Mini staycation and trip to Idaho Falls for baby blessings

After our day at Topaz Mountain, we headed to Salt Lake City for the night for a mini staycation before heading to Idaho Falls the next day. We headed to City Creek and checked out the fountains and a few shops while waiting for our table at Cheesecake Factory. 

Fun with filters at dinner!

We stayed at our favorite place-- Little America. No trip there would be complete without swimming in our favorite pool. 

The next morning we met up with our friends, the Daltons and Wilsons (who were also staying in the hotel), at the coffee shop for breakfast. It was so fun having breakfast together! After breakfast we made another trip to the pool, then headed to the church history museum. I hadn't been in several years, and our kids had never been. I was really impressed and enjoyed it a lot. I was particularly moved by the section on the prophets and with some of the original artifacts from early pioneers and leaders including clothing from Hyrum and Joseph Smith.

From there we were off to Idaho Falls for the blessing of our new twin nieces who were being blessed on Sunday. 

We had a fun dinner out to Plum Loco with John and Sylvia and my mom and dad. While we were at dinner, there was a crazy hail storm with hail the size of quarters! For awhile it sounded like the roof might cave in! The hail actually did quite a bit of damage to the siding on a lot of houses in Idaho Falls.

We enjoyed attending the blessings of Reese and Rowan on Sunday. They looked darling in their little white dresses and bonnets.