Family Saturday Outing: Notch Peak!!!!

Last week Shawn had the idea that we should go do a long day away from the house and go for a family hike to Notch Peak.  The last time Shawn and I did this hike was almost exactly 13 years ago when I was 8 months pregnant with Cruz.  We got up on Saturday morning and took off at about 8:30 a.m.   Shawn had totally prepared everything.  He packed the cooler with lunch and dinner stuff, got the camp grill in, chairs, and lots of different clothing options for everybody on the hike.  We went south on I-15 till Nephi and then went west through Delta and then about a half an hour more till we turned onto a fairly bumpy road to get to Notch Peak Trailhead.  It took us 3 hours to get there.  We ate lunch at the car before we started the hike and left for the hike at about 12:30.  Shawn said the hike was about 7 miles round trip, but it ended up being closer to 9 miles.  It really wasn't too vertical until about the last mile to mile and a half.  We got up to this tall peak, but then it dropped over 2000 ft. straight down (I couldn't look over the edge).  Actually when we were approaching the saddle right before the last climb a fighter pilot came buzzing right by us, it was super crazy!!!! It took us close to 4 hours to get up and 2 hours to get down.  I am so proud of the kids.  They did really well.  Shawn and I just tried to get them talking to keep their minds off of actually hiking.  Alegra was running and skipping on parts of it, clearly she is in good shape!  But in reality, they all did super AWESOME!!  It was fun having Olive on the hike too. It is so fun to have a dog!

 Olive literally sat ON Alegra on the drive down.

 Ready to start the hike!

 Lexi and I in our "matching outfits"!!!

 Break time!  We had to take several breaks because Alegra really had to go to the bathroom but she has a terrible time going in nature.  She would get ready to go and then it would go away.  So we would hike some more.

Shawn got this picture from the top, I was too scared to go close to the edge.

 At the top. I was kinda freaked out and wouldn't let anyone go too close to the edge.  It literally just totally dropped off.  Cruz went on his belly to see if he could see down.

 Love this family of mine!

 Alegra was so cute helping Lexi off this big ledge!

 Our 3 monkeys!

 6 hours and 9 miles later we finished!!!!

Grilled hamburgers at the car after the hike.  We were all looking forward to dinner. Got on the road at about 7:30 p.m. and got home at 10:30 p.m. So proud of our gang!!!