thank you, holidays

thank you for helping us eat thanksgiving

thank you for doing ALL the dishes in your cute yellow gloves

thank you for letting us spoil your cutest-kids-ever-on-earth for christmas

thank you for helping us open presents christmas morning,

and for walking around temple square with us on a really, really, really cold night

thank you for jumping off a pier with me in mexico

thank you, helaman, for the meat snack on your tour

thank you for reminding us we are just a small part of the plan, and there were many before us and will be many after us

thank you for sunrises we breathe in

thank you for helping us test our underwater camera

thank you for your amazing upside-down push-up skills,

and for always making me laugh

thank you for all the game nights

even when one of us is really, really tired

(read: "a magician this monkey holds up a new york city bank in"

...translation: a magician and his monkey hold up a new york city bank)

thank you for the wrestling match--it had been a while

thank you for taking me out for a gourmet dinner every night at the resort

thank you for all the family photos...

on ek balam ruins...

on the stairs at the resort...

at the lunch table...

and wearing masks i never thought i'd see my family wear...