Ze element of surprise

So the opportunity to make a weekend trip home presented itself this week. It worked out perfectly thanks to Steph. She had a friend who had a friend who's in DC and was going down to Raleigh/Durham on Friday to meet up with friends and head back to DC after church on Sunday. I met up with him Friday afternoon and we hit the road.

I walked into my house and peered around.. no one. I walked into the living room and there was dallin, playin his video-game. He looked over and saw me and I just said hey what's up and walked away, he totally did a double-take haha. I went upstairs where mom was trying to figure out when her court date was.. I know right? Leave for a few weeks and momma starts breaking the law, or at least starts getting caught i guess.. ;) okay so she got called into jury duty and was trying to find out if they needed her when I walk in her room and say 'hey i left somethin in my room I'm just gonna go get it real quick' and then walked out hahaha. Once again I got a dazed and confused look. 'What are you doing home?? Did you get kicked outta ur program??' I surprised Elena the next morning. She was watching a movie with Dallin when she heard me upstairs.. didn't know it was me.. Dallin played along haha. "Dallin, do you hear that? Someone's upstairs.. mom already left right?" 'oh yeah, mom's already gone..' "Then who's upstairs??" 'Ehh i dunno..' So she was excited to see that it was me when I came downstairs.

Anyways I was able to surprise my whole family and lots of my friends, one of which still has my ears ringing cuz she screamed soo loud when she saw me at her door.. Poor neighbors, undoubtedly they're thinking someone got stabbed or shot. Nope. It's just me.. It's okay.. I'm used to it. I made babies cry in Japan just by looking at them.

But it was a great weekend. Was able to take Dallin golfing for his birthday. Was able to see him give a talk in Church. Was able to surprise my dad after he got home from running the study abroad program in Costa Rica for the past 6 weeks. Able to give both of them presents for bday/father's day. Able to allow mom to cut my hair ;) Able to show up to a ward activity and help pull it off. Able to go to church and fulfill my responsibilities there (which was been super hard to from DC). Great to see friends again. So it was great all around. :)

Now back to the grind..