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En route to Denmark
Here we are in Denmark! The excitement of being in Europe for the first time with Javier is finally hitting me – I spent a little too much thought and energy dreading the flight to really think about how much fun we are going to have here with my parents! Javier and I always wondered…
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Memorial Day cookout
By the time we got to Memorial Day after that crazy wedding weekend, Javier and I were exhausted but we still wanted to kick off the summer with an inaugural barbecue in the backyard. I invited my parents and a few friends over and we brought out the horseshoe set for a friendly, hardly competitive few games…
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Double wedding weekend!
Last weekend was an insane, crazy whirlwind mixture of fun, friends, dresses, cameras, brides and grooms, wine, beer, coffee, exhaustion, second winds, food, music, scenic views and a million other amazing things. Friday kicked off the weekend festivities with Nikita and Jordan’s rehearsal dinner back at Sylvia’s house where her wedding shower was. The whole…
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Garden update
It’s been awhile since we gave you all a garden update. Soon we will also write an update on the landscape and the flowerbed, but for now this is what we have going on in the veggie garden: Hace tiempo que no actualizamos a todos en como va la huerta. Pronto tambien haremos una actualizacion…
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Baby Gia’s on the way!
My sweet little niece Gia is due to arrive in August, which means we’re only a few months away from meeting the first McClure grandbaby! I’m so excited for Ian and Andrea and I can’t wait to see them as parents – I know they are going to be amazing. This weekend my mom, gma…
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Nikita is getting married!
I cannot believe this wedding is finally (almost) here! Nikita and I were roommates sophomore through senior year of college. She and Jordan started dating a few months before Javi and I did, and she knew from the start that she wanted to marry him! They got engaged last summer and now the wedding is…
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House Plants!
We’re way behind in updates on our garden and our landscaping – but we’ll take care of that soon enough. This past weekend was the first weekend that we’ve both been free enough to clean the whole house, and it’s amazing how nice and clean it is!! We also took care of all the spring cleaning,…
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Destin continued…
You may have noticed that the posts are here are fewer and farther between, which can only mean one thing: the end of the semester is here! And we’re swamped! COMPLETELY SWAMPED. I just finished my first of two comprehensive exams this week (!!!) and the little spare time that Javi and I had last week was…
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McClure takeover: congratulations Andrew and Camala!
Well, I’m pretty sure I’m all traveled out for the month of April! Javier and I just returned with my parents from a long drive home from Destin, where my cousin Andrew married his lovely new wife Camala. My parents and I drove down to Destin on Wednesday, stopping overnight in Birmingham and arriving in…
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Guest Post: Javier is a citizen!!
My grandma wrote this guest post – a wonderful, detailed account for the whole family of Javier’s citizenship ceremony. We couldn’t attend because we were in Florida for my cousin’s wedding, but grandma accompanied Javier and we were so grateful she could be there with him! Thanks gma! Mi abuela escribio este post – una…
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Rose Rosette attack!
Thanks to our Master Gardener class, we learned that one of our roses was terminally ill. Even worse, the disease was highly contagious and could be transmitted through the soil to the other roses close by. How super not awesome is that? Gracias a nuestra clases de Maestros de Jardineria, aprendimos que una de nuestras…
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Guest Post: John and Ian go to Atlanta
Thanks to this guest post from Leslie’s dad John about his trip with Ian to the final 4 and championship game in Atlanta last week! Our family has been watching the Louisville Cardinal basketball team improve all year. When they won the Big East tournament, we knew they were special heading into the tournament. The…
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Los Rodriguez Worms
Since we started our garden we have been looking for ways to use resources that we normally just discard. We installed a rain barrel, which has provided most of the water for our plants and vegetable garden. We also started a compost bin, and it has been more of a challenge than expected. The idea…
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Congratulations Danielle and Chris!!!!
I’m going to need the person out there working on time travel to hurry it on up. I know there’s someone out there working on it – just like there’s surely someone working on teleportation, telepathy, maybe a dog bark-to-English translator like in the movie “Up”. But really, let’s step on the gas with that…
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Rocking the display
On my day off work, I had planned on working on the yard. I wanted to clean the paths between garden beds, weed the flower beds, mow the overgrown weeds, etc…but it was raining, so any fun activity had to be an indoor activity. En mi dia libre, tenia planeado trabajar en el patio. Quería limpiar el…
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Our berry good garden
Our plants continue to arrive. I’ve got to admit that sometimes it is a little weird to think that my plants are coming in the mail…but it works. I actually like that I can do research online, look for what I want, and see them arrive at my door when the right time for planting…
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Danielle is getting married!
It’s Danielle’s wedding week!!! I feel like I’ve been waiting for this wedding for almost a decade! As soon as Danielle and Chris started dating back in 2004, everyone knew that that was it for those two. They make such a great couple and Chris immediately fell in with our group of friends like he…
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We are growing fruit too!!
Most times we are outside, we look at our fence and think….there must be something we can do about this fence. We thought about painting it, but that would take A LOT of paint and money (and effort…). We also thought about growing a vine that could cover the fence over time, and we really…
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We support marriage equality!
Plain and simple – Javier and I support marriage equality. Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on the first of two cases that could establish the constitutional right of LGBT individuals to marry the person they love. I’m wearing red today to support marriage equality (Javi left for work before we got the…
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March Madness
March Madness is not only exciting for basketball fans, it is super exciting for Chupi and Chori!!!!!! Of course, they don’t actually know what is going on (proof: they are napping like champions while the Louisville Cardinals play their game against Colorado State.) Here at home we root for the Louisville Cardinals. Leslie grew up…
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