Spring time fun!

Happy Spring!

I know I'm a lil late with that since Spring officially started this past Friday, but I am happy that it is springtime!

This past weekend was really fun! Friday when Joey got home we spontaneously decided to go to the rodeo :) It was a nice night out! We honestly went for the food, we like to eat! We went and walked around got some BBQ sandwiches from Holmes Smokehouse...yummy! Then we walked around some more, saw a generator catch on fire....yes you saw that correctly! They had a metal tower, kinda like scaffolding, to have the posters on it advertising the rodeo stuff and on top of that was a light that rotated around, well the generator that powered that just all of a sudden caught fire! It was exciting, all the police came and tried to figure out what to do. The smell of the burning banner smelled SO bad!! Here is a picture of the fire:

 I love people watching so the rodeo was really fun for me, Taylor Swift was playing that night and I saw 3 different people I knew there! I was surprised, as big as the crowd is there we managed to see people we knew! :)

(At the rodeo, after eating our funnel cake!)

This past Saturday was Needville's City Wide Garage Sale!!! I went with Mary and Jeanne. Jeanne just found an apartment and we just got a house, so we were major furniture shopping! We found a lot of great things!! I found a couch in perfect condition for.....$25!!!! :D The lady selling it goes to our church and she originally wanted $50 for it, but she said "Since I know how it is" (to start out just married and just getting a house) she gave it to me for $25!! I am so excited to move it into the house and decorate. I also found a nice painting that I am thinking about using in the living room. I also found a lot of decorating things. I found some cute planters, that I might spray paint and use on a bookshelf to store stuff in in the living room! :)

After that Joey and I went on the search for appliances, we didn't buy any yet, but we are trying to find good prices. We went to one place Joe recommended,  they had a really good price on a washer and dryer,but they were a lil expensive on somethings so we decided to try a Sears scratch and dent place. Good stuff, but is very far for delivery! So we ended up on deciding on Lowe's. Lowe's is going to match the price of the washer and dryer from the other place (which is amazing since the price difference is about $100-$200) and we found a fridge we like :) I am excited!

I don't remember if I said in my previous blog anything about the inspection. Well originally we had it planned for this past Friday, well we couldn't do it then since the gas and water weren't turned on. So it got rescheduled to today. The inspection is as followed:

-We have termites, not too bad and there is no visual damage, but we need to get it treated. The termites came in with the landscaping mulch-- darn that mulch.

-A part on the sink that helps the dishwasher drain needs replacing, but that's only a $6 or $7 part, so not bad. Right now when the dishwasher drains water shoots out of the part lol

-The part that lets the smoke out of the fireplace needs some love, the inspector said it was hard to get open

-The satellite was not properly installed, which the inspector said almost all of them are installed this way, the person directly screwed the satellite into the roof instead of using a mount to properly do it. Not a problem to fix. He said just put some silicone around the screws and that will be good.

-Other things he told me about could be fixed with cleaning it (slow drain in bathtub, and a dirty range vent)

OVERALL: He said that this was a really good inspection! He said that he has inspected brand new homes that already need $20,000 to fix the problems!

I was really relieved to hear that! Even though we have termites, it can be treated! :D Pweh!

I believe God wants us to have this house, if not then the bank wouldn't have accepted our offer and we would still be looking. I am so grateful that God blessed us with this house! It is such a blessing to get married then also get a house!

Since I got home from school I have been reading a lady's blog. I'm not going to say who it is, but I know her and her husband, but didn't really know, know her that well. After reading her blog, it shows such a beautiful insight to her life. She seems to shine with God's love. I read her blogs about anything from raising godly children to her thanksgiving for everything. She's such a godly woman! It is really inspiring to me to become a better wife, and a better person for God to use! I want our future children to grow up loving God and knowing more about God than just the common Bible stories. I feel to do this I need to grow in my relationship with Him. Not that I  want to do that just for "the children's sake", but I really want to shine with God's love! I don't want to fall into a routine, saying the same prayers without much meaning, feeling like I have to read the Bible, etc. I want to have a genuinely close relationship with my Creator!

Some of my  thoughts today. I felt a need to share that!

Have a wonderful day!

Spring Break!!

Hi Guys!

As you can tell by the title this week is my Spring Break!! It is much needed and appreciated! This past week was so crazy and tiring! I had 3 tests, well I was going to have 3 but one got moved to next Tuesday! But the two tests I had to take were both on Wed and the 3rd one was going to be on Thursday! :( But I survived and am SO happy that it's Spring Break!

So these are my plans for this week: (just in case you are wondering what a 20 year old does on Spring Break)

- Read sections of my Children's Literature book for a presentation due the week I get back
- Do powerpoint
- Study for test that was moved
- Start reading a book that I have to give a presentation over
(These are to get ahead)
- Do a lesson plan for a class
- Read Ch. 8 and create a "reflection" - which is a word document reflecting on the chapter (using clip art, word art, smart art, etc)
- Start on powerpoint on a book
- Continue reading the 100 books I have to read in Children's lit. that's due at the end of the semester!

For housework:
- vacuum- whole apartment
- laundry
- sweep and swiffer every hard floor
- Take recycling
- Go through stuff for City Wide garage sale, then take stuff to the church for the youth to sell
- Finish doing thank-you notes (yes I know...thank you notes still! lol)

As you can see I have a busy week planned! :) I want to get a head start on my homework though since we will probably be moving in April.... oh yeah
WE HAVE A HOUSE!! :D

I have postponed putting that on here just in case the inspector finds something really bad, but the bank is taking their sweet time looking over the contract so we haven't been able to get the ball rolling more. So an inspector hasn't come out yet. But it is a newer house and I believe that God really wants us to have this house so everything will be ok :)

I am soo excited about getting a house and having something to decorate! I watch HGTV all the time and was never able to paint or put in a new...anything! So I am excited about decorating!

Oh and Joey got our first costumer with our business! So that is really exciting! I am going later today to pick up parts for the computer! :)

Everything is just really exciting right now, including the fact that Spring is coming!! :) I love the spring time! Flowers and warm weather! yay!

Oh, my fieldwork ended well. My last day a boy shoved a crayon up his nose!! It was funny, but then I felt bad for him! He wasn't crying, he was calm as ever. My fieldwork teacher took him to the nurse and the nurse tried to get him to try blowing it out but he told her "I already tried that and it didn't work!" lol Poor thing so I guess his mom had to take him to the doctor that day to get it out!! I was a little sad ending my fieldwork, being there for almost everyday for a month you get a lil attached to the kids. But I didn't get too emotional and everything was good. I didn't have to give a speech like my last fieldwork (that was horrible, I almost cried and that was with 4th graders!). I just left that day. I did enjoy being with the kids, but am happy I get to sleep! :)

Well I will let your eyes rest! Have a great and sunny day! :D

What's happening!

Hi Everyone!

I have been so busy since the last post! My fieldwork is almost over I just have Mon-Wed. this coming week and I am done!! I am excited about going to normal but I think I will miss the students! They are cute...well some of them lol :) I did my one major lesson I had to do. It had to be a writing lesson. The students were learning about Presidents, so my lesson was about Obama. Politics aside it was a really cute lesson :) The main idea of the lesson it that President Obama was looking for a pet and needed the classes help to decide! I read a book that talked about the past presidents' pets. Mostly the crazy ones(John Adams' wife raised silk worms...the smallest White House pets. Teddy had 40 pets...everything from hyenas to bears) Then after I read to them we together wrote a letter to Obama. Basically:

Dear President Obama,
We heard that you were looking for a pet. There has been many different pets in the White House. We are going to send you some of our suggestions.
Your Friends,
Ms. Schneider's class

After that I had the students write "You should get a:______" and fill in the blank then draw a picture of the animal. It turned out SO cute!! As you can tell I am really excited about my lesson lol

This past weekend (not this one the one before) was Mardi Gras in Galveston. It was fun but COLD!! Don't worry we were in the good part, so no flashing! :) lol Sara and Carrie(Sara's friend) were down from Austin for that, it made it funner. (Sara is Joey's cousin) The next day we went to Shrimp and Stufff...AWESOME!!! I was the only one that didn't get shrimp LOL I had the catfish. It was delicious! :D This weekend has been nice and relaxing so far.


OH!! We are starting to look for a HOUSE! :D Joe, Joey's dad, knows a guy real well that is a realtor and he is going to help us! He sounds really nice! So tomorrow we are going to go look at some houses that he has emailed us about earlier this week! :D I am so excited about house hunting! I have been in an apartment for so long and it would be nice to paint or just do whatever with our home! :) I am excited about getting our first house! The houses that we are going to go look at tomorrow seem really nice! I will let you know how it goes!

Well not everyone is happy these days. With that I mean Daisy.

She has either really dry skin, or a nervous licking habit. She has one spot she likes to lick and she has made it where it doesn't have any fur on it...it's just gross. So Tuesday I went to Petco and got a cone thing to put around her head so she would stop licking it. She went INSANE when I put it on her! She ran around dragging her head, she pulled on her head with her paws, she tried to knock it off by hitting it against the wall. Luckily she has gotten used to it, for the most part. Every once and a while she freaks out because she can't see as well and something moves or makes a noise and she jumps straight in the air! She has gotten paint on it because she runs into walls! lol Today she was chasing Yao and ran to go under the dining room chair and she hit the top of the cone right on the top of the foot bar. Then she tried to get out from under the table and hit another one. By the 3rd hit she found her way out. It is funny, but then you feel sorry for her! :) We are keeping that on her until she spot heals. She eats and drinks and bites Yao just fine though.

Joey and I are doing good. Besides allergies. The change in weather gets me! It must be bad since Joey has problems too. Nothing that we can't get over though :) Well I am afraid my post is long enough! :)

Have a great day! :D

One Month Later

Hi Everyone!

I haven't been able to write a blog lately, this week I started field work for one of my classes so every time I get home I'm exhausted!

Everything has been going really well :) I love being married! I love that Joey is always there! I have cooked some meals, been cleaning, and all the wife stuff :) lol I love it! There are times when I am tired and I don't want to do anything so if it can wait, it does!

School has been going well. I have the same teacher for 3 classes...which can get very old real fast! We started our fieldwork, like I mentioned ^. We are doing the fieldwork weird where we only do it for a month, but it's Mon-Thurs. 8-11. So I REALLY look forward to Fridays! :) My school is at Beltway 8 and Memorial Drive. So I have to take the beltway, thankfully it hasn't been too crazy in the morning. I have a Kindergarten class, and the teacher is awesome! She's only been teaching 5yrs, so she is young and she is getting married this June. I like the fieldwork, I just have to get used to waking up so early!

Not much has really happened lol Just living! We got a new and bigger tank for the turtles. Went from a 20gallon to a 40 gallon. They like it! We also got them some goldfish to eat...Tardy caught and ate one last night! It was exciting to watch. Nibbler...he was just excited...I think he thinks the fish are their new pets! :D

The cats are doing fine. They wake us up every morning. About an hour before our alarm goes off it seems.The cats like to fight on our bed. This week I haven't been waken up too much bc I just slept hard since I've been getting up early. It was bad though bc Daisy loved to get under the bed and scratch the bottom of the box springs so I used to wake up to that ALL the time! Ugh! But we stuffed stuff around the bed so they can't get under the bed. It's been better since then! :)

My poor plant is dead. I had a pretty ivy in a nice yellow pot on the dresser in the bedroom. Every night one of the kitties would climb up and chew/bite the leaves. Well a leaf fell off, then the other one did...so it was just the stalk. I left it so it could still live...well...someone thought that made it more appealing to bite so it got totally pulled out of the dirt. LOL I miss having it, but I'll be ok :)

I just want to thank everyone so much again for everything you have done for us! :)

Have a great day!

Some wedding photos

These aren’t the ones from Evoke, but I wanted to put some on here :)
Here I am ready to go do our quiet time

Me with all my bridesmaids in the dressing room

I love Joey’s face in this one! Smiling :)

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knox!! YAY!

I loved the back of my dress!

mmm cake!

Our rings

That is all folks! :)
Have a good one!

Promised Pictures of the last day

Hi Everyone!
Sorry it has taken me a while to get these pictures on here, school started Monday and that is keeping me busy and tired!
Here are the photos!
This is at 2:11 in the afternoon that Saturday

This is at 5:14pm

This was the captain of the ship. He was Italian and had a cool accent! This was the dismemberment talk

They had a table set up of all the different towel animals.
They had a book on how to do them too…that’s why they had the table set up



hehe we gave our monkey a banana!
 
The setting sun, that sun is so beautiful over the blue water!

This was our waitress, she was so sweet! She is from Thailand! She even gave us hugs the last night! :)

This is the band that played in the casino, they were really nice to listen to! They took requests and played all different types of songs! I was excited when they played “Walking After Midnight” by Patsy Cline! I wanted to request it, but wasn’t sure they could do that one. To my surprise they played that song right after I thought that! :D

Our last night towel creature! A stingray! :D
 

I loved our cruise! The people were so nice and it was just an amazing experience! I am up for taking another one within a few years! :D
I did still feel like I was on the ship for a few days after! I think it is gone now, the body swaying lol People that have been on cruises know what I mean :)
It was nice to come home and sleep in our own bed, but I will definitely miss the food and the fresh towels lol If only we could have brought our waitress and our steward home with us!! LOL
I love being married and having things to do, like cooking and such. It’s kinda weird to explain, but I like doing things for Joey :) But now that school has started I come home tired so it’s a little harder, but is still rewarding!
Oh the wedding photos are up! All the orders have to be in by Jan. 28th too! So go to http://www.evokephoto.com
-click on Your Images, under the paragraph of text there is Satisfaction Survey and Take Me to the Galleries
-Click the Galleries one.
-Can type in the date of the wedding and one of our names. Or you can click the more under recent photos and look for our names :)
There you go :)
I am happy with the pictures! There are a lot of cute ones and some that are my favorite! :)
Have a great day!

Day 6

Hi Everyone!
Today was a “Fun Day at Sea”, and we had a nice and fun day :)
I might not be able to blog long bc the boat is rocking a lot since we are getting closer to Galveston, and the moving laptop screen might make me sick! :)
Today we woke up and ate breakfast. Went to the speech about disembarking. Surprisingly is was entertaining :) Our cruise director, Ralph is very funny.  Went shopping in the shops onboard. Went to the casino where a really good band plays, that is were the people swing dance ( I mentioned in my previous posts). Went to dinner, it was really yummy as usual. Went to a show where the passengers sang and dressed up as different famous singers. It was really good, but the guy that did Elvis sucked. He sang too low.
Ok picture time…it will have to come later, sorry but if I keep looking at this screen w/ the ship this rocking it could be a bad thing!
Have a great day!