thanks!

Our trip to Mexico started off right.  Thayne and I unsuspectingly laid out our travel outfits Sunday night for out 7:15 AM departure to beautiful Cancun, Mexico....lo and behold, when Monday morning came...

The classic "I-laid-out-the-exact-same-outfit-as-Thayne-again" Davis family curse.  It happens around once a week.  I made Thayne change outfits so the other couples on the trip wouldn't be jealous of how compatible and in love we are.

 What would a trip anywhere be without...fishing?!  Thayne, James, and my dad took a morning to go bone fishing and caught some fearsome barracudas along the way!

I know this is an inappropriate amount of photos of us in these awesome lifejackets, but I couldn't pick just one.  On a day trip to Isla Mujeres (Woman Island!), we took a little boat around the bay to esnorklear (as the Mexicans say) and see the beauty that lies beneath the water. Sadly for James, the island was not full of mujeres.

We met a bunch of tropical fish and some friendly barracudas that were nice enough not to eat us.

We also made good friends with this shark who has apparently lost the will to live.  If I were him, I'd have chomped through that homemade cage and any human who got in my way and swim to freedom! Speaking of illegal, as we were walking past this little sandy area on the beach, we noticed some hotel workers watching about 100 baby turtle struggle their way out of the sand.  We witnessed the miracle of life on this trip and it was amazing.  Later in the evening, we were allowed to come down and set the baby turtles free into the ocean.  We, of course, drew a line in the sand and raced them to the ocean.  This = Federal Offense in the USA?

Picture on the left: obviously we all gained 5 pounds this week. Picture on the right: this is a tower where Mormon cried repentance unto the wicked people.  Joke, but seriously, Chichen Itza was incredible.  What a great opportunity to step into the past and see what this great Mayan civilization could do! We also learned about December 21, 2012...you know, the end of the world.  It's apparently going to be pretty epic.  Too bad we have the Davis family Christmas party that night, the Mayans will have to reschedule.

 All in all, the trip was about family.  We had such a fun time just being together, eating anything we could get our hands on together, getting horribly sunburned together, getting lost on Mexican highways together, and eating some more together.  I am so grateful to have a family where every single member is important and contributes something unique (and I mean UNIQUE) to the whole of it.  Thayne and I both felt such gratitude for both of our families and the support and examples and friends they are to us.  We are grateful for the covenants and promises that bind us together forever.  We are thankful we can mess up and be forgiven and we are thankful for the wonderful week we had with the Bourne's.  Mom, dad, mikey, ash, havey, jamesy, katie, sam, sophie....WE LOVE YOU!  And we are also grateful for food.