can't seem to stay away...

seth decided to go to byuh after his mission and i wanted to go with him. i decided to drop him off and make a vacation out of it. i was only supposed to stay for a week, but when i went to say hi to the people in my department sis bunker offered me a job. they were short on face to face eil teachers and i had already been teaching the online classes for a year. they asked me if i would stay and told me i needed to decide quick because classes started the next day. i decided to stay. i didn't have any professional clothes or any clothes at all really- i had come over with my duffel bag which had a swimsuit, cut off shorts, and a few t shirts. it was crazy but i was given 3 classes and had 1 day to build them. i had devin go to my house in utah and pack up all of my stuff and send it to me in boxes - ha good thing i don't have anything too embarrassing. 

last semester was really really fun i had really great classes and they were excited about learning english. i decided to stay again for another semester and have been teaching 3 different classes. i really enjoyed teaching listening and speaking- my class was hilarious and they love me- always a plus. i also taught a church language class which was kind of cool. downside of this semester all my classes were at 7:30 am! i didn't think it would be possible for me to get up that early everyday, but i made it!

sorry all the pictures are in random order...i still can't figure this thing out!

We tried to take family pictures when we were home for Christmas break but we didn't get very far before it started raining. Jon with his fiancee Rachel and Chloe and Austin. 

Bree and I have decided to become domestic and make really good meals off pinterest

family picture day take 2- Heather and her new husband Marcus with Little Marcus, Dante, Dominic, Hannah, and Hailey

i love living in hawaii

kahuku farm lands fruit stand. 

gunstock- the place the "koa advengers" started their journey for bree's senior research project. we were supposed to be measuring koa trees but the day turned into quite the adventure- first whit's truck got stuck in the mud on the way up to the site so we had to get out and push and got completely covered in mud- then when we were collecting data it started pouring- when we were leaving there was a man on a horse wearing a pancho and he accused us of being boar hunters and was kinda ticked at first and then realized it was just 4 white girls- then the puddle had gotten worse from the rain and the guy tried to "help" of get out but actually made it worse and we were again COVERED in mud. after that adventure which we though would be the highlight of our day we had to go to the other site which is behind cackle fresh. little did i know that it's like a 3rd world country back there. tons of shanty like house made of tin- out houses- pit bulls- really kinda creepy quiet... we could not find the place we were supposed to go, so we finally turn around and are sitting at this fork in the road trying to get a hold of bree's professor so he can tell us where to go when a minivan pulls up with a little old lady driving. we naturally thought it would be a great idea to ask her if she knew...bad idea. as soon as she pulled up she was yelling and cursing at us. it kind of took us all by surprise and we were pretty shocked. she was yelling about how "people like her hate people like us- white people stole her land and we should be ashamed of our ancestors and you are all capitalistic colonists and you need to stop eating my land!" she was going CRAZY on us. we were like uhhhh we are lost? she told us we had no right to be on her land and she was calling the police and we were going to be arrested! we were like ummm ok.... so as she is yelling at us 3 police cars pull up in this like middle of the jungle shanty town and come to the car and she is yelling at us and them and they told her they could only give us a warning- she was not happy with that- she listened while we gave the police our info- and wrote every word down! later she even called whit. it was real weird though because after the police were joking with us and told us our punishment was 10 hail marys each - she like did a complete 180 and was super apologetic and wanted to help us- later bree's teacher told us she is actually clinically bipolar and she is infamous in laie...haha it was a great day

during break als got married!!!

on my 24th bday we hiked makapuu light house- it is one of the prettiest spots on the island

random order.... brothers at als wedding

roommates for mine and oz's bday hike

there is a reservoir on the island that people use as a slip and slide...it may or may not be illegal but it is so much fun! 

oh sethy

seth seems to have missed the top model face cue

kewelas- bree, erin, whit, kel

we kind of went through a paint war obsession- they are just so much fun! each team has a different color and you just go crazy on each other!

boys think they are so cool

lanikai - there was a million flowers and leis all over the beach and in the water- i feel like maybe there was a funeral or something out there- it made for some great pictures though- this is the picture that got picked for the national geographic!