Why I Am A Manchester United Fan

Howdy folks!
So, I have this British buddy on Twitter and he, too, is a huge United fan :-D  Seeing as REAL Football isn't popular in America, he asked me why I am such a huge fan.  Since there isn't enough room in the little Tweet box, I told him I would write a blog post about it for him!

Back in '07 (being 2007, not 1907, LOL!), one night Chris (my older brother) and I were trying to find something to watch on television so we were just flippin' through the channels and landed on Fox Soccer Channel and there was a game on.  I think that game was actually Reading v. uuuuhhhh, some other team, lol.  Because we were getting ready for bed, we couldn't watch the end so didn't know who won.  The next day, Chris looked online to see the results and I believe it was a nil-nil draw, but I could be wrong.
Anyways, that got us interested in watching it.  I don't quite know how we got to liking United (when we started liking them, we didn't know they were like the best team in the world, so that's not the reason we're fans of them) but they were soon our favorite team.
So, ya know, now we're huge Football fans.  Unfortunately, Fox Soccer Channel is rather dumb now and we find all of the people on there annoying.  We just find it very blech and wonder why they can't find anyone good to be on there 'cause it seems like none of these people even really know what they're talking about most of the time.  Plus the fact that they use terms that are just stupid.
We do get Sky Sports News like three times a day so that's nice, but it's nothing like having it ALL the time where people are actually huge fans of the sport and know what they're talking about.
Chris and I are actually the only peeps in our fam who like it and Daddy still calls it Soccer, blech!  That's another thing, it shouldn't be called Soccer because it is real Football...I mean, you actually use your foot, duh...unlike in the American 'football' where you use your hand most of the time!  Anyways, moving on....
So yeah, I guess that kinda sums it up :)
We would love to able to go to England someday to see them play, but also because we just love England anyways, AND we want to get Pukka Pies :-D  Don't see it happening anytime soon, but maybe someday, Lord willing.
We also love SerieA and La Liga Football.
Anyways, any questions????????????
I will now leave you with a song for the best team in the world:



I've had this video on here before but there's nothing wrong with putting it on again, seeing as this post is about United after all :-D

Laters peeps!
God bless and keep you!
Grace be with you!
Alive because of His Blood,
Katie Bekah

Piano Lesson :)

Oh, hi there!  How are you?  Good!....that's great!...wow, that's wonderful!...so happy to hear that!....oh, I'm sorry...............well now, that was a little odd, then again, what else would one expect from me:)
I'll bet you have NO idea what I'm going to write about in this post!! 
My 3rd piano lesson!! :-D
It's always been on a Wednesday at 2:00pm: however, since he's still in the midst of re-construction inside and all that, he had to postpone it to yesterday, and then today.  We also had it at noon instead of 2.  AND since he had to postpone it twice, we did an hour instead of half an hour. 
First of all, Chris came with us this time and waited for me:-D  My Grandpa had bought Chris a used guitar so he has been playing that and teaching himself a couple of songs.  After the lesson, Chris and Piano Professor were talking about guitars and he said next week, he'll give Chris a 10 minute or so lesson for free!  Also, Chris used to have a capo for his guitar but we don't know what happened to it so he asked Piano Professor how much his were.  He said they were 15 dollars.  We didn't have 15 dollars with us at the moment so he said that we could just take it and then pay for it later.  He's so cool!
Ok, onto my lesson:
Last week, he gave me a music book.  He told me it doesn't matter how much or how little I learned in the book, but to go at my own speed.  Well, with Chris' help, I pretty much mastered the first 5 songs.  (We almost have the 6th one mastered as well:-D). 
I didn't think he would find that very impressive because I was sure that all of his other students had gone much further with their first lesson....I was wrong.  He said I played them perfectly: that most of the time, people will just rush through them instead of counting the beats when you need to or whatever.  (I'm kind of a perfectionist so I like to do things the way they're supposed to be done.....plus, I just love playing the piano and want to do it right:)).
He said the way I held my hands and everything was perfect, too.  Here's the embarrassing part: he's going to order a book for me with hand/finger exercises that he hasn't ordered for a student before (at least not many, I don't remember what he said, lol) because he thinks I could be a great pianist by the way I move my fingers and all that!  I was SHOCKED when he said that!  I just assumed everyone else played the same way and there was nothing special about the way I played. 
He also said, we're going to 'work on my ear' (lol, funny way to put it) because he thinks I COULD be pitch perfect....like him:)  I guess, in time, we'll see.  He did a little test on me: he played the first 3 notes of a song and told me to figure out what it was, I didn't know the first time, so he played again, still couldn't figure it out, he then added another note and I knew what it was:-D  He also had me look away and he played a few keys and told me to play the ones he played.  I was actually able to do it!  Not the first time, mind you, it took me a couple of keys to get it right.
I know that I am not able to do any of this by myself, it is only by the Grace of God and Him working through me that I can do this.  He is Awesome (in the true sense of the word, Meghan;))! 
His timing is ALWAYS perfect!  He gave us the piano right when the little store was opening, everything He does is amazing!  What an Awesome God we serve!

Anyways, that's pretty much it for right now.  I must get offa here pretty soon and get ready for bed. 

Oh, real quick, exciting stuff!  Mommy ordered a camera for me today!!!!!!!!  Yummy!  I can't wait till it comes!  I'm considering asking my Piano Professor if he'll let me take a picture of him to put on here;) 

Good night, peeps!  Or good morning, top o' the mornin' to ya and all that:)

God bless and keep you!
Grace be with you!
Alive because of His Blood,
Katie Bekah

I Love My Piano

Yesterday, I had my second piano lesson and it was great!  He gave me a beginners music book so I practiced that when we got home. 
He told us that you can go online and find online metronomes so Chris found one for me:)
He brought the lap-top downstairs and set it on the piano and let it go while he counted the beat for me as I played my song.  We had to do it several times because I kept messing up but he never said anything.  There were a lot of laughs, surprise, surprise, lol.  It's so sweet that he helps me with it.  He's like my second music teacher.  He also works for free, LOL! 
Mommy and I forgot my teacher's name, lol, so we had to ask him, haha!  I told him that since we forgot it, I've just been calling him the Piano Professor, he liked that.  Mommy said, it made him stand up a little taller, hehe.  He's so nice!  He's friendly and likes to talk (which is good because I'm the same way).
Anyways....
While I was practicing my piano yesterday, I heard my phone ring (which is "Beautiful Ending" by Barlow Girl), so I ran upstairs and it was a text....from my oldest brother, Tommy :-D  I thought that was so sweet!  The other day, I called him and we kept breaking up so the third time I called him back, I just said that since we were breaking up so much to just give up on the conversation, lol.  So, as always, we said 'love ya' and so on :)
Also, last night, Chris made some S'mores in the oven for him and me :)  They were really good!  A little while ago today, he made some more for Mommy, him, and me.  Once again, they were tasty.  We haven't had S'mores in forever!  Of course, I'm sure they're better over a fire, but these were dang good :)

Ya know the bad thing about putting videos up on youtube.com?  The stupid comments people write.  I have three videos on there.  One from FIFA'10 (a video game for those of you who do not know) and two I made at xtranormal.com.  Mommy checked my e-mail this morning and someone left a comment on two of my videos and she read them before I did to see what they said and they were trash so she deleted them from my e-mail.  I then went to my youtube and deleted them there without reading them.  Some people are so stupid.  Both videos involved Manchester United and Mommy said she guesses he doesn't like them....so yeah.

So ya know, lookin' forward to the coffee bein' done so Mommy and I can have some.
It's so cool, we have like an old-fashioned-ish coffee grinder so we grind our own coffee beans without the boring and extremely loud electric coffee grinders they have nowadays!  We also use a percolator instead of a coffee maker :)  Don't know if a percolator is old-fashioned but I LOVE doing things the old ways! 
We do our laundry mostly the old-fashioned way, but we do use our dryer after things have been out on the line for awhile. 
Oh!  How I would love to live out in the country!  Mommy tells us about how when you're in the country, the sky is just so full of stars and it's absolutely beautiful!  We live in a stupid subdivision so we don't get to see that beauty.  We, of course, do see stars, lol.  Anyways, I'm really a country girl at heart and could never understand why someone would want to live in the city, but that's just me.  In the country you can just run and run and run and it's so much better!  I hope we can move further out there someday and have a farm, garden, all that good stuff!!!

Yummy :)  Autumn-ish, farm-ish....home-ish.

I am thankful we like have a home though, lol. 

Well now, that was a random post.

Ciao, meu amigos!!

Grace be with you all!
Alive because of His Blood,
Katie Bekah

July Blessings From God

Ola, meu amigos:)  I don't speak Portuguese, just to let you know.
I would like to tell you all about the exciting things that happened to me in July.
Early in the month, my Aunt Nana gave me her piano!  She had been trying to sell it for awhile but couldn't so she gave it to us.  I love it!  Every time I walk by it I have to touch it :)  It's so awesome to have something like this from my Aunt.  It just makes it better because her sweet fingers touched it which makes it so special.  I just like to sit there and play around (with my right hand, right now because that's all I can do, lol, my brother, Chris, calls me the 'one-handed wonder'), it's so wonderful!
As I said before, on the 10th, my cousin, Della, took me to an opera!  It was "Otello", I absolutely loved it!  It was great to go out to dinner and then to the opera with her.  We had such a lovely time together!
Mommy took me shopping for my new out-fit to wear and Memaw paid for it :)  One day when I get a new camera, you'll see me in my outfit :)
On the 17th, my bff/'sis' got married.  We weren't able to go to her Wedding, but I loved hearing about it from her!
We also found me some piano lessons!  Last Wednesday was my first lesson and I absolutely loved it!
The little music store opened like the day or so before my lesson.  Mommy and I had seen the sign in the windows a few days before and she called and left a message.  The next day the fella called her back and they chatted for awhile.  Anyways, I'm really enjoying it.  I can't wait for my lesson this week!
On the 29th, Mommy and I got to spend a little 'girls' day out', it was so fun!  We got some hair things at Meijer and then went to Cracker Barrel for lunch!  It was a really nice time and we were so happy that God blessed us with being able to do that!  She truly is my very best friend!
Even though today is August first, I want to share what we did today as well :)
Today, Mommy, Chris, and I went out for a bit.  First we went to Starbucks where Mommy and I got venti Cinnamon Dolce Lattes and Christ got a slice of pumpkin loaf.  We then traveled through the parking lot over to the Family Christian Store.  I went in to get Esterlyn's new CD "Call Out" but alas, the chick looked it up for me and they didn't have it :(  She didn't even know who Esterlyn was!!!  AAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!  From there, we went to the grocery store and I went in to get lunch, which was fried chicken and Texas fries (I also got bagels but those aren't important to my story ;)).  From there, we came home and watched an episode of "Foyle's War".  After that, Daddy came home from work and blah, blah, blah.  I made coffee for Mommy and me, so on, so on, so on.  At about 9:40-ish or so tonight, Mommy, Chris, and I went out yet again.  We went to UDF to get Daddy and me a milkshake (he got Cookies & Cream and I got Peanut Butter & Chip) then to Frisch's to get Mommy and Chris a Fudge Brownie uuhh somethin' or other, lol, and get the 4 of us sandwiches :)  Oh, also, earlier tonight, Guitargirl and I were chatting online and she helped me put the new pages on my blog and add the Tweeter update on my sidebar :)  She's so nice :)  Isn't my Tweeter update thingy pretty??????  So, tell me, what do you think about my blog's new look?
Anyways, hopefully I can get Esterlyn's new CD soon and then I can tell you peeps about it :)  In the meantime, why don't you go visit my Esterlyn fansite:  www.weallneedesterlyn.webs.com :)
Oh, I also want to leave you with a video of one of my new favorite songs that Mommy got me likin':  Gary Puckett and The Union Gap "Young Girl":



Hope you all are doing well!
God bless and keep you!
Grace be with you!
Alive because of His Blood,
Katie Bekah