Yeah! The day had finally come! We had been wanting to get to Ikea all year, and finally made time and put it on the calendar. We invited family incase they were interested in making the 2ish hour treck to Bolingbrook with us. Mom and Dad Bandy decided to join us with Naomi and Ruth. It was a day bound for great fun and enjoyment! We took off that morning and arrived around 11:00, decided on getting an early lunch at Five Guys before beginning our adventure. I am so glad that Liam is flexible and will take a bottle when we offer it to him!
It was very nice to easily take the 2 hours drive without having to pull over to feed him! I just jump into the back seat and give him his bottle! This also makes going out for longer shopping trips much easier. <3 I had told Emil when we arrived at Ikea that it was like a museum - one you could buy stuff from! And seriously, its like a museum for houses! SO crazy! And pretty much the optimum place for dreaming up your house. =) Like I shared in the first blog post, Emil and I have plans to remodel the kitchen in the not so distant future, as well as enjoy this great big, new deck he built! So we went into Ikea with a "shopping" list; patio furniture, a living room rug, and look at the kitchen cabinets for the future construction. Ikea gave us some *great* ideas and inspiration for our kitchen. They literally had Kitchens all decked out everywhere! You would turn and see one style you liked, then you'd turn again and see another style, and they were all set up as if they were in real homes - I was in *love*. 
The top thing in this pictures is the microwave. I know. Seriously? When did microwaves start looking so professional??? And come built in? The bottom piece is a built in oven. *love*
I fell in love with the ikea drawers and organizers the instant I saw them. There are drawers that you open that then have another drawer within it for extra organized space.
Emil and I are looking for different pantry ideas and ways to maximize our kitchen cabinet space without taking up more room. This *large* cabinet was super exciting to see!
Ever since we started watching Fixer Upper, I have fallen in love with Farm sinks! I love how there is no counter top behind or infront of them! Also if you look to the way right in this picture, you can see the lazy susan.... talk about some awesome storage space right there.
Dad and Emil had fun critiquing different things and bouncing ideas off of each other.
And white, glass cabinets! We are thinking about going with white cabinets for our kitchen (we currently have light colored wood ones). I think having 1 or 2 glass ones would look so pretty! Emil tells me that if we do something like that, that I have to actually keep the cabinets organized... haha... oh yeah. :P
And then we got to the chair section...
And the mirror section...
Group shot! Got my sisters-in-love, Naomi and Ruth in there with us!!
Liam was such a good little boy the whole trip! Hardly fussed a second! He fell asleep on Grandma about half way through.
Taking a little break... Boy were we worn out! All that walking...
We were very excited to find Patio furniture that we absolutely love - can't wait to set it up and share some pictures! We have been working all weekend on getting the deck all stained, it was a little bit bigger and longer task than we had anticipated! But we're almost finished and then Emil was going to put together a post sharing some pictures of the progress!
On Sunday we have guests coming over, so its kind of our goal deadline to have the deck all the way complete and the patio table and chair set up. We are hoping for nice weather and for fun to be had by everyone as we grill out!
And then in other news, I love to see comparison pictures... In the first picture, I am 19 weeks along with Liam's pregnancy, and in the second pictures Liam is 19 weeks old on the outside!
He is my sweet pea. And as we get closer and closer to Mother's Day, I hold him even closer and snuggle him a little more. This little boy made me a Mommy. <3
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