Prescott Party

We had a wonderful and super-quick weekend in Prescott, Arizona. We packed up the car and drove out late Friday afternoon and arrived in Prescott at midnight. The kids were wonderful and even survived the psycho, windy road up the mountain (no one barfed this time!). We checked into the Marriott (where the rest of the family was also staying) and carefully did the car-to-room transition with all of the kids. Spencer completely woke up and was a nightmare for the next 2 hours. He screamed and was inconsolable. It was awful. Eventually we all went to sleep and woke up to a nice continental breakfast... and no family to be seen. Apparently we were the first to arrive. We played around in our room, went on a little family trip to Target and came back to find the rest of the gang.

Our whole purpose in coming to Prescott was to see Casey (Peter's brother) graduate from college with his nursing degree. We all got spruced up and went down the street to witness the graduation. It was wonderful!

The speakers were fabulous and the whole presentation was really well done. Each of the graduates filled out an "acceptance speech" beforehand and it was read by an emcee as they individually received their degrees... it was personal and wonderful.

Congratulations Casey!

Oh yeah, and Spencer slept the entire time!!!

We greeted Casey outside afterwords for congratulations and family photos...

It was then onto Outback Steakhouse for a big family dinner...

When we were done with dinner, we headed over to the Prescott courthouse (where some of Back to the Future was filmed).

It had a large, beautiful lawn surrounding it with people throwing frisbees and having picnics. There was a nice fountain and beautiful gazebo.

The kids had a blast running around, playing lightsabers, climbing the courthouse stairs, etc. We even crossed the street and all got some ice cream.

It was a perfectly gorgeous and wonderful evening.

We all walked back to the hotel and our little family decided to go swimming (always a Waldron family favorite). I put the little ones to bed while Dallin and Peter went and sat around the fire pit with some of the family. They even went on a late night snack hunt and got pulled over by a Prescott police man. Never dull with the Waldrons.

The next day we all had breakfast together, took some more photos...

played and then met up at Casey's house. We went on an adventure walk (completely got lost)...

and finally ended up at the park were searching for...

We played and then said our goodbyes to Mom, Dad and Steve. The rest of us had some lunch at Red Robin and then we headed back home. We fit all of that into about 36 hours. Amazing how so many memories can be made in such a short amount of time.

Congratulations Casey and thanks for giving us all an excuse to get together and play!