Saturday, Saturday, All day Long

(Sorry, I started to type this on Saturday while I was sitting in one of the most boringest classes in my life that wasted my whole Saturday. Nobody should go to school on Saturday!)

I've most definitely decided that Rhonda has dropped off the blogging planet! A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. First off, I started school. School is HARD!! I don't think I like it very much. My classes are only supposed to have 25 students in them, but 2 of the 3 have 50 (because of budget cuts). It is going to take a lot of work to get good grades!

Last week I met with the principal at Porter Elementary to be placed in a classroom for my internship. The principal was an interesting fellow (I had to hear all about his trip to the inauguration) and has an office full of interesting animals (iguanas, fish, and such). He tells me the special circumstances regarding the Kindergarten classrooms this semester. He told me that if the sub decides to stay he wants me to be in a classroom that's on their 5th teacher this year. How terrible is that? I also set up a time to start coming to the school to intern in the classroom this week.

I went to Porter on Wednesday to start interning and to find out if the principal was really trying to kill me or not. He is, I'm in the classroom that's on their 5th teacher. These kids are out of control, and they need some special love and attention. I talked to the teacher about the class and she said that the class was created during the school year and they took all of the new kids that had moved in and threw them into one class. I don't know where the principal's brain was, but that would be the last thing I would do, that's his first problem right there!

On Friday, I went back to intern. The teacher told me that they would find out if the real teacher was coming back at the end of the day. If the real teacher comes back the principal is pulling me out of the class. We were going over the layout of the day, before the kids came in, and the teacher gives me a list of kids to pull and read with. As she's looking at the list she says, "Oh, this little girl shouldn't be here today. She went home with lice yesterday." I almost freak out! I was in the classroom the day before with these kids. I'm sure the little girl had lice then! Lice has always terrified me because I have so much hair, and my mom always told me that if I got lice she would shave my head because that would be the only way to get rid of it. I'm kind of in love with my hair! Anyway, I don't think I have lice (one of my friends said I'd know that I had it by now) and I don't even know who the little girl is which means I didn't have any interaction with her at all on Wednesday.

ASU is being a little ridiculous! They cannot make up their mind. Now they tell me that I didn't register for one of the classes I was supposed to, but they were the ones that told me to sign up for a different class instead. The lady who's in charge of our intern placements just emailed me and told me that she doesn't want me interning with a sub. Apparently I can't do anything right, or maybe ASU is just stupid. We'll say ASU is stupid because it is not me! I personally think it that class will be a really good experience for me. The sub used to teach at Porter, she is a member of the church (I think she's in the Pueblo Stake), and she's really nice. If she stays I will learn some good behavior management techniques. It's just like starting off a whole new year from day one which is an experience that interns never get to have.

Oh yeah in news of Rhonda:

RHONDA MADE REGIONALS!!!!!

She's excited! Can't you tell? (Or maybe she's just asleep so I can't take a picture of her)

Time for a new post!

I have this weakness, it is called books! Ask Rhonda about it anytime, she could go on forever about my book addiction! So, on Monday I told myself if I didn't have any cavities when I went to the dentist I could go and buy a movie that I have been wanting (The Ultimate Gift, if you've never seen it I highly suggest it, but warning it will make you cry your eyes out!!) I have seen it at Barnes and Noble before, and Barnes and Noble is right next to the dentist office. So, after my teeth cleaning, and no cavities, I head over to Barnes and Noble. Well, I walk in the door and they have all their Christmas books for clearance price. I didn't like any of those so, I continued to look at the other book selections. About 2 hours later I left the store with all of these books, except one.

Here's how it happened:
These were the discount books I found. I mean who can pass up a huge book of Nursery Rhymes for 8 bucks?

This is where I really got in trouble! They had all of their "Mr. Men" books 3 for $10, which is really like buy two get one free. I love these books, especially Mr. Tickle with his extraordinarily long arms! So, I had to buy them all!

Then, one of the store ladies came by and asked if I was finding everything all right. I asked her if they had any of the "Little Miss" books that are like the "Mr. Men" books. She went over to the bookshelf and pulled them all out! Man, I should have gone straight to the movies and not even looked at the books!

When I got home I showed my mom all my books (I had bought her most of the "Mr. Men" books) and she decided that she wanted the rest of them too. So, I went back down there to get them for her. BAD IDEA!!!!

I found this little pretty:

If you know me well you know that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE anything Mary Engelbreit! I already have her Nursery Rhymes book like this, I couldn't pass up the Nursery Tales!

I also found this book:

This happens to be one of mine and Brad's all time favorite books! I think we loved my mom's copy to death. This book was written by Dr. Seuss before he was Dr. Seuss. I was sad that they changed this cover to say "By Dr. Seuss".

Moral of the story, don't ever let me go to Barnes and Noble for any reason!!! I spend way too much money books!!! This is currently what my bookshelf in the closet looks like and there's no more room for any more books. I am sad!!!

On a different note. We took two of our Brazilian friends to Red Robin the other night. Meet Andrews and Patrick. Patrick looks really bad in this picture and should have a serious face on! I wish that I had a picture of the rest of our Brazilians! I love our girls! They are so funny, and make me laugh!

(Warning: I'm blowing off steam here, if you don't want to be bored, stop now)
Switching gears one more time. I HATE ASU!!! They make my life so difficult! I mean it shouldn't be this hard to get and education! You would think that they would try to help education majors as much as they could because they really need teachers, but do they? NO!! They try and make life as difficult as possible to see if you will finally throw up your hands and yell, I QUIT!!! First of all they tell us that because of budget cuts our schedules are going to be crazy and we will be taking mostly second semester classes instead of first semester classes. To top that off they tell you, "Sorry that's only 11 credit hours so if you need another credit for any reason you'll have to find it yourself." ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?! You can't find one measly little credit so we can be full time students? Then on top of that they make the schedule so screwy that you have a hard time finding time to work so you can continue to go to school. GRRR! I'm so frustrated! That's not all, I register for a Wed. night Institute class so I can have a parking permit. I sign up for the 7pm class because it is the only class offered once a week, and I don't have any classes on Monday so going to Institute would be a waste of my time. I even tell myself that it's okay that I have to wait for 3 1/2 hours between my class and Institute just so I can park for free. So, I go down to get my parking permit like a good little student, before the beginning of the semester, and the lady tells me that since my class is at 7 the gate is already up and I don't need a permit. I explain my situation about my one stinkin' class that I need to have a place to park for, and how I'm staying on campus until after the class, so is there a way I can get a permit? She tells me that all the students have different needs and that since my class is at 7 I don't get a permit, but can she take my picture so the teacher will have it on his attendance roll. I wanted to tell her no, but I'm nice so I let her take my picture. Is it bad to be mad at the Institute? I have no place to park. I don't know where to park, and classes start this week. FRUSTRATION!!!

Christmas Break?

Warning: this post has way too many pictures on it and words! I hope you're happy Marcie!

We love Christmas!

This is the only picture that I took on Christmas day, the wind was blowing perfectly (or freezingly!)

Christmas morning was wonderful, it wasn't even too cold! I loved to watch everyone open their Christmas presents I got for them! I think one of my most favorite ones was Marcie when she opened her Ken barbie with FAKE HAIR!!! (we love painted hair boy barbies and think they should all be that way!) After all of the present opening we had our traditional homemade eggnog which is the best stuff in the world! The kids were all so excited that they "Christmas Gift"ed Uncle Wayne first this year (it was the very first thing on our "what we want to do this Christmas" list)! Christmas afternoon was wonderful! I got to talk to my best friend Brad! Somehow he always knows exactly what to ask and exactly what to say! I love that boy! Christmas night was fun we went over to Grandma Guthrie's house. All of her grandkids except for 3 were there! It was a full house! Later that night Lisa, Stephen, Jon came over to Erik's house and watched movies with us. It was fun!

December 27, 2008

We went to Red Robin after work to hang out with all of Stephen's friends. I guess they all go to Red Robin every Saturday night. It was fun and I finally used my $15 gift certificate I got about two years ago. We were very segregated, all of Stephen's friends on one end of the tables and all of the OSP people on the other end.
I love this picture of Anamin!



These are some weird OSP people, but we love them anyway!


December 28, 2008-Jorge gets baptized

Our good friend Jorge (who works at OSP) was baptized on the 28th. We are so proud of the decision he has made in his life! He is a really good kid! These are all the OSP workers that sang the special musical number (minus Jorge of course!)



Welcome to the Semiannual Arm Wrestling Tournament!

Every summer Rhonda and Kara arm wrestle each other when we go to Utah. Then, every Christmas they arm wrestle here when the Hubers come down. This year everyone decided to join in. This picture was taken while everyone was wrestling, I'm amazed some of these people are smiling!

We have a picture very similar to this one from the summer except for they traded places and are wearing different clothes.

Who won you ask? I have no clue, I think they both quit because they couldn't go anywhere. Rhonda will correct me if I'm wrong!

December 29, 2008

This is a momentous occasion for the Guthrie family living at home! After the great arm wrestling tournament we all went to the movies together. We went and saw "Bedtime Stories" and quite frankly, I didn't like it! Wall-E is way better in my opinion! Then, we all went to see where my dad's FBI headquarters are (cover name APS, he needed to get his paycheck)! That was exciting! I think the most exciting thing there was the paper shredder truck in the parking lot(it was pretty cool)! One of our 2008 goals was to go out to dinner with our small family so we decided to complete this goal. Some people thought that it would be good to go to a place where not everyone had been before. Bad idea, I HATE Chinese food and vetoed quite loudly! Some other people thought we should go to Gecko Grill since not very many people had been there. Marcie was having none of that she didn't want to go to a place where they grilled geckos! Someone else wanted to go to Organ Stop (that someone happens to contribute to this blog!) I protested quite loudly on that point too! It was my one day off and I was not going to go and eat that food that I eat every other day of the week on my day off! We ended up having a feud and the magic hat came out. All of the restaurants were placed in a hat and the last restaurant picked was the one we were going to go. It ended up being Chipolte (or however you spell that word). Only my mom wanted to go there and everyone finally agreed on LJ's (which is where I wanted to go in the first place!) So much for a new dining experience!

This is the other side of the table

This is my side of the table (minus one red gift bow, thank you crazy women at the other end!)

December 31, 2008-January 1, 2009

We brought in the new year at Organ Stop and in Erik's garage! Erik borrowed his in-laws Wii and plasma screen TV and set it up in his garage. When people were done working they could come over and help us celebrate. Anna and Marcie got the party started while I painted Stacy's toenails (I should have taken a picture of that!) Then, Anna had to go to the New Year's Eve youth activity and Marcie went home to help my mom watch Jill. If you ever want to see something funny just watch my mom play the cow racing wii game!

We played this game, I can't remember what it's called, oh yeah, guitar hero.

Stehen, Stacy, and Celesta showin' off their skills

Stephen, Celesta, and Jorge get into it!

Celesta, Jorge, and Erik the cheering squad!

Anamin, I think I can do this (we had to get a smaller chair so Anamin could reach the pedal)

The Guthrie's jam out!

Frosting+11:30+working all night=CRAZINESS!


At 12:00 we went outside and lit some majorly long sparklers, and lit glow worms (the only legal forms of "fireworks" in AZ)

I think this is Stacy's Harry Potter pose!

Somewhere along the way I lost the picture of all of the smoke we created, sadness!

After midnight when Rhonda appeared, after the New Year's youth activity, she decided to help Jorge with his missionary part.

We had a grand time, thank you Erik and Stacy for letting us join you and causing you to lose sleep! We had so much fun!

Other than this our holiday was filled with working and getting sick. I worked, Rhonda got sick and worked! I am so glad that the Tostido Bowl is over and I don't have to deal with High School Marching bands every day! Now, on to the snowbirds!