Secrets Resort - Huatulco, Mexico

June 14, 2014 Aimee Slade

Hola! My husband and I just returned from a trip to Huatulco, Mexico where we stayed at Secrets Resort and Spa for 8 days through Apple Vacations. It is an incredible vacation spot and I have so much to share. Stay tuned for a full detailed review later in the week!

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Flights to #Maui are officially booked and I’m looking forward to some much needed beach time and visits to my absolute favorite spots like the chef’s dinner @millhousemaui, white chocolate macadamia pancakes at #thegazebomaui and scarfing down cream pies from @leodasmaui. If you’ve got a favorite spot I should add to my itinerary, please share!

Waving goodbye to #vancouver as we set sail for the #sunshinecoast for a romantic weekend away. Here’s some of my absolute favorite spots in this fantastic city: kayaking around Deep Cove, dinner in downtown @thenightingalerestaurant, happy hour @liftbarandgrill and the best gelato I’ve had outside of Italy @bellagelateria. Until we meet again Vancouver ✌️ #vancouverbc #travelvancouver #canada #travelcanada #travel #travelblogger #luxurytravel #downtownvancouver

It’s hard to believe that today marks 9 years of marriage... but at the same time so much has happened to get us here. We sure have shared some epic adventures, but what’s not shown in the pretty pictures are the hard days, painful moments and struggles that every marriage, especially ours, has endured through the years. In a time where we have too much access to comparing ourselves to insta-perfection, I want to be real about what we celebrate after 9 years of doing life together... the beautiful and the ugly parts. -We celebrate being a 1 & a 3 who are different in every way imaginable and see the world from different lenses. -We celebrate that after leaving the church where we met, and being “churchless” for 4 years, we finally found a place to call home in community with great friends. -We celebrate the ups and downs of 5 jobs and 2 businesses, at times losing confidence in ourselves and fearing the future. -We celebrate the home we have made together, with my mom, who nourishes our marriage by being such a great help in every way imaginable. -We mourn once wanting kids, the realization we probably can’t have any and continue to struggle with what that means for us. -We are grateful for marriage counseling. Seriously. It’s been a powerful tool to help navigate hard topics, teach us better communication and maintain even when everything is great. We strongly believe every marriage should go to counseling AND be open about it so it’s not such a taboo topic. -We celebrate all the fights we’ve had and will have over stupid shit like leaving the oven on (again) or real pain like not feeling attractive enough anymore, but knowing that we will come back together in apology and understanding... eventually. -We celebrate 7 years of no movies or tv with nudity or sex because that was a trigger for pornography and we felt we had to protect our marriage by resetting the images we allowed in our minds and in our home. It’s been hard (because hell yes we want to watch Game of Thrones! Colin’s a geek who read most of the books before it was a thing) but it’s been so cleansing and healing that it’s just not worth it for us. -We celebrate continuing to choose us ❤️

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