Salt Lake City, Utah~Letterboxing

After dropping John off at the Lacrosse Sportz Camp after we enjoyed lunch together in the BYU cafeteria, the kidlets and I drove up to Draper to get a few things at IKEA again. On our first trip to IKEA, I bought one organizer box, because that was all they had left. But Jax and Jem fell in love with these cool stackable storage boxes with removable dividers inside, and they wanted to buy a bunch of them for their Lego storage. So, when we were told that another shipment was coming in the next day, we knew we had to come back! hehe

We ended up buying 15 of them! I know that with their Legos, Jenna's collections, and our art supplies we will use every one of those boxes, too! hehe!

Anyway, we left IKEA and drove up to Salt Lake City to visit the Wheeler Historic Farm, a little gem originally owned by the Wheeler Family in the 1800's and now operated by the City of Salt Lake.
With all the uniqueness and beauty of this place, it surprised me that the farm had no entrance fees at all. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there....the weather was beautiful, and of course we searched for some letterboxes there, too.

We found all 4 boxes of the "On The Farm" Series, which happened to be the most adorable little animal stamps, including a cow, pig, goose and sheep! Too darn cute and all simple as pie to find!!
We also found the "Farmin' Fun Fer All' box, too. It was close-by an impressive Box Elder tree where a film crew was filming a new movie called, "The Librarian". We were excited to watch the adult actors and the child actors, as well as the flim crew working on the scenes.

For more info about Wheeler Historic Farm, Click here:Wheeler Historic Farm

Jenna enjoyed the talkative 'Woolies"
Jax and Jem loved climbing up on the farm equipment. The farm is a working farm with a huge garden full of veggies!
A friendly cow. Mooo!
A big gorgeous horse, one of those that pulls a wagon on the farm.
A couple of charming piglets! Check out the silly piggy eating his dinner INSIDE his bowl! hehe
An inquisitive turkey "Gobble, Gobble!!" There were many friendly critters at the farm.
The Terrific Trio takes a Potty Break!! (Complete with all the expressive noises, too! Ewww!)
Jenna wishing for a REAL horse under that saddle!
Standing in front of, what used to be the farm's Ice Ponds (to cool their food and milk). Now a fun little duck pond with happy ducks and geese. Notice the Little Cottonwood River flowing in the background. A nice place to splash around and dip tired feet inside, too!
Another beautiful horse at the farm
The original Wheeler Family Farm home. The boys are munching on granny smith apples that they picked from one of the many apple trees on the farm. Yummy!