best 5 bucks i've ever spent.

did i mention i live in an elementary school?
yep. this lovely door you see will lead you to the kitchen and family room.
but the door has a problem.
it stopped locking.
usually it is always locked. like we don't even have a key for it.
it is just always locked.
you can get out but you CAN'T get it.
and that is how i like it.
well magically the door decided it wanted people to be able to get in and out.
dumb.
with cory being gone... YES cory is gone. 12 day vacation to AZ/UT.
seeing family and friends.
since i got to go to san diago without him, he gets his own vacation without me.
haha. yes we take our vacations without each other.
kinda weird for newly weds....
wait. am i still technically a newly wed?
or am i now just another married person?
i wonder when the cut off is.

anyways back to the door.
so it wont lock.
not good.
especially that i am alone at night with 10 teens.
i worried about them (and i) being safe.
so determined to get the door fixed i grabbed some tools and got to work.
for about twenty minutes i studied how the door opened and shut
how the gears turned and the do-hicky arm thing at the top allowed the door to open.
i tried finding a lock for a key.
then tried every key i had.
seriously, i tried everything.
finally i got tired of trying and decided to bribe the kids.
i marched into the girls dorm and said,
"i'll give 5 bucks to anyone that can figure out how to lock the front door"
the girls got up fast to give it a try.
they opened it and shut it.
watched it and poked it.
nothing.
then shawna walked in and asked what we were doing.
obviously she had missed my bribing speech.
we told her that we were trying to lock the door.
she walked over.
looked at it.
opened it (just once)
then walked over to the kitchen
i thought she wasn't going to try
next thing i know she is back with a fork
she jammed it in a little area of the door and said, "try to open it now."
it wouldn't.
SHE HAD LOCKED IT!
i gave her the 5 bucks and said thanks.
best 5 bucks i've ever spent.

drunk people peed on our door.

(night time in bethel)

cory is my hero.
okay that is kinda lame, but listen to what happened today.
so we were in laying bed watching date night
AND
some of the girls start knocking on our door saying there were some drunk people outside their door.
so of course we get up to go look through the window to see.
the girls were completely right.
two drunk people (a couple) were sitting on the stairs to the dorms from door.
cory went the door to tell them to leave, while us girls watch from the window.
well get this, cory opens the door and to his surprise the guy has his p**** out
and was peeing on our door.
CORY WENT OFF!
i probably would have screamed and locked the door (and ran away),
but he took the more manly approach
us girls couldn't see the guy peeing we could only see the girl he was with,
but we could hear cory.
he was yelling loud, saying that this was a school and that what the guy was doing could land him in jail.
he also yelled other stuff but i couldn't remember.
ooh and cory made the guy apologise to him!
then cor called his friends as the police station and had them come pick up the couple.
i was so proud of him and the girls were laughing really hard.
in bethel i see a lot of drunk people.
most of which are completely harmless and wont bother you.
but some people can be a little aggressive.
and like i found out yesterday other drunks just want to pee on your door.

adios.

(our first babs house)

we are officially saying goodbye to our second babs house.

our next home will be the new girls/boys dorm.
this will be our third move in eight months. sheesh.

i can't even explain the new school.

something only pictures could describe.

- lets just say we are literally living in a elementary school.

- - - classrooms and all. oh and my kitchen is the cafeteria.

hope everyone having a good LONG weekend.

our has consisted of packing and moving...

ho hum, not the most exciting time.
still cory and i are enjoying the last couple days without kids.

dead things.

a quick visit to cory's work usually results in me playing with some dead things.
see the thing behind the buffalo?
its a wolverine...
WHAT THE HECK?
think about how sexy wolverine is in x-men
and to think he is named after that weird looking animal. hmmm, interesting.

yeah. its kinda creepy in there.

living the simple life.

i'm not a stalker.

it might look like it.

but really i'm not.
i just am trying to document our life here more.
the people, the places... pretty much everything.
i mean we wont be here forever, sigh.
i never thought i would say this, but i will be devastated to leave.
i can't even explain how different my life is in bethel.
it keeps cory and i so close knit.
+ it has helped me to grow up.
all in all we are living the simple life.
no one here knows what seven jeans are or have any idea what nordstrom would sell.
people are just happy and excepting.
they don't care what you look like, what you are wearing, or what kinda of car you drive.
they just care that you are healthy, doing well, and enjoying life.

some of the nicest people on earth live in bethel. swear it.

welcome to yupik class. please take a seat.



random pictures unrelated to post.

cory and i have lived in bethel for almost seven months now.

we have learned a lot about the native people and culture.

but there is one thing that we are still trying to get a grasp on...

yupik.

i have started to pick up on some words and phrases, such as:

(this is not the actual yupik spelling of the words)

((i tried to write them in a way that you could sound them out))

uss = listen to me

una wha ni = you or this one

die-gaa = come here

quyana = thank you

umpy = hurry up

as piq = good

so if i wanted to say, "hey you, hurry up!"

i would say, "una wha ni, umpy!"

well that concludes your first lesson in yupik.

come back next time for you lesson on numbers!



just because i had a BIG camera

another family i took pictures for

here's the story.

i have a big camera. *thank you cory.

a camera that i LOvE taking pictures with.

trust me i do take a lot of pictures.

well somehow at my family reunion it got around

and i was asked to take some family shots.

umm... all i could say was 

"sure, but seriously i have NO IDEA what i am doing."

which is very honest.

i might take a lot of pictures, but it does not mean a lot turn out good. if any sometimes.

i need to take a class, or at least have someone teach me how to use my camera.

anyways i happily took their pictures

and was pleasantly surprised with the outcome.

not professional looking by any means, but at least they were in focus. (well most at least)

p.s. i want rice crispy treats.

like right now.

the homemade kind and still hot please.

ah. oooie gooie yummy-ness!!