Valentine's Day 2010

I have some very special memories of Valentine's Day growing up. Grandma and Grandpa Prestwich would come and visit us every year. Mysteriously right before they walked in the back door, our doorbell would ring and we would find a Valentine Surprise on our front doorstep! My kids can't wait to find their surprise from "cupid" on Valentine's Day! This year they received a pack of gum, a reece's peanut butter heart and Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs movie! Below is a few of the activities that kept us busy for a about an hour. They rest of the day the boys spent loving each other in their own special way...fighting and wrestling! Where's the love? I wonder if Valentine's Day would be different at our house if we had a girl....probably not!


Thanks to Sister Markle, Landon and Spencer had some fun with the red koolaid playdough!


Jared wrote Willow a message on FB


Kyle made sugar cookies. He made the dough and cut out about 3 dozen heart cookies all by himself. I'm gonna make him cook/bake more often!


This was his cupid! Poor cupid didn't last very long!

5th Grade Science Fair

Kyle entered his first Science Fair last week! He did it on the Bernoulli's Principle. I usually help with most of the kids' homework, so I turned this one over to Chad. He and Kyle worked hard on it! I thought he did a great job!

Date Night!

The boys and I had a date night tonight! We had so much fun! First, we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. They were so excited to go to a real sit down restraunt. Landon is taking Dance lesson's at the Vibe here in PG. The dance company was putting on a show and the boys really wanted to go to it (so did I...bonus)! The boys were very excited because "Derek" was gonna be there. Derek is my good Friend Sharee's brother! They love watching Derek dance, and is the reason Landon signed up for Dance Lessons...which he LOVES! He was very kind to the boys! Their dreams have come true...for tonight at least!

The Kitty's Are Back...

Every year at preschool my cute little kids start acting like kitty cat's. I don't know why they do, but it really happens every year! I had forgotten about it until Wednesday. I have 8 girls this year and 4 boys and ALL of them were kitty's. Some were momma kitty's and were leading the others around by their necks. Chad came downstairs on Thursday after he got home from work. He looked around the room to hear meowing and then looked at me with wide eyes, all I could do was shrug! What's a preschool teacher to do?

The many faces of Santa 2009

This is the Santa that has been at our Prestwich family Christmas party for as long as I can remember!

Santa that always come to my preschool Christmas party


Santa at the ward party!

Disneyland in a Day!

This year we had the opportunity of going to Disneyland with our wonderful friends and their 5 children. We didn't tell the kids what we were doing until we got there! It was really fun to surprise them! It was so neat to be there with Disneyland decorated for Christmas! We are so grateful for our friends for inviting us and for the perks that came along with it! We won't ever be able to thank them enough for helping us make some fun family memories!


This is at the Disneyland Hotel

Our good friends and their BEAUTIFUL family! Could they get any more gorgeous?

All of us in front of the giant Christmas tree at the Disneyland Hotel

Yeah! We are at Disneyland!

Still my favorite Ride!

Chad took a picture of the picture that they snap of you while on the Tower of Terror! Genious! I was with the little ones, so I couldn't go on this. Jared doesn't look too scared does he?

Pluto and the Gang...my kids don't know a lot of the Disney characters. Pretty sad eh?

This was the Jedi training. This was by far the kids favorite thing at Disneyland. They didn't get picked to be on stage, but it was still cool to them. Darth Maul came right up to Landon and stared right in his eyes. I would have peed my pants. He was very scarey looking!

Darth Maul

Shari and I waiting, while a couple of kids did some souvenir shopping.

Pirates of the Carribean Ride...so cool!

It's a Small world ride all lit up for Christmas!

The magic castle all lit up for Christmas...so magical!

Main street at night during Christmas!

Another shot of main street. This was taken on our way out of Disneyland. Mind you, it was 11:45 PM! That would be 12:45 our time! We were all BEAT!

The second day we took the kids to the Aquarium of the Pacific! This is Shari and I with all of our kiddies! As we were taking the pictures Randall said, "can you believe those two women popped all those kids out!"

Light house on the Pier!

Lunch on the pier!

Spencer was so excited to touch the sharks...

and look at the sharks...

They loved touching the see stars, urchins and anenome

They had amazing jelly fish...


Our beautiful friends! Thanks again for everything! We had a blast!

Beauty Is...

Beauty is Skating.
Feeling free like spinning wheels,
jumping like a kangaroo,
Grinding rails,
feeling free,
having fun.



Kyle entered this years reflection contest. The theme was beauty is...
He didn't win anything, but he made me proud!