LAST DAY

Nick and I are done with ALL of our finals today!! We are so excited and glad to be done!

Praxis

Woohooo!! Dana finally got her Praxis scores and passed with flying colors!!! She was way above average on a couple sections!! I am so proud of her- she was super stressed during it all, but did great! Her scores were also well above the state reqs for Utah and Colorado!! So, if you see her, congratulate her!!

-Nick

LU LU

I LOVE MY SISTER LU!!

She is so wonderful. She is in Japan right now working and I miss her A LOT :(

She always comments on my blog and she talks to me on msn :) She is so cool. She is probably reading my blog right now, but this is for her! She is such a great sister and she is always so nice to me. She is the best example ever!!

I LOVE YOU LU!!

Celebration Dinner!

What are we celebrating?? LAST DAY OF CLASSES!!
Nick is officially done with classes at BYU! So am I, I guess. I am so proud of Nick. He is graduating in April, I will walk with him, but I still have to finish my student teaching, which starts April 27th!

I decided that we would have dinner and do some other fun things tonight. Well, I planned out dinner and that went well, BUT Nick just left to take a final!! So when he gets back (probably around ten) we might be able to play a game of phase ten or something :)

Anyways, we are done and soon going to be out of here!! :) I am excited. I love Nick and he has worked very hard. Dinner was great, we love celebrating.

Easter!

Well, I would have to say that we had a wonderful Easter this past Sunday. The weather was beautiful, church was great, and it was great to visit family.

First-- the day before Easter I made some Easter cookies! They were so colorful, it made me happy-- I love decorating, even though I'm not good at it. It was fun!





Then Easter day, we of course, went to church. Sacrament was really good. The choir sang some beautiful songs, it's amazing how music can bring such a sweet Spirit to the congregation.

After church we headed up to my parents house. A lot of my family members were over because my cousin is leaving on his mission to Sydney, Australia this Wednesday. We didn't eat there because Nick's sister Hayley invited us to dinner!

Dinner at Alex and Hayley's house was SO good! It was nice to visit them and catch up-- I feel like we don't see them that often, so it was fun for us.

Then we came home and went to bed.

Date Night

On Friday night Nick and I went to our ward activity. Normally they are alright, but this time it was so much fun!! They turned our building into a cruise ship with different activities throughout different rooms. There was food too. :)

They had ballroom dancers from Provo high school for one activity in the cultural hall and they were teaching basic ballroom dance steps! I of course would not let Nick get out of this one! It was so fun!! It reminded me of all my fun ballroom dance days :) Thanks Mom for making keeping me in dance!!

They also had some mini-golf, bingo, and they chose us to be in the Newlywed game!! We didn't do too bad, we got second! The couple who had been married for 50 years won, and then us (a year and a half), then the couple who had been married for about 15 years.

I really enjoyed the night with Nick. We also went to the BYU senior night after, but they were pretty much done with all of the activities by then, so we just decided to go home.

It was a fun Friday night!

Nice Weather??

So... it's the second day today that it has been pretty nice weather, right now it's 64! I really hope it will continue to be like this. Nick and I took a walk outside yesterday and it felt so good. I can't wait for summer.


Update:

-I got rid of the beetles :)

-I updated the blog to a more Spring feeling because we are SO excited for the warm weather!!

-Only one week left of classes.. and then Nicholas graduates!! I have to do my Spring/Summer student teaching, then I graduate!

-I passed my exit interview.. and my CFA told me that he thinks I would do better in the older grades.. interesting.

-Finals are starting next Saturday.

-Nicks family is coming out--I believe Wednesday the 22nd--and we are VERY excited to see them!! That means we will have to clean our house :) haha.


-Nick is all signed up to go to Oklahoma dental school, but we are VERY much hoping within the next two weeks he'll get accepted to Colorado.

-I haven't found out what school I will be teaching at, but it could be an hour drive or a half hour drive depending on the school. I'm really hoping I'll get somewhere closer.

-General Conference was great.

-I'm sick. My throat is so sore and I have a really bad headache. Water helps very much :) So I need to keep on drinking.



Well.. by the middle to end of April we should be finding out quite a few things like where I'll be teaching, where Nicholas will be going to school, how soon he has to move, if I will be living at home for the whole summer!! So.. when we find out we will let you know :)

Bye.

I know what you're thinking... don't worry... I'm thinking the same. "GROSS". This is my "Life Science Project". I don't know who in the world made it a requirement for Elementary Education majors to select an invertebrate organism and observe and keep it alive, but it is one of our assignments.

At first these guys were meal worms, but they change into beetles! It's so crazy. Anyways, my group handed them over to me today and I have them for the whole weekend :S

The girls in my group said that the beetles can't get out of the container, but Nick and I didn't trust that so I put a clear plastic wrap over the container--as you can see in the pictures-- and I poked holes in it. I can't believe they have had it open like that for so long though.

I am not good with bugs. Ask Nick. I have to change their food from carrots to apples either tomorrow or Sunday. It will take me awhile to do this.. secretly though, I'm going to try and get Nick to do it ;) haha.

Anyways, just thought I'd let you know that we have some ridiculous critters in our house do to my wonderful science teacher.

I'm done

Wow. Time sure flew by while I was in my practicum. I finished on Tuesday.
I love teaching. I was really sad that I had to leave the kids.

Going in to my practicum I expected a lot worse than what I experienced. In fact, I loved 6th grade! The kids made my experience so fun and wonderful. I had a really great mentor teacher as well. I will really miss them.

Now I don't know what grade I want to teach. I just had probably one of my best teaching experiences with these 6th graders. I still want to teach 1st, but I don't know.. I really enjoyed being in 6th grade. Here are some pictures I took on the last day. You can see how they are such fun and happy kids :)

Sorry a lot of the pictures are blurry, but they wouldn't stop moving in and out of the camera! ha..



















The kids were so sweet. They put together some money and bought me some gifts from the book fair. My teacher gave me this book which was written by our Provo City librarian, which is really neat.




This is the book mark the kids gave me, it's funny.

Nicholas and Dana

I saw this on my friends blog and I thought it was fun, so I'm going to do it.
Nick will laugh at a lot of these answers, because we definitely know which ones are true :)

-What is your husband's name? Nicholas Jensen
-How long have you been married? 19 months, just over a year and a half
-How long did you date? 4 months, got engaged and dated another four months then got married :)
-How old is he? 23-- 24 this month!!
-Who eats more sweets? Well... I would say Nick, he would probably say me, we both like sweets!
-Who said I love you first? Nicholas :)
-Who is smarter? NICK by FAR-- hello, Elementary Education major here.. Just kidding, but he definitely is a lot smarter. OH, for any El Ed majors who see this... we are smart, I was kidding, Nicholas is just extremely smart.
-Who does the laundry? We both do, but Nick helps out a lot and probably does it more than I do :) but for the one question that isn't on here, I do the dishes all the time, we even things out.
-Who pays the bills? We both do, he just has to remind me to pay them :)
-Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? ALWAYS Nick
-Who cooks dinner? Well.. I've been getting really good lately because I don't have to work nights anymore, so usually me, he does too though-- he's an excellent cook!
-Who drives? Nick. Unless I'm by myself I drive. It's because he's such a good driver.
-Who kissed who first? I kissed Nick.
-Who asked who out first? He asked me to come over and watch a movie :)
-What are your middle names? Nicholas Paul, Dana Marie
-How long have you been together? 2 1/2 years!
-Do you have any children together? Nope...
-What about pets? No... I'm not to fond of pets, that's ok though, neither is Nicholas :) So it all works out
-Who is the most sensitive? Definitely Me... haha
-Where do you eat out most as a couple? Well.... We like Chili's, and Bombay House, and Red Lobster!!, but we are always going somewhere new, we like trying new things :)
-Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Uh.... Florida I believe-- our honeymoon! :)
-Who has the worst temper? Oh well, ask Nick. Just kidding, we actually don't like to yell or get mad at each other :)
-Who is the neat Freak? Nick I guess
-Who is the more stubborn? Nick- ha, actually, we both are, but I give in easily I would say.. Nick might say differently.
-Who hogs the bed? Me.. by far. I just like to cuddle up next to him, but he scoots away!
-Who wakes up earlier? I do. Always. I LOVE waking Nicholas up :) He is so cute!
-Where was your first date? The mall
-Do you get flowers often? Nope- Ferns. Don't ask :)
-Who snores louder? Ha... Me. Nick hardly ever snores, I can't breath.
-How long did it take to get serious? A few days.