Just call me Uncle Keith...

Well I just found out a few minutes ago that my oldest brother and sister-in-law will be having a boy! I'm so excited for them for the fact that they are having a kid to begin with. Now I'm even more excited that they are going to have a boy. Now that I look back I'm kinda thankful that they are having a boy because for Jill's birthday I gave her an Astros shirt for herself and an Astros jersey for the baby (which at that point in time I had no clue what the baby was going to be). So now when the baby is big enough he is going to look so cute in his little Astros jersey. I swear this baby is so going to be spoiled, but in a good way.

Aside from the wonderful news from my oldest brother and sister-in-law, something wonderful also happened to me today. Before my last class for the day, I swung by one my math professor's office to inquire how I did on the final from summer II. Turns out that I made a 100 on the final!! I knew that I kicked the test's butt, however I didn't realize that I would have made a 100. Not only that, I found out that my average for the class was an 89.5, but my professor gave me a B. So he when he noticed that he was trying to figure out why he gave me a B for the class. Since he couldn't come up with a reason, my professor agreed to give me an A for the class instead of a B!! Now how awsome is that! Not only did I make a 100 on the final, but I got an A in my math class!

Praise God for this wonderful day that He has provided me with today!

I've been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off and classes hasn't even started yet...

Well, the title of this entry just says it all. For some strange reason I just couldn't get any sleep last night, I ended up sleeping at most 4 hours of sleep. Fortunately I put my recent purchase of a coffee maker to good use and had two cups this morning to get me going. On Saturday I met some freshmen that play in the LMB (Lumberjack Marching Band) and told them about the music ministry at First Baptist. At the moment to me they sounded interested and had some hopes that they would come this morning (Sunday morning). So I decided to go up to the church early (around 7:30 am) and make sure that I had copies of music for these three freshmen that I talked to just in case if they show up to play. Once Andre (the music minister) started going through the order of worship I had forgotten to copy the second page of a piece for the pianist, so I rushed out made the copy as quick as I could, and got the page back to the pianist. Once the rehearsal for the order of worship ended and I got downstairs to the basement (that's where the college bible study meets) I felt like that I was on a caffeine rush from the two cups that I had before I left for church, some adrenaline flowing from all the running around the church that I had to do, or possibly a combination of both. Anyways in the end what ever was the cause of me feeling in constant motion, was able to slow down and eat some of the provided breakfast for the college group. So if me feeling "hyper" this morning was from drinking the coffee, then looking back I think it might have helped a bit on just dealing with all the commotion going on today at First Baptist.

Speaking of First Baptist, this morning the orchestra was originally gonna play the offertories, but instead we were moved to play just the prelude so that the choir could have a little more practice on singing music from the musical that they did tonight. After the worship service and tonight after the choir musical, members of the church came up to me and told how much they enjoyed listening to the orchestra. First off, the credit should go towards not only to myself but primarily towards everyone else that played this morning. Though I played one part in the music, having everyone else playing created a gloryfilled worship that obviously not only pleased the members of First Baptist, but also pleased God as well. One thing I try to keep in mind that worship isn't just playing an instrument or singing, it's any form of action that glorifies God's name. Towards the end of the service this morning and this entire afternoon I was filled joy all of a sudden and recalled how great God is. I'm not quite sure what was the cause of this realization you could call it, but with all that went on today just made me at peace.

Alright, now if you have gotten to this point, good for you and I'm getting to the point of this entry. The major point of this entry was this afternoon and evening. About 2:30 pm I went up to First Baptist so that I could do some final preparation for an audition that I had tonight. Then at 3:30 pm I went to the BSM to show some freshmen around campus. The group that I was showing around campus were for nursing and math majors, however no new math majors showed up to be shown around campus. So it was me and like seven girls (I'm not complaining) walking around campus as I pointed out locations of the students classes. Then at 5:00 pm I went back to First Baptist to basically follow the music minister around so that I would be available to help in any way before the musical. Then at 6:00 pm I left to go to play my audition in the music building. After that I grabbed some food, which at this point I'm starving from all the running around that I have been doing. About 7:00 pm I went back again to First Baptist to help taking down equipment that was used in the choir musical. I then relaxed at the apartment for 30 minutes before I left to the BSM for the coffee house night. Now the coffee house night was fun, and I got back to the apartment around 11:30 pm. So after getting 4 hours of sleep and running around, what am I doing? I'm typing out this entry at 1 am. The fortunate thing though is that I don't have class till 10 am.

So that was my last day before classes start back up for the fall semester. Hopefully this week two good things will come. First I get a decent chair in one of the three concert bands. Secondly, my brother and sister-in-law find out if they will be having either a boy or a girl.

Possibly I'll update either mid-week or the end of the week on how my first few days of classes went. Later and thanks for reading my blog.

New addition to the family

For those that don't know, my oldest brother and his wife will be having a kid on January 10, 2007. This is a big deal since this will be the first next generation of the English clan. Right now my sister-in-law is half way through her pregnancy, and pretty soon we'll be finding out what they'll be having.

Anyways, one of the ways to celebrate this wonderful miracle my mom and aunt came up with the idea to give one small gift for every week from now till the due date (that makes 21 weeks). This past saturday when I spent the day with my brother and sister-in-law, I gave them the gifts that my mom prepared for them. When I presented the gifts to my sister-in-law she opened the first gift which contained two ribbons, one saying "Mom to be" and the other saying "Dad to be". As for the rest of the gifts are various items for my sister-in-law, for the nursery, and for the baby. For those that are interested, here is a link to the blog site that my brother and sister-in-law are keeping to update people on the process of their pregnancy.

What's been going on...

Lately I have not been doing a good job updating this blog account, but what can I say I've been busy. I recently finished what I hope to be my last summer session of college and only having a summer "vacation" that consists of 4 weeks for the entire summer. I know that some of ya'll that are working in the real world probably has no pity for me there, but for me I would like to have a longer break as long as I am still pursuing higher education. All in all I'm picking my GPA up slowly but surely. Also it's looking like that it will be possible to pull out a 3.0 GPA after messing up in the Fall of '05 by failing 3 classes. Fortunately this fall I'll be retaking one of those classes that I failed and will replace that F with hopefully a much better grade.

As well as preparing for school to start up again, a friend of mine and my self have been talking about planning to go to Europe possibly the summer of '08 to celebrate graduating from college. It would be great to have some additional friends join us, but so far no dice. Right now we have been talking about spending around 3 weeks in Europe. The first five days will most likely be in Germany. Then two days in Paris. After that we will spend a week traveling in England, and a week between Scotland and Ireland. Of course the destinations are still prone to change, but I think we are starting narrow the locations we would like to see. For me personally I would love to spend a week or two just in Scotland. Possibly play on the legendary links of St. Andrews. Just imagine how awsome would that be to play on a course that Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholous (I know that probably isn't right in spelling), and Tiger Woods have all played on. Also the history that just that one links course has. And of course I don't want to forget about the gorgous landscapes that Scotland has to offer. Yeah, I could most definately spend a week or two just in Scotland and to absorb what it has to offer. Well that is just going to have to wait until the summer of '08.