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I have a few trips I need to update on, but I'll start with our last-minute trip from last weekend. We decided to go the night before and I'm so glad we did! We went to my grandparent's cabin in Pine Valley, UT. My grandparents built this cabin before I was born and it has been one of my favorite memories growing up. We would go there every year for Thanksgiving (we'd find our own Christmas tree in the woods and cut it down and haul it back to Las Vegas on the roof of our plum colored Toyota Previa and our house always smelled of fresh pine for the holidays), Labor day, Memorial Day, Pioneer Day... basically any time we got a chance to go up there we would and spend the time with all our cousins running around playing kick the can. I love it.  I hadn't been there in years for whatever reason and I just had been aching to go back! And Jeff had never been there so I wanted to show him where I spent so many holidays growing up.

AND there was the annual Corn Fest in Enterprise, UT (a small town kind of near Pine Valley where we always had our Holt family reunions. My grandma also grew up in Enterprise). I had never been to the corn fest, because it was probably always the weekend BEFORE Labor Day and we wouldn't be there.

I didn't take hardly any pictures. What's new.

So we drove up to St. George to visit my Grandpa before heading up to the cabin. I love my Grandpa. Have I mentioned he'll be 90 years old in November and still golfs three times a week? How awesome is that? I guess drinking a gallon of milk every 2 days will do that for ya.  Oh and 20 years in the FBI. Yeah, he's a stud. It's funny, because Jeff always wants to talk to him about his days doing that (I mean, seriously he was in Chicago during the 60s), but my grandpa is not a talkative guy and all he says is, "Oh yeah, it was a good job...." Haha. 

My Aunt Susie, mom, Luke, Sam, me

So this is in Enterprise. It's a super small but cute town in the middle of no where. This is the house where my grandmother was born and raised in and the house where my mom spent her summers growing up.

After going to the corn fest we went to our family cemetery and visited there for a bit. Then we drove out to the Meadows Mountain Massacre site. I had actually never been there. It was so sad to see the names of all the women and children that were killed.

This is the cabin I love so dearly. So many memories flooded my mind throughout the weekend. Jeff probably got so sick of hearing all these boring stories, but I can't help it! I love this place. We spent the evening playing cards, ping pong and pool. It was fun having my brothers there, too, and spending that time with them. We played doubles in pool and our last game lasted until I think 2am. It was fun.

Before dinner, us and my brothers drove out to the reservoir and walked around and skipped rocks. This is my brother, Luke, swinging a stick at the dragon flies.

It was such a nice getaway and I'm so glad we went!  I really miss that place. It was great not having any phone reception so no one was distracted and we all just hung out. Jeff and I decided we HAVE to buy a cabin someday. He grew up going to Big Bear, so he knows how great it is to go to one growing up. We want our kids to have the same memories.