warning:

pictures may cause extreme jealousy. 

especially for those in dire need of a vacation.

honestly it really sucks to be home from this vacation. 

we had tons of fun spending time with family, eating a butt-load of food, drinking all the pina coladas miami vices and sandos we wanted, and playing for hours in the water.

water. sand. beaches. tan lines. sunburns. buffets. virgin drinks. humidity. sun. rain. exotic and not so exotic animals. laughs. cries. surprises. snorkeling. swimming. pictionary. perverted joke :) (mom). hope. family. love. zip-lines. cliff jumping. deep-sea fishing. sea sickness. throwing up. sunset walks on the beach. catamaran ride. flea markets. souvenirs. mexicans. poor spanish speaking skills. cenotes. airplanes. early morning. late nights. collecting sea shells. making new friends. ADvENTURE.

these are a few of the words and things that describe one AWESOME VACATION!!!

this is our view from the plane. almost in cancun!

im pretty thrilled to be in the taxi and on our way to the hotel.

taryn and i in our matching headbands.

our first buffet dinner.

the crazy raccoon trio that always showed up at the snack bar. (my mom fed them)

everyone having a snack and a drink the first night.

jas and the pretty parrot

there were a few parrots just chillin so we took some pictures with them.

monkey man.

sisters.

please dont take offense. i dont know what they are doing? :)

flea market. awesome masks.

our chef for lunch and my dad. crazy kids.

at the beach in playa del carmen

bros.

t.t. and k.k.- thats what we called each other when we were kids.

everyone at the oriental restaurant. (from bottom left: shag, mom, jas. top left: dad, ryan, taranch, grandma, grandpa, sammy, me)

tulum. this day was freakin rad. we went to tulum. went on some ziplines. did some cliff jumping. went snorkeling in cenotes. snorkeled with sea turtles. snorkeled in a lagoon. wow it was incredible. if you ever go to cancun talk to me and i will give you the name of the people we went through to do this. it was relatively cheap and WELL worth it. 

i have such a cute mom and dad. they are so awesome. my mom planned this whole trip. YOU ROCK J-OWN!

does anyone know what the crap this animal is?

we went deep sea fishing. lets just say me shag and jas didnt do so well. two out of the three of us threw up. and couldnt hardly do a thing. we definitely got my dad's motion sickness genes.

however i got enough energy to go and catch me one little beauty!

titanic anyone?

i love this one.

grandpa caught two red snappers at the same time.

the boys swimming in the deep blue sea. look at that water!

sams backflip off of the top of the boat. he is a dare devil!

all the fishies we caught. well that my husband, ryan, and grandpa caught! :) the rest of us were sick!

lots of reading was done. by everyone but me. man i really need to pick up on that habit.

we went on a catamaran ride to woman island. that was pretty awesome. 

love them.

all the girls. again look at that water!

tar is such a babe. i love this picture of her.

dangling legs.

:) sam and i painted this ceramic for a souvenir. it will go with in our travel room (someday) pretty awesome. 

here we are really sad to be leaving. our flight left at 7 am. that meant a checkout time of 4 am. 

i hate when vacations end. but it was so wonderful. 

thanks mom and dad for everything you did for us. we love you.

until next time

x0x0