Spring Break

I keep seeing all over facebook things about Spring Break. It's been going on for the last few weeks and quite frankly I am jealous. From age 5-21 every March we got a whole week off of school- basically for nothing. Going from that to the real world where you have to use vacation time and it is limited for breaks is quite hard. I wish I was relaxing on a beach, or just sitting at home doing nothing.
My spring breaks growing up were relatively routine. Every year my sister Paige would go stay with our Nani and Nana while Mom, Evan and I went to go visit my Aunt Becky and cousin's, Brittany and Skyler.
I can't really remember what we did all week but I am sure our mother's were sick of us by the end of it. A few of my favorite spring break memories:

-Going to the Capital (Topeka) My mom thought it would be good to take us somewhere educational. According to my mom my Aunt Becky didn't understand why she would want to do that b/c it seemed so boring. But for little kids it was really amazing. I am pretty sure we got to meet someone important..maybe the Governor? Or probably a Senator from middle of no where Kansas.

-One Spring Break Brittany and I thought it would be a lot of fun to have a prank war with our brothers. So the first night there we waited until they went to bed and then snuck into Skyler's room and put their hands in warm water and painted their finger nails. They didn't pee the bed like we hoped but they sure were confused when they woke up with painted nails. Now this started a full on war- in which our mother's were TOTALLY on the boys' side. They justified it by saying they were younger and didn't have any good ideas. Their first order of business was to put saran wrap on the toilet, which we found before we used the bathroom. I am sure we did something back but the one thing I remember the most was later in the week when we went to dinner. We all ordered cheeseburgers and my mom and Becky wanted our picture. Apparently there is a picture out there of Evan and Skyler putting tabasco all over our burgers while Brittany and I unknowingly smiled for the camera. Honestly, that was really mean. I loved food and to ruin my dinner like that! That is all I can really remember of that one...

-I remember another time when I got to Lawrence Brittany was so excited to see me and gave me a best friend necklace. Of course we are still best friends to this day :-)

-As I got older Spring Breaks were mostly about working. All through high school and college I mostly worked. My senior year of high school though my friends Emily and Debbie and I all went on a road trip to Western Kansas. I  know, how cool. But Debbie and I went to camp together and all of our camp friends lived out there. We first visisted Michael Sager- he entertained us in Bird City by showing us how to throw bottles and street signs while you drive really fast by them. That visit to Bird City was a lot of fun and memorable to say the least. We next went to Garden City and visited Quincy and Sam. Debbie and Sam had something going on and so Emily and I hung out with Quincy most of the time. I am pretty sure they took us roller skating at the awesome Garden City roller rink. It was also while in Garden City that Emily wrecked my dad's car. Needless to say my dad was pissed... That was a good trip though. Lots of laughs and memories made.

-Throughout college Spring break was all about coming back home and working at Jose Peppers. Don't get me wrong I loved the money but all of my friends went on awesome trips. Finally senior year my friend Jenn and I along with 5 guys went to South Padre. Gotta say that was a crazy time. We drove through the night to get there and were apart of one of the student city type trips. We had a blast. Booze cruizes, trips to Mexico, among countless trips to the pool and ocean. It was a blast.

Since then though my Spring Breaks have consisted of working- at my real job. What I know today is that Spring Breaks are something to be cherished. As we grow older it is important to value the breaks you have during school. Don't rush to grow up. Enjoy every moment of your breaks and soak it up b/c it goes away very fast...