Last time we wrote, well I think Shae wrote something but kept it private. I don't really know. Anyways, Last time we wrote, and published it, Shae and I announced that we were pregnant with a little baby girl. Well we are now a year or so past that mark and we now have a wonderful daughter named Juliette Snow McKnight! She is the most beautiful child in the world with the sharpest and quickest personality out there much like her parents. She is beautiful like her mom, and fortunately, to date, bares no resemblance of my ugly mug.
In the meantime, We had a very successful first semester at Fresno State. Shae and I both pulled out 4.0 and with a little help from a professor and a timely doctors note, I scraped ou
t an A in my CDDS 80 class. I was at an 89.5 or something crazy and was off by 4 points to get an A! 4!!! So my dear wife went to the professor and asked to make sure we hadn't missed anything and sure enough, we had missed an in class assignment worth five points. With our teachers good graces, she told us if we could get a doctors note for that day in class that we could get the 5 points! Our beloved OB/GYN did us a huge favor and wrote us out a doctors note and voila! I got my A!
After the semester ended I got a job working for a pest control company, which I am still currently employed, named San Joaquin Pest Control. Family run operation, it is kind of a funny story how I got it. Shae and I were getting some food at a local burger king (haha she was pregnant don't judge!) and I happened to see one of the San Joaquin Pest Control trucks at the Wells Fargo nearby. I decided to go in and see if I could talk to the technician. Well the technician turned out to be the Head Hancho's grandson, and while he didn't call the shots, he certainly had a strong influence on who got interviews and who didn't. It was funny because literally hours before I showed up, someone had just quit without even giving their two weeks notice and the guy, Josh, hadn't even been able to give the rest of the company the heads up on what was happening. I came in that same day and had an interview and had the job within a day or two after turning in a driving record and a drug test.
Our friend Josh Morgan has turned out to be a good friend and actually had a baby boy 2 or 3 weeks before us, and we are happy to call him and his wife Catilyn our friends.
I started work in May, Josh had his baby may 17th, and we had Juliette on June 4th, 2014. I will have to write a seperate post on that amazing experience, but let me tell you, I can't believe how lucky we are to have Juliette. That's not to say that anything went wrong for Shae, far from it, but childbirth is an amazing experience that can only be shared between a loving husband and wife. The transformation to Mother and Father, happens in a flash. It's subtle, but it is at the same time heavy. The weight does not hit you immediately, at least it didn't for me, but it is a gradual.
Short version of it here, is we are so thankful for Juliette and her growth.
The summer is HOT here in Fresno! I don't like one bit. It got to 110 on one day that I was working. That was no fun. It just feels like an oven. But whatever, I grew up in the Southern California desert area, I can suck it up. Juliette and Shae survived as well and we did a lot late evening runs to the farmers market to keep from going insane inside our little apartment.
As summer came to a close, (yeah nothing really happened during the summer, just a newborn and sleepless nights) we got back into school, but this time it was not as easy. Unfortunately for us, we didn't have a good baby sitting schedule for Juliette, and Shae was forced to miss a lot of class time. I was trying to make sure the house was in order and Shae was taken care of, and unfortunately, or study time to a dive and so between August and mid-September our grades fell. I know that it's early in the semester at that point, but we tanked pretty hard and we were digging ourselves out of a fairly deep whole from October all the way to December. All-in-all we did as good as we could have done, but we didn't get our 4.0s and we got more like 3.25 or something which sounds nice, but just isn't going to cut it in this major.
In the meantime, Juliette kept her quick growth and progression and began to army crawl by the time she was six months old. Shae's mom Debi has moved in with us for the time, and is considerable help for us to make sure we can make our classes for both last semester and currently this semester.
It's really condensed here, but I guess that takes us into 2015! Shae and I had the opportunity to go down to Las Vegas to visit her Dad, Michelle and their kids who are a lot of fun. I had to work so I only spent 3 or 4 days down there while Shae actually spent a whole week! Shae kind of resents me for this a little bit because she took Juliette with her, and Shae makes the comment I was practicing "bachelor life". Well that's not my fault!!! And it really wasn't all that fun anyways cause I was just so worried about them and missed them so much.
Anyways, so our senior year at Fresno State has started, and we are so excited to keep learning. Classes are hard, but our babysitting schedule is MUCH better than it was previous so we are having a better time at being able to study and get to class. Plus Juliette is more independent now so she doesn't have to constantly be in our arms which is nice. One class was pretty gnarly, which was CDDS 109 and our first test didn't come out so well, but that's ok because their are more tests to come and hopefully they can average out better!
One neat thing that happened is for Valentine day Shae, Juliette and I all went down to Orange County and met up with my parents. Shae and I had the opportunity to take the night out and went to a really nice place in newport beach. The next day, Shae and I along with my parents were talking about what we should do for the day, when suddenly, we got the great idea that we should go to Disneyland! Shae and I had been toying with the idea, but didn't want to go by ourselves since Juliette is so little, but my Mom and Dad had the same idea and just didn't want to pressure us! In the end we all had the opportunity to go and it was a blast! I will have to write another post specifically about that! Anyways, so yeah. Now we're getting into March and that's crazy! March 26th will be Shae and myself's fourth year anniversary since we met. That will be a nice little treat and I am so thankful for her, and also for Juliette as well. Who knows what the future will hold, but this is a terrible way to end a post. It's like saying their isn't gonna be anymore. How does one finish these things again? Where's my sign off? See you guys next post!
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