March Madness Group Photos!!!

So, if you haven't already heard, I passed my mega orals exam!!! (See the previous post for a description of the horror....) After properly celebrating, and then choosing to do absolutely nothing constructive with my brain for a few evenings, I've started going through all the photos from spring break (affectionately referred to as "March Madness"). I'll get the rest up soon, but tonight I grabbed a bunch of the best group shots and uploaded them to an online Picasa album. A few of my favorites are below...

Visiting Rocky Mountain National Park

Can you find all 9?

Yup, 9 of us in one 4Runner. It saved us entrance fees!!!

Red Rocks rockers.

Rocking out!!!

Still a band.... We're all playing a different instrument. I think Mark's playing his mouth.

After the Celestial Seasonings factory tour, sporting our spiffy hair (and beard) nets

Be bold!

I see one flower that doesn't want to blossom...

Ready for liftoff

Ready for sledding (after it snowed a foot and a half overnight)

Ready for cozy bookstores and pancakes!

More to come....

Winter Retreat

Last weekend was CU-Boulder's Graduate Christian Fellowship winter retreat. We had a really awesome time hanging out with a bunch of cool people at a sweet cabin near Winter Park....

Roasting s'mores...











One of those ball-rolling puzzle games... in this one, though, you had to get the colors in the right places. Eva-Lynn was a natural....




Saturday afternoon we headed out with a group to go snowshoeing...








Eva-Lynn had the idea of making a huge drawing in the snow, oriented so that it would be visible from the cabin (at the top of a hill).... here's her scale model of our stick figure. We named him Art. :)



Nate, standing at Art's adam's apple.



And the final product, viewed from the cabin. See him?

Arches National Park

.... was incredible! It's totally my favorite of the, you know, "desert-themed" parks (Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Lake Powell...).

And, let me say.... good choice checking the pictures out over here. :)

Anyway, Arches was totally awesome. The great thing was, since it's the middle of winter, the park was totally deserted... we practically had the place to ourselves. Which made taking fun pictures that much easier....