Ok, so yeah i know a Ton of pictures but bare with me!                                     

















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 SEE YA!


-Mary

not much going on here but here are some picture's of thing I did this summer more fun to come....



this is the Train seats on our way to American girl....
 

this is Lois and Karen on the train..


on the trolley.....when we first got on the trolley we got on the wrong one taking a 1 to 2 hour detour we did not have to but it was all wonderful and fun!


Beautiful Abby....


Rebbecca in the Bitty baby section


"Hello is anyone there"....."WOOF"

this is on the way back Abby got a new outfit,


the one on the left is Abby's doll the one on the right with blond hair is mine,
in the books their actually friend!...


this is at their house Abby wanted to keep mine


this is so cute I love this one...

ZZZzzzz.......(tired from a long day)


CHEESE!!


this was the other day we had Jenna our friend over and we got root beer on the way to meeting!
 


Jenna put my outfit on her doll it looked so good....


we decided to do a  photo shoot with our dolls here's my favorite one...
 
 
this is Ben he is SO BIG, 8 pounds when last weighed but he's much more now I'm sure...


he's so cute he gave us the best smile.......



more to come from the summer since thanks goodness its not over...
I was outside the other day and it was humid, gloomy and hot and I said
"Hey dad so where's those sunny summer days are they still comming"
"this is it" was his reply
"???" I said...

Love Mary...

on Thursday morning about 4:00 I was not prepared for what was going to happen in the following days,
we along with our friends the Martins drove up Mrs. Martin having her two girls and my mom having me and my sister Elisabeth, the entire 4 hours up I talked to one of the two girls in the car (NEVER TRY IT) Because when we got about 3 quarters into the trip my voice started to go it completely just left and i could barely talk my mom says its a virus but at that point i pretty mad because i was really looking forward to this weekend and all of the sudden it felt like 'well i guess i won't have any fun" we got there and me and my sister were assigned different teams ( I said I didn't care) I got through the first day and toward the middle of it when I started not feeling so left out and shy I started to make friends and it was pretty fun, and I learned allot about God, the next day was focused allot about mom's and daughters and after i had attended the sessions about that I was like well mom being your  best friend and you opening up to her worked for other girls maybe, but I really didn't think that it would work for me but when we got back to our rooms I was so amazed how much I actually enjoyed talking to my mom and i really just started to open up with her and it was really awesome God has done some amazing things through me during the conference i hope that every girl could exspirience commit, at this point it was at night and my voice had not gone back to normal again i still could barely talk but it did get a little better, the next day (today which was the last day) it started to clear up i could talk now but really low and i could obviously not sing but I was WHY NOW!!!! (why could not have cleared up durring it) but i have a feeling that maybe if my voice was normal maybe I would not have listened as carefully as i did maybe I would not have gotten so much out of it.......


here are some pictures and videos of the COMMIT 2008 (iniana)



My team leader....




hanging with friends...




more freinds!!!




this is the leader of all of commit...



silly girls...(no that is not me)



me and my awesome mom (I LOVE YOU MOM!)



this is the slide show if you look carefully i'm in there.....

Love Mary,

P.S
my mom said she saw me sleep walk last night she said i got up out of bed a walked to the bathroom the funny thing is I NEVER remeber that,
/
I actually have slept walked a number of times before if you'd like me to tell you about it just ask...
i'd also love to here about you if you have ever or if not just tell me an ebaressing moment (in email)

as I promised here is the story complete thanks Bonnie, Victoria and Katie (Thanks guys!)


                                A Strawberry Pie fit for a king
                         --------------------------------------

(written by Mary)     in a kingdom far far away there lived a happy uncle and his niece a princess of that kingdom
one year the king was blessed with a bountiful harvest of strawberry's which he loved more then
Candy and thats saying allot...

One day the princess was testing with some of the kings strawberry's and she made
a wonderful strawberry pie that the king thought was deliciouses...
the was happy she did something nice for the king but was saddened when the king asked for another,
she tried and tried but she could not repete it, the king was very mad and locked her up in dungeon only containing
a kitchen with only necessary items to make pie..


(written by Bonnie)  Days went by, with the princess slaving in that kitchen, desperately trying to recreate the luscious and yet elusive recipe.  Time after time, however, she was left with less than satisfactory results.  The pies she was making were mediocre at best.  Discouraged, she sat for hours trying to remember exactly what she had done the first time.


(written by Victoria) Finally, the king came to the kitchen demanding that she make him a pie or be hung at the tower the next morning! Desperately she scrambled around tryingg to remake her masterpiece!!!!

(written by Katie -thanks!-) Each day that she was in the dungeon she would try her hardest to remember the ingredients, but everytime something didn't click.  Each day that passed, the tears flowed freer than the previous day.  On the eight of February, the princess was ready to give up.  She slammed her fist against the small, wooden table inside the quiet and cold dungeon. 
     "Why is nothing working?" She asked in frustration.
     But, nobody answered.
     "I give up!" She shouted.
     That's when the princess heard a small voice tell her, "Don't give up."
     Startled, she looked around the room, but nothing or no one was in sight.
     "Why not?" She whispered.
     The princess felt in her heart the sudden assurance that everything was going to turn out right, in the end.  But, what or who had spoken to her in that tiny voice?  Could there be Someone out there who loved her more than anything, that He wanted her to keep going?  The princess's curiosity arose as she thought about it.
     He must really care about me.  She thought.
     With a new vigor, the princess set out to make the greatest Strawberry pie ever fit for a king!


(thanks to all those who participated more story's yet to follow!)

let's see well lately...

I've been really sick my throat has been killing me,
Esther has now been graduated to Babysitter so depend on her allot, Yes Ruth is still gone  expected date back is 2 months from now...

mom's due date is jury 1st still no word if its a boy or a girl...

I've also lately taken up scrap booking more then my mom or siblings I think, I really enjoy doing it but since is sort educational I tell everyone I'm doing "school" LOL...


well no pictures right now but February first is Rachel's birthday (yes VALENTINES day) so I will do a post there in....


Mary Lou signing off.....

anyone bored yeah so am I.....

here I wrote this story the next person to see this write more to the story as much as you want too.
two or three people can add on then when two or more have someone may end it this is just to see what it looks like in the end...

_The Strawberry pie fit for a king_

in a kingdom far far away there lived a happy uncle and his niece a princess of that kingdom
one year the king was blessed with a bountiful harvest of strawberry's which he loved more then
Candy and thats saying alot...

One day the princess was testing with some of the kings strawberry's and she made
a wonderful strawberry pie that the king thought was deliciouses...
seh was happy she did something nice for the king but was saddened when the king asked for another,
she tried and tried but she could not repete it, the king was very mad and locked her up in dungeon only containing
a kitchen with only necessary items to make pie..

by mary C.


(in the end I will post it all together)