Celebrating two years!!!!

This past Saturday, February 17th, marked my mom's second year in heaven!!! 

I had signed up for the Zoyo Froyo run and was pleased to see that it was on her Heaven anniversary!!!! I decked out in her favorite color, LAVENDER and of course my bling-bling running skirt and put a message for her on my hat!!!

RUNNING IN HONOR OF YOU MOM

Celebrating 2 years in heaven

2/20/53-2/17/16

This run was through Zoyo Frozen Yogurt at Tempe Town Lake...at the end of the race, aside from medals, Zoyo gave us all Zoyo Sundays!!! 

READY-SET-GOOOOO!!!!

Running, running, running...remembering...OH YEAH...that's what I meant to do this week..BUY NEW SNEAKERS...I knew I had forgotten to do SOMETHING!!! LOL 

ANNNNNNNNNND FINISHED!!!! 

Completed my second 5K in 57 minutes!!! 

I'm sooooooo PROUD of my finisher's medal!!! 

Now on the wall in my room!!! 

Zoyo asked, WHAT toppings would you like on your frozen yogurt???

I SAID...

EVERYTHING!!!

I know that being able to do these runs may not seem like a big deal, buuuut I LOOOOVE doing them, IF ONLY BECAUSE...NOW I CAN!!!! I know my mom would be sooooo happy that I'm getting my health in order, that was her dying wish for all of her kids!!!

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I wish that she had been able to get her health back and we could have done these races together, buuuuuut even though we'll never run a race here together on earth, one day, We'll be running together, ON STREETS OF GOLD!!!

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Next race the Donut 5K Race!!!

They have THE CUTEST finisher's medal too!!! 

#Imjustwarmingupforstreetsofgold 

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday!!!

Goal for this week...writing, writing, WRITING!!!

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Sunday!!!

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

♥Mary Frances :)

Single Saturday!!!

Sooooo want a nightgown like this now!!! BAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
♥Mary Frances :)

January update!!!

The year started off with our usual, fireworks in the street thingy...

Cute outfits are ALWAYS a good plan!!!

Have you guys everrrr been to Lush???? Like seriously, I looooooove this place!!!

I just need to find a place where I would actually have the opportunity to use a bath bomb!!! LOL

 LUSHIES!!!

Peace, Love and Confetti!!! 

I want this, is says, Sparkle and Shine!!!

Annnnnnnd I want this sign!!!

Annnnd I want this sign for when I get married, buuuuut clearly i'm ACTUALLY the type of girl that would make a sandwich for ANYONE!!!! LOLOL

OMW this play was soooooooooo HILARIOUS!!! 

Seriously could NOT stop laughing at certain points!!! 

If your in AZ I HIGHLEY recommend coming to a play at the HALE theatre in Gilbert AZ

When we were walking out, there was a candy dish in the props with mints in them, I just HAD to see if the mints were real annnnnd GUESS WHAT???

THEY WERE!!! 

Tried another Boba place...Java Boba!!! 

Annnnnnnnnnd who can resist a TIPS jar like this???

OKaaaaaaaaaay I can, buuuuut It was to cuuuute to NOT take a picture!!! LOL

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My lil man!!! 

My new summer hat, I figure I got a name to live up to now since the GCA principal calls me Sister Cupcake due to my cupcake beanie...sooooo CUUUUUUTE!!!

Annnnnnnnd It was soooo awesome, I got to hang out with my friend Crystal and her family this past month...

I've told her every year we gotta hang out when she comes, buuuuuut this was the first year that we ACTUALLY DID IT!!! Soooooo funnnn!!! 

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Throwback Thursday!!!

Denae sent me this pic a few weeks ago I was just laughing....

ANNNNNNNNNNNNND NOW!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

You know it's Mary's Bible when...

There just happens to be GLITTER literally seeped into the leather surface and cracks of it!!!

I was looking at it the other day, like, HOW in the world is there glitter in my Bible like this, buuuuuut it doesn't come off either, it's just THERE, like a part of me for all the world to see!!! Liiiiiike, my name of it, without actually writing it...I LOOOOVE IT!!! (:

♥Mary Frances :)

When your cup is STILL full...

Sooooooo I've been on a water drinking kick lately annnnnd according to the "health" people, your supposed to drink half your weight of water in ounces, my weight is 250ish, that's 125 ounces of water a day, which JUST AIN'T HAPPENING unless I literally live and sleep in the bathroom...ahahaha...They're all telling me this and I'm thinking like, OKAAAAAAAAY obviously your NOT following this rule yourself IF you still have your job...cuz IF you were following this rule you would be running to the bathroom ever 10 minutes.BAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

Anywayz, I am TRYING to at least drink A LOT MORE water than I have been, so I drank all these 24 oz cups of water, then when I got to Starbucks yesterday, I went through my car and gathered up all the trash in my car to throw away. As I'm throwing all these empty water cups into the trash, I notice that the last cup I toss in is feeling pretty heavy still! I was like, AWWWW maaaaaan... I thought I DRANK ALL THE WATER out of these cups before I threw them away.

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I'll be HONEST with you all, the thought of ACTUALLY taking the cup out of the trash and finish up the water went through my head, buuuuuuut then I was like, NAAAAWWW, I can't do that...it's IN THE TRASH MARY...there's like, germs and stuff...buuuuuut....I did glance at my water cup one last time before I walked away...

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Annnnnnnnd my eyes widened in disbelief in what I saw in the cup...

It was NOT water in my cup that was making it so heavy,

I HAD drank it all, it was...

MY CELL PHONE!!!

Yes peeps, I had THROWN out my cell phone!!! Annnnnd NO I did not give a second thought about the germs on it, I reached in and grabbed it!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

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Sooooooooooo my friends, if THINK you drank ALL your water, buuuuuuuut your cup is still FULL, look INSIDE, you never know what you'll find it!!! Who knows, it could be something of value, like a CELL PHONE or something...HEEEEEEEEYYY!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Happy Monday!!!

 

Or at THE DOLLAR STORE!!!

Heeeeeeeeeeyyyy!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Birthday card share!!!

I have to share with you all this HILARIOUS card I got my friend Courtney for her birthday...

 Then this is the inside!!!

Just for the record, I really don't think people are ugly, buuuuuut the card was just TO HILARIOUS to pass up, I literally bought it almost a year ahead of time for my friend!!! It's very MARY and COURTNEYish!!! LOL

♥Mary Frances :)

God has a plan!!!

This COMPLETELY cracked me up...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA...NOW I want CHICKEN...yum, YUMMMMM!!!

♥Mary Frances :)

Bible Notes!!!

Sooooooo the other day I'm reading my Bible and look to see WHAT I had previously written underneath a highlighted scripture in my Bible...

It's "These are the things which defile a man," (thefts, fornications, false witness, blastphemies, murder, adultery...) "but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man..." THEN I have written under that, "We do NOT need to wash our hands!"

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YES, for realz my friends...I REALLY WROTE THAT IN MY BIBLE!!! BAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! I wish I could say that I've had this Bible since I was a child, buuuuuuuuuuuuut, i'm pretty sure I've had it since I was at least 18 maybe even in my 20's...AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! Buuuuuuuuuuut heeeeeeeeyyyy just to spiritualize my notes, WHEN YOUR DOING THE LORD'S WORK...you JUST NEVER KNOW when your going to have to eat something WITHOUT WASHING YOUR HANDS...Soooo there you have it...IT'S OK...JUST EAT AND DO THE WORK OF THE LORD!!! LOLOLOL!!!

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♥Mary Frances :)

P.S. I hope NONE of my nursing degree friends read this post...hee, hee!!! ;)

Happy Monday!!!

Goals for my week, writing, writing, WRITING!!! Hope everyone has a great week and chooses WELL!!! God bless my people!!! 

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)

♥Mary Frances :)

You ALREADY said that!!!

So my lil nephew Odie is such a little stinker, his new thing of late has been to say WHAT to pretty much EVERYTHING you say to him!! I have to share a conversation him and I the other day...
I'm like, ODIN, Your cute!? He says, What?! I'm like, your cute! He says, what? I'm like, your cute! He says, what?  Well this goes on for quite some time...
Your cute! What?!
Your cute! What?!
Your cute! What?!
Your cute! What?!
Your cute! What?!
Finally I all but SCREAM out to him...

YOUR CUUUUUUUUTE!!!

Without missing a beat he says, "You ALREADY said that Aunt Mary!" I was like, REALLY??? You just ask me 6 times what I said annnnnnd THEN have the audacity to tell me I had ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT???? AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Such a little stinker, buuuuuuuut I sooooooooooooo LOVE HIM!!! 

♥Mary Frances :)

No alternatives!!!

What are my options??? That is a question that we ask quite frequently. We are living in a day and age and a society that is BIG on alternatives...Options...choices. You could be on the airplane getting a meal and there is going to be someone that doesn't like what they are being given and they will say, What's my alternative??? Resturaunt menus are filled with OPTIONS for all the different eaters.

There is a vegetarian section, gluten free, low-carb, fat free... People want OPTIONS!!! People want ALTERNATIVES!!!

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Everyone wants to hear an alternative to what they should do. Someone Is diagnosed with cancer and the first thing they will be told is, their OPTIONS!!! A girl gets pregnant and people will tell her, these are YOUR OPTIONS!!! There is alternative music, alternative thinking, alternative schools, alternative educations, alternative lifestyles, alternative religions, alternative marriage there is EVEN alternative meat for vegetarians!!!

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What really perturbs me is when people think of living for God as just an option. That alternative thinking seeps into our everyday living. But there has to be a time in our life that we decide when it comes to living for God, there are NO ALTERNATIVIVES!!! There are NO OTHER OPTIONS. If things don't turn out the way I planned, OH WELL, I'm gonna KEEP ON LIVING FOR GOD!!! Fixed! It bothers me so much when I hear people say, "I ALMOST backslid!"

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I don't say that to sound holier-than-thou, I say it because it is worrisome to me. It means that somewhere in their mind backsliding IS an option in their life. We can't live in a way that says, well I WANT to live for God, buuuuuuuuut if it doesn't work out, I guess I'll jus go back to the world! I have a dear friend that I was extremely close to. I watched as God picked them up from a life of NOTHINGNESS and miraculously changed their life for the better, buuuuuut they NEVER could get it out of their mind that GOING BACK TO THE WORLD, wasn't an option.

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There is a bumper sticker that says, "Try Jesus, if you don't like Him, the devil will always take you back!" We can't live with that mentality, we can't just TRY Jesus!!! We have to BURN all of our bridges of alternatives and options in our life till we can say, I can't go back, BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO GO BACK TOO!!! We have to say, THIS IS IT!!! This is my ONLY OPTION!!! There is NO PLAN B!!! I have NO ALTERNATIVES!!!

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I can honestly say that the thought of backsliding does NOT enter my mind! You know WHY??? Not because I'm ultra spiritual, buuuuuuut BECAUSE I have NO OTHER OPTIONS!!! Its like what Peter said to Jesus, "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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Yes, there are times that its HARD!!! Yes there are times that there is sin in my life! Yes there are times that I need an attitude adjustment!!! Yes there are times that I'm confused, bewildered, frustrated, sad, mad, devastated, heartbroken... Buuuuut its like Peter says, TO WHOM SHALL I GO???  I have no alternative for myself outside of a life devoted to living for my God!!! WHAT ELSE IS THERE??? I have NO other plans! I have NO other options!  

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 LIVE FOR GOD???

I have NO alternatives!!!

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

♥Mary Frances :)

A Mary Thought!!!!

Sooooooooo the other day I was having this very random, MARY THOUGHT!!! I was thinking about the fact that everyone always say I have really good self-esteem...BUUUUUUUUUT...I was thinking...

What if I really don't have good self-esteem????

What if I REALLY AM... 

JUST BEAUTIFUL???

 AHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! ;))))

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyy!!!

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I ACTUALLY asked my brother that VERY QUESTION last week and he was just like, Wow Mary, WOW!!! I gotta keep things stirred up and flowing ya know?!?! Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut THEN I had another VERY RANDOM MARY THOUGHT!!! I was like, OMW, WHAT IF I'M REALLY NOT PRETTY??? WHAT IF I JUST HAVE GOOD SELF-ESTEEM??? I pondered this very thought for about 10 seconds, Then I was like, 

NAWWWWW!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!

♥Mary Frances :)