Wow, I took a long break from blogging didn't I? I don't really even have an excuse...just being lazy I guess. Harmony took our Maughan family pictures about a month ago, and they turned out so cute. Good job Harms! Here are a some of our favorites if you would like to look at a million pictures of our family...if not, I should have our Christmas pictures posted in no time.
2008 was a GREAT YEAR. I'm a little sad to see it go, but I'm of course excited for the New Year of 2009! I still have to post all of my Christmas pictures, but I still have to get them from Ange and Courtney, who are always the picture-takers at family events. But until then, I have our New Years Pictures. We started out with a dinner to Macaroni Grill...so yummy.
Alissa, Adam, Gabe, and Melissa
Ange, Austin, Bran, and me
Then we headed over to Adam and Alissa's to hang out. Alissa bought awesome 2009 apparrel. We had fun wearing them for alllll of our pictures. Here's the boys.
And the ladies. Note: Ange is blowing with all of her might
Happy New Years babe!
For some reason, us girls really wanted a picture of us jumping in the air. We probably took 100 trying to get the right one. We were all sweating, and tired from jumping off the couch a million times! It was fuunnny though.
We almost got a good one, but Ange and Alissa collided ankles (you can see the pain in their faces), although Melissa and I just look plain awesome in this one.
We finally got it!
Woo-hoo! 
It's taken me forever to get these up- and I still have all of our Christmas pics too! I've gotta get on the ball. Well here are our last three days in Cancun. On Thanksgiving, we started out with some para sailing. It was soooo fun. I was pretty freaked out, because I'm scared of heights, but I would definitely do it again...and again. Bran and I went first and we took the camera up with us. We have so many pictures, so I just chose a few.
It was kinda scary because we were just sitting in this seat, with nothing strapping us in. I was like, "There are no seat belts?!" I was seriously holding onto the bars for dear life while we were up there.
Mike and Pauline went next.
Here they are on their way up....up...up
Hold your breath for this one...Bran and I got to go AGAIN for FREE. Chris had no one to go with, so they let Bran and me go up again. Yay!
When they bring you back down, they have you "free fall" and hit the water. That's the best part of the whole thing!
Then when they bring you into the boat, you slam into the back of it. It's a rough ride!
After para sailing, we went and played at the beach some more. Brandon's dad was at our hotel while we were down at the beach. He looked out, and took a picture while Chris and Bran were in the ocean. Look at this picture-- if you look at it closely, you can see Bran and Chris both catching this wave. It's soo sweet!
That night, Mike was set on eating at an authentic Mexican restaurant. We were all a little iffy since our stomachs had already been in knots. We got recommendations from a lady at our hotel, and we set off to find this place. We found it, and we parked in a dark alley way to walk to our little Mexican place. (Are you visualizing it??) We walk in, and the three hostesses pretty much attack us, and start dressing us in all of their Mexican clothes, have us pose, and take a picture of us. Then they sit us down, and Mike shows them the coupons the lady from the hotel gave him. Um...we were at the WRONG SPOT!
We had no idea if this place was safe, but we decided we were already there, and we just needed to stop being babies and eat up. Well, it turned out being a fun and memorable night. The boys loved their food, and Pauline and I begged to differ with our questionable enchiladas. (Yep, that proved to be true the next morning for Pauline and me-- it was not fun...)
The restaurant was a little like our tour boat from the last post. Everyone was drunk and dancing. We could not even get our waiter's attention because he was up dancing with the rest of the people! We finally got his attention, and were waiting for our check. Pauline and I were waiting in the front because we were REALLY ready to go at this point. We hear some noise outside, and what do you know?? Our whole restaurant is dancing down the street holding balloons, and walking in a line! It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. It turned out to be a fun Thanksgiving Dinner =)
The next day, we went to Xel-Ha, which is a natural lagoon. On our way there, we stopped at Talum, some ancient ruins. They were soooo cool. I could go on and on about our experience, but just take my word for it- and GO if you are ever in Cancun. And be sure and ask for Mosiah as your tour guide!
Here's a watch tower. This is the first place the Spaniards came. So cool!
At Xel-Ha, we didn't get many pictures because we didn't have our camera with us. We got a couple of cute ones of Bran and Chris snorkeling though! Like I said, this was a natural Lagoon. It's not stocked, fish just come in and out of here as they please. We didn't know this while we were snorkeling, and saw a huge sting ray. We chased it and everything to see where it was going. We're lucky he didn't turn and stab us. We talked to a man who said at about 7 that morning, he saw a 6-foot barracuda in there. Ahh! It was awesome. They also had cliff jumping, and rope swinging. It was a fun day!
Because we had such a great experience at Talum, we decided we HAD to go to Chichen Itza. It was soooo cool...once again. This pyramid is one of the seven wonders of the world. It's so cool. We got an LDS tour guide, which made everything unreal. They say this is where they think King Benjamin gave his famous address. Sweet huh?
There were two thousand of these pillars with warrior's faces on them. They say it was a memorial to the two thousand strippling warriors.
This was their baptismal font. Chichen Itza was so awesome. I have a million pictures from there, but it would take all day posting them and explaining them. Once again, just go there if you get the chance! 
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One of the only ones with Gage smiling like that--so cute!
Cutest picture ever
Grandparents with their grandkids
Bran and me trying to be serious...I couldn't be worse at that
The Maughan ladies
Just love that girl
Look at those eyes!
I love Bran and Gage in this one
