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Thanksgiving Javi Style Mashed Potatoes
For a couple of years now I have been assigned to mashed potato duty at Thanksgiving. I am not sure why I was asked to make them in the first place since honestly I don’t have a recipe to make them. I guess I’m an expert now since the family keeps asking me to make…
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Another very McClure Thanksgiving!
Happy belated Thanksgiving!! We are still recovering from turkey / corn casserole / sweet potato / praline pie comas…Yesterday was a total blast. We drove up to Louisville with my parents on Wednesday evening after Javier got off work and made it to my aunt Marian and uncle Stephen’s house by around 10:30. The traffic…
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Corn bread adventure
Cornbread was something completely unknown to me before moving to the States. It never sounded very tasty or appetizing (much like meatloaf). Bread made with corn?…it just did not click for me until I tried it. With thanksgiving coming up I decided to go for a new adventure and try to make some cornbread. I…
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CJ Jacobs for LAX Magazine Preseason Player of the Year!
Happy Saturday friends! Just wanted to write a quick post to promote my fabulous cousin CJ Jacobs who is up for preseason player of the year in LAX Magazine. This magazine is the premier Lacrosse publication in the country and it’s a huge honor to be recognized for this! CJ is in the MCLA Division…
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Thanksgiving “break” and music!
Happy Friday friends! And this girl is so happy that it’s Friday, and not just any ol’ Friday! Starting tomorrow I’m officially on Thanksgiving break! Which means: – no classes next week (yay!) – no classes = no homework = more time to finish up final papers (…yay!) – free parking on campus because it’ll be…
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Sprucing up the porch
Our porch is, in my opinion, one of the best parts of our house and Javi and I spend as much time as we can out there. It’s also the home to the Porch Practice Sessions for Hickory Slims, so I spend quite a bit of time on that little slab of concrete in front…
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VOTE: for the next King of the Backyard!
Even without the barrage of reminders on various social media outlets about election day, it should be pretty clear by now that it’s finally time to vote. This morning I did my civic duty and voted, and this is Javier’s last election as a non-citizen. Next time around he’ll be able to vote too! My presidential pick isn’t much…
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Halloween at Los Rodriguez mansion
Well, Halloween was scary for us for a few reasons. First, on Tuesday night before Halloween Javier and I realized that the reason Chupete had been acting weird all day was not, in fact, because he was scared of the halloween decorations we put up (though it is very true that he’s scared of them).…
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Making the most of the weekend
(side note: don’t forget to enter our giveaway! We are picking a winner on Monday!) (Nota : No se olviden de entrar en nuestro concurso! Vamos a elegir al ganador el Lunes!) We’re so excited for this weekend – it’s the first completely free weekend we’ve had in a long, long time. No plans, no…
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Los Rodriguez Life Giveaway / Sorteo !
As you might have noticed from our posts over the past week, we were nominated for Best Bilingual Blogger at the LATISM 2012 Conference. Houston hosted the conference this year and the conference featured many popular Latino/a bloggers. We couldn’t be there this year but we hope to join in the fun at future conferences.…
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Los Rodriguez Mansion: Ready for Halloween!
During our stay in Chris and Danielle’s home in Cincinnati we got really excited about their Halloween decorations. They love Halloween and at that point we hadn’t even thought about decorating our house. It’s not that we don’t like Halloween but we didn’t want to pay full in-season prices for Halloween decor (as Dani said:…
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LATISM Best Bilingual Blogger Nomination!
click on the image above or go here: http://conference.latism.org/latism-awards-2/ to vote for us! One really cool wordpress stats feature is that you can see the “referrers” to the blog – or the various sites that direct people to losrodriguezlife.com. Most of the time for us this includes facebook, twitter, stumbleupon, pinterest, or search engines, but today…
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Trip to Cinci!
A couple weekends ago Javi and I drove to Cincinnati to visit our friends Danielle and Chris and take their engagement photos. We left early Saturday morning after dropping our pups off at the Dog Spot and made it to Cinci by around 2:30. We didn’t waste any time getting to the photoshoot – Cinci…
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Chupete is two!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUPETE!!! Our little buddy turned 2 years old on October 11. We actually know the exact date because technology is amazing and through a variety of social media outlets we were connected to the owners of Chupete’s brother Waylon! Can you believe it? They got Waylon only a few weeks after the pups…
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The 30/60 Party!!
Whew – we’ve got a lot of ground to cover. Not only am I a more than a week late posting about the epic 30/60 party but we’ve also since taken a trip to Cinci, did an engagement photoshoot with Danielle and Chris and other little things in between (like Chupi turning 2!!). So, it’s…
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Friday Party Prep
So this month my brother (Ian) and dad turn 30 and 60, and Ian decided that we had to celebrate this momentous occasion with a first-rate McClure party. My parents and brother know a thing or two about throwing parties: my parents threw a huge Derby party every year for a decade back when we…
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DIY Big Face Poster
**CLICK HERE TO READ THE UPDATED DIY POST FROM 2018** We are sure that at this point you guys have seen plenty of giant faces jumping around the stands in football games, basketball games and just about every sporting event. We think they are pretty funny watching from the TV – but there is no…
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Hickory Slims!
(check out Leslie’s new band Hickory Slims on facebook!) Long long ago (…2005) in a land flowing with whiskey and bluegrass harmonies, the band known as Angus Whyte and the Irish Rednecks worked tirelessly to entertain the masses with their cheeky antics and wildly entertaining tunes. Over the years band members came and went, but…
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Rodriguez Fajitas!
There’s nothing all that special about these that make them “Rodriguez fajitas” except that the peppers come from our lovely (now potted) bell pepper plants! Javi and I needed a new way to fix up our chicken – the whole baked chicken thing was great for the first 3 months after we discovered our favorite…
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Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very bad (just kidding it was awesome) Weekend
What a weekend! Going into it Javi and I didn’t have a ton of stuff planned but boy are we good at filling up our time. On Friday evening Javi and I experimented with making sweet potato chips. Everyone has since told me that it’s really not hard to make anything “chips” but I had…
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