A busy Memorial Day weekend

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This past weekend flew by! It was an extra long weekend for Javi – he only had a half day on Friday and he had Monday off. Even though I don’t technically have an office job, with my master’s thesis looming overhead and ample RA work I definitely don’t feel like I’m off for the […]

Happy anniversary Tara and Jorge!

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Back in January I posted about my incredible study abroad experience in Santiago de Compostela in 2006. Aside from that one 6-month trip I’ve been back to Santiago de Compostela twice – once for two months in the summer of 2007 to visit friends and do the Camino for my senior thesis and again in […]

Garden Update: The Transplant

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This garden of ours is Javier’s baby – he dreamed it up, build the beds, fenced them in with chicken wire (which I now know is really hard to do alone!), bought the plants and researched the soil etc. etc. and did it all on his own. The only part of this that I can […]

The weekend we hosted 6

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A few weekends ago Javier and I hosted more people than ever before in our little mansion – all told there were 8 of us sleeping under one roof! Danielle, Gretchen, Sarah, David, Brandon and Chris all came to Nashville for a weekend visit that went by WAY too fast. In case you didn’t catch […]

We are under attack!!

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The garden is looking great and we are really excited to see that most of the plants that we started from seed (corn, sunflowers, and radishes) are growing and growing FAST! I realized that I overwatered some plants, which resulted in a powdery mildew attack on the squash! AHHHHHHH!!! La huerta se ve genial y […]

Sangria & a bachelorette

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Two weeks ago the weekend started off with my good friend Ellen’s bachelorette party. For the party prep, I picked up a huge order of rice, beans, meat and tortillas from La Hacienda, one of our favorite Mexican restaurants in town. We decided that the best choice for drink to go with the food would […]

From P90X to P97X

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The last couple of weeks created a real challenge for us to finish P90X. It’s not that we are tired, bored, sick of working out or so close to finishing that we are getting too lazy to actually do it…it’s just that for some reason, our schedules are conspiring to make us fail. Las ultimas […]

A note for Javi’s mom

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I am always so thankful for everything my mom has taught me and all the hard work she has put towards giving me and my sisters the best possible life. My mom always supported me in every decision I made. One of the most important ones was when I moved away from home when I […]

A list for Leslie’s mom

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This is a list, but it’s not exhaustive or in any particular order. This is a list  how my mom facilitated some of my all-time favorite memories (check back for Javier’s list tomorrow!). Esta es una lista, pero no es global y no tiene un orden en particular. Esta es una lista de como mi […]

Growing from seed!

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To continue with the gardening theme (see previous posts on starting the garden here and what we planted here), one evening last week we saw a tower of seeds at the grocery store and decided to try growing a few plants from scratch. All of the rest of the plants we have were already in […]

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