It's spring!  I got a whole glorious four days off of school before spring term started on Tuesday.  We had a pretty good time in those few days though.  Here's the highlights. Sorry it's an insanely long post.

The day after my last final, Megan and I celebrated with doing...a whole bunch of fun things.  Shopping mostly.  We took a picture at every step of the journey so I decided just to include one. This is symbolic of our trip to Costco where Megan bought batteries and a diet coke with lime.  Exciting, I know.  We also decided that we were going to make friendship bracelets.  You know, 12 year old style.  I remember making them.  And I remember it being fairly simple.  Well, after 2 movies, and about half a bracelet, we realized that friendship bracelet making is actually a skill.

I moved.  Not very far.  Just across the way into a different apartment in my same ward.  Three nice boys helped me move my stuff in the pouring rain.  This picture is of my friend Brad trying to be as efficient as possible.  So thanks boys for moving my stuff and getting soaking wet in the process.
Brian and I went to visit Jen at school after we finished with our finals.  She asked us to pick up some sea shells for her before we came.  And we did.  But we also had a little extra time so we stopped at the Target dollar spot and picked up a nice metal pail and a gnome for Jen.  I know, we are hysterical.  Anyway, it was a good time.  And a fun way to liven up the fourth grade.

Since it's officially spring, we all have this very intense and uncontrollable desire to be outdoors as much as possible.  It's extremely conducive to studying...  We decided the other day to hike Stewart Falls.  Supposedly it's a quick hour to hour and a half hike up the canyon.  Well, we found the trailhead, but due to a large and unexpected amount of snow, we never managed to actually follow the trail.  So instead, we wandered around for a couple of hours falling into holes in the snow and crossing rivers.  It was pretty great.

This happened about a hundred times that day.  Funnily enough, Megan was running away from me after chucking a snowball at me and then one of her legs broke through the snow.  I was laughing at her and still running to attack when what should happen--one of my legs fell through the snow.  It was pretty great.

This is our good friend Stephanie attempting to cross this raging river.  The really funny thing was that there was a bridge about 100 feet away.  And we all knew about it.  I think we would all agree though, that doing it this way was much more entertaining.

Look how deep the snow is!  Isn't that crazy?  Megan is standing on top of a picnic table.  In case you couldn't tell.  Yeah, three feet of snow?  Crazy.

I love this picture.  We spent a long time and a lot of takes of this picture trying to make it perfect.  Scott and Brian were too tall so they kept having to duck awkwardly.  So finally, we just decided to have everyone stand up straight and just take the picture.  And this is the amazing result.  I love it.  Megan and I's faces are both completely visible, Stephanie's half visible and the boys just completely covered.  Oh man.  It's so great.

And here's the one that actually worked.  Stephanie, Megan, Brian, me and Scott.