A Day in New Orleans

A Day in New Orleans from Laura Hansen on Vimeo.

The Eve of Thanksgiving

Got ahead on the Thanksgiving menu, and decided to make my smashed potatoes tonight. I am so excited for Thanksgiving tomorrow and am so grateful to have two of my siblings to spend it with. Wish I could be with the rest of the family though.

5 lbs of red potatoes, 2 1/2 sticks of butter, 1 head of roasted garlic, cajun seasoning (tony sacheres), milk, salt, pepper, and a couple of hours later, you've got yourself a heck of a lot of delicious smashed potatoes.

Other items on the menu:

green bean casserole

honey glazed ham from costco

corn bread stuffing

Judy's rolls

and turtle brownies

I really want to make this pie crust, so we'll see. Probably won't happen...

It's supposed to be the best!

All Butter, Really Flaky Pie Dough

Makes enough dough for one double-, or two single-crust pies.

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 sticks (8 ounces, 16 tablespoons or 1 cup) unsalted butter, very cold

Love you all! And Happy Turkey Day!

Sumo bots!

Here is a video of my middle schoolers' sumo bot unit.

The kids went gaga over the sumo bots-- they absolutely loved them!

It was my mentor's first time doing sumo bots with his students, but figured he would give it a try since he has me as his student teacher.

We taught them basic circuiting and construction and then we had a tournament for all of the teams.

Some other things I am teaching to my classes:

-Lego Robots

-Hydraulic Arms

-Mass producing toy cars

-Making pens on wood lathes

-Penny hockey boards

and the list goes on and on...

and yes it is quite overwhelming,

but I am learning so much as a teacher every day.

8 more days until I am done with school forever!!!!

Student Teaching

So as many of you may know, I am doing part of my student teaching this semester at Provo High School. I am really loving it and my students. Not gonna lie, I have my good and bad days (mostly good). I am exhausted a lot of the time, but I walk home with a smile on my face because it just feels so rewarding to teach and getting to interact with these crazy kids.

Here are a few of the commercials that my students made in my video class. The main thing I stressed was for them to use different camera angles that I taught, which they all seem to have done a pretty good job. Don't ask me why they put some of the stuff they did into their commercials... haha you'll see...

Now you see what happens when I give them too much autonomy haha, but I am still so proud of them!

Online Portfolio Website!

Here is my website I've been working on for most of spring semester at BYU. I can't believe I am almost done with school!

http://www.jbteaching.com/laura/index.html

Official Photography Website : )

Hey all! Here is just a blog that I created just for my photography. Feel free to spread the word!

http://lauramarie-photography.blogspot.com/

Cutie Patootie Tang

Today, me and Amy took Eleanor out for a photo shoot for a class we are in together. Every picture was done manually-- which is a huge deal because I am always so scared to shoot manually...It was very freezing and very past Eleanor's bedtime, but she and Sarah were troopers and so adorable. We will miss these two very much! We love you!

Here are some of our favorites.