Happy Saturday!

I love Saturdays...especially in the fall! It is so nice to sit at home and watch college football all day! If only Thame didn't have to study! But ya gotta do what ya gotta do! :) Speaking of studying....look what Thame did...haha he didn't even realize what he was doing and coloring a nice oval on his tummy while he was studying! It made me laugh...and I made him model it for me!

UAB started off the season with an awesome game and I got so pumped that we were going to be a competitive team this year! Then last weekend happened...we lost our 2nd game by 2 points! UGH! Hopefully they will step it up! We play Troy today at 2:30. Go Blazers!!!

My tigers are doing pretty good so far! I haven't seen anything too impressive yet this season, but as long as we keep winning games I will be happy! Geaux Tigers!!!!

Thame just told me that UAB is to play LSU in 2013!!!! Who do I cheer for????? OHHH Lord!

Only 11 more days till my favorite month of the year!! I LOVE October!

Sorry this is late!

My sweet little pudgy, funny, adorable nephew is ONE YEAR OLD! I cannot believe it! This year has gone by so fast and I wish I could have been closer to him!! He turned 1 on Sept. 5th...so I'm quite late on putting a post up, but I did go to his birthday party and everything on his real day!

Look at him grow...

Happy Birthday Sweet Man! Aunt Kat loves you SO much!

Well, i've been at the new job for about a month now. I wish I could say that I absolutely love it and it has been the best thing ever, but I can't! It is not what I expected to say the least. I teach 2 1/2-3 year olds and they are definitely a challenge. Individually, they are the sweetest kids ever, but they are little terrors when they are all together. I am literally sleep walking by the end of the day because you have to be on your toes at all times and it will wear you out! But, what can you expect with two year olds. Anyway, I just have to tell myself it is only temporary and hope it will get better! Some days are better than others!


Thame is doing really well in school so far and seems to be enjoying it! He did great on his first big test and I am so proud of him! We literally saw each other for like an hour during test week. He got through it and did great! Yay! One down...tons more to go!!

I'm working on doing some fun things to my blog, so if you are just reading it by email...come look at the real thing!! www.kathrynschneider.blogspot.com

Well what do ya know...

I FINALLY got a job!

I'm going to be teaching 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 year old's (god bless me, what am I thinking?) at The Goddard School starting Monday. I will be learning from the teacher in there now for a couple weeks and will then transition to the Lead Teacher position. The school seems wonderful so far! Everyone there seems really nice. Its not a daycare, it's a school...SACs accredited and everything and I will be writing lesson plans and stuff, so it makes me happy that I will using my degree!

Of course it is just a stepping stone to hopefully get into an elementary school next fall, but I'm excited! I can't wait to meet my kids and start getting to know them! By the end of this I will probably be able to potty train blindfolded, figure out ways to discipline without time out, hopefully still have some hair left on my head...and hopefully teach them something in the process.

I'm so grateful for this opportunity and look forward to updating y'all soon! Wish me luck!

I la la la looooove to paint!

Just wanted to show a few pictures I painted for my new place...I had a lot of fun doing these! Let me know if anyone wants me to paint something for them!!!! I would LOVE to do it :) I love using metallic paints...which you will see in all of the paintings I did.

This picture below is actually a sticker. My mom gave it to me when we moved in and I thought it was so cute!
Don't forget to look at my other new post below!

Sorry!

Sorry I have been such a bad blogger lately! I honestly just haven't really had much to talk about! I'm still looking for a job, but I had an interview today at a preschool so hopefully something will work out with that! I'll take what I can get at this point!

I finally moved into the new townhome and I love it! Everything is coming together really nicely and I think I will really be happy hear for a while. Here are lots of pictures...keep in mind it looks much better in person! I'll just show you the downstairs for now...

Welcome to my home! :)
This is the little foyer area...finally got my diploma framed and hung up! (Thames on the left and mine on right) How cool is that clock!?This is looking into my TINY kitchen! It is really small, but it works!

This is the dining room area...
The living room of course!

The view from the couch...it looks a lot better in person...

Our pretty french doors...and Lily!

The huge deck...with no furniture yet! It will come...

I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

I hate putting a title!

So...what's been going on with me?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I'm in the process of a job search, which is not really going well at all! I had an interview with Hoover City School's last Thursday and the interview went great! But, I talked to the Director of Human Resources yesterday and she said that due to proration and filling in positions with reading coaches and math coaches, etc. they only have TWO spots available for hire! UGH! I have probably applied to over 50 teaching positions and have not heard back from one! They keep saying that they are filling in available spots with people that work in the schools that did not work in the classroom (reading coach, math coach, technology person, all those kinds of people) because their jobs are being cut back. I have also applied for teachers aide positions and many other things to work my way into the school systems, so hopefully something will come about! Sorry for rambling! I know I will want to be sitting at home once I finally do get a job, but I am bored out of my mind...and I need some form of income! ugh.

Today, however, I got an email from some Human Resources Director from Birmingham saying that he really liked my resume and wants to interview me for a head preschool teaching position. I emailed him back for more information and haven't heard back yet, but I will keep y'all posted!

Still house hunting as well...Lakeshore Ridge is making us pay rent for July because we only gave them a 25 day notice instead of 30 days that we wouldn't be returning. Needless to say, I was pissed cause we were finally making progress and found a few places we liked! Oh well...

Going to the beach Wednesday-Sunday! Woohoo!!!

Oh...Trish, here is the recipe:

I made some DELICIOUS homemade crabcakes last night for dinner:

This makes 4 big crabcakes:

Ingredients:
-2 packs of lump crabmeat (I used the stuff where the tuna is in the grocery store)
-1/4 of a yellow onion
-1/4 cup of mayonnaise
-dash of cayenne pepper
-teaspoon garlic salt
-1 egg
-1 1/3 cup of breadcrumbs (regular)
-dash of tony chaceries (spelling?)
-1 teaspoon lemon juice
-4 tbsp. butter
-1 stick of celery (very small bit, I had the baby celery at home)

I thinks that's everything...haha.

Alright, what you're gonna do is chop the onion very finely or grade it into the bowl. Then you're going to add in the celery chopped very finely. Add in the cayenne pepper, garlic salt, tony's, lemon juice, and mayo, and crabmeat. Mix it up good. Then add about 3/4 cup of breadcrumbs into the mix and 1 egg. Mix it up really really good! Divide into 4 crabcakes (about the size of a hamburger patty). Put the rest of the breadcrumbs on a plate and roll the crab cake patties in the breadcrumbs and cover them really good. Melt the butter in a skillet and put the crabcakes in! Fry them till they are golden brown on either side...DELISH!

I also mixed 1/4 cup of mayo, 1 1/2 tabespoons of spicy brown mustard, a squirt of hot sauce and it made a really yummy dipping sauce for them.

I wish I would have taken a picture...but, I didn't! :)

ENJOY AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU MAKE THEM!