Hip Hoppin' Holt House Party

Friday afternoon, a bunch of my friends joined Bart and I for a fun weekend up in Huntsville. It was pretty crazy Friday night because there were about 18 of us packed into the house. It was so much fun though to have everyone up together hanging out! There were lots of tours around the place, a late-night movie in the theater/downstairs family room, and lots of sitting around chatting with Allie Berding who just flew in that night to visit.

On Saturday morning, as everyone started waking up, we followed Jordan and Brig out kayaking on what's left of the reservoir. For breakfast we had my Grandma Holt's famous pancakes and then lazed around for a few hours. It was kind of a bleak day, way overcast and raining off and on so there wasn't a whole lot we could do outside. Some went out and played soccer on the fields in front, and later we shot the potato gun at the boys to see how good our aim was.


The highlight of my day was taking them all to the Shootin' Star, the oldest working saloon in Utah. They have the best hamburgers ever and the atmosphere is definitely that of a smoky old town saloon. It's such a funny place and everyone loved it.


(Forgive Bart's dirty shirt and face, he was riding his dirt bike right before lunch on his homemade track!)

After everyone left later in the day, Bart, Rachel, and I decided to play sardines with Price, my mom, and my dad. It was hilarious!! The basement was off limits to help shorten the search time, but holy cow, it still took forever to find my mom hiding in the coat closet. In the second round, my dad hid and he totally cheated. He waited for us all to leave the room we were starting in, before he went back into that room to hide. Of course we didn't check in there until we had pretty much given up, because he wasn't supposed to move after we had started looking! What a cheater.

We had an absolute blast the whole time and we really appreciated everyone coming up to hang out with us and visit the house.