Eric and I took a road trip home to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday over Easter. My sister planned a surprise party and we were one of the surprises, along with my brother Jimmy, he came down from Oregon. This gathering was the first time the whole family has been together in more than 4 years...so I was really looking forward to this trip.
We arrived at my sisters house on Friday at the wee hours of the morning. We surprised my dad that night at dinner in San Francisco, we were supposed to surprise him on Saturday, the day of the Pachanga, the plans changed and we really couldn't wait that long to see him, we decided to surprise him at dinner. So my sister made reservations at Morton's Steakhouse because my dad was craving it and had heard this place had amazing steak. It better have because when we looked at the menu it about blew our socks off, it was the most expensive restaurant Eric and I had ever been to. We waited for my parents in the lobby and were going to surprise my dad there. When he walked in he took a double look at us, and had the biggest surprise on his face, it was priceless! He had a hunch we were coming because some people just can't keep secrets, but he was still shocked. Here are some pictures from that day.
Before we met the rents at dinner, my sister, niece Ashlee, nephew Kelley, Eric and I hung out in the city. We were craving clam chowder so of course we had to hit up the Wharf. 
Even though Morton's was expensive, they had great service. In the reservations my sister told them it was my Dad's 60th birthday. So when we got to our table they had happy birthday confetti all over it and even had specialized menu's for each of us that said "Happy 60th Birthday David!", you better believe we took them home! They even took our picture in the lobby and put it in a cute frame for my dad, all at no charge!
The next day was the BIG 60th CELEBRATION PARTAY, we went to Huddart Park, a park we always went to growing up, its in the middle of the Woodside hills. The drive up there is gorgeous, its surrounded by huge Redwood trees, other towering trees, trails, and sometimes you even see horses trekking along on the trails. Once my family and I even got lost for a couple hours in the many trails in the forest, it was scary but makes for a great story.
Since we were going to be all together, I wanted to get family pictures. Well, here is our attempt at that...we're missing Annette (Jimmy's wife) and my two nephews Kelley and Samuel, those kids were off running around somewhere! We were supposed to get them professionally done, but nothing ever goes as planned in my family! This is kind of a random shot, didn't think this would be all we got!
oh, and here's another one...not too great but it will have to do! Kelley made it in this photo.
And here come all the pictures!
My mom bought party sound maker things...we had a little too much fun with them!
Here is my crazy brother with his Mexican jersey and his American flag bandanna, if it isn't obvious, he is very proud of both countries!
Kelley is such a cutie, he couldn't stop climbing on my back.
Here we are getting our food, it was delicious! We had carne asada, BBQ chicken, beans, my sisters weird pink pasta salad (which i don't recommend), and a lot more delicious food!
Its birthday cake time! You can tell this was my mom's doing, she is so crazy! Gotta love her!
The three siblings, Billy never seems to make it in the pictures, I don't know where he was off to. Probably talking someones ear off :)
Samuel hates getting his picture taken, hence why he's not in any of my pictures. But we managed to get a good shot of him hitting the Pinata (blogger wont let me do the fancy "n"). You can't see the pinata, but you better believe we had one!
Here are los invitados:
My dad is the only Gringo in that picture! It was a fun day, thanks for having a birthday Dad!
It looks like you guys had SO MUCH fun!! I LOVE going home!
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