honeymoon recap - Ashley Zin

Hi friends! I wasn’t planning on writing this post because I’m going to be sharing with you another post I wrote for a different site later on, buuuut I’m really loving both writing and reading Friday Favorite posts. So I figured I would just do both posts! 😉

Check back later on today for the link to my guest post about ways to practically cast your cares on God.

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I’ve been experimenting with new recipes this week and this one was so. good. It was so healthy too. It was actually served with chicken as well, but I snapped this picture before putting the cooked chicken back into the pan because the colors just looked so pretty. The recipe can be found here. 🙂

This was the first time I cooked gnocchi and they are delicious! Especially paired with the tomatoes, they are seriously just too good.

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I’ve been doing so much crocheting this week, it’s been great. This blanket that I’m working on here is almost done! I’m actually headed to Michael’s after I finish this post to buy more yarn for it. I’m going to be selling it on Etsy as soon as I get everything up and running. Don’t miss the launch date! I’d love to have you along for the journey, so follow me on my Etsy Instagram (@ashleyzincrochets). 🙂

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I told ya I’ve been experimenting with different recipes this week. 😉 This one was honestly so good too. It’s a great swap for a high calorie side dish. The insides are filled with heavy cream, cheese, pepper, garlic, and a crumpled bouillon cube! So clever. This recipe can be found here.

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I recapped our honeymoon this week and it made me want to hop on a plane straight to the Caribbean so badly! That’s what living in New Jersey in March will do to you though, haha. I am so ready for warmer weather and beach days!

Tommy and I are making the drive from New Jersey to Florida two weeks from today though! I can’t complain too much about the weather since I’ll be in sunny Florida soon enough. 🙂

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I revamped my Pinterest account this week and I’d love it if you would follow along with me. I have created tons of fun boards that make me really excited – from Fitness Routines to Ways to Use Essential Oils. I also pin the recipes that I use throughout the week as well. I’m confident you can find something that will be useful. Leave a comment with your blog and Pinterest and I’d love to follow along with you too. 🙂

Today I’m linking up with these wonderful ladies!

Today is the last installment of our wedding series! 🙁 While I’m sad to see it go, it’s probably about time haha, I think I’ve been doing these for about two months. Today I’m going to share pictures and tell a little bit about our honeymoon in the Dominican Republic! We were actually really bad about taking pictures, but I will share with you what we did document. 🙂 If you missed any of the other posts in this series, you can check them out below:

New York City + A Mishap

Right at the end of our reception we took a limo from the venue to New York City where we would fly out right to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic! P.S. Let’s not forget though, the pastor who officiated our wedding forgot to sign and have everyone else sign our wedding license, so we technically were not “officially” married at this point! We had to meet him, and have him bring two random “witnesses” to sign our wedding license on the way into the city!!! It was crazy and stressful and definitely not how I pictured this time, haha. But now I guess we have a fun story to tell. 😉

We finally arrived at our hotel in the city at close to midnight, but at least we made it and were now officially married! It was a gorgeous hotel room, which we actually didn’t take any pictures of because we were so overwhelmed with what had just happened and about the fact that we were now married!! This is when it actually hit me, and I still get so excited when I think back on this moment.

Up Bright and Early To Catch A Plane

The plane ride was about 3 hours and wasn’t bad at all. We still were so excited to be married that it really didn’t matter what we did at this point I don’t think, we were just so happy. We stayed at Confresi Palm Beach & Spa Resort, which was all-inclusive.

Arriving at our Resort

We arrived and got settled into our room and were just so thankful to be there. It’s actually killing me to write about this because I am so desperately craving a trip to a tropical beach right now, haha! Up above is the view right outside our hotel room.

Fun in the Sun

We spent our days by first waking up and making the most amazing coffee in our room, and drinking it our on the balcony while reading our Bibles. Then we would head to breakfast at the buffet, and go back to our rooms and change into bathing suits. We would then head to either one of the really nice pools they had or down to the beach.

On the beach in the picture above, there were wait staff where they would bring you any food or drink you wanted right to your chair. It was awesome, but a little much for Tommy and I, haha.

Our Fun Rings

We bought these rings from Qalo to use on our honeymoon because we heard of all the horror stories of people losing their rings on their honeymoons. These rings are great, and we still use them to this day if we’re doing anything were we think we could lose them.

Our Evenings

After we were done spending the day at the pool we would go back and shower and get ready for dinner. We either would head back to the buffet (where we would also eat for lunch), or go to one of the restaurants we made reservations for. Our favorite was the Italian restaurant (pictured above).

A Sick Day

We did have one day that was not the greatest. I got sick during the middle of the vacation, and ended up going to the doctors on the resort. They gave me antibiotics and I was okay the next day.

All in all though it was a great first trip to take as husband and wife. We headed back home after six nights there and it was so much fun. Now I am missing it so much and desperately want to go back! 🙁

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