More about the wedding

Their car was filled with balloons.  Bryce immediately pulled the corsage pin out of his boutteniere and popped them all in about 10 seconds.

Earthquake and Hurricane- So what else is new?

I saw on the news that there was a 5.9 earthquake in Richmond, Virginia today, not long ago.  I called Janette to see if she had talked to her dad in Richmond, she said he saw his walls and windows shake.


Then I walked into Wayne's office and told him.  He got all excited and said, "I felt that!" He thought one of our kids was jumping up and down in the house somewhere, but had wondered why it was shaking the slab.  He hadn't realized it was an earthquake.


I didn't notice it and I was just one room away from him.  I was too concentrated on what I was reading on the internet I guess.  

And the forecasters are saying Hurricane Irene is coming here Saturday, so I have to write a big document of Hurricane Instructions and send it out to everyone in the ward.  I'll put it on here too, but for the most part I put my Emergency Preparedness stuff on www.GottaWannaNeedaGettaPrepared.blogspot.com.

Lots of excitement!

Bryce and Marianne's Wedding

Wayne and I flew to Las Vegas to see Bryce and Marianne get married in the Las Vegas temple on Saturday.

That temple is BEAUTIFUL!  And they were such a beautiful couple!

I really appreciated getting to know Marianne's family and their family's friends.  I am very impressed with how highly everyone thinks of that family.  They must be wonderful people.

Joseph Smith Movie in Cary Tues. Aug. 23

One Night only:

Joseph Smith

Vol. 1: Plates of Gold

One night only in Cary, NC

Tues. Aug. 23, 2011 at 7 pm.

Galaxy Cinema

770 Cary Towne Blvd.,  Cary NC

For tickets visit  www.JosephMovie.com

Groups rates available:   eric@josephmovie.com

801-599-7973

Tessa in vintage clothing

Here is Tessa, at three weeks old, wearing my baby dress from 1959.

In honor of Pres. Monson's Birthday

President Thomas S. Monson was born August 21, 1927.

"When our beloved prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, was asked on his birthday this past August what would be the ideal gift that members worldwide could give him, he said without a moment’s hesitation, “Find someone who is having a hard time, . . . and do something for them.”


Quentin L. Cook, "Hope You Know, We Had a Hard Time", Oct. 2008 General Conference, Nov. 2008 Ensign.

$20,000 per ounce Gold and 3 Great blogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2s6vzErqY&feature=player_embedded#!

This is a 1.5 hour video by Mike Maloney, one of the best I have ever watched explaining the monetary system.  I loved his graphs showing the stock market's patterns over the past 150 years.

(Once again, I am not advocating buying gold and silver.  It is my belief that FOOD STORAGE is the best investment in times like these.)



Here are three great blogs to add to your daily web perusal.

http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/

http://www.americanthinker.com/

Oh, and of course, my own preparedness blog, don't forget to read that one!

http://gottawannaneedagettaprepared.blogspot.com/

"Two Trillion Tons"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6Yg9ckZv8&feature=player_embedded

Obama parody.

Delicious green beans

Wayne made BBQ beef and BBQ chicken for Bryce's and Marianne's open house.  (He is very picky with his BBQ, he doesn't like the fact that when you eat BBQ at a restaurant there are always some pieces of fat and gristle and glom in it.)

We bought hushpuppies at Smithfield's Barbecue, they have really good hushpuppies.

And we bought cans of these Allen's Seasoned Green Beans and Potatoes.  They were excellent!  I have never tried them before.  I recommend them highly.

Colbert jokes about Mormons

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/394360/august-10-2011/yaweh-or-no-way----mormons---god-s-poll-numbers?xrs=playershare_fb

5 minutes long.

"In One Hour"

I read a very interesting theory today.  I'm not  saying I believe it, I just think it is very interesting.

I am always trying to find out the interpretations of Isaiah, Revelation, Daniel, and other scriptural books to try to see how they refer to our day.

Plus, I am very much of the opinion that the United States' currency system will fail in the near future.  Along with the Euro and probably all the rest of the world's currencies in rapid sequence. The reason I believe this is because our money is based on nothing tangible.  It isn't backed by gold or by any real collateral.  We just print it.

Here is Revelation 18:10-11, 17-19, from  HYPERLINK "http://lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/18?lang=eng" http://lds.org/scriptures/nt/rev/18?lang=eng

 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

In the LDS church, we believe that 1000 years of our time is as one day to the Lord.  So the "one hour" in the above scripture in the Lord's time could mean 41.67 years of our time.

Exactly 40 years ago this week, August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon ended the gold standard.

Kind of spooky if our monetary system fails in the next year and a half.

(Sources below)

 HYPERLINK "http://economics.about.com/cs/money/a/gold_standard.htm" http://economics.about.com/cs/money/a/gold_standard.htm

During most of the 1800s the United States was had a bimetallic system of money, however it was essentially on a gold standard as very little silver was traded. A true gold standard came to fruition in 1900 with the passage of the Gold Standard Act. The gold standard effectively came to an end in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlawed private gold ownership (except for the purposes of jewelery). The  Bretton Woods System, enacted in 1946 created a system of fixed  exchange rates that allowed governments to sell their gold to the United States treasury at the price of $35/ounce. "The Bretton Woods system ended on August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon ended trading of gold at the fixed price of $35/ounce. At that point for the first time in history, formal links between the major world currencies and real commodities were severed". The gold standard has not been used in any major economy since that time.

More Family Portraits 2011

Thomas is holding his little sister, Hannah.  Elizabeth is holding her cousin, Tessa.

Proud Grandparents

We have four grandchildren, and one on the way.

Isaac and Rachel have Elizabeth (almost 5) and Thomas (3) and Hannah (4 weeks old).

Seth and Janette have Tessa (6 days older than Hannah)  (Tessa is on the right).

Adam and Tiffany's son is due the end of November.

Family Portraits 2011

 We were all together this week, while Marianne and Bryce were here.  They are getting married on Saturday in the Las Vegas Temple.

(Click on the photos to make them bigger)

Still had time to read the internet

We had an open house for our son Bryce and his fiancee on Saturday night, and we attended the blessing of our two new granddaughters, Tessa and Hannah, on Sunday.

We took our family picture on Sunday night, I'll get some of those up here soon.  But in the meantime, here are two articles I found on the internet today.

Noemie Emery writes how feminists have so elevated the choice of abortion that they have no moral grounds on which to complain that millions of people every year around the world are choosing to abort female fetuses. 

From the Washington Examiner:


http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/07/liberals-some-womens-choices-more-equal-others#ixzz1V7xraFQN

....choices, of course, must never be questioned, no matter to what ends they lead. Late-term abortion? Terrific. Infant dismemberment? Hardly a problem. Sequential abortion? No problem there.

Abortion as a tool to dispose of unwanted girl children? Now, this is a problem, but liberals have surrendered the right and the standing to make moral judgments. They have found now a choice they despise, and they can't rail against it....What in the world would they say?

.... they have no words at all for all those dead females. They are strangled and silenced by "choice."

"Obama's Jekyll and Hyde Routine:  Disturbing Mixed Messages"


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45524
Here’s the schizophrenic political message the American people now hear when they listen to Obama speak:  Big Government can improve lives and create economic prosperity … except right now, because the economic catastrophe my reckless spending has triggered has left me and my administration impotent and unable to redistribute ever-dwindling wealth.  My team of economic advisers has the smartest plans and strategies for creating jobs … except that jobs are nowhere in sight, 16.2% of people can’t find enough work, one in five men doesn’t work, and one in seven now relies on food stamps to put meals on the table. 
 
I am the arbiter of hope and change, and I’m a strong leader who can navigate us through the worst economy since the Great Depression … except that, even though my party controls 66% of the government, I still send my advisers out to blame America’s first-ever S&P downgrade on the Tea Party, whose members I believe are crazy and insignificant … except that they are, apparently, smart and significant.

For History

I look at CNBC several times a day, to keep track of whats going on there.  I've been writing the Dow Jones industrial average and the gold prices and the oil prices in my diary every day for years.

I don't know why I took this picture on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011.  I guess I just wanted to record history as it was happening.

Standard and Poor's had just downgraded the U.S. credit rating, from AAA to AA+ on Friday after business hours.

So on Monday, Aug. 8, this is what happened. The Dow went down 633 points.

Then, the rest of the week, the Dow went up and down and up and then up.  It was a crazy week on Wall Street.

Since I paid attention, I figured I would just put it on my blog so I could go back later and remember what a strange week it was.

I expect many more weeks of turmoil to come.

Look at how cool I am

I have received many ribbons for my quilting over the years.  I kept intending to hang them up all the way around the walls of my sewing room, up near the ceiling.  It would have made kind of a quilt-ribbon wallpaper border.  But I never did.


The pinks, lavenders, and whites in the top left corner are all the special awards and special recognitions I received.  Then the blue ribbons (1st place), then the reds (2nd place), then some green, whites, yellows that are third places.

(Later, after I took this photo, I found a few more scattered around on the floor because Elizabeth and Thomas had found them and started playing with them before I took the picture.)

"Bring Me Sunshine"

http://www.youtube.com/embed/oXvJ8UquYoo

Cute music video!

Bryce and Marianne are Here

Bryce and his fiancee Marianne got to town yesterday, and today we all went to Topsail Beach.  We took two of our grandchildren, Elizabeth and Thomas.  It was fun, and we got home at 10:45, and now we are tired.  The end.

Rioting in my old stomping grounds of London!

I attended BYU London Study Abroad Jan-June 1979, and lived on Palace Court, near Bayswater, and Queens Way.  This story from KSL explains that the BYU Study Abroad Center is right near a lot of the rioting in London.  I know just where they are talking about!

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=16740773

Wayne's new calling: Scoutmaster

On Sunday, Wayne was sustained as the new scoutmaster, for the fourth time!  His biggest challenge might be learning all the boys' names, since he has only really been in our ward for two months.

My baby dress

This is the only article of clothing that I have from when I was a baby.  It is cream-colored cotton, but all the thread is blue.  My mother told me the dress used to be blue, but all the color has faded out.  I am going to try to take photos of Tessa and Hannah wearing this dress.

China says to America: "The good old days are over"

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-debt-addiction-short-sighted-2011-8

It is very scary, after all the financial people I've been reading have been warning that China is going to call in our debt or substitute another global currency, to read this article and see that the plans are already underway.