Karen's Dangling Conversation

It's William's 13th Birthday Today! Hooray for William !  What a great kid he is! He is the MVP that made me a Grandma Gibby!!  My first every grandkid and we have had so much fun together!  Love you William forever and ever!!  I love watching you grow and learn and I know you are becoming your best self!  Happy Happy Birthday!!!  Hope we get to celebrate the next one in person!   Love you William!  Love Grandma Gibby  

 Jeff and I had a day to go snorkeling this week and we headed out to Black Rock which is one of our favorite places to snorkel.  So many fish and a huge variety of fish. Lots of eels. And a huge amount of turtles who swim up really close to the shore and mix and mingle with all the tourists.  We like to go out of the bay and around the edge of the reef and there is this really fun place where the water is not very deep but the reef is so alive with fish and plants and it's just amazing.  On this day we watched a really big turtle as he nibbled on the moss growing on the rocks.  It is so fun to see them doing this because they just roll around with the tide and get tossed to and fro .  It's really amazing to see.  After we explored our reef we decided to swim out to the edge of the reef and there is a really big drop off into the really deep ocean.  We were hovering there on the edge of the reef and we were watching this huge school of fish down a...

Apartment Inspections At the end of each transfer, so every 6 weeks, we get to go and inspect all the missionary apartments.  We usually have had 2 to do but another senior couple was off island this time and we got to do 4!  We love our missionaries and we try to keep them in the safest and best environment possible.  Jeff is so good at special projects and due to some unusual circumstances one of the sister's apartments needed some special attention.  Jeff has spent many weeks trying to get this apartment updated and all the issues resolved.  When we went to inspect it for the transfer these two sweet sisters had made us the cutest little care package.  It was so sweet of them and made us feel like all the extra effort was worth it.    

Domonic has started Baseball and he is really good at it.  I have been getting lots of cute pictures and videos of his great hits and fast running.  Way to go Domonic!  I love to see you doing something that you love!  

These cute girls just graduated from Pre-school.  They are growing so fast and will go off to kindergarten this fall.  It is so fun to watch them grow!  I took them to preschool many times throughout their time there and it was so fun to see all their projects and the things they learned.  It was so sad to miss their graduation while we are here on our mission but I hope to be home in time to attend their kindergarten graduation!  We shall see how it goes! Adalynn loved singing and field trips Avery loved singing art and writing Quin is so proud of them! Pre-School Class 2024-2025 Avery Adalynn Adalynn Avery Avery and Adalynn  

 Another successful P-Day or Preparation Day as it is known in the mission.  This is the day we have to rest, rejuvenate and clean our tiny apartment.  Today we went to explore the west side of the Island.  That is the area near Lahaina and traveling past it out to some kind of wild places.  We decided to drive to the Blow hole at Nakalele.  It was pretty underwhelming today as the waters were very calm today!  We decided to drive past and see where it took us.  This side of the island is so beautiful with amazing views of the water and it's a lot more green than where we live in Kihei.  The road began to turn into a true one lane road with no shoulder and very little spaces to pull off, almost none.  We ran into about 4 cars coming the opposite direction and the guy in the car could not, or was too scared to back it up.  So a guy in a jeep behind us offered to back up for him.   Luckily not too far away was a roomy pull o...

  Update to my Octopus story.  We ended up going back to the same spot to snorkel and I was able to find my Octopus.  He was in the exact same place as I found him before.  I was able to show him to Jeff.  This time he kept creeping out of his little nest.  I think he was actually curious about me.  I would swim away and he would poke his head up above the coral and then as I swam back he would sink back down in his hole.  But as I kept doing that he began to not go back into his hole but he would just watch me.  I can't wait to go back and see if he gets more used to me.  I would love to see him come out of his hole.  This is the part of the octopus that I can see.   This is what the octopus looks like.  It's a Day Octopus.  At least that is what I can find out from looking for pictures of it.