Arizona Surprise!!

Steve fist pumping into his sixties!!

So this last weekend my sister Krista and I decided to surprise my dad for his 60th birthday and fly into Phoenix. We were super excited to see the faces of all our family members when we showed up on the front step. It was so much fun!! So we flew out Friday morning and landed in Sky Harbor airport.. We got our awesome sister-n-law Keri to pick us up and she did an amazing job hiding our little secret for a week.  Here are some pictures from a short but accomplished weekend trip with the Pribyl's!!

Amanda and I swimming with the fam..

The whole family

Tyce is such a sweetheart.... love him

All the siblings.

Elias and I just after the airport

Keeba, Boston, Aubrie, me and mini me Sophia.

Girls day out at Scottsdale mall.. so much fun. We used to go to Sweet Factory all the time when we were younger.. I was super excited when I saw it in that mall.

Shea, Carson and baby Lacey oh and Amanda and Louie in the background.. ha ha  this is such a good picture of these kiddos.

Being silly

 The Pribyl brothers setting up the gift that all us siblings chipped in to get for dad's Bday.. He was so surprised when we whipped this one out for him. Happy birthday daddy!

So all and all it was a very successful trip, we got to see all our nieces and nephews and my brothers and their wives and the soon to be Mrs. Amanda Knowles.. ha ha Congrats sister. We got to enjoy the sun and celebrate an amazing man who is my father. Love you dad. Happy 60th year!

Meeting the Governor!

So this last Friday Derick and I were pleasured to attend the Governors Birthday bash at the Hogle Zoo in SLC. Derick's pawn shop donated some money to his campaign so we got the invite via Antonio to come and meet the big honchos in Utah politics. Mind you I am not really a big political person, so I was a little nervous I would look like an idiot, but it all turned out well. So after work we headed up and got there just in time for the yummy dinner. It was awesome! After we ate everyone went to the bird show. It was really neat. It's amazing what animals can be trained to do. We had a great time together. After the bird show we were told their was going to be cupcakes. This is what we walked out too. These things were massive. All the kids were freaking out. They were delicious too.

After our cupcake time D and I decided to walk around and meet some of the Hogle animals. I wanted to meet the gorilla.. So by this time it was getting late and all the animals were tuckered out from the days events. I didn't care and wanted my animal time. So I tapped on the glass to wake the monstrous male gorilla up so we could watch him. ha ha so i did and he popped up and glared at me. I told D that he was making me nervous with his shady eyes. The next second he was standing in front of the glass puffing his chest. I freaked out and literally fell over until I caught myself on the bench behind me. It was the SCARIEST thing ever. I know the glass was thick but your instincts kick in you know. Then theres Derick who was just standing there like nothing happened. Unbelievable, I swear he is a man thru and thru. Didn't even budge.

Don't his eyes creep you out...