Prescott Trip

At Granite Creek Park. I used to play here all the time as a kid, catching tadpoles and crawdads in the creek. There is very little water now, but we still had a ball just having a picnic, playing at the park, playing frisbee, catch and hula hooping. Great time!






Building new tree house steps. A few years ago, my brother, Chris, built this tree house in my parents backyard. The kids love it! My mom keeps it stocked with little chairs, games, toys, coloring stuff and snacks. It needed new steps, so I enlisted my boys in helping Uncle Chris build them. Drex worked especially hard at it. It was a good project!





At the 4th of July Parade. Every year Prescott has two 4th of July parades: the kiddie parade on Friday (15 minutes long, with tons of candy thrown out and free icecream afterwards) and the regular parade on Saturday (2 and 1/2 hours long with a million lions club guys in old cars, dancing grannies and borderline sacriligious church floats). We opted out of the regular parade this year and just did the kiddie parade.





At the Prescott Courthouse Plaza. This "wishing" fountain is a favorite of my kids. The courthouse was crazy packed as always, but we had a good time getting yummy frybread and playing ball.







The infamous Whiskey Row Boot Race. So every year Prescott has the Whiskey Row Boot Race. Basically, you mad-sprint down Whiskey Row (dubbed such because of the many bars that line the street) to the finish line at the end of the street. This was my kid's first year running. Let's see: Braden's boots were about five sizes too big, Drex's we had to squeak on after smothering his feet with Gold Bond powder, and Sadie's had Hello Kitty isignia dangling off of them. We were novices. Noticably. But the kids had a great time! We didn't take any trophies home, but the kids are already planning their strategies for next year. And when my kids show up at your house to play wearing a shirt advertising Whiskey Row, you'll know why.


This is Matt's favorite picture. He absolutely loves my parent's dog, Bailey. He's big, slobbers a lot, sheds like crazy, and Matt just loves to cuddle up with him. Okay, so he's not Matt's favorite, but my kids adore him. This was Atlie's first close-up time with a dog, so she was pretty amazed by the whole thing. She would just squeal everytime she saw Bailey. Even Matts got to admit it was pretty darn cute!





Picnicing at the Courthouse. Aside from the fact that Drex managed to throw both of his brand new tennis shoes into the middle of a 20 foot tree, unable to be recovered, we had a great time playing downtown a couple of times while we were in Prescott.







Just had to post. Too cute.









Great action shot, Braden! The weather was so nice on our trip that we played outside most of the time. We bought some frisbees, hula hoops and bats and balls and just let the kids have at it!






Hula hooping became a favorite pass-time while in Prescott. We had competitions almost every night, and Braden won every time. But Abbie has since mastered her technique and is up and coming. I think she's about ready for a re-match.