Anyone want a teddy bear???

Sooooo I LOVE teddy bears, especially cute, adorable, little ones like you see in this picture...EXCEPT for ONE thing... These bears I found on Kaboodle.com are ACTUALLY made out of belly button lint!!! Like omw...how WEIRD and NASTY is that???

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And like WHO in the world has THAT MUCH belly button fuzz that they are ACTUALLY able to make it into teddy bears??? WOW!!!

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I tried to tell myself that it might actually be kinda romantic if the bear was made from the belly button lint of the guy one liked...but still...NO WAY!!! EWWWWWWWW!!!

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AND I just don't get it!!! Like, WHO IN THE WORLD, cleaned out their belly button and was like, OH WOW!!! I could make a lil teddy bear out of this!!! HAHA! Seriousley, you guys think I"M CRAZY...go talk to the BELLY BUTTON FUZZ people...THEY NEED HELP! Like, wow, someone NEEDS to get a life EVEN more than ME!! BAHAHAHAHA!

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And yet, even as I sit here, writing about the stupid nastiness of this...There is ACTUALLY a little part of me that kinda like, REALLY WANTS ONE!!! I mean they come in the cute little jar so I wouldn't actually have to touch it...Awwww LOOK at HOW CUTE IT IS...maybe i should just buy one...OR...

OR...MAYBE...

...MAYBE...

i'll just MAKE me ONE!!!

Anyone wanna put in an order???

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A nightmare...

Jane and Mary...TOGETHER!!!

A nightmare...come true!!! ;) ;) ;)

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

BUT... "What a LOVELY nightmare that would be!"

"Yeah, some guys are just SOOOOOO blessed!!!" ;)

The Forgotten...

Who are the forgotten people among us? So often us singles think of ourselves as forgotten. We're not really sure WHERE we fit in, we're NOT kids, we're not youth, we're not married, we're not in the same classification as the widowed or divorced and I have talked to a lot of single people that often feel like they are forgotten. However, today I was making brownies for an elderly lady in our church and while I was doing this I HAD to listen to AIO at the same time. Coincidentally it just happened to be and Odyssy called "An Encounter With Mrs. Hooper" it was about a grumpy old lady living in a nursing home and as I listened to this AIO that i have heard before I couldn't help but start crying. Actually it was more like sobbin through the whole show...Idk it just touched me. It hit home for me.

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 We think us young folks have everything to worry about...finding a mate, family, children, jobs, marrital strife, school...what do old people have to worry about??? There life is over anyways...AND maybe that the hardest part for them...they've done everything and now all they have left to do is DIE! I realize that its the old people that are SOOO often the forgotten ones. I can think of an old lady at my church and its like, I wanna give her a hug and say hi to her and then be on my way socializin, but once you say hi, your NOT on your way till about 15 minutes later...but I NEED to learn to give up those 15 minutes for her!They get to the end of their life and they become a hassle to everyone else. They can't get out and around anymore and this frustrates them and that frustrates US AND all kinds of stuff. But the elderly people NEED us!!!  We need to love them and take care of them!!! I can't imagine anything sadder, than coming to the end of your life, and dying all alone, without anyone to care....

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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world...

It is our duty to God to LOVE old people!!! I believe that they should be lifted up and held in esteem and honor. I'm praying God HELP ME to love the elderly, give me a burden for them! I want to...I NEED TOO!!! Find one to love... DON'T FORGET THEM!!!

If you have a chance listen to

"An Encounter with Mrs. Hooper"

Go HERE

September's Apostolic Male Model!!!

Okaaaaaaaay girls....It's TIME FOR...

 SEPTEMBER'S APOSTOLIC MALE MODEL!!!!

YES, I am VERY much aware of the fact that its WELL into October...

 BUT what can I say???

This guy was VERY much... WORTH THE WAIT!!!

Woooooooooooo!!!!

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This Apostolic you man has a very unique way of describing himself.

He likes to describe himself as a purse!!!!

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 "I am like a Chanel or Luis Vuitton purse,"

 he says,

EVERY girl wants one,

BUT very few ACTUALLY get one."

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LADIES and GENTLEMEN...

it is with the utmost SINCERE pride & joy that I present to you all...

♥THE PURSE!!!♥

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Which is none other than the one & only... John Ginty!!!

(Yes ladies, this IS my, almost 22-year-old brother, so havin me for a sister would just be a little added in goody in this deal!!! ;)

John is known to all his friends as the Italian Stallion Chef! He is an absolutely AMAZING cook! (Even better than me..BUT DO NOT TELL HIM I said that!!!;) He can make anything from New York Cheesecake to chicken parmesan. HOWEVER, what he is known & CRAVED for above all else @ his church is his PIZZA! EVERYONE LOVES JOHN'S PIZZA!!!

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Aside from cooking, this Italian hunk of manliness is also a mechanic. He started working on cars with his grandpa when he was about 6-years-old. He enjoys remodeling cars and owns  ummm...some car that I can't even think of the name of...OOOOPS... and also and OLD Mustang that he eventually plans to restore.

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At church John runs the PA system. He is the young man's Bible class teacher and he preaches with the young men aspiring to be in the ministry on Saturday nights @ prayer meeting. John is known to be the most exuberant kind of person, BUT he is very sincere and FAITHFUL!

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OH and girl's HE IS LIKE SOOOO GOOD WITH HIS MONEY!!! LOL! Seriousley, like wow!!! When I need to save money, I do NOT bring it to the bank, I bring it to my lil brother John to hold for me...cuz aside from being a "Purse" he is also MY BANK!!! LOL!
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John also enjoys wood working carpentry and any kind of working with his hands. He has done some building, like he just built a wall one day at my mom's and basically he can do anything that he just puts his mind too and DECIDES he wants to do it! He is like the all around Mr. Fix-it kind of guy!!!

IN fact it was using his Mr. Fix-it skills that he did one of the SWEETEST things EVER for me!!! Like seriousley, when I was in Hawaii, my MUCH loved, heart-shaped, trademark, sunglasses fell to the ground and cracked!!! I was like SOOOO sad!!!!

SERIOUSLEY!!! My heart was like totally crushed!!! But when I came back home John super-glued them back together for me!!! It was like sooooo SWEET! And he was like, "I am NOT doing this for you because I LIKE these glasses on you!" AND I was like, "Oh so then is it cuz you love me soooo much?!?!" And he was like, "Well I guess so, cuz I honestly can NOT stand those glasses!!! I was like AWWWWWW!!!! ♥

I mean how special is that??? A guy that fixes stuff for his sister, JUST BECAUSE he knows she loves it!! Now that ladies in MY oppinion, is worth SOOOO much more than any old Chanel or Luis Vuitton purse. Those purses may be expensive, but you can't even put a price tag on my lil brother!!!!

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BUT JOHN GINTY IS BEYOND COSTLY ARRAY...

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♥THIS PURSE

IS PRICELESS!!!!

Start kissin up girls!!! START KISSIN UP!!! ;) 

WE should TELL that lady!!!!

Sooo this one day, a while ago, I am at the store with my neice MJ. As we are cruisin around with our cart, MJ VERY KINDLY, looks over at this lady who is a little chunky but NOT huge, then she says to me loud and clear for ALL the world to hear, "OH Mary!" She says in total excitement, "WE SHOULD TELL THAT LADY ABOUT WEIGHT WATCHERS!!!!" I just stood there...FROZEN in place...mouth hangin open...like OMW!!! What do you say? What do you do???

AAAAUUUUGGGHHH!

I'm like, OMW MARY JO!!!

I think maybe WE SHOULD GO BUY SOME DUCT TAPE....

FOR YOUR MOUTH!!!

(Of course, after the 10-second shock wore off, I was HYSTERICAL!;)

Following Jesus!

HAHAHAHAHA!

I saw this cartoon and cracked up! THIS is the way people are thinkin of Christianity these days! People want EVERYTHING to be easy peasy, with as little work as possible! 1,2,3...SNAP...and BAM...and instantley, your a Christian...

(Btw-NO, I do NOT think this is what Jesus LOOKED LIKE! LOL JESUS was a MILLION times better lookin!!!;)

 This is how following Jesus is often veiwed...

Like all you have to do is click your mouse on follow and your a Christian, but thats NOT how it works. Signing a paper doesn't make you any more a Christian that hitting "Like" on Facebook makes you to "Like" someone. Jesus doesn't have a "Love" button for you to love him and forwarding an email won't make you a Christian either... BUT Jesus says in Luke 9:23, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."

 Don't wait, you can follow JESUS TODAY!

Find out how by reading in your Bible Acts 2:38

Church & Walmart!

WHAT do church & Walmart have in common???

SAVING!!!

THATS RIGHT!!!

Landmark Pentecostal Church of Scottsdale Arizona is a place where souls are being saved! We are having AWESOME services THIS WEEKEND!!! Sunday morning at 10 am & Sunday night at 6 pm. You CAN feel God when your at our Church! Jesus IS REAL!!! ACTS 2:38 IS REAL!!! You CAN experiance it!

COME visit us!!!

10250 N. 124th street

 1 block south of Shea on right

For more info click HERE

Today I didn't do it!

This story is AWESOME!!! I didn't write it and I have NO idea who did, BUT I think this story is HILARIOUS!!! Woman will LOVE it and a true eye opener for men! TOTAL Ladies of Legacy material I DO BELIEVE!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! I laughed for like FIVE minutes straight after reading this and am STILL smiling!!!! ENJOY!!! ;)

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A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the dog. Proceeding into the house, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bathroom door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls.

As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked, ‘What happened here today?’ She again smiled and answered,

"You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world did I do today?"

"Yes," was his incredulous reply.

She answered, "Well, today I didn’t do it."

Sooooooo us!!!!

This is sooooooo us LPC GIRLS!!!

Walmart is fo sho UP for us!!! LOL!

99 Cent Only, Savers, WATCH OUT!!!

Cuz HERE WE COME!!

Yo JANELLIE BEAN!!!

You ready to go dumpster diving?

TRASH PICKIN!?

WHAT???

Don't you all be lookin at me like that...

Haven't you heard???

GHETTOLICIOUS

IS THE NEW...

Babelicous!!! ;)

♥Mary

More Mary Wisdumb!!!

Heeeey GIRLS!!!

Listen up....

BEFORE you fall in love...

MAKE SURE,

your "Knight-in-shining-armor"...

Isn't REALLY just some REJECT in tin foil!!!

HAHAHAHA!

Seriousley girls,  be careful, marriage is FOREVER!!!

♥Mary :)

WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!!

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!!!
What a WONDERFUL CHANGE in weather!
For once, I am SOOOOOO luvin this Arizona weather!

I. CAN. NOT. BELIEVE. HOW. NICE. IT. IS.

It is ABSOLUTELY, BEAUTIFUL!

 DROP DEAD GORGOUS!!!!

LIKE WOWZERS!!!

NOW that I think of  it, that is actually a pretty good description of MYSELF!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one Mar Bear!!!

Then again, ON SECOND THOUGHT...

SCORCHING HOT

is a pretty good description too!!!;)

HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE!!!

 

Arizona Hottie, saying gnight peeps!

♥Mary :)

Welcome to the world...

Grace Taylor Greenbank

Welcome to THE WORLD!!!

I'm soooo VERY glad you decided to come today, you now have the same birthday as my nephew! Yay! I can't wait to ACTUALLY meet you and hold you!!!

7 pounds, 9 ounces and Daddy says, YOUR BEAUTIFUL!!!

Girl, I want you to know that you had your sister's QUITE worked up today waiting for you! ESPECIALLY your oldest sister!!!! She was soooo scared about her mamma...but MAN when we finally heard that you were born and I told your sisters they were SUPER EXCITED!!! Allie like SCREAMED at the top of her lungs AND Ash ripped her shirt!! AHAHA!!!! LOL! Get ready, cuz your are gonna be sooooo LOVED girl!!!!

Lookin good @ One!!!

So Jose's parent's took the picture of Jose in the middle TODAY!!! When I went over for the party my brother was like, did you see Jose's 1-year-old picture? So I was like Oh no! And he is like, well its in our room on the computer, GO look at it, BUT Jose is still sleeping soooo DO NOT wake him up! So I go to look at this picture and OMW! OMW! OMW!!! OMW....

The picture was SOOOOO cute!!! It took EVERYTHING within me to NOT start  screaming at the top of my lungs right then there!! I told my brother that I held in my scream and he laughed...BUT seriousley you guys...JUST LOOK AT HIM!!! LOOK AT HIM!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!

Thank God for an EXTRA shot!

You know how Starbucks coffee is basically just the awesomest thing EVER known?!?! But think about an EXTRA shot of Starbucks coffee...its like, as if Starbucks isn't totally rockin awesome ALREADY... sometimes you just GOTTA enjoy that extra shot, that just makes an already good thing EVEN BETTER!!!

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WELL...sometimes in life we just get that extra shot of joy. It's like we weren't aking for it, BUT it came anyways and THATS what has happened to me in life! I already had an AWESOME life, full of happiness AND joy, BUT one year ago TODAY, God added to my life an EXTRA SHOT OF JOY!!!

On October 4th, 2009, my nephew, Joseph Caleb Ginty was born!!!

(AKA Jose!!!)

Jose, I just want you to know that you have added SOOOO MUCH joy into my life! I remember we got a call in the middle of the night that  your parent's were going to the hospital. I remember sitting in the waiting room at the hospital in Scottsdale, waiting AND waiting AND WAITING for you to be born...AND when you FINALLY were, I HAD to make sure I brushed my hair for you before I came to see you for the first time. (I wanted to make a GOOD first impression!;)

You were sooo helpless and little Jose!!! OMW baby you were soooo little!!!!

BUT OVER the past year...THAT HAS ALL CHANGED!!!

You are crawling ALL over the place and you seem to get into EVERYTHING!!! LOL! You are VERY active and you have soooooo much personality! It is VERY easy to see that you are a VERY smart little boy!!! You are VERY active and it seems like your ULTIMATE goal at church is to some how get to the stairs to climb them!!! Its sooo cool to see that in someways you are sooo much like your mom...like how you raise your eyebrows to show your expressions---thats JUST LIKE YOUR MOM!!! BUT then you do this thing when you concentrate where you stick out your tongue and THAT is JUST like your dad, which HE GOT from his Grandpa Mangino!!! 

I'm sorry Jose, about the whole, screaming in  your ear when you bit my lip, but I couldn't help it!!! That hurt SOOOOO bad!!! And I was kinda like NOT expecting it!!! I mean here we are like TOTALLY kissing AND the next thing I know you are BITING ME!!! Sooo NOT cool baby!!!! LOL Now, ever since I screamed in PAIN you have REFUSED to give me kisses...SAD!!! Can't wait till you STOP turning your head away!!! HAHAHA! Lets see, what else do you do??? Oooo...you LOVE dancing!!! As sOOn as music comes on you start dancing...hmmmm... I WONDER where you got THAT from!?!?! ;)

Basically Jose, you are THE CUTEST little boy in the whole world!!! AND I am NOT just saying that, everyone agrees with me!!! Sometimes when we are at the store people just stop and stare at you! EVERYONE says that your the CUTEST baby EVER!!! Just don't let it get to your head Gwappo!!! GOTTA make sure you stay as humble as your Auntie Maria!!! ;) ;) ;)

Yup, an extra shot of PURE JOY!!!

Thats what you are to me Jose!!!

I LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY Gwappo!!!

♥your Auntie Maria

(AKA Maganda ;)

Christmas present dream...

Soooo I was talkin with my sis the other day and she was like asking me what I want for Christmas, and I was like, oh nothing really and she asked me if I wanted something and I was like oh no, I don't really care what I get for Christmas, hair accessories or whatever, there is nothing that I really NEED!

But in my head I was thinkin, YOU know the ONE thing that I would, really, REALLY love to have is my own computer in MY ROOM for my writing! That would just be soooo AWESOME!!! Because, first of all, I kind of hog this one and second of all its like REALLY hard for me to concentrate when people are home and anywhere around me...I know this is gonna come as a SHOCK to you all BUT I am REALLY, really, REALLY easily distracted!!! I mean like, I can't even listen to music while I write, because the next thing I know, I am singing at the top of my lungs, swaying to the music and before I even know it, I'm up dancing...LOL...FOR REALS! :) So yeah, I have to have TOTAL silence and I figure a computer in my room...WITHOUT the internet...bahaha...would be GREAT for me!!!

But I'm like, well there is just NO WAY I am going to ask my family for something like that...but WHATEVER...I'm not gonna worry about it! My MAIN concern is ACTUALLY having the money to get all of my family members decent presents from ME!!!

Well this past Saturday, my sister and I met up with the ladies from our church to go to some community yard sales in a kind of ritzy part of town. So my sister and I were basically having a grand time at these yard sales, finding all kinds of deals and stuff after a couple of hours, the other ladies from our church decided to get a bite to eat and then hit the consignment shops, BUT me and my sis decided to keep going to yard sales.

 So as we are driving back around with no clue as to where we are going...my sis was like oh we haven't been over before have we? so I was like uh I don't think so...then my sis is like, OH no we HAVE this is like the first house that we went too, that were selling beanie babies 5 for a $1.00, I'm like OOOO yeah. Sooo i'm like oh yeah, and for some reason my sis decides to stop, then she sees these kids camping chairs that only 1.00 and i'm just sittin in the car and the people were like, we're gettin ready to close up just name a price if  you want something. So I get out and am lookin at some Pampered Chef thing and then we're about to get back in the car and my sis is like, OH, how much is your computer? They are like, $50.00...I'm like...whoa, whoa, whoa....oh there must be something wrong with it!!!

BUT no!!! The man had it all plugged in and everything so people could try it out...it had all the Microsoft office tools on it AND Microsoft Word which was MY MAIN CONCERN!!! I'm just standing there like, with my mouth like half open I havn't even stated that I want it yet and my sis is just like, well I don't need it but thats a good deal on a computer she is like, I'm not sure I have enough money between the two of us...i'm like ummmm...OH YEAH...I have MORE MONEY in the van so i like run...and like this other lady is coming over like, oh WOW thats a good deal...and i'm just like HANDING OVER the money and My sis is like, I didn't even know you had the money, i'm like OH YEAH! LOL

So he carries the computer to our van and I'm just sitting there holding the screen in my lap and Im just like, seriousley in AWWW that I got my own computer and my sis is just like, okaaaaay THAT was God!!! I think HE really wanted you to have that for your writing!!! I'm like I KNOW!!!! I cant believe it! COMPUTERS ARE EXPENSIVE!!! $399.00 was the cheapest Dell I could find online and PLUS you have to buy all those Microsoft programs seperately!!!! I had a FEW technical difficulties putting it together that night...just cuz i'm NOT exactley computer savvy and I could NOT figure out what wires went WHERE so it wasn't starting at first and I was like...WHAT??? OMW!!! NOOOOOOOO! Its gotta work!!! I KNOW this was a blessing for God!!! AND it was, I just had to figure it all out!!! HAHAHA! So yup, on the floor in my room is my computer...I need something to put it on now...LOL!
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It was just SOOOOO cRaZy!!! I mean it was THE FIRST yard sale we went to and then without even trying, while drivin aimlessly, we ended up back there, BUT it wasn't really aimlessly, because GOD was directing us!!! AND to think that ALL day long NO ONE else bought it!!! God must have blinded everyone else's eyes...like...WOW!!! AND I hadn't even prayed about it that I can even remember, just kind thought about it...BUT God was looking out for me!!! It's like God just had it sitting there waiting for me...like He was saving it JUST FOR ME!!! WOW! WOW! WOW!!!
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Plus, I've been really trying to figure out what God wants me to do next in my life. There are sooo many things that I would like to do, but what does GOD want me to do? Even just the other day, I was praying, "God what's next? What do  you want me to do NEXT in my life?" and I was laying out all the different options and possibilities and when I got that computer, it just kinda seemed like God was telling me...WRITE...JUST WRITE!!! I mean, I guess it should be pretty obvious to me, that, that is what God would want me to do since HE gave me the skills, BUT i'm kinda an airhead, and I kinda NEED the affirmation and God sure does have a way of doing that!!!

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All day long I just kept saying, Jesus, you blessed me! Jesus you blessed me! LIKE WOW!!!!

Kinda just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that God looks out for me like that!

Soooooooo I got my Christmas present ALREADY!!!

THANK you Jesus!!!

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,

saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil,

to give you an expected end.

(Jeremiah 29:11)

Bible VS Cell phone

I'm not really big on passing on forwards, BUT this one I always feel like I should!

Talk about CONVICTION!!!!!

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Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several time a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to our kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

AND  unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being

disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill!!!

OH, and one more thing...

Do you EVEN know where YOUR Bible is???

OCTOBER 1st

OMW you guys GUESS WHAT???? It's officially OCTOBER FIRST!!!! Do you guys know what that means? Do you know that means??? It MEANS THAT my big sis is OFFICIALLY 30!!!!WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! My sister is 30! My sister is 30!!! this is being said in like a song kind of chant way as I sway in the computer chair and type to you all! Yes, it is possible to type and dance at the SAME TIME!!!! WOOOO! Sooooo yeah, my sis is TOTALLY not even depressed about turning 30, she said she could care less...LOL! But I'm like SUPER siked about it!!!! 

Sooo yeah after my birthday in July I was like plannin to have this BIG HUGE SURPRISE PARTY for my sis and it was like she totally could read my mind without me even saying a word. She was like, DO NOT THROW ME SOME KIND OF HUGE SURPRISE PARTY! LOLOL She was like, that is what YOU WOULD WANT...but its NOT me...I was like oh yeah TRUE! I LOVE PARTYS!!!!!!!! LIKE LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THEM! She said, I just want to like DO something fun on my birthday...SOOOO I PLANNED away...Well, i've got our whole day planned and it includes some really cool stuff LIKE Butterfields, Starbucks, The Coach store, fashion square mall AND the Lobby Tea Court @ the Phoenecian and endin the day with a homemade Italian dinner at my sweet, sweet MAMMA'S! Oh and wait till you all see the way I am doing her hair...AND I am makin her wear one of my big ol hot pink flowers, she is gonna be looking, mmmm, mmmmm, mmm GOOOD!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!!! YAAAAY!!!

SOOOO ya all need to leave her a birthday comment!!!

AND No, I don't care if you don't even know my sis...DO IT ANYWAYS!!!

OMW!!! Its OCTOBER 1st...THAT ALSO MEANS I NEVER DID THE APOSTOLIC MALE MODEL FOR SEPTEMBER...AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THERESA!!!!!!!!!!!!

♥ya T!!!

Luv your awesome, sweet, adorable, wonderful, humble little sis!!!!
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo!!!!

♥Mary ♥Bear♥

You say♥ How do I know that YOU love me?

I say♥ because, EVERYONE ♥loves♥ me!!! ;)

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On the way to church today this little girl turns to me and says, "Mary, guess what? I like a WHITE boy!" So i'm like well cool, thats AWESOME! (Cuz i'm all about mixin it up) And she is like "yeah, he is a WHITE boy thats...Mexican!!!"
HAHAHA! I was like, OH WOW!

 Thats like, really, REALLY AWESOME!!!"

Kids, they make you laugh and you just

GOTTA ♥LOVE em!!! ♥

A Size two?!

So I'm in line at Sprouts the other day and my cashier is like, "I LOVE YOUR purse!" (Its the big bag with a HUGE flower on the front.) So i'm like Oh Thanks!" So then she just starts talkin to me about how she just loves BIG purses because they make her look smaller! And i'm thinkin in my head like, okaaaaaaay SISTA, they ain't NO purse "Big ENOUGH" to make you OR I look smaller!!! HAHA! But she keeps talkin to me, like we just have this automotic bond, cause we're both big girls... So she is tellin me, "I haven't been a size two since HIGHSCHOOL!" I'm like,  "A size two??? Uh yeah,  that was like SECOND grade for ME!!!" AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I'm the kind of girl that...

I'm the kind of girl that if Brad Pitt knocked on my door, I honestly wouldn't know the difference between him AND any other sales person trying to sell me stuff or the JW's trying to give me a Watchtower magazine. I HONESTLY don't know what the dude looks like!!!

Everyone's always like, Oh COME ON Mary, how can you NOT know who Brad Pitt is??? I remember one time I was informing a buncha people that I don't know who Brad Pitt is and everyone was like WHAT?!?! Really Mary? Like really? You don't know WHO BRAD PITT IS? And I was kinda starting to feel kind of dumb about it...HOW can you NOT know who Brad Pitt is??? EVERYONE knows who Brad Pitt is!!! Then, all of the sudden, I heard ANOTHER voice speak up... "Well I don't know who Brad Pitt is!" It was Bishop Abbott's wife, Sis. Abbott...At that moment in time, I FELT SOOOO COOL! Me and Bishop Abbott's wife didn't know who Brad Pitt was...I felt like THE COOLEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE WORLD!

 I remember this one time when I was in highschool! I had this HUGE crush on some movie star!!! I thought he was sooooo cute...blah, blah, blah...then one day one of my brothers were like Heeey Mary did you hear about him? I'm like no what about him???!?!?! They were like, oh yeah he came out and he is bi-sexual! I was like WHAT?!?!?! NO WAAAAY!!! And I looked it up and SURE ENOUGH HE WAS!!! I was like EWWWW!!! I decided after that, that NEVER again would I chase after worldy guys and movie stars!!! 

Seriousley, what's the big whoop, about some guy that doesn't even have the Holy Ghost??? Give me a Jesus name, born again, Holy Ghost filled, One God, Apostolic, tongue talking, holy rolling, Godly young man ANY day over Brad Pitt!!!

HOW do I NOT know who Brad Pitt is???

I don't know, I guess maybe it's just because...

I REALLY DON'T CARE!!!

Shhhh!!!!

Shhhh...SHHH...

Everyone be quiet!

 Listen up now...listen...LISTEN...

YOU  gotta listen!

Shhhh...there it is!

THERE IT IS!!!  IT's RIGHT there!!!!!

Can you hear it?

 CAN YOU HEAR IT???

THAT my friends is the sound of...

 My AWESOMENESS!!! ;) 

In honor of ...

This post is in honor of the Dave Ramsey show that most of my church went too...

BAHAHAHA! Ain't that THE TRUTH!!!

Favorite Dave Ramsey quote-

"We buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, in order to impress people we don't like." ~Dave
AND I rewrote the quote to fit ME specifically!!!

"Why spend money I don't have, on clothes, purses AND hair accessories I DON'T need, to TRY and impress guys- that DON'T EVEN know I exist! HAHA!"

Thats MY motto and I'm stickin with it!!!!

Thanks for keepin it real Dave! :)

MY soup recipe!!!

OMW!!! Sooooo I don't wanna like brag about myself or nothing but, OKaaaay I take that back, ACTUALLY, I do want to brag about myself!!!!! (Just gonna be honest!;) I MADE LIKE THE AWESOMEST SOUP EVER!!! It was sooooo GOOD! I was like WOW! And I just made the whole thing up myself. AND I think it's pretty healthy too, although I wasn't actually sure how to figure out the calories or WW points for it!

And like ANYONE and EVERYONE that stepped foot into my household, weather coming home from work, dropping off kids or catching a ride, EVERYONE was given some to try and they all said they LOVED it! I was SOOO happy!!! The biggest honor of ALL was that my mamma tryed some and said it was REALLY good! AND she don't even like spicy stuff! But when I came out of our house to go run some errands with her, and I got in her car, she was like "WHAT are you cookin in there? YOU SMELL GOOD!"

Soooo I was sitting there eating a bowl, just TOTALLY complimenting myself and I'm thinkin okaaay so WHAT should I name my soup? Cuz I mean it's like SOOOO good it just HAS to have a name for it. So i'm thinking about my soup, It has some punch to it, almost like some slight attitude but not a ton... its kind of got a southwestern twist to it, it's a little spicy but not too hot, just like a kick in the shins to wake you up, but it doesn't actually knock you out..DELICOUS... Then ALL of the sudden I realized that the soup reminded me of someone, someone special that I just couldn't stop thinking about while I ate it...AND as I thought about this person, I knew the name for my AMaZING soup just had to be ....

ARIZONA HOTTIE SOUP!

 Yes, thats right people, I named the soup after MYSELF!!! ;) ;) ;)

Heres whatcha need to make it...

3 boneless skinless chicken breast

Chicken broth

(For the broth I only had like half a thing in the fridge so then I just used the water that I had boiled my chicken in combination with the broth)

1 box of Spanish Rice-a-roni

(and I used the Natural, wild rice one, but you can use whatever)

1/2 pobalono pepper

1 Jalepeno pepper

some red oninon

some yellow onion

Cilantro

5 cubes of chicken bullion

about 5 chunks of garlic

Green onion

Fresh chopped basil

1 can of kidney beans

1 can of stewed tomatoes

Crushed red pepper

Cayenne pepper

Chili powder

Garlic powder

Paprika powder

Season salt

2 tablespoons of Olive oil

(You can use whatever but Olive oil is Healthiest)

NOW heres whatcha do!!!

Boil the three chicken breast till they are cooked

Chop up the onions, peppers, garlic, basil (I like to chop up everything really nice and small)

 saute them in the olive oil until they start to brown

Add in the kindey beans and stewed tomatoes

Add Paprika, chili powder, cayenne pepper, crushed red pepper, garlic powder, season salt

(I wish I could tell you guys the exact amount but I really don't measure the spicy peppers were probably only about 1/2 teaspoon and the other ones a whole teaspoon, You just gotta go with your instincts and decide how spicey you want it! FYI- when you do the Jalepeno pepper, the SPICE is in all those little seeds so you decide how many you want in I used about half )

Let this all kind of simmer in saute pan for about 15 minutes

Cut up chicken and put in seperate pot will all your broth

 (This is like a medium size pan, maybe large but NOT HUGE!!!)

After 15 minutes combine all the veggies in with the chicken and broth

Bring to a boil then bring the heat back down to medium 

 let it boil together for about 30-45 minutes

Now add in your box of Rice-a-roni

Let it boil for about 10-15 min just check your rice and see if its cooked

While your rice is cookin chop up some more onions and peppers real fine and some CILANTRO

When your soup is done...

 Get YO self a bowl!!!

Sprinkle on top the fresh veggies you just chopped AND OMW take a bite!!! TAKE A BITE!!!

YOU ain't gonna be SORRY!!!

Cuz it's AWESOME!!! IRRESISTABLE!!! YOU LOVE IT! YOU WANT MORE!!!

AND that my friends is WHY it's named after me!!!

(Don't deny it!!! Thats WHY YOUR on MY BLOG AGAIN!!! Uh huh, uh huh! ;)

Well, there you have it folks...

ARIZONA HOTTIE SOUP!!!

Eat a bowl and THINK OF ME!!! ;) ;) ;)

HA!

NOT!!!!

So I had the most awesomest math teacher ever in college. Her name was Mrs. Weintraub and to me she reminded me of Mrs. Frizzle from the Magic School bus series. And like Mrs. Frizzle makes science come alive, Mrs. Weintraub could make math come alive! Plus she was was FUNNY too! She had this kinda of reddish brownish hair that was just WILD and she wore the funkiest outfits, but not like she was tryin to be a kid or something, just cool and like I don't think she EVER repeated outfits. But she made math come alive for me and know I didn't fall in live with math BUT she did help me to understand it. She is THE ONLY teacher that has EVER been able to teach me how to add fractions! Seriousley, I started learning those in 5th grade but couldn't get them till HER!!! I was in her class for three semesters...yeah it was the SAME class...It took me awhile...but I remember this one time she was teaching and she would be like SEE math can be fun and some of the kids were like all ENTHUSIASTIC like YES IT IS!!! I was all like, Oh YES, its sooooo FUN! For a moment here I thought we were at Disney Land or something!!! HAHA! She was like OH MARY! But really, she is THE BEST math teacher I EVER HAD!!! (Aside from when Devi Abbott used to tutor me) If you HATE math you should TAKE her class @ PVCC!!! Elaine Weintraub is AWESOME!!!

Happily Ever After...

When we think of Happily Ever After, we often think of  Magic, and rose petals covered in pixie dust. A stagecoach and being swept off our feet. The birds are always singing and prince charming is always rich and we're riding away into the night on his beautiful white horse. Then if any problems find us in life, they can always be fixed with the swoop of a magical wand. Of course, the in the background of it all, there is ALWAYS a castle awaiting us. I think that so often we have a total misconcieved notion of what love really is.

♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥  ♥ 

But I think love is really a little bit more like this picture...
They might not have much, but they've got what counts...

Two people, growing old together...

Loving each other till...
 The End

And they lived

Happily Ever After...