BATTLECREEK FALLS

J+D

Date #19

BATTLECREEK FALLS

The stars were against me when putting together our original plan for date night this week.

We were supposed to visit the temple, but

the kids were ornery all day

which put ME in an ornery mood all day

(sorry C, for having to see that)

the traffic was horrific which made D

as well as Juju (aka my mom--aka our babysitter for the night)

LATE

which put all of us in a mood that was not sufficient for the needs of the temple.

So, to blow off steam and get away for an hour

D & I threw on our tennies and our camelpack and headed for the hills

D and I have ALWAYS loved to hike together. If you made an excel spreadsheet of all of our dates before we were married, hiking would take up a majority of the list.

So, on this date, we knew just how it would go:

PERFECTLY.

Battlecreek falls is in Pleasant Grove, UT just south of the "G" on the mountain. Its a great hike, easy enough to take the kiddos, easy enough to march up it as fast as you can in an hour, but hard enough to get a nice little sweat out.

Its gorgeous up there...

...and since D and I were really rockin' the speed factor, we made it up to the upper falls, which we had never done before.

Unfortunately, the camera's batteries ran out of steam before we did, so we didn't get any pictures from the hike. So, I thought I'd dig up some old pictures of us hiking from the pre-marriage days.

Aren't we cute?!

....And though we had originally hoped to get to the temple,

being up on the mountain is just about as close to God as we can get outside of the temple!

So we felt like we had accomplished that part of our plans for our date night!

:)