We had a terrific spring break the week of April 3-12th. We left Friday, April 3rd around 2:30. I got the kids out of school early because their last hour was going to be spent watching a choir concert. That put us on the road and 1 1/2 hours earlier. We drove straight thru and got to Becky Ann's around 8pm. We woke up the next morning and Boyd made us yummy french toast then we headed to Portland. We tried listening to conference on the radio but hit the Blue mountains right about the time it started. We did get to hear President Monson announce Elder Anderson as the new apostle and hear the prophets talk before we totally lost the signal. Darl & Todd were worried about our vehicles going so far so we took Darl & Norma's car. It ran terrific for us and got good gas mileage. We stopped for lunch in Pendleton. The kids were very good and spent most of it watching movies on the DVD player. I thought the drive was beautiful once we started following the river. Everything was so green and pretty. We made it to Bethany's around 4:30 her time and the kids were extremely excited to get out of the car. They pulled out Evan and Dallin's bikes and scooter and played outside until supper was ready. Bethany's house is so cute. She has done a nice job of decorating. After supper she and I left all the kids with Matthew and went to WinCo for groceries. It took us quite awhile because we spent some time visiting without kids around. We got home and put the kids to bed although only a couple stayed there. Cecily and I slept on the bottom bunk in the boys room and Taryn slept on the top. Max, Evan, & Dallin slept in the playroom on the floor in sleeping bags although I don't think much sleeping happened until about and hour after they had been put down and even then Dallin stayed awake for awhile. He's a funny boy and kept wanting to change his clothes. Sunday we woke up and spent the day watching conference. Bethany hooked her laptop up to their TV and we watched it in their living room. We pulled some things off the computer for the kids to color and do. I think that lasted about 1/2 hour before they were trying to sneak off and play. We did make it through both sessions though, we just kept the volume up really loud. After the last session we decorated easter eggs and when they were dry had an easter egg hunt in their backyard. Bethany had some plastic eggs with candy in them along with their colored eggs that they got to find. We also took a walk that evening. Their neighborhood is beautiful and even has a wooded area with paths that you can wander in. We had another fun night of getting the kids to sleep but eventually they all did go to bed and of course Bethany and I stayed up late visiting.