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    My First Trimester and 13 Week Bumpdate

    Wow! Wow, wow, wow, you guys. Cory and I have been blown away! We have received so much encouragement from you guys and we can’t thank you enough! I have so much to share from the past 13 or so weeks so let’s get started because this is a long one! Cory and I were trying to get pregnant but we kept it very hush, hush. We actually planned on starting to try for a baby after we got home from Rwanda in 2014 but I fell in love with the country and just knew I had to go back this past year. And yes, I have cried many a night knowing…

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    Family Pregnancy Announcements

    Happy Tuesday, y’all! First, I want to say a huge, huge thanks for all the congratulation texts and messages on Facebook that we received. We are so blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful friends (in real life and in blogging)! We had a snowed-in weekend so there’s not much to share on that front. But what I’ve been dying to share is how we announced our pregnancy to our families!  We kept our pregnancy a secret from everyone, including our family, for well over a month. Talk about the hardest kept secret ever! But we came up with unique ways to tell the people that mean the most to…

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    Baby Sloan is on the Way!

    While everyone else up and down the east coast was expecting a blizzard today, Cory and I are over here expecting a… BABY!!! And we couldn’t be more thrilled! It’s been the hardest secret to keep the past 13 weeks but well worth the wait to see our sweet Hot Pie, not once but twice the past month. I will be sharing all the details about our first trimester next week and also can’t wait to share the reactions we got from our family. They were all perfect and priceless!