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| June 4, 2011 |
1 year ago today I married my love. It was a glorious day with blue skies, a gorgeous
venue, delicious food, beautiful flowers, lots of friends & family and a
very happy and in love bride & groom.
A year’s worth of planning came together almost perfectly (so in terms
of weddings – perfectly). Even more important
than our wonderful wedding was the amazing year that followed. To recap:
After our wedding we jetted off to French Polynesia for an
incredible honeymoon. We spent a few
nights in an overwater bungalow, took a 7 day cruise exploring various islands,
saw the most beautiful underwater life during our six dives including sharks!,
ate scrumptious cuisine, and both got some serious travel’s tummy. Travel’s tummy while confined to a cruise ship is
quite a contrast to the beautiful bride & groom from the wedding. For better or worse!
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| Our cruise ship in French Polynesia |
We came home from honeymoon feeling off and I was convinced
we had made a honeymoon baby. Arthur
bought a pregnancy test that I take in a Mexican restaurant during our 12 hr
layover in LA. Turns out no honeymoon
baby, just food baby, but both of us are very surprised that we weren't more
relieved to see the “not pregnant”. The seed
is planted that perhaps we both are way more ready for a baby than we had
thought.
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| Not Pregnant |
After the honeymoon we worked…a lot. I can’t remember having a weekday dinner
together once from July – September! We did go to Martha’s Vineyard for the 4th
of July, went to a couple more weddings, celebrated Mercedes’ 1st
birthday, went to the annual Lobsterboat Races in Bristol ME, started looking at
houses in Maine, and planned a few trips for when work settled down.
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| Mercedes turns 1! |
September brought a weekend in Philadelphia. We caught up with friends and did some sightseeing. We redecorated the master bedroom.
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| Philadelphia |
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| Puerto Rico |
In November we went to Puerto Rico for a long
weekend that neither of us really took the time to plan and decided we much prefer
planned trips. We talked about having a
baby & decided to stop trying to prevent one. In December we went to Argentina &
Brazil, made a baby, and bought a house in Boothbay Harbor, ME. On Christmas Eve we told our parents they
were going to be grandparents in August!
We rang in 2012 in Iceland.
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| Argentina |
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| Boothbay Harbor House |
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| New Year's Eve in Iceland |
Arthur spent the winter working lots both at work and on the Boothbay house.
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| Arthur the expert painter |
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| Not happy about my mask |
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| It's a girl! |
I did much 1st trimester napping and tons of baby reading & research. At the end of March we found out we were having a girl! In April we spent a week relaxing in Jamaica on our babymoon.
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| Jamaica |
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| Happy 30th! |
In
May I threw Arthur a very successful surprise 30th birthday
party. We ended our first year with 3
weekends in a row in Maine and another wedding.
All in all, an amazing, action packed year. In some ways it still feels like we are in
the honeymoon stage (especially when traveling), and in others it feels like we’ve
been married for years. Except for some
seriously long work hours, it’s been a really wonderful year. I’m pretty sure the whole “first year is the
hardest” did not apply (why do they say that?).
Somehow I think adjusting to life with a newborn is going to be a little
bit more challenging than this past year, but I’m really looking
forward to the next family focused (and maybe quieter?) years with my love.
I loved reliving your first year .... I am so happy for both of you......love you so so so much.
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