9-11

The words 'nine-eleven' make my stomach turn.


[I have not forgotten & I will not forget.]



It wasn't just a horrible crime, it was an act of war.

8 years later we can say... 'it hasn't happened again'...



[& pray to God it never does.]



Please don't allow yourself to forget that America must be defended. Freedom must be valued, not because we are selfish but because it is a gift from God found deep within our souls.







"our enemies have made the mistake
that America's enemies always make.
they saw liberty
and thought they saw weakness."
gwb

CAKEEEE.

I blogged a long time ago about making my wedding cake... so ta-daaa! There it was.

and Bethany & Heather made Mason's cake!!

It saved us TONS of moolah & they turned out great...
<3
mrs.keller

I must say...

-I will be a married women in 8 days(well less than that if you wanna get technical).
-We FINALLY get our TV in today :]]
-Mason found a vest!
-Right now, I believe our 'pursuit of happiness' is being stolen...slowly but surely.
-We're BROKE.
-If I had Jackson Memorial tickets I'd sell them on Ebay too.
-I got a crooked hair cut, Mason says it's got character :]]]
-I know I am blessed.
-I get to see extended family in Florida!
-I hope & pray our marriage license will only cost $11, not $71.
-My car is paid off.
- It angers me that the government takes 20% of my check every month, 50% of every galloon of gas I buy, 8.25% or more of every luxery I work for, charges .44 cents for stamps(while the USPS is still in major debt), has bankrupted my retirement fund & medi-care & medi-caid, wants to run my health care, wants to control my carbon emissions (my exhales), & for all that I profit nothing... but am left to worry about what they will take from me next, fail at, & then suffer NO consequences. I LOVE my country, not my 'public servants'.
-I hope & pray 'someone' gets preggers soon.
-I keep dreaming that I leave my vail at home.
-I wanna use our apartment 'gym' soon.
-"Jesus, thank you!"
-I still like Sarah Palin, she tells it like it is.
-Im happy the Horton's got a new BIG house.
-I have ONE class till I get my Associates of Arts degree & transfer.
-Mason wants to be a pilot.
-I believe there ARE moral absolutes.
-I hope my generation will wake up & save America from a soft tyranny simply by being informed voters.
-I hope & pray July 14th @ 7pm in Penscacola Florida is overcast & breezy... not insanely HOT.

...
I have alot on my mind.
You?

In the end I wasted it.

"I will tell you what a tradegy is. I will show you how to waste your life.

Consider this story from February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball, & collect shells...'

Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgement: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.'

That is a tragedy."

Don't Waste Your Life
John Piper

the above always refreshes me & my mindset.

So...

I've freakin gained 10lbs since high school. Many of you are thinking "10lbs, come on Anna whats the big deal!" ... & I'm thinking my dang favorite jeans are TOO tight. & bikini shopping was a pain...but thats the same every year cause, of all things, I lack boobs.

So I went "healthy" food shopping... low calorie, low fat, low sugar... HIGH fiber. & worked out 3 times (so far) this week. my abs are very sore. when I laugh I cry... ha... ouch. haha... ouch ouch. And I do believe I have a nice case of shin splints.

other than this I am over & abundently blessed & was fearfully & wonderfully made.

While you were sleeping...

To get you in the loop... Here is an small part of the very chilling letter written to Attorney General, Eric Holder, from a lawyer (Andrew McCarthy) asked to take part in President Obama's roundtable discussion on the "Task Force on Detention Policy".

McCarthy declined the offer for MANY reasons including...
"Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance. I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees. According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training. Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from theUnited States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law."

PEOPLE do you not understand... "Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted (quote taken from the letter too)." If America loses its security... its economy will fall even further until security it brought back. Remember the stock market crash after 9-11... but more importantly remember the 3000 people who died in the name of jihad.

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these are some lyrics that always kick me into political reality:

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night
America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for it's King

But here are even more moving lyrics that kick me out of politics and into God's arms:

who's your brother, who's your sister
you just walked passed him, i think you missed her
as we're all migrating to the place where our father lives
'cause we married in to a family of immigrants

my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
it's to a King & His kingdom

there are two great lies that i’ve heard:
“the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him

but nothing unifies like a common enemy
and we’ve got one, sure as hell
but he may be living in your house
he may be raising up your kids
he may be sleeping with your wife
oh no, he may not look like you think

please wake up America.

I can't freakin' do it all.

I wanna be...

an awesome best friend
a good sister
an involved daughter
an even more healthy eater
a partcipating Christian
a straight A student (ha.)
an energy-ful fiance
a political activist
an organized do-er
a regular reader
an available listener
a consistant gym member

but I just can't do it all.
& its very dissappointing.

anyone wanna help me address the 200+ wedding invites that need to go out in the next couple weeks?? or maybe you'd rather help me CLEAN my room & car? How about anyone wanna make me make time for the gym, my bible, my neices & nephews, my best friends, my homework, & my job!?

life is SO good, but SO fast... its hard to fit it all in.

PRAY I MAKE IT TO MAY 16TH (end of the semester) SUCCESSFULLY.

[84 days till I marry my best friens & get to vacation with him]

GASP! & a quote to think about.

I AM ONE OF THE 47 MILLION* AMERICANS WITH NO HEALTH INSURANCE.

BUT THATS BECAUSE IM 20, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I'VE BEEN SICK, & I CHOOSE TO WORK FOR A SMALL BUSINESS WHO DOESN'T OFFER HEALTH COVERAGE.

HERE IS THE "GASP!" OF MY SHORT STORY... I'M ABOUT TO HAVE TWO [MAYBE 3] DR. "CHECK UP" APPOINTMENTS & I'M PAYING CASH :] DOCTOR'S LOVE CASH.

*THIS #, ALTHOUGH USED BY SOME, HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN ACCURATE. IN FACT NO ONE KNOWS HOW IT WAS CALCULATED AND ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO THE ACTUAL # LISTED ON THE LATEST CENSUS.



and here is the quote to think about -

"It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."

“The Soul of a Collectivist,” For the New Intellectual, 73.

[just one of the gazillion times our president has asked us to sacrifice so far - Obama's says in his acceptance speech (regarding the recovery of the economy): "It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." ... what exactly does that mean in the political world... no one is sure... no one will explain it.]

it wasn't TERRORISM...

It was only a "man caused disaster".

sunny day sunday

Mason & I were teaching Pre-School... and the cutest lil kid came on Sunday. His name was Jimi. Mason told the kiddos the Bible story for the day (Jesus traveling to teach people about God). After the story we asked some questions. The first question was "Where did Jesus go?" and Jimi raised his hand... "to da quiet place". I decided to question him further so I added, "What did Jesus do at the quiet place?" ... Jimi looked at me completely clueless, so I clasped my hands together & bowed my head - making the universal sign of prayer - and Jimi said, "oh, oh... He frew his hands togedder". Needless to say, we cracked up! :]]] The little guy was only 3. So sweet.

Not so sweet - was the clueless young lady at walmart. Im minding my own business grabbing a 3lb bag of cheese and some girl probably in her 20's in a little purple summer dress and super high heels looks me up and down and decides I'm probably smarter than she is and asks, "how many ounces make a pound?" ... "16" I replied pretty quickly... "really!?...Thanks!!" she said & looked back down at the package. So when I got home I asked my brother, "hey Nate(still in Jr. High), how many ounces are in a pound?", "16...why?". And with that I concluded I wasn't being TOO critical.

We also got to see our future apartment on Sunday-its tiny[ < 700 sq ft.] & perfect. We ate lunch at Carrabbas with our favs H&B and finished it off with the "blemished" study, my homemade chicken & cheese enchiladas for dinner, and some 4 on 5 [windy] volleyball. It was a great day... not to mention I got the kids in Pre-school to put on animal hand puppets and sing "old mcdonald had a farm...e i e i o" :] Its a good, good life.

"most of us have our own grief, broken dreams, & damaged hearts...

each of us with our own unique losses, our own 'shack'."

If you haven't read The Shack yet... you can borrow my copy! It is an "ahh haaa" book, especially for those who have been in church their whole lives. The story is a story of grace, I remember back in the day when I never thought I'd need grace & now that I do, I don't know how to accept it from a perfect God. This book re-opened my eyes to God's promises of true grace & freedom in "christianity".

My favorite dialogue Mack (main character) with Papa (God) & Sarayu (the Holy Spirit):

"Are you saying I don't have to follow the rules?" Mack had completely stopped eating and was concentrating on the conversation.

"Yes. In Jesus you are not under any law. All things are lawful."

"You can't be serious! You're messing with me again," moaned Mack.

"Child," interrupted Papa, "You ain't heard nuthin' yet."

"Mackenzie," Sarayu continued, "those who are afraid of freedom are those who can not trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control."

The Shack - Wm. Paul Young - Pg. 203

Wow, what a free-ing & truth-ful statement. It gets better but I won't go on, you should read it ALL for yourself.

On a lighter note:

Happy St. Patty's Day!

And back to a more serious note:
Pray for my nephew Brody. He goes into surgery soon... to release the fluid off his swelling brain. Pray for Heather & Bret too. Also Doctor's found another brain bleed on baby Kylee. Remember to pray with great FAITH, because "Faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you can not see." Hebrews 11:1.

And back again to a lighter note:
Im 1/2 way done baking the cakes to make my trial 3-tiered wedding cake... what can I say... I like a good baking challenge. I'll post pictures of it soon :]]] It's supposed to look something like this...

then I'll be adding edible shimmer stuff and my ribbon will be aqua blue. The topper will be a 4" letter "K" but I haven't bought it yet so it won't be here in time for the trial cake... I might throw some Gerber daisies on the top too, we'll see. When it's finished we can have a cake eating par-tay!? anyone? I really shouldn't eat any, I ordered a size 4 wedding dress. :/

well, blogging is kinda fun. I'm still getting used to it.
Im out,

2 of 4

Aunt Banan got bored on a rainy day at work...
:]

oh & P.S. -

124 DAYS
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I'm just saying...

I wish Ronald Reagan was still alive today. He was such a common sense man... oh, how that era is long gone. Now common sense is seen as naive & stupid.

My favorite example of common sense being completely ignored is the "minimum wage" arguement. PLEASE tell me why if raising the minimum wage really helps the little guy, than why don't we just make the minimum wage a million dollars and call this problem solved? Well you see if we pay the little guy 1 mil... the big guy will just get 100 mil... and milk will cost $500.00 a gallon.

I hope you're having an "ahh haa!" common sense moment.



Another great one is the "carbon" arguement. Carbon is a naturaly occuring substance. So how could someting so essential to our being, our livelyhood, be destroying the earth. Some "global warming" finatic out there had her tubes tied so she wouldn't bring any more carbon producing life forms into the world (it's a true story). If we all did that... there would be no life.

I hope you're having another "ahh haa!", common sense moment.

and then the "tax" arguement too. Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich. Ok, so raise the taxes on the rich people and then the rich people's small & large businesses are in jepardy. Who works at the rich people's small & large businesses...hmmm probably you! Who buys the products produced by the rich people's small and large businesses...hmmm probably you! You get where I'm going with this... If I'm a "rich person" and my taxes go up I'm gunna raise the price of my businesses products, not spend as much money at the business you work for, and possibly lay off some of my employees or cut their pay.

I hope you're having yet another "ahh haa!", common sense moment.



Don't let anyone convince you that issues aren't as simple as common sense...but more importantly get informed... ignorance is only bliss until it starts taking away your rights.

pray without ceasing.

God, Please hear my wordless sighs & aching groans for babies Kylee & Brody please work this all for the sake of something good, like you have promised me you will always do (Romans 8: 26-28). I am asking, with great hope (Hebrews 11:1), for an unexplainable, undeniable miracle. Please be a comfort for my Heather & Bret... I hate to see them hurting. Thank you for struggles that make us stronger, better people. Amen.

Say a prayer x 100000000000 please.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bro, Bax, Ky, & Korb!!

Life is such a beautiful thing. If you know me at all you know the thought of ending life, especially through abortion, makes me sick to my stomach and I proudly wear my trendy but bold anti-abortion gear (from Abort73).

Yesterday I proudly stood by as my lovely favorite HeatherLY(and Bret - only 1 T) gave birth to 4 beautiful lives! Their tiny faces...fingers, toes...it's so amazing! I will post some pictures soon.

I ask that you please pray for Mom, Dad, and the world that these little kiddos will grow up in...also pray for the health of these tiny blessings & pray God allows for a quick & safe NICU stay.

LoVe,

ThE PrOuD AuNt BaNaN!!

she doesn't want FLOWERS!!

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Flowers die & candy makes you fat...get her[or him] fruit!

I believe if you don't stand up for injustices, you never really live.

PELOSI SAYS "BIRTH CONTROL" WILL HELP ECONOMY


Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."


Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.


The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.


STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services.How is that stimulus?


PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.


STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?


PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.




WOW...


I'm really really sorry if you believe anything that comes out of her mouth...She just wants to FUND ABORTION ... it's PORKKKK & will in NO way stimulate the economy. And why on earth do so many of us allow the government to kill babies with our money (tax money)? ... isn't that murder and isn't it against our God? I wish enough of us would stand up for what is right & true. Oh and by the way Obama passed an executive order lifting the Bush ban on funding abortions overseas...Fantastic...can someone please tell me what is so radical about allowing babies to be born? What is radical about living with the results of your decisions?


The above news story is from DRUDGEREPORT.com - they always break the best news.


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