ANGIE'S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.

Story:

David likes to plan surprises for my birthday. I always ask that he keep his clues & hints to himself because I prefer to be surprised. This year for my birthday, he kept saying how much I was REALLY going to enjoy my present this year. He told me he'd have to go to Salt Lake to pick it up. 

Since I didn't want any clues, I was guessing that maybe he'd ordered something on ebay & had to pick it up in SLC. I had no idea what was coming, folks. 

The day of my birthday started out with delicious breakfast & such. I really didn't have much planned for that day (This is Friday, by the way). We were going to my mom's house for dinner to celebrate mine & Calvin's birthday since my birthday fell on a Sunday this year. 

David went up on Friday afternoon with Calvin to pick up my birthday present. He then came to get me from home to take us all up to my mom's for dinner. 

He mentioned that my birthday present had taken up most of the front seat of the car... 

.... Now I had NO CLUE as to what it possibly could have been.

He had to travel to SLC to get it & it took up most of the passenger seat??

UH.

And as we entered my parent's house, sitting right there in front of me was none other than my DEAR OLD DAD! I was so surprised! I obviously had no idea he was coming and I totally started crying. Hugged him & we all ate dinner together for our birthdays!  Seriously, what a great present. 

I rather wish I'd taken pictures of this, but I was completely taken off guard. So you all just get to picture that in your little heads. 

The Best Surprise!

Sunday afternoon, after our stake conference, Cal and David and I went up to my parents' house for dinner as we always do. It was kind of a lazy Sunday, I headed over a little early since I really didn't have much to do after stake conference.
Enter the house, put Cal down on the floor (he takes off running, of course) and I see my whole family in the front room.

.... Strange..

And then out of nowhere, my Dad appears! He decided to drop in on us unexpectedly. We haven't seen him since December when he visited from Peru for Christmas. Actually, I was so confused! I talked to him just the day before on skype and he told me that he didn't know for sure when he was going to come visit. He said something like, "I may just come and surprise you all."
And of course, I was totally oblivious when he said that and didn't think anything of it.
And here he was! Fresh off the plane from Peru!
Turned out to be a much more interesting Sunday afternoon than I'd originally thought I'd have.

I am not sure what is happening in the above picture. 

I like to think that this is my little sister's best surprised face. Ha! 

Kisses with Calvin

This is yet another example of my Dad's very animated story telling skills.

And last but not least, we filmed my sister Andrea seeing my dad as he entered the room.

Her reaction was GOLDEN.