6/1 A Lan gathering

Our dear friend Jay is heading to Africa for two years pretty soon and we thought we have to send him off right. So we BBQed up some brats, ate some chips, and the boys played video games.
They had fun I'm guessing because Brand crawled into bed around 3:30 am. I didn't want to bother the boys for a picture so I just took a pic of their piles of shoes. We have a sign from Maui that says "please remove your shoes", it's not a rule I just like the sign :) My Hawaiian friend has a sign that says "mahalo for removin' yo slippahs" and though I couldn't find one of those I still wanted one similar. I like that in Hawaii they take off their shoes...in fact Hawaii makes you want to walk around barefoot all the time, and I'm never barefoot.
So I thought the shoes could symbolize the boys that joined in on the fun, Jay, Drew, and Brian.
We're gonna miss Jay but he'll be doing great work in Africa and we're so excited for him!