A Little More

I am the oldest in a family of six kids. Mom grew up in Colonia Juarez, Mexico, and became a United States citizen the year I turned 10. Dad grew up in Blanding, Utah, and had served a mission to the Northeastern States. Mom was getting ready to go to Texas Brownsville, and needed some advice. Dad's sister gave her the address of an RM who had gone into the Army and needed a penpal. The rest, as they say, is history!
Obviously, I grew up with a love of country and the parental expectation of a college education, because neither of them had one.
I graduated from Weber State University in May of 1990 and started teaching in Halls Crossing, Utah, where we had 30 kids in the whole school (K-10), 15 of them (K-3) in my class.
In January I married James O. Kensley, and two weeks later he shipped out for Desert Storm--his second war. (The first was Viet Nam.) He spent six months in Germany.

Amy's World

I decided to create a blog so I could be sure I would have a safe place where my pictures and thoughts could be found.

This is me when I graduated from college in 1990. I had a BS in Elementary Education, and I first started teaching in Halls Crossing, Utah. It was a two-room school, and I had 15 kids in my class grades K-3. (The other room had the rest of the school--4-10, and the other teacher!) It was a good year!