Enjoying Every Moment, Loving Every Day: Preston Family Reunion 2010

Every year my family gets together and we spend a week playing and hanging out. Normally, we go out of town and do a fun vacation somewhere else, but my oldest brother needed to have shoulder surgery and we wanted to be close to him as much as possible. We decided to let everyone pick a day and plan something fun that they wanted to do in San Diego.

We had so much fun and I have so many pictures, that I am spacing this vacation into several posts. If there is one thing we know how to do, it is have a good time and take lots of pictures during the process. I hope you enjoy our fun week of partying.

Day 1 - Boating, Fire, and Pool Games

Snuggling on the boat

Happy to be hanging out!

Such handsome boys all on the molecule!

Molecule Surfing!
Nick

Josh

Jordan

Hot boys! The one on the right is single, ladies!!

Sun Bathing on the molecule!

Sadee loved the tube! They even got dumped into the water and she wanted to go back on. When we took her off, she cried and cried.

Jayla holding on keeping Michael safe.

Cute!

Carter getting his tube ride!

Family pose, except were missing one!

A couple of hours into our boating, we noticed smoke rising above the mountains. We first thought someone was just BBQing, but then ash started to fall on us. As we came around corner this is what we saw. The smoke was coming from our only exit down the mountain!

April protecting herself from the smoke smell!

Thanks to my sister for overacting, we went to shore and found a ranger. He told her, we are safe from the fire here, but they are going to close the road soon. If you don't get out, you will be stuck here for about five to six hours. Yikes! I have never seen my family move so fast. We grabbed the four kids, yanked car seats into one car, and took off within five minutes. The men and April stayed behind and loaded up the boat. The funny thing is there was such a long line at the boat dock, that my brother just pulled down into a parking lot that was flooded over by the lake and loaded the boat from there. Yes, we all made it safely down the mountain.

The fire as we were running down the mountain, so much fun!

Since our boating day got cut short and we were all in need of a cool down, we decided to end the day in the pool.

In true preston tradition, we played the bottle cap game! This has been a family favorite for years. To play: find four or five bottlecaps from around the house, preferably white and small, like body spray size. Have one person take all said bottlecaps to the bottom of the pool, while everyone else kicks in the water. Once that person is out of the pool, go fishing for, that's right, bottlecaps!!

Splashing to stop your opponent from getting the bottlecap!