The House That Mercy Built!

Mercy Ministries was started and founded by Nancy Alcorn, originally started as a place for unwed, pregnant mothers to go where they could find love, restoration, and healing and a figure out a plan for their unborn babies to either keep them or give them up for adoption. A place where they could find the love and support they needed during this time. Over the years Mercy Ministries has helped thousands and thousands of young women find their place in God's House of Mercy. It has now expanded into a place for eating disorder recovery, and helps girls all over the world.

I have been passionate about this cause since I was a teen myself, and have long supported this ministry financially too. I believe in this cause so much, and believe that the heart of a young woman is not defined by the things she has done, it doesn't make her who she is. But, the love of Christ in her is what defines her.

Some of my favorite Christian artists support this ministry too. Recently Natalie Grant visited the Mercy Ministries house in Nashville (it's home base) for a chapel service. I love what she has to say to the ladies:

To find out more about this ministry and how you can help visit: www.mercyministries.org

Monday Nights are Good Again!

If ever there was a show that I wanted to be on, it would be Dancing with the Stars! LOVE it! Last night it premiered with 13 new couples, and lots of fan favorites! After the Bachelor drama, ABC now has their Monday nights back, and I am looking forward to watching every Monday! They have their 1st real life couple with Pro dancer Julianne and her boyfriend Chuck Wicks dancing together, the shows 1st engaged couple dancing against each other in Pro dancers Maks & Korina. I think there is going to be a lot of sizzle this season. Two people have already bowed out of the competition due to injury; Jewel and Nancy O'dell. Who were replaced by celebs Holly Madison and Melissa from The Bachelor!

I'm already loving this season, here's a list of why:

Tony & Melissa: Yes, that's Melissa from The Bachelor. She's back and I am so excited to watch her this season. So glad she's doing well, and decided last minute to do the show! I can't wait to watch more and more of her. All those that watched, you know the audience cheered and stood on their feet for her! YEAH MELISSA!

Shawn & Mark: Shawn Johnson is an Olympic gold medalist, and she's from Iowa! Obviously I love her already. She's the youngest they have had on the show yet! I'm super excited to watch what she does, I already things she's great!









Cheryl & Gilles: Cheryl Burke is my fave pro dancer. I don't care, who she dances with each season I still love her, even if her partner is bad. She can do no wrong. She's amazing.

Weekend Round Up:

This weekend was crazy, nuts, but fun!

As you know, Friday I headed out to RLC for a girls' event! It was a ton of fun, I got to be the "event" photographer and help out. It was a really great night pouring into the lives of young ladies. Stacie McBride Cox, did an amazing job as the coordinator of the event. Can't wait to come back next year! BIG thanks and CONGRATS go to Stacie and her team who put the entire thing together!

Saturday, I got up early and headed to Perham, MN on a little road trip to meet with a dress designer with with the lovely Tricia! It was a fun day, or chatter, coffee, road trippin'! Saturday night was spent with Hubby, after not seeing each other since Friday morning we were ready to chill and do nothing together!

Sunday, was filled with church and working on LMC stuff from home. I'm excited that I got it all done for the BIG presentation on Tuesday! We're 1 step closer and that's a good feeling.

Tomorrow, I'll be headed to Blaine, MN for a school appearance with Sara (Miss Capital City) it should be a great day!

Now, it's off to finish the website updates for her and then bed! Good night! Hope you had an amazing weekend as well!

Fantastic Friday!

Friday, is the day for randomness and nothingness! A day where anything goes, a day for fun! This Friday morning, I am catching up on news.....here's a few articles I found interesting; maybe you will too!

America's Top 10 Most affordable Burbs (I am not looking to move, but I found this interesting)- West Des Moines, Iowa made the list! Yeah! I'd live there.

5 Ways to get the Job You Want, In any Economy (I obviously need to read this!) It says the average America will have 11 different full time jobs, in 5 different career fields in their lifetime! Gosh, I hope that's not true! :( Still, a very interesting article.

Pig-Odor Study (only in Iowa) Where the number of pigs outweigh the actual population, only in Iowa people. Yes, it's true...can this be news? If you don't believe me, read for yourself. People all across Iowa annoyed by the smell, and what to do about it. I say, c'mon people.... did you just wake up a realize that you were living in Iowa? Seriously?!? Anyway, GOP debates on what to do about this issue. I say as the #1 pork distributor in the Nation...deal with it people!

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In Entertainment News,
Britney's Circus Tour kicked off this week, The Bachelor's Jason & Molly are enjoying their 15 minutes of shame as they make the press rounds this week, and American Idol tries to regain fans and interest by adding "the wild card" round in last night's episode. Note to self: AI is sooo over, nothing is going to bring it back. Just like the Bachelor, I think it's time they call it quits!

What are you up to this weekend?
Well, tonight I will be heading over to RLC, to help out with their 2nd Annual Royal Experience event for young girls. It's going to be a fun night. Pictures to come. And Saturday, I will be heading up North to Perham, MN with Tricia...as we meet the designer of her dress and talk all things pageants in hopes for a good outcome. Busy, busy.... but that's the way uh, huh, uh, huh I like it!! :)

The *Death* of Myspace!

I've been toying with the idea of deleting my Myspace account for some time now. The truth is that I hadn't logged in for months, I wasn't using it, I didn't have Internet at my house and couldn't log on anyway. So it sat, and sat for months, and life has been fine without it.

Here's my issues with Myspace; creepy, dirty and scary adds turn me off! The content is a little touch and go sometimes, you never know what people are going to post! And lastly, they say "Myspace is a place for friends" well, you know what else it's a place for? Viruses!! yes, that's right people..... the last time I logged into Myspace which was about a week ago my computer got a horrible virus on it. And just tonight when I logged in, that same virus came out again. I didn't make the connection last week, since I was only logged on for about 5 minutes. But tonight I was logged in and it happened again. I thought something fishy was going on.

At the risk of not being able to get in touch with my girls in Arizona I mulled over this for a while. So, I deleted my Myspace account for good, for once and for all! It's gone, never to be logged in on again, and hopefully I won't get anymore pesky viruses. My computer is dying, but Myspace had to go first.

So now, you will only be able to find me on Facebook! Which, I like it a lot better anyway!

Have a great weekend!!

I'll be Watching!

Since I am boycotting all things Bachelor related from now on, I am excited though to watch Jillian as the next Bachelorette! She's such a breath of fresh air for this show, she doesn't take herself to seriously, and I like that about her. I hope we find her lucky in love with 1 guy only when the season is over. And, I hope she ends up seriously, deliriously happy! Wouldn't that be sweet?!!

Someone needs to restore America's faith in this craziness, besides (of coarse) Trista & Ryan!

Tune in May 18th to watch and see!

And just you are in need of something to replace Monday nights with the Bachelor, I highly suggest Dancing with the Stars! The new season starts next Monday!

Weekend Wrap-Up!

Wow! That's all I have to say about this weekend! It's late Sunday night right now, and I am feeling tired from it all. It was a crazy, busy, but fun weekend in the Worley house!

Friday, my BFF, her Hubby, baby girl, and sister all showed up on my door step at 10:30 am. I was so happy to have them here for the weekend. Glad, they showed up early. More time for me to spend with them. Friday night, Orion and I hosted a birthday party for my friend Becky. It was a great night, we had a great turn out. So glad we all could be there together, and I'm pretty sure Becky felt loved by it all! Friday night all of our Husbands left and us girls had a sleepover that night, it was just like college all over again! We stayed up really late, ate junk, talked till the wee hours, and had a blast!

Saturday morning, we all got up and started to get ready for the day. Saturday afternoon Becky and I were throwing a baby shower for our 2 very preggo friends Sara & Eunice. They are both due in April about a week apart, and having girls!! It's been so awesome having two of our friends go through this experience together. So it was only fitting to have a double baby shower. Now, I've never been to a double baby shower but I think it went quite well. We had a great turn out again, the food was great, and it was awesome to honor them this way. This will be Sara's 2nd baby girl, and this is Eunice's 1st child! The room was full of everything pink for the day!

It was such a great weekend, and I feel really blessed to have had all my best girls around me this weekend. We've been through it all together, and after so many years we're still all there. Next BESA reunion we'll have 2 new babies to add to the mix. That will bring us up to 4 kids! (I am a little behind the curve)

Hope you had as great a weekend as I did!

Next weekend: I'll be helping out at a girls event at a church, and making a road trip to Crookston, MN. The adventures continue! :)