Yesterday I was at the grocery store and saw one of the high school students I worked with earlier this year. He gave me a warm hello and asked how I was doing, at which point I asked him why he wasn’t in school (it was mid-morning). He stammered that he had good grades and…
Family
Graduation
Graduation weekend turned out to be a lot more fun than I imagined! My whole family came out from Iowa to join in with the celebrations. We also had my grandparents, aunt and uncle, and Andrew’s family and grandpa join us. My incredible aunt, Angela, gets credit for this family picture, taken after commencement: On…
Milestones
This has been a time in my life where lots of milestones have been reached after lots of months and years of working and waiting. Milestone #1: I finished student teaching and my entire formal education. I loved every minute of being a student at BYU and most of the minutes I spent student teaching….
Big News!!
First, I have been completely absent from the blogging world due to the busyness that comes from student teaching and other activities. One day I will have time (hopefully in a week when I’m finished!) to posts some updates about our adventures. In the meantime, we are excited to announce that we will be moving…
Mid February Review
This month is barely halfway over and it has already proved to be just about as busy as I can handle! Andrew started February off with a trip to St. George to attend a UACTE – a conference for technology teachers. His favorite souvenir from the trip is a giant umbrella which has already got some use…
Dinner Conversation
Me: I yelled at a student today. Andrew: I yelled at my whole class today. Venting occurs. The good news: we both love teaching.
The Life of a Student Teacher
I am kind of amazed that I have been doing this student teaching thing for almost a month and even more amazed that I only have 3 1/2 weeks left in the high school…aka it’s the halfway point of the halfway point! Andrew and I have settled into a nice routine of leaving the house…
Teaching with Legos
I have now taught for 2 days, which means I have also met all of my students (140+) with the block schedule. During the first two or three days of the quarter there are lots of schedule changes, so I was advised to not teach anything too important. I resurrected an activity we did in college called…
Hiking Donut Falls
Being in the teaching profession, we relish days off right along with cute kindergartners carrying cartoon covered lunch boxes and high school males that haven’t shaved…ever. Today we took some time to go on a short but beautiful hike to Donut Falls. This is a hike I first heard about almost 2 years ago to the date (January…
Apparently my life is a sitcom.
At least that is what an old friend told me after finding out both Andrew and myself teach technology related classes in middle and high school. I guess there are some unusual aspects to our life, such as finding it totally normal that Andrew left the house at 5am two mornings ago to go buy…