Finally a date!!!!!!

Last week Lamon and I went on a date finally after quite a drout. We are always going on fun adventures as a family, but we don't get out by ourselves very often. Well last week we had a fabulous adventure. We convinced Nate and Kendra to watch our kids so that we could have a date, and we told them that we would be back in two hours. Well we decided we wanted to go find Elephant Arch, a hike that we had been itching to do for quite some time.
It's a hike that not a ton of people know about, and it is kind of a hunt to find the arch; but we brought our GPS and set off. We were kind of short on time because it took us a while get to the trailhead through random dirt roads since the main road was blocked by a gate. So we had to make a decision about what we wanted to do. Should we just goof around and hike a little bit, or should we try to move fast and find the arch? We decided to find the arch! It was such a fun hike! We were moving as fast as we could, and not far into the hike we ran into sand. Most of the hike was in sand, which is not the easiest terrain to move quickly in. But Lamon, being the wonderful husband that he is, walked in front of me while I treaded in his semi-packed footprints. We got to a point in the hike where a few washes met together, and we were supposed to find a trail that was headed northwest out of the wash. We thought we found the trail and started hiking, but it wasn't the right trail, and we ended up hiking over a little bit of a mountain in order to get back on the trail. That didn't help our time. But we found the arch and it was sooooo cool. The hike was a blast, and Ada had fun too. Ada gets to join Mommy and Daddy on any dates for a while. It was her first real hike, and she was looking up at us smiling the whole time, until she got hungry and I had to nurse her while trying to walk quickly in the sand. That was quite interesting I assure you! We didn't quite make it back in two hours, and I think Kendra and Nate pretty much wanted our hides, but if they knew the efforts we made to make it back!! :) Just kidding. It was definitly a blast!!!