The Kiwi Bird

I don't like to talk much about my job at the wonderful world of University of Phoenix, but one thing that makes me laugh are some of the names of my students. In honor of one of my students I wanted to give a loud shout out to the kiwi bird, I did not know that this bird existed. I get tons of special new students every week that I am required to speak to and one week in particular I was calling a student by the name of Willie, during the call he proceeded to tell me just to call him Kiwi...AWKWARD!!! Kiwi?!?! Why?!?! I did ask him why and he said, "because when I was younger my parents always told me I looked like the kiwi bird." There is such a bird? To say the least I'm afraid of what my student looks like cause the kiwi bird has a gigantic nose. My finance counselor that I work with refuses to call him this nick name cause he thinks that it might be a dirty pet name, but he did promise me that he would call the student Kiwi if he passes his courses. My students don't have the best track records and most of them only strive to get by with D's!

In closing I wanted to leave you a bit of humor with some other names I have had the opportunity to screw up while trying to pronounce them on the phone with the student. Bless the hearts of all the Mom's out there who might have thought that it was ok to create such names for people. Enjoy! :)

QUENAH
GHYNA
ZAUNEPPS
KENNETRICE
KINSHAWSA
SHAMIKQUA
WAUNETT
KARRKETTA
SHAQUELLA
QUARTINELLA (FAVORITE!)
MCQUEENA
PETAGAY
JA'QUETTA
SHA'TAVIUS
FRANKESHIA
NIKJOVNIA
WILNESHIA
ZIPPORAH
SUOMAYYAH
SUVANNEE

I think my favorite has to be all the names with a "Q" in them...why why why?!?!? Ha ha!

Meeting Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

I know...I am so cool cause I haven't posted in so long! For some reason I have felt like this last month I have had a million things to do right from when I get off of work!! I have been wanting to blog but there has been no time at all! Although I don't have kids to take care of my job is definitely stressful enough dealing with hundreds of irresponsible students who act like kids and take up most of my days! On to brighter subjects though...

My cute friend Jenny works for this field trip company Project Exploration and invited us to go on a trip with them at the beginning of November, so we could not resist. We went to the San Diego Zoo (sorry the Phx one just does NOT compare!!) ate yummy food, hung out on the beach, and had a wonderful relaxing time! We got to spends lots of time with their sweet daughter Abigail who I just love. Here she is being so reverent while sleeping!

Our first stop was an early morning boat ride to see some dolphins and other animals! It was super fun and Jeff got this cool pic with his camera when the sunrise was coming up!

Then we made our way to the San Diego Zoo! I had never been there before and it was really great! We took a bus ride around the whole place!

So, I knew hippo's were big but when we got up close to one it was GIGANTIC!! Both of mine and Jenny's head together were not even as big as his!! Then of course...guess what happened at the Zoo?!?!?! An Ellie sized fit as Jeffy calls them!! I was mad cause I couldn't have a churro!! Ha ha...what kind of fits will my kids throw?? Any guesses?!?? ;)

Our last stop while we were there was the beach and this yummy breakfast place where Mike and Jenny introduced us to these over stuffed breakie burrits! They were delish! Then we got some pics on the beach. My hubby is becoming quite the photographer...notice the amazing shot he got of Abby and Mike at the very bottom!

Jenny even took us to a snack shop where she gave us all the treats...for FREE!! I think me and her should go and work there in the summer time! What do you say Twin??

We stopped at the beautiful San Diego Temple and also this really really awesome car shop with lamborghini's, of course Jeff and Mike were in heaven! They were the fanciest cars I had ever seen and it was funny cause no one payed any attention to us while we were in there. What if we had wanted to buy one!?!?

Stay tuned cause I will be blogging more...promise! I hope my title caught your attention again to read our bloggity!! I'm weird and like to make up random names and sayings.

Jenny and Mike thanks again for inviting us,

it was suuuuper deee duuuper! :)

Oreo Pizza Topped with Gummy Bears

Don't ask about the title for this post...just had to think of something creative to get all my fanatics back to reading our non-updated blog! Here is a run down of what we have been up to this last month! There will be more a more exciting post next week since we

will be going to San Diego with some friends this Thursday! Yipee!!!!

1. Followed our tradition again this year and went to Sugar Bowl in Scottsdale to celebrate the day we all got engaged with our great friends Mike and Jenny Stephan! Fun mems!

2. My super dee duper good friend Kari Culver from my old singles ward who I served with in the R.S. pres got married! Love her to pieces and I'm so happy for her to be

in the married club now!! She looked gorgeous!

3. The all time famous Rustin made a surprise visit for her wedding and surprised everyone at the temple! When I first got to the temple for Kari's sealing he popped out

from behind a wall and I wanted to jump for joy and yell, but of course

I acted mature and used my "temple voice", so glad he came! :)

4. Had the chance to finally go home and see my parents in Sierra Vista. My Mom looked like a pop star one day after getting ready so I had to take a pic of her. My sister Amber also got us some tickets to the U of A football game, we didn't have the best seats but still had a enjoyable time! (Amber, I'm still not forgiving you for the 2 mile walk to the stadium and

then the 10 mile hike to our seats...NOT funny!!)

5. I win the LAME-OOOOO award cause I did not participate in dressing up for Halloween this year, I wanted to be a lady bug but never got around to finding a costume. On Halloween night I just watched my hubby chow down on the all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster, we had to hide from the trick or treaters somehow! I will post a pic of my nephews cause they melted my heart with their Mario, Luigi, and Peter Pan costumes. My sis in law Meg rocked it out in her 80's get up!! I did help decorate our pumpkin at work, she was Smurfette!! :)

6. Last but not least I wanted throw out a thermo dynamics problem for all of you to solve, don't worry it should only take you all day long to calculate the answer! No, but really I just wanted to give a shout out to Jeffrey cause this semester has been really stressful for him at school, he is taking 18 credits and still working part time too. Just wanted him to know that I love him and am thankful that he has the smarties to figure out what to do with with all those unknown words and symbols. Don't worry school will be over soon and you then can buy as many mustang's as you want...well maybe...;)