Visiting Marcus & Lauren

After our vacation in Tahoe with the Holm family, we followed Marcus' family three hours up to Danville to play with them for a few extra days. They live in such a pretty area and were awesome tour guides showing us around. Paige loved getting more time in with her cousins, Ben loved playing basketball with Marcus and tagging along with him to work, I loved chatting with Lauren, and we all loved the food Lauren made and took us to :)

One day Lauren took us to downtown San Francisco to see the sites. It was abnormally cold and windy that day (we even stopped for hot chocolate at one point), but that didn't stop us from having a great time!
Ben helped Paige try out the concrete slides

Baby Lyla loves slides!

And we couldn't pass up the carousal

Next up was Pier 39!

 A view of Alcatraz in the backgroud

Then we met up with Marcus for clam chowder sourdough bread bowls, and finished the night off with ice cream at Ghirardelli Square!

Another great part of this trip was being able to go to Jeff and Brooke's wedding at the Oakland Temple. Ben and Jeff were really good friends at Duke, and Jeff and Brooke had spent Easter with us, and a business trip to Cape Cod, so we were thrilled to be there for their big day.

Then we met up with the family for an adorable little train ride, followed by delicious cinnamon rolls at Cinnaholic in Berkeley.

We couldn't resist lining these cute cousins up in their Sunday best :)

Sunday afternoon the Hales came to visit us. We hadn't even met their adorable son, Henry, so we were especially excited to catch up with them.

And as if our CA trip wasn't fun enough, we got to see some of our best Duke friends, the Busby's! We celebrated Chase's birthday and caught up on the few weeks we had been apart. And then I bawled my eyes out as we drove away. Oh how we all miss our little Busby's... :(

We loved our short visit in CA! It was so fun spending time with Marcus and Lauren and getting to see all of the fun things around them. Thanks for being such good hosts!