe memorized now!!! The pan in the back was especially made for Hanna...We call hers THE ETHIOPIAN version!!! She likes it REALLY SPICY...even Anali doesn 't like it as spicy as her!!!

Sooooooooo it was my biscuits and gravy that totally won over Hanna's Grandma!!!  Like, I don't know what she really thought of me before that, BUUUUUUUT after she came out of her room that morning and smelled it, she said, Oh it smells so good and yeah after that ME AND HER WERE TIGHT!!! It was pretty much LOVE at first bite!!! I mean, it was A LITTLE hard trying to woo her over COMPETING WITH BRO. JEREMY CHARMING HER, buuuuuuuuuut THE GRAVY WORKED!!! Heh, heh!!! She's no longer just, Hanna's Grandma, NOW she's MY CHOCOLATE GRANDMA!!!

Anywayz, I have to be HONEST, the biscuits were NOT made by ME!!! They were frozen Pilsbury rolls!!! I stil have NOT accomplished biscuit making sooooooooo if anyone wants to help me out I would be MUCH APPRECIATED in that area!!! Buuuuuuuuut yeah, everyone LOVED breakfast that morning!!! Wooooot, WOOOOOT!!! You know, what makes happy, FEEDING PEOPLE and hearing them say HOW GOOD IT IS!!! (Yes, really people, I brought one of my aprons with me to the bay...one must ALWAYS be prepared to do what they do best!!!;)
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After breakfast we all hung out in the Kifle's living room...Me and this lil girl were playing CANDY LAND...buuuut I can't remember her name!

Me and Cassy!!!

No idea WHAT I'm laughing about here...the guys were probabley doing something!!! LOL

Now heading with Jen Conell over to Hanna's party at the park!!! She caught me doing the praise raise to her gospel!!! Oh YEAH!!! LOL

NOW here we are at the partaaaaaaaaaay!!! Anali did ALL the decorations and she did a really good job too!!!

This was her graduation gift to Hanna!!!

This table had all the party favors on it...HAPPY PILLS!!! LOL

Heres the men busy working and grilling the yummy food!!!

Sis. Kifle setting stuff up!!!

Taking pics with people now me and Kendra Thaler...she is pregos, can't wait to meet her lil Simon that is like a month away!!!

Got to hang out some with Emily from Attwater!!!

Annnnnnnnnnd I finally got to meet miss Carisa from Bro. Rushings church...Look at how long her hair is!!!! I wish my hair was that long!!!

After eating some yummy food I left with Jen to take Kendra to the airport! One the way back me and Jen had a heart to heart!!! *Tear! Haha!!! Me and Jen don't get to talk to often but when we do its usually FOR HOURS!!!! LOL Anything from THE CALL of God and SOULS to weeeeeeellll you know, TO WHAT US GIRLS ALWAYS GET TOO!! BAHAHAHA!!!
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Just hanging out with the girls!!!

CAKE TIME!!!

 

I was soooooooooo EXCITED cuz I FINALLY got go try this cake that is like famously talked about with Hanna....Some bakery in San Francisco I think!!! It was sooooooooooo GOOOOOOD!!!

Then AFTER the graduation party, what do you think we all did??? Yes, that's right, we headed to The Kifle's for what??? THE AFTER PARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! Woot, woot!!!

More hanging out annnnnd OF COURSE EATING!!! ETHIOPIAN FOOD!!!! I seriously loooooooooove that stuff!!! And the best part is that you eat it with YOUR HANDS!!!

All the Ethiopian woman hanging out...I think this was the kissing zone...I realized that Ethiopians greet you with more kisses than Italians even do!!! Its pretty awesome!!! Like, being Italian, I think I've kissed MORE long distance male men that are "relatives" than ANYONE, buuuuut yeah I think i'm outdone by far with the Ethiopian greetings!!! LOL I think Mesgana was doing his best to dodge ANY MORE KISSES!!! BAHAHAHA!!!

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Meanwhile, the young people were in the kitchen goofing off and messing with Hanna's iPad!!! We got this really FUNNNNY picture with Coco BITING OFF Hanna's head...buuuuuuuut IDK...I think maybe we shoulda done the pic the OTHER WAY AROUND!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!!! Juuuuuuuuuuuuust KIDDDDDDING HANNA!!! Jk! JK!!!

After we FINALLY ended our night of PARTAAAAAAYING...Me and Hanna had our own little party on the couches of the Kifle's living room...Having a HEART TO HEART partaaaaaaaaaaaay till we drifted off to sleep!!! Awwwwwwwwww good times!!!

Buuuuuuuuut TOMORROW was even BETTERRRR!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

ANOTHERRRR MIRACLE!!!!

MJ GOT BAPTIZED!!!!

Sooooooo it was an ABSOLUTE MIRACLE that she actually went through with it!!!

She was indecisive and crying for like 45 min before hand!!!!

FINALLY she let pastor actually carry her over to the baptismal tank...

We all thought, OK now she is in, sitting in the water its going to be over BUUUUT NOOOOO!!! I think Pastor said As a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ I know baptize you...LIKE AT LEAST TEN TIMES LAST NIGHT!!! BAHAHAHA!!! Buuuuut then as soon as it was time to go under she would stop him from putting her under the water!!!

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They were trying to talk with her, reason with her, buuuuuut when MJ freaks out there is pretty much NO REASONING WITH HER!!! lol Pasor told her it was fine if she wasn't ready she could do it another time!

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BUUUUUUUUUUUT the problem was, THAT, even tho she wouldn't let pastor put her UNDER the water, she also WOULD NOT GET OUT OF THE WATER!!! Flat out REFUSED!!! LOL

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So everyone pretty much walked out and MJ is just sitting there in the tank!!!!Then Bishop wheeled himself over and was talking to her about how it's ok to be scared, there are even adults that are sometimes scared to be baptized! She really started to calm down when he was talking to her.

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Then I was like, Mary Jo, remember how many times we would play baptism in the pool and I would baptize you for pretend and you would come up laughing? Well it's gonna be jus lke that except this time it will be FOR REAL!!! AND this time ALL your SIN is going to be washed away!
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Then I was like, ok let's practice holding your nose and we practiced that together for a little while then she said she was ready and someone ran and got pastor AND...

 SHE DID IT!!!!!

Omw I was soooooo HAPPPPYYYY!!!!!

Oh and then you know me, I get all crazy when i'm EXCITED!!! I was like whooping and hollering and when MJ came up outta the water, I was like, YOUR SINS ARE ALL GONE NOW!!!! Annnnnd she jus gave me THE DIRTIEST MJ GLARE EVERRRRRR!!!! Lol

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I was like, YEAH!!! That's MY NIECE right there GLARING AT ME ANNNNND I LOOOOOVE HER!!!! Purrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

MJ and her BEST FRIEND ASHLEE!!!

 Ashlee was SOOOOO happy when MJ finally went under the water that she burst into tears!!! Here they are hugging and crying together!!! Ashlee was also right there with her crying and praying with her last week when she got the Holy Ghost!!!

 

Mj with her Grandparents!!!

Yes, MY DAD even came to church to see her get baptized!!! At one point, when MJ wouldn't get in the tank, Bishop was like, Its OK if you don't get baptized tonight Mary Jo, we'll just do it ANOTHER TIME and THEN we'll get your grandpa in another church service!!! Everyone started laughing...but my dad's was a nervous laugh!!! HAHA!!!

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Then she told her mom afterwards that her legs are soooooo white now and she knows it's cuz all those sins are gone!!!! Lol ( in that case, I'm sooooo SAVED!!! BAHA)

  When I think about where God brought her from to THIS very moment, it is sooooooooo AMAZING!!!! All because MY SISTER refused to give up on letting her stay in that MAD HOME!!! Because of that My niece is going to heaven now you guys!!!!! She was bound to a life nothingness on her way to hell, without a hope, without a reason to live, buuuuuuuuuut now her life has been REDIRECTED!!! Now she is ON HER WAY TO HEAVEN, DREAMING OF BEING A PASTOR'S WIFE!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Shock of ALL SHOCKS!!!

ANOTHER iPhone HAS BIT THE DUST!!! Yes, REALLY people!!! I know, I know, SHOCKING NEWS RIGHT?!??! You all KNOW THE ROUTINE...if you have my number send me a text letting me know who you are and i'll save your number!!! OR email me at Maryfranceswriting@gmail.com

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That's pretty much five smart phones in the last year!!! What happened with this one is that I'm pretty sure I drove off with it on the trunk of my car...When I went to Verizon to get my new phone activated...Thanks Mommy Poo for giving me your old one...The man asked me if I had ANY idea where my other phone was...I said ummmm...I think probably on the 101 somewhere!!!

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Single Apostolic guys are ALL THANKING God  that they are NOT MARRIED TO ME!!! I'm an INEXPENSIVE girl....buuuuuuuuuut at the end of the day, I'm STILL high matanance... buuuuuuuuuut not in your typical way...buuuuuuuuuuuuut because its EXPENSIVE to upkeep ME...things just seem to either disappear, crash, fall, trip, snap, explode, or break with me...I apologize in advance to the man that marries me!!! (Heeeeey there has to be SOMETHING wrong with me otherwise the Bible would be wrong when it says, NO ONE IS PERFECT!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!;)

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AnywayZ, I KNEW when I bought that STUPID $80 Life Proof case for my iPhone that I was totally WASTING MY MONEY!!!

You can LIFE PROOF IT!!!

 Buuuuuuut YOU CAN'T...

MARY PROOF IT!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Opening the door CMM!!!

Sooooo this past Sunday I stopped by my mom's, when I was leaving, without thinking I TRIED to unlock the front door...

WITH MY CAR DOOR OPENER!!!

AHAHAHAHA!!! I was standing there clickin and clickin away ANNNNNNNNNND not understanding WHY it wouldn't unlock!!! Finally I realized what I was doing...I was like, WOW Mary, WOW!!!

What I really NEED is to UNLOCK MY BRAIN!!!!

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut 

I think that's a key that ONLY GOD holds!!!

 BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

 

Why I didn't get married young!!!

One of my childhood friends was in town this past weekend, Devi-used-to-be-Abbott, Now Devi Foster!!! For those of you that are unfamiliar with who Devi is, this is Denae Abbott's big sister, my pastor's daughter all my growing up years! Anywayz, Devi Foster was my first friend that I remember making. I was 3 and she was four when she met and I remember her saying that I would just talk and talk and talk to her and she had NO idea what I was saying because I had such a thick New York accent!!! LOL

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Anywayz, Devi Foster and her husband Andrew will soon be celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary!!! That's soooooo WEIRD in my mind to think that HERE my friend, that I grew up with, we played baby dolls together, had our first crushes together, were in the youth group together, THEN she got married and that was the first thing I remember doing that wasn't TOGETHER!!!

 

She has been in a completely different phase of her life of the last TEN  YEARS!!! Meanwhile, I've spent THE LAST TEN YEARS, still being a YOUNG PERSON!!! I have no regrets that God has given me this opportunity to enjoy! I was looking at pics from my late teens annnnnnnnd I just busted up laughing...

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I was like, YUP, this is WHY I did NOT get married YOUNG!!!

That's me at my first banquet date!!! AHAHAHA!!! You all can NOT even begin to imagine how crazy-wild-HYPERRR I was as a teen!!! Let me clarify the fact that I was NEVERRR worldly, and I never everrrr wanted to leave the church, buuuuuuuut I wasn't exactly spiritual either if ya know what I mean!!! HAHA!!! Oh the stories...I feel sorry for any man that would have married me at 18...that's ALL I'M SAYING!!! LOL

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Sometimes we get sooooo STUCK on, its NOT FAIR!!! Its NOT fair that they're married and I'm NOT!!! One of the best lessons I've ever learned was taught by Bro. Brown, God is NOT FAIR!!! I could sit here all day long boohooing to you all about how its NOT fair that I have a friend that has been married for ten years, has two kids annnnnnnnnd I'm STILL SINGLE!!! BUT I'M NOT!!! Because you know what, ten years ago, it would NOT have been FAIR to any good, Godly man to have married my immature self!!! I wasn't ready to be a wife!!!

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God has spent the last ten years maturing me and building character within me! I've always been a few steps behind my peers and slow to mature, so learning to pray and really truly have a walk with God has been a slow process for me throughout my 20's! God knew that I had to learn from failure to get wisdom and he had to break me to put a yearning in my heart for the things of God and a burden for lost souls.  God knew that I have needed this time to grow into what he has made me today and will continue to develop me in the time to come!!!

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Because of this I choose to continue to enjoy my life as a single young lady and allow God to continue to mold me into the wife he wants me to one day be!!! We don't always understand God and WHY He does things THE WAY He thinks they should be instead of the way WE think they should be, BUUUUUUUUUUT we don't always need to know!!! As my NEW FAVORITE SCRIPTURE SAYS...

"As for God, his way is perfect..."

(Psalm 18:30)

♥Mary Frances :)

Annnnnnd the newest Apostolic Beauty...

GOES TO MY NEWBORN NIECE!!!

Ain't she a BEAUTY????

To everyone that's askin, WHICH BROTHER IS THIS??? This is my brother John the one that got married to Elizabeth HERE!!! This is the Italian looking one, my younger brother that bosses me around, buuuuuut he's not the YOUNGEST, we have a younger brother, Abie Baby and John bosses him around too!!! Me and Abe are the passive ones of the family, my other three siblings are ALL FIRST BORNS...If you know what I mean!!! LOL

Here she is with her daddy...

annnnnd here I am with her mommy!!!

 I hope you get your mommy's dimples, sweet personality and that your NOT bossy like your daddy!!! LOL I only say that cuz your a girl...You gotta SUBMIT GIRRRRRRRRRRRL!!! Lizzy has a very passive personality which works GREAT for my brother!!! Your daddy was telling us about how your mommy is SUCH A GOOD WIFE!!! He said she does WHATEVER he tells her to do!!! LOL And he is soooooooo glad that he married her and not any other girl cuz he sees how SOME of these girls respond to their husband BUT your mommy is NOT like that!!! I was like, AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Hanging out with you and your daddy...

Sooooooooo when Bethany was being born I realized that even tho her mommy's water had broke that it was going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time before she was actually born!!! I knew I had to get up super early the next day and I was already so tired I was trying to decide if I should wait her arrival at the hospital or just go to sleep??? Finally thought about what would my brother do??? If I was in the hospital in labor and my brother knew that he was going to have to be at work by 7 am the next day, would he stay up for me??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Sooooooooo Asleep I went!!! :))) Plus my brother told me not to worry about it, she'll still be here when you wake up!!

I personally think she looks like me when I was a baby!!! Lets compare these two pics!!!! Top pic baby Bethany, bottom pic baby Mar Bear!!!

Do you guys see it????

Well her lips are fuller, mine have always been thin and my nose is more pointy...buuuuuut the rest, WE'RE PRACTICALLY TWINS!!! Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
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Here your daddy took off my glasses and put them on you!!! Don't worry I'll get you your own heart-shaped-sunglasses very soon!!!

Always remember that you are a MIRACLE BABY Bethany, because I remember standing there with my mom when they told her that your daddy may never be able to have kids from the chemo!!!

Buuuuuuuuuuut

 HERE YOU ARE!!!

As your daddy says,

 LOOK WHAT THE LORD

 HAS DONE!!!

 

♥Mary Frances :) 

P.S. I can't wait to hear you purrrrr for the first time!!! I'm sure I will scream just like I did for all your cousins when the purrrrred at their Aunt Mar Bear for the first time!!!!  Always remember that your Aunt Mar Bear LOOOOOOVES YOU!!! Purrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

 

WCC TICKET!!!

Last Friday I bought my PLANE TICKET!!!

 I am OFFICIALLY going to WEST COAST CONFERANCE!!!

I'm SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!Woooooooooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

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It had started to look like financially it was NOT going to be a very wise decision to go to WCC!!! I had decided like FIVE times not to go ANNNNND every time then I would start feeling all sad cuz I knew wasn't going to get to see all my friends that I havn't seen in FOREVERRRR!!! I'm thinkin about all my friends from PCC, The Marchbank girls, Bethany, Marissa, Erynnn, Hanna and Anali and everyone else from the bay area...I know better stop naming people cuz this always gets me in trouble when I don't mention someone else's name...LOL...Buuuuuuuuut yeah, I want to go SEE YOU ALL... LOL... I'm just like WHEN am I even going to get see these peeeeeeps AGAIN???? Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh...

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Sooooooooooo yeah I wasn't going to go buuuuuuut I wanted to soooooo BAD!!! So I prayed about It and then remembered that I had a US airways card since May...I use it for gas and stuff and then pay it off and you SUPPOSIVLEY earn air miles!!! Soooooooooooo I'm, lke well maybe I've earned some that would make my ticket CHEAPER...turns out I had ENOUGH to cover a WHOLE ticket annnnnnnnd still 5000 air miles left!!!

All I can say is THANK YOU JESUS!!!!

NOW I just need to figure out WHO is going to pick me up from the airport and bring me back??? AHEM PEOPLE...Hint, hint!!! ;))))

♥Mary Frances :)

Miracle of all miracles!!!!

MARY JO GOT THE HOLY GHOST!!!!!

Shout down over here people!!!!!! 

Shout it from the roof tops, MY NIECE GOT THE HOLY GHOST!!!!!

I'm soooooo HAPPY!!!!

This is SUCH A MIRACLE!!!!

FINALLY!!!

GOD IS SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD!!!!

PURRRRRRRRR!!!!!

She is Soooooo happy!!!

Pastor said she can praise sing now and she said and now I can get married!!!!And here she is telling us that she can now get her promised dog!!!!

Happy Sunday!!!

This is soooooooooo CRACKING ME UP!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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I just LOOOOOVE jokes like that!!! Seriously can't stop LOLOLing!!!

Have AWESOME GOOOOOOOOOOD church today everyone!!! :))))

"I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." (Psalm 122:1)

♥Mary Frances :)

Lolo's Chicken And Waffles!!!

Okaaaaaay soooooooo I have to say that of ALL the resturaunts that we have been trying, THIS ONE has been my favoriteist SOOOOOOO FAR!!! Annnnnnd really people, its NOT JUST BECAUSE EVERYONE working there is BLACK annnnnnnnnnd that 75% of the people eating there are BLACK...buuuuuuuuut it was PRETTY AWESOME!!! Told my pastor before we left, I'm TAKING SOME CHURCH CARDS!!!! (Lolo's Chicken And Waffles! HERE)

 

It was superrrrr crowded so T and MJ got their own table so they wouldn't have to wait as long...they just switched locations now tho so its supposed to have more space!

The first REALLY cool thing I notices was that they had black gospel music blaring through the speakers...the rest of the week its HIP HOP buuuuuuuuut on Sundays, ITS GOSPEL!!!

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Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ON TO THE FOOD!!! It was AMAAAAAAZING!!! You better go hungry and be prepared to gain wait...FO REALZ PEOPLE!!!

 

This is THE BEST CORN BREAD EVERRR!!!

(Besides YOURS MOMMY POO!!! Its good buuuuuut it  ain't like Mommas! Purrrrrrrrrrrr!!!)

To eat I got chicken fried chicken with corn bread, smothered potatoes and WAFFLES!!!

The only thing that I wouldn't get again is the smothered potatoes...they were kinda like BLAH!!! Others said that the house fries, (Fried potatoes with peppers and onions) Were really good and also the mac and cheese!!!

I'm telling you guys get a LOAD OF THIS CHICKED FRIED CHICKEN!!! its better than cracker barrels!!

You can also just get fried chicken!!!

Annnnnnnnnnnnd if you go, YOU GOTTA GET THE WATERMELON KOOLAIDE!!! Its soooooooooooooo GOOD!!!! like really it doesn't get anymore SOUL then WATERMELON KOOLAIDE!!!!!!!!!

Our waiter really NEEDS get in church too...that's ALL I"M SAYING PEOPLE!!! Not that I was flirtin or nothing...I don't flirt with THE WORLD!!! Besides I can't even flirt...i'm like soooooo AWKWARD...like I was trying to flirt with this Apostolic black guy once and I broke out with this fried chicken joke...annnnnnnnd then I heard that people were offended by it soooooooooo I apologized up and down about it to EVERYONE trying to explain that i'm really NOT racist and that I just LOOOOOOOVE black people...I'm like giving my history of carrying around a black baby doll since I was four...THEN IN THE END...I found out that it wasn't even black people that were offended by it...it was WHITE PEOPLE!!! I was like REALLY??? White people??? I"M SOOOOOOOOOOO CONFUSED!!!

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Anywayz, I said all that to say that I was NOT flirting with the waiter...we did have like a FIVE MINUTE conversation about his FAVORITE flavor of Koolaide tho!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!! Seth told me later on that he was trying so hard not to laugh about this IN DEPTH conversation about KOOLAIDE!!! LOLOL!!!

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Then that night one of the girls told me that they fell on the way out! I was like WHAT???? I totally missed that!!! She was like how could you NOT see that?! I was like, Oh cuz I was still at the table waiting for the waiter to bring me my change! Soooooooo shes telling me the whole story about how she fell cuz the floor was slippery and some man came over and helped her up!!! I was like, OMW was the man that helped you up CHOCOLATE??? She's like, YES OF COURSE!!! I was like, I AM SOOOOOOOOO BRINGING MY HEELS NEXT TIME!!! Its a GUARANTEED FALL!!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!! 

This will be me!!!



AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 Anywayz, this is a VERY FUNNNNNN place to go on Sundays!!! Good food annnnnnnnnnnd good music!!! Next time Hanna and Anali come we are soooooooooo GOING!!! Annnnnnd anyone else that comes to visit it in AZ!!! Angel and Marissa...PLAN ON IT!!!

LOLO'S HERE WE COME AGAIN!!!!

Go HERE

♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. I still have my black baby doll from when I was four...I don't carry her around ANYMORE THO...now I carry REAL ONES!!!:)

Anotherrrrr cRaZy Wednesday!!!

 TONIGHT was CRAZY!!! lol  I won't go into ALL the details buuuuuuuuut at one point fried chicken got broken out...YES FRIED CHICKEN...gotta feed they babies they say... AHAHAHAHA!!! There was a few cat fights I tried to stop and the girls paused from yelling at each other and politely said to me, Mary I don't want to hurt YOU, can you please move so that I don't hit you? Yes, they EVEN SAID PLEASE!!! LOL

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Anywayz, despite the crazy van rides to and from church, the kids were actually quite well behaved during church and class...Heeeeey that's the most important part!!! My sis told me when I got home that when someone had tattled to me about what one of the kids did my mouth was just hanging open!!! LOL really I don't know why I was sooooo surprised!!! Then we're trying to get the kids settled enough to ACTUALLY LEAVE I finally had to yell SOOOOOOOOO LOUD...like you guys don't even know just how loud it was...it got dead quiet for like a second then everyone just busted up laughing...then I did to!!! I mean, it was a pretty AWESOME SCREAM at them!!!

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This was my AWWWW MOMENT of the night...

Something about when one of the worst behaved kids calls you mommy and falls asleep in your arms.....AWWWWWWWW!!! Sooooooooo annoying at times...A LOT OF THE TIME...but they suuuure do know how to melt my heart!!!!  No matter how crazy it gets, IF ONE SOUL IS SAVED, its WORTH IT ALL!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

What love looks like!!!

What does LOVE look like?! I don't mean i'm talking about real, true LOVE between a man and a woman! What does it look like??? THINK ABOUT IT!!! If you were to draw a picture of love,

WHAT WOULD YOU DRAW???

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You can try to think up the most romantic pictures of a man and a woman in love, two people gazing into each others eyes on a starry night...a Married man kissing his wife beneath the mistletoe, a man and a woman running into each others arms after a long separation, holding hands walking along the beach and on and on the list can go as we began to think up romantic scenarios of LOVE!!!

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However, this past Sunday morning at my church, I looked up from where I was praying in pre-service prayer and in that moment,

I SAW WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE!!!

There were the Abbotts praying together. Bishop Abbott sitting in the chair because his body is to weak for him to kneel anymore and his wife on the floor beside him rocking back and forth like she always has, their hands resting on each others arms, connecting together in prayer!!!

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When I saw this I was like, AWWWWW!!! I couldn't miss this opportunity to capture this picture of LOVE!!! This my friends is what LOVE looks like!!! ITs not in the pomp and blair and fireworks of romantic things that you will find a picture of love! Its with two people  that have struggled through life TOGETHER serving God!!! Its with TWO people committed to no matter what happens, HOLDING ON TO each other and to Jesus!!!

THATS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

A man LIKE THAT!!!

Soooooo last weekend I had the opportunity to hear elder Sis. Alvear, missionaries wife to Brazil, speak at the ladies seminar at Bro. Brown's church. It was ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING!!! I was so impacted by what she spoke on. It really stirred me...buuuuuut... that's not what I'm going to talk about today, perhaps in another post, altho I don't if I could fully explain it to you the way it spoke to me...ANYWAYZ, that's NOT what i'm going to talk about today!!!

Soooooooo while she was speaking I decided that it was confirmed to me indeed WHAT KIND OF MAN I want to marry!

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She was telling this story, she said in Brazil they don't have African Americans, they have African Brazillians, well she said that one day she got a phone call from someone in her church saying that there were two newborn black babies that had just been born in the hospital and the mom was abandoning them and they had now where to go. So she decided that she would go see what she could do.

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When she got to the hospital, the nurse just told her take them, they had NO HOME, NO WHERE TO GO, and NO ONE THAT WANTED THEM!!! So she said she had nothing else to do buuuuut to take them home!!!  Her husband was out of the country and in Chili at the time and she had NO IDEA what he was going to think about these two new additions to their family and decided to just wait till he got home to tell him.

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 She said at one point he called and asked her how the church was doing and she was just like, OH the church is going good, two new souls have just been added and they are GROWING DAILY!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! (I'm like OMW this is soooooooo something I would be doing...My husband would never leave town cuz he won't know how many more kids their will be when he gets back...BAHAHAHA!!!)

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She said finally he got back from the trip and he walked in to the house and he saw the first lil baby in one of the beds she had made up and he said, Oh I see we have a little visitor with us! And she said, Weeeeeellll...ACTUALLY there are TWO OF THEM annnnnnnd they are NOT VISITING!!!

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She said he was just looking at the two babies, (LIL CHOCOLATE BABIES! I'm soooo feelin it AWWW) She said after looking at them he just says, WELL, lets just keep them!!! When I heard that I was like, I soooooooooooooooooooo WANT TO MARRY A MAN LIKE THAT!!!

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Aside from them devoting their lives to soul after soul after soul, reaching the unreachable, touching the untouchable, and loving the unlovable, they took in many people and adopted so many children aside from their own biological children and when she talked about that I was just like, MAN that's how I want to be when I get married... being willing within God's will, to take in children of every color and ethnicity, reaching the lost annnnnnnnd Just spending our lives together loving souls!!!

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Often times, when I tell people things that I want to do or things that I want like opening my home to  or this or that, they tell me that it really narrows out a lot of potentials for marriage and I'm like, yeah, I get what your saying, buuuuuuuuut  at the same time, hear me out, I don't NEED A LOT of potentials!!!

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 The truth is that I'm ONLY marrying ONE MAN!!! God made me special...he designed me and the passions and burdens that I have are FROM HIM!!! Therefore, I can trust him to know that I don't need A LOT of potentials, because GOD has THE ONE!!!

He has...

A MAN LIKE THAT!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Random question!!!

When Jesus fed the 5000 men and the woman also, when he broke the two fish and five loaves, were the fish RAW or COOKED???

Cuz Wednesday night I was teaching in class annnnnnnd...Cuz last night I was teaching and it said Jesus break them... And in my head I was like, I wonder if they were raw???? ewwww did the guts come out???

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Yes people REALLY these are the kinds of things that I, Mary Frances Ginty, WONDER ABOUT!!! Sooooooo I began to send out text messages to ALL MY FRIENDS!!! LOL I got A LOT of different responses...MY FAVORITE was Cherie Marchbanks...AHAHAHA...SHE SAID... 

 "maybe they FRIED them and ate them with watermelon!! You never know!" Yes Cherie, you are RIGHT, YOU NEVERRR KNOW!!! I'm sure Jesus was a big fan of SOUL FOOD...After all, HIS FIRST miracle was, he turned THE WATER IN TO GRAPE DRINK!!! (Woot, WOOOOOOT!!!;)

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I was getting a ton of different responses, it was soooo funny!!! The most common was that it was dried fish! Someone else said that maybe Jesus cooked them after the boy gave them to him...someone else said, who knows if he could multiply the fish couldn't he just instantly cook them also?! Someone else thought they were grilled....SMOKED...then there were the Sushi people...LOL... Or should we say, SONshi???  You know, CUZ JESUS MADE IT??? HAHA!!! Then someone else said, "Well if they were raw, He blessed them so they were ok!"

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THEN in steps my friend, Jen Lord, she says, "they were most likely cooked because Jews wouldn't eat raw fish !!!" I was like, OH THATS RIGHT!!! I forgot  all about the Jewish laws concerning food... LIKE it didn't even cross my mind!!! I'm like, WOW!!! Jen is soooo SMART!!! I totally marked her as BIBLE SCHOLAR!!!

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Weeeeeeeeeellllll THEN another friend said that they thought that fish, even raw fish was considered clean under the Jewish law!!! I was like, saaaaay what???? I didn't know that!!! Sooooo outta curiosity I looked it up annnnd I tell ya its TRUE!!!

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According to, Cooking with the Bible, Fish, when available, did provide an important supplement to the diet of ancient peoples, so important, in fact, that Jerusalem had a marketplace called the Fish Gate (II Chronicles 33:14, Nehemiah 3:3; 12:39, and Zephaniah 1:10). Jewish dietary laws divided fish into clean and unclean food for consumption: those fish with scales and fins (that is, most fish) were considered clean (though eels were excluded, and shellfish were certainly prohibited [see Leviticus 11]). Fish, whether small or large, were consumed fresh or dried, salted or pickled, raw or cooked. The smallest fishes were thought to be particularly healthful, though the Jews seemed to have avoided young fish (other cultures did not). Often enough, fish were allowed to begin decomposing before being prepared for the table so as to achieve a distinctive taste. The eating of fish was also recommended during pregnancy. Fish brine was used as a seasoning, fish oil as a fuel, and fish skins as a writing surface; fish bones were fashioned into writing implements, hooks, needles, and hair ornaments.

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 Soooooooo basically, at the end of all this,

Were the two fish RAW OR COOKED???

 

In conclusion...

We don't know!!!

I, in my own personal opinion think that they WERE COOKED in some way, weather, smoked, grilled, dried, boiled, baked or whateverrr, BECAUSE if I was a mom packing my lil boy a lunch, I would NOT just throw in RAW FISH!!! That would be the equivalent in todays world of just stickin in some slices of bologna or SPAM or  something...NO OFFENSE to any mom's that do that...BAHAHA!!!Besides, the Bible says that Jesus BREAK them NOT squeezed them!!!

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 Furthermore, it DOES SAY in Cooking with the Bible that they have to be fresh to eat raw... if they were sitting in the little boys lunch for a while they really would NOT be considered FRESH anymore... if ya know what I mean...EWWWWWW....SOOOOOOOO YEAH...THEY WERE SOOOOO NOT RAW!!! LOL

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Of course this is all jus me bein curious, it's not like I really need to know!!! Sometimes its just fun to study stuff out...

SOMETIMES I JUST LIKE TO WONDER!!! :)))

♥Mary Frances :)

 

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♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Birthday to....

My

I'm pretty sure every cRaZy little sister needs a NORMAL big sister!!!! Hee, hee!!!

Lets face it, we're perfect for each other cus without HER my life would be a cRaZy MESS...Oh wait it already IS...I guess it would be a cRaZier MESS!!! BAHAHA!!! Annnnnd without ME, weeeeeellll we all know that without me her life would be like the ocean without waves...AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Happy birthday T!!! I LOOOOOOOVE YOU!!! Purrrrrr!!!

♥Mary Frances :)