a day trip to SALT LAKE!

Two spontaneous weekends in a row?? Who are we?! haha Saturday morning while eating breakfast we decided to pack the diaper bag full of all the necessities and off we went to Salt Lake! Liam slept most of the way down there which made for one relaxing drive singing along to some tunes and talking with my favorite guy.

One of the biggest reasons for the trip was to go to IKEA so our first stop was Draper. Neither of us had been before and our jaws literally dropped to the floor as we walked through the sliding glass doors. That place is ginormous!! We spent the next three hours {yes you read that correctly} meandering display room after display room just beyond amazed. We almost walked out of there with the whole store. ALMOST. Good thing we have a RAV and all we fit back there was a bench to fix our shoe situation. No laundry room/mud room = a shoe cluttered entry way all the time! Naturally we weren't paying close attention to the time and shopped through Liam's nap. He will not, despite every effort, sleep anywhere but in his crib, a pack n' play, or while driving in the car so by the end of our shopping experience he was one cranky boy. Right before hightailing it out of there we discovered Liam had dropped his elephant along the way and after a thorough search and attempt to find it, we deemed it lost and bought him a dragon named Puff on the way out the door!

While taking the short 20 minute drive back in the direction of Salt Lake, we realized it wasn't going to be a long enough nap for our snoozer in the back seat so we took the opportunity to grab a treat at Sonic and drove up in the foothills above the capital building. The houses were amazing up there and the view was even more incredible! When we heard stirring in the back seat we headed for City Creek Mall. We had only been there oneother time and loved it just as much as the first. We wandered through a few stores and then walked across the street to Temple Square. It was fun to take Liam there for the first time. Clearly his favorite part was splashing in the reflection pool. ;)

We made the drive back just as the sun was setting creating the most gorgeous colors painted across the sky. Until next time Salt Lake! We would love to take Liam back when he is just a little bit older and go to the Hogle Zoo!