This is how we started our trip...looking a lot like, um, can I say??? White trash...the truck was packed from front to back and side to side and the kids were three in a row. Besides one of the bikes scratching Phil's truck, all went well on the drive to Oregon. Then we were in for one FULL day of cleaning, packing, shopping, packing, and washing to get the trailer and four-wheelers ready.

We were so excited to be able to watch the Easter special at church. It was fun to see the sign team carrying on and continuing with the burden that we had when everything got started. They are all doing an awesome job and it was so much fun to sit and watch...

Here they are all ready for a ride...Let's go.

And she was off....what a blast she had getting herself from the campground to the dunes ALL BY HERSELF. It was her landmark trip, because now she is flying solo...just right behind her Daddy. Wherever he went that is where she was supposed to go and she did, even when he would circle around waiting for her she would go in the same circle. It was hilarious and adorable. We had so much fun watching her be on her own.

Mariah was just happy that her Daddy got his "blue banshee" back. It had been broken for a year and he was finally able to get it fixed and ride it. She absolutely loves riding with him on the banshee. We are sure that when she is all grown up she will ride a banshee!! But that wasn't all the fun she got to have...she got to drive the 50 with Daddy on the back....uh-oh...what did we start now??
That wasn't the only thing we started. Logan decided he wanted to try out the bike Nana was riding...Now he thinks a bigger bike would be really great - yikes!

But then he wouldn't be able to jump like this...

The trip was great and we felt so blessed to have friends and family there with us. It has become cherished time for us now that we don't get to go that often, but we truly enjoyed every moment of it. The only problems was...it wasn't long enough.

We ended the trip with a short visit with my Grandma and Grandpa....It was a great trip and now we have already started our plans for the next one. So...who wants to join us?