Month: May 2012
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A busy Memorial Day weekend
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…
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Happy anniversary Tara and Jorge!
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…
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Garden Update: The Transplant
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…
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The weekend we hosted 6
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…
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Sangria & a bachelorette
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…
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From P90X to P97X
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…
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A note for Javi’s mom
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…
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A list for Leslie’s mom
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…
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Growing from seed!
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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We are growing our own food – The plants
Leslie and I want to grow so many things in our garden but since we are rookies we decided to go for some of the “easier” things to grow this season. Once we get some experience, we will diversify our produce portfolio! So here our list of plants: Leslie y yo queremos plantar tantas cosas…
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We are growing our own food – The set up
We’ve tossed around the idea of starting a garden since we moved into our house, but with so many other projects spring and summer flew by last year so we had to wait until it was time to plant again. This is our very first garden – neither of us has any experience growing plants…
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Riverside Blossom Festival
Back to our series on why Riverside Village and South Inglewood are awesome! It’s been awhile since we posted about our neighborhood – so lest you forget! It’s the best! And here’s another reason why: De vuelta a nuestra serie de posts donde es decimos lo genial que son Riverside Village y South Inglewood. Hace…
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Name the robin!
The growing season continues at Los Rodriguez mansion. The little birds are getting some feathers and they are eating away! Those parents must be working around the clock to get enough worms for these hungry little fellas. La temporada de crecimiento continua en la Mansion Rodriguez. Los pajaritos estan creciendo plumas y comen como locos!…
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It’s growing season
The spring has brought many changes to our yard; fast growing grass, mysterious plants, beautiful flowers, rebellious weeds – there are so many living things that we tend to not pay attention to. Plants grow slowly but steadily and despite how slow they grow it is amazing how quick they get out of control. La…
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And our vacation destination is…
We’re going to Colorado!! So first, thank you to EVERYONE who commented, texted and e-mailed us ideas about vacation destinations – we have about 50 ideas for future vacations and every single one of them sounds awesome. I know we originally said that the west side of the country was out of the question, but…
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