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Family Road Trip!
I never got a chance to write about our road trip home with my parents after Jennifer and Daniel’s wedding in Birmingham but it was a pretty fun time! So here goes. On Sunday morning we decided to make a couple of “must do while in Birmingham” stops. I mentioned before that my dad spent…
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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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We have hammocks!
As a birthday present from my family I got some money to use for anything I wanted. The only condition was that I had to use it for something fun, not for paying bills or to put into savings (which they know I tend to do). My first thought was to maybe use it towards…
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Our dads – two peas in a pod
June 17 was a very important date for us. Like most people, we celebrated father’s day with our dads (with Javi’s dad via the world wide web) but we also added Pancho’s birthday celebration into the mix. As we normally do on Sundays, we got together at John and Annie’s home and had a delicious meal…
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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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Garden update…
The garden is growing and starting to yield some tasty veggies for us. There’s nothing big yet but at least we have started to see growth and fruits. I was worried about one of our beds since it seemed like the plants did not want to grow there, but now everything is getting big and…
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How to celebrate a birthday in two places!
Last week was my birthday and since it fell on a Wednesday, it turned into a week-long celebration. On the Sunday before my birthday, my parents-in-law and grandma-in-law (yeah, I just said that and if it doesn’t exist I am bringing it to life…) had us over at their house to relax by the pool…
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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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StoryCorps in Nashville
During one of our trips to the Nashville Farmer’s Market one Saturday we saw a beautiful AirStream parked inside where the booths are, which called our attention immediately. We went to check it out and to our surprise the trailer was the StoryCorps mobile studio! For those who don’t know what StoryCorps is, it is…
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Mitchell’s Deli!
Returning to the “our neighborhood rules” series, we wanted to dedicate a post to our favorite deli around. Mitchell’s Deli was the first place Javi and I tried out in Riverside Village when we first moved here. We were in the middle of unpacking and we didn’t have a fridge in the house yet so…
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Eat your beets!
Since I was a kid beets have called my attention – it’s probably because my mom made them so tasty, but also because of the deep purple color they have and their sweet flavor that mixes perfectly with a lemon, olive oil, and salt dressing. Since I moved to the U.S. from Chile the only…
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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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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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