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.

April Fool's Day... tomorrow...

I love Nick. He is so funny. hahahah,

And I was just telling him... "I cannot believe we have never played an April fool's joke on each other!!" This will be our 3rd April fool's day together and for some reason we never thought about playing any jokes on each other... which is kind of surprising to think of ALL people, Nick hasn't ever played a joke on me! Anyways, let me know if you play any good pranks :) I'll be thinking of something to do to Nicholas.

Happy April 1st!

My New Haircut...I did it myself

Hello..

Hi!

How is everyone doing? We are doing great. I get to enjoy a nice long weekend this week because on Monday it is a teacher work day and there is no school. :) So that will be nice. I am almost done with my practicum! I can't believe it. Only this next week and then the following Monday and Tuesday and then I'm done. I've got to tell you, I really thought I wouldn't enjoy 6th grade that much, but I have LOVED it. The kids are so funny. They make me laugh so much and it's hard because sometimes I should be more serious, but they do the strangest things and I can't help but to laugh.

Nicholas is doing great. Still going to school. He is very excited to graduate in April. I am excited for him too :) I am set to walk with him in April! That will be fun. Then 4 days later I start my student teaching!

Things are sure going to change for us after this summer. As of right now we are planning on moving to Oklahoma, but mid-April Nicholas will find out if he gets accepted to Colorado. We are crossing our fingers.

Anyways, there's a little update. We haven't had time to do much, so I don't have any pictures or anything, but hopefully some will come soon! I'll try to get some at my elementary school as well. Oh yes... and I quit my job! I tell ya, that sure took a lot of stress off of me, I sound lazy, but going to school from 8-4 then work from 4:30-9 was hectic. Hopefully you can see how that could have been stressful.

Alright, well, have a wonderful day and if you are in UTAH enjoy the FABULOUS weather we've been having lately!! :D

My Husband :)

This is a post just for my wonderful husband Nicholas. :) I was looking at all of our pictures today and was amazed by all of the fun times we've had together. Nick is such a great husband and he really makes me laugh. I would be angry without him.. haha, seriously. Anyways, I just love him so much and he makes me the happiest girl on earth! I Love You Nick!

I Survived...

So, today was my (Dana) first day of my practicum. As I said before I am teaching 6th grade. I was really nervous. I thought that I would just freeze in front of them. Somehow though, I think my introduction lesson went better this time than it did with my 1st graders! (Of course it was a different lesson though.. so that might have been it.)

The 6th graders are really nice, and they are funny. I think I'll have a good time working with them.

Anyways, I'm glad it was a success! I'm excited to work with them more, I still love the little guys, but I think the older grades will be a lot of fun as well because they are easy to talk to and in my school they know like everything: facebook, cool cellphones, the book Twilight! and much more! I couldn't believe when I heard them talking about all of these things.. they are way too young!! Maybe not for the girls to be reading Twilight, but facebook?? Wow. So, yeah, that was kind of surprising.

And, I finished the book Twilight.. I absolutely loved it!! It was great. Now on to book #2:


P.S.- I almost forgot! I got my student teaching position for this summer!! I will be done on August 13th yay!! So after that I can move out to wherever we are for dental school and see my wonderful hubby :) We are still hoping on Colorado because then I would only be away from Nick for about 10 days (he starts the first week of August), if it's Oklahoma he will leave mid June and I won't be able to leave until August! :(