Sayonara Uncle Joe!

On March 27th Uncle Joe (Neal's bro) departs for his studies abroad in Japan! He will be gone until August 15th!!!! I know he is super excited to be able to experience what I am sure will be an awesome adventure and learning experience. We are excited for him however, he will surely be missed, but we hope to keep in touch with him via email and he says he may start up a blog to keep us all updated as well, so be on the look out for that link on our page! Good luck Joe, we will be thinking about you and praying for you and safe travels!

In honor of Joe's departure for Japan we traveled up to Neal's parent's house for a little party to say good bye and Great Grandad made the journey from West Virginia to share in the festivities as well! We had Japanese food (Hibachi Chicken LOADED with shrimp sauce is how I roll!) and Neal and Joe were the only Sushi lovers. Sophie who always wants to try whatever looks new, fun, exciting and different, decided that she wanted to try Neal's sushi. Thankfully, the one that she picked was not a raw sushi roll, but rather a tempura fried shrimp roll. Shrimp is her ALL time new favorite food, so once she bit into the roll she was so excited to find that it was shrimp inside the fried goodness. She then proceeded to pull the shrimp out of the fried batter and eat just the shrimp, she later came back to the batter and finished that off too! That's my girl! Neal was very excited, he desperately wants someone to share his love for Sushi and it ain't gonna be me, so he has his sights set on Sophie and last night he got one step closer!