All you need is a socket set and a long breaker bar if you remove the front upper A-Arm bolt. The spring will come out easily, if you undo the top nut slowly. It's not compressed very much. Putting the new springs in is even easier. Just have a friend push down on the cap and put the nut on.
I had to remove the upper A-Arm bolt because even with the anti-sway bar disconnected, I still couldn't pull the strut assembly out no matter how hard I pushed down on the lower arm. Removing the A-Arm bolt wasn't hard at all either (the driver side requires disassembling the wheel well shroud near the front to pull the bolt out). Once that came out, the strut came out easily.
The rears just require 4 nuts be removed, 3 up top, 1 below.
Just be sure to remove the brakeline from the chassis mount, at least for the fronts, or you might pull it apart pushing down on the control arm assembly (I removed them all completely along with the calipers and rotors, since I was replacing them anyway).
The whole job took less than 2 hours.