Author: Leslie
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Crazy August
We’re closing in on the last few weeks of summer and we’re packing a ton of stuff into the last couple of weeks. I think we planned our summer this way anticipating that I’d be completely finished with my thesis by now…well, it was a nice dream. Actually I’m so close to finishing that I…
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Windowsill Collection
Last week in the mail Javi and I got a really cool gift from my uncle Warren. Warren is a high school chemistry and earth sciences teacher and has been collecting rocks, minerals, fossils, sharks teeth – you name it – for as long as I can remember. His collection is AMAZING and he’s won…
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computer crisis
So – back to the computer and the water. There actually wasn’t enough water to damage anything inside of the computer, but unfortunately the computer was plugged in and the water hit the spot where the charger plugs into the computer…so the screen immediately went black, never to illuminate again. At the time, I didn’t…
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good company and a bit of suspense
This week is going by SO SLOWLY. Last week we were spoiled because we started the week still on a little vacation high and then the 4th of July holiday in the middle of the week, so it seemed like we got to the weekend in no time. On Friday Corinne came into town just…
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Golden birthday!
This past Tuesday I celebrated my golden birthday – turning 26 on the 26th day of the month. Javi thinks the golden birthday concept is dumb, but that’s because his was when he was 6 years old and he didn’t know what a golden birthday was back then. Not that it matters anyway – I didn’t throw…
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Insanity: the first days
Well folks, we’re now 4 days into Insanity and it’s been an experience already! When we started P90X we decided to do the program by the book to determine whether or not the program really worked and to get the maximum results. With Insanity, we are more interested in starting a new workout for change…
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Wedding Weekend Part 2!
Part two of our wedding weekend starts on Saturday morning after Ellen’s wedding. We rode with my parents down to Birmingham, Alabama for our friend Jennifer Faulkner’s wedding. My brother and I grew up visiting the Faulkners in Birmingham whenever we’d go down to see my grandparents in Alabama. My dad spent part of his…
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Wedding weekend part 1!
Javier and I spent this weekend in major party mode. I think I wore half of the dresses in my closet this weekend with all the fun wedding festivities going on! On Friday and Saturday night we attended two amazing weddings – one in Nashville and the other in Birmingham. This post is part 1…
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We finished P90X!
Well, we finished P90X! It’s a little anti-climactic on the blog, since we aren’t posting before / after pics to prove that we had results. But really, and this is the third time (I think) that I’ve mentioned this in a post, we would not have gone the whole 90 days if we weren’t seeing…
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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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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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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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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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working on that work / life balance
I mentally prepared myself all week to pass the weekend in a state of slight panic and under major stress trying to finish up the semester, but I was pleasantly surprised on Friday when I found myself 2 pages ahead of schedule on my final paper for one of my classes. SO, to celebrate minor…
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Our Easter!
Our Easter day was awesome. It’s the closest I’ve come to a vacation all semester and the closest I’ll get to vacation again til June. I spent all day Saturday doing work for school so I could safely take the day off on Sunday. We took the doggos to the Dog Spot early in the morning…
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Spring Cleaning!
My spring cleaning desperation got the best of me this weekend. Every spring my summer clothes start piling up on the floor, on furniture and on pretty much every surface where they don’t belong. The mountains of clothing start to materialize right around the same time that mountains of homework and assignments pile up. Since nobody is…
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It’s the REAL Easter!
The title refers to something that I said when I was a kid. I don’t really remember it very well, but the story has been retold to me enough that I know it definitely happened! Apparently on Easter when I was around 4-years-old we were sitting in the pew at church and all of the…
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Semana Santa in the South of Spain
Six years ago I spent Semana Santa, or Holy Week, traveling the south of Spain with my good friend Camila. She and I had a week off from classes and decided to take a train down to Malaga, Granada and Sevilla for one of the best and most beautiful weeks of my entire study abroad…
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Aiyeshley’s off to D.C.!
Our friend Ashley (not really spelled Aiyeshley – but that’s another story for probably never) is moving to D.C. this week! I still can’t believe she’s leaving – well, it’s very believable that she got a great job and will be happy in D.C. with her boyfriend Dylan, but I can’t believe she won’t be…
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