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Pregnancy Announcement & First Trimester Recap

If you didn’t pick up the glaring hint in the title of this post…I’m pregnant! Baby Adams is due this November, and we are ecstatic! We found out at the end of February, and I finished up my first trimester at the end of April. I thought I’d write trimester recap posts covering a variety of pregnancy-related topics.

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Honeymoon Cruise | Part III

We hopped off the ship early to get in line for our sailboating excursion. As it turned out, we were the only two people on a boat of over a thousand retirees interested in an afternoon of rigorous rope-pulling and helm-manning. Private sailing lesson? Don’t mind if we do! We boarded the racing sailboat owned by a woman from Britain who relocated to St. Lucia. Her and her assistant, a St. Lucia local, showed us the ropes (literally).

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Honeymoon Cruise | Part II

Early in the morning, our ship arrived at our first destination: St. Croix. We immediately got off the ship to line up for our planned excursion: The Rum Tour. Our small bus drove across the tiny island; we passed miles of ruined buildings that had not yet been repaired following the most recent hurricane that hit the Caribbean islands.

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Honeymoon Cruise | Part I

Now that final exams are over, I finally have time to blog about the honeymoon cruise Austin and I went on last month! Although we did get married back in May, we decided to wait until November to take our honeymoon because we snagged an awesome deal on a 12-night Southern Caribbean cruise from Royal Caribbean.

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25th Birthday Festivities + Grad School Update

My birthday week has now come to an end, and it was definitely a good one! I’m a quarter-of-a-century old now! I’m mature, I’m wise, I’m the adultiest adult I’ve ever been. And two days after my birthday, I got the best gift of all—I completed my very last final exam of the semester!

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