San Fran crew midwest pop-in

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On their way back from a friend trip in Michigan, we got a delightful pop in from the Penko/Thomas crew. Just in time to celebrate two birthdays, Brock, and Alice's!  

They came in on Brock's b-day proper and we made our way to their introduction to mom and dad's lake bus house. See Brock's big 5 post for more on this important portion.













Birthdays are fun?

Ok, whew, yes, birthdays are fun.




Wisely, Jake Joanne and Nate opted to stay in the awesome trendy hipster hotel down the way as our house with the new baby was total chaos. We egged them on to stay at the Robey so we could try out the rooftop pool. Which turned out to be pretty much public access with the purchase of a drink.

Alice's first lay-out poolside. 

The next morning before J's&N head back after a very fun and brief two days, we have Domingo waffles at the casa.

Nate is let in on the whip. Nae Nae optional (oh that was a bad pop song reference to some dance moves). 

Brock had lots of balloons left from his birthday morning, bringing copious opportunities for fun.






Jake, who was a first to obtain and tinker with the Qba marble maze, has got mad skills. Nate is quite active and his energy often spills over on to the marble machine. And spills the marble machine. So Jake has become adept at making an extremely entertaining and highly stable rendition.

Mount whip. Why did we not do raspberry lava? Makes me want to Nae Nae.





Uncle Jake is really just fabulous at lots of buildy things.

Apparently Alice with a bottle was interesting six weeks ago. But this also happened on this day of the San Franers. 

Anyhow, wish we had more time and focus, but I was so happy to see my bro and his dear darling family of Joanne and Nate, you all are just a joy and I'm so glad we got a piece of you in this truly special time.  

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