April 2025

April has long been yearned for by Owen and Milton with the release of the Minecraft movie. Milton also defeated the enderdragon for the first time in the actual Minecraft game so lots of Minecraft-related excitement. We also celebrated Damon's birthday.  We were in Australia on his actual birthday. Some of his coworkers got him a nice cake. At school, there were several events around the month of the Military Child. I had my spring break in mid-April, so I was able to go see their parade around the school. One of the spirit week days was "dress like a soldier," so Milton had to break out his Revolutionary War Halloween costume. Then we saw an awesome rainbow, so it made for a rather excellent photo opportunity. Milton loves spending time with Laura in class, and then in the same class at school so they get to hang out 6 days a week. The Relief Society chartered a dolphin watching cruise, which was so lovely to spend time with the other ladies in our Relief Society. I don't make it to many events, so it was great to get some time just to chat and swim. We are starting to feel pre-move butterflies and overall saying our first batch of "lasts". Damon and Owen go diving whenever they can, and Milton and I will chill at home. Milton loves going on hikes with Damon, much to Damon's glee, and this month they went to Fonte Dam and Tarzan Falls. All of our big plants now have a new home at the Apra Harbor clinic.  I was worried about our lemon tree, but it is happy to be in the ground and not in a pot that would dry out so quickly. While we were in Australia, it was incredibly dry and our plants got very mad at us.  I harvested our lemons and we had about 15 ready to go! Our amazing neighbor Brittany found a recipe for me called Lemon Posset to make using our lemons.  It was mostly cream and sugar, so it was very yummy.  Especially delicious with nilla wafers. I also finally found one of the beautiful Chuukese skirts and a mar mar that I can use in my inevitable culture day something or another at school. Owen was selected as Junior Youth of the Month for the month of April. Owen had three Seahawk News segments: 

April 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iy3TKW9P3U 

April 14 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHMKY1VxtMc&t=6s
April 21 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onV7m5zxQVE&t=355s

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