Tag: fall
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Fall Photo Madness
It’s been a beautiful fall for photography, and I lucked out working with some amazing families in Louisville and Nashville! One of my favorite perks of doing family sessions is getting to see how families grow and change year after year. Kids growing up, new additions to the family – it’s such a privilege to […]
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We Have a Garden!
Back in Nashville, Javier spent an immense amount of time and effort building up our garden from summer 2011 after we moved in right up until fall 2015 when we moved away. Every year he’d add a raised bed and fence it all in again with chicken wire. He’d come home from work or class […]
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Fall Means…
It may not *officially* be fall, but the temperatures have cooled off significantly (for now) in Louisville, the “ber” months have arrived, Michael’s already has a 60% off sale on Halloween decor to prepare for Christmas and Krispy Kreme has pumpkin cake donuts. So…yeah. For all intents and purposes, it’s FALL. Penelope will arrive any […]
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Weekend at home
We’ve been busy around here! Two weekends ago was everything a weekend-at-home should be. On Friday Javi and I spent the evening eating pizza and playing scrabble with grandma at home. Javi won that round. On Saturday we started off with Sunday Morning Pancake Mix chocolate chip pancakes (as every Saturday should start). Javi studied, I lounged, […]
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Bulb attack!
Some of our favorite flowers are bulbs. Last year when we worked on our new landscape it was too late to plant bulbs and we had to wait to the next fall to plant. Well, fall is here, and bulbs are here! We went crazy planting them throughout our landscaping. I’ll tell you what we […]
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Sweet potatoes
Sweet Potatoes are a sign of fall. Last year my experiment with growing sweet potatoes was disappointing. The vines grew nicely, but I ended up with just a couple of decent sized potatoes. This season I was determined to do better (which was not so hard after last season’s low standard) so this year I […]
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Fall Gardening
Last year we didn’t bother planting a fall garden – we let our summer garden die and then started planting cold season crops in January when we started up our landscaping project. This year we decided to plant two kinds of lettuce and spinach for the fall, and when the temperatures really drop we’ll be […]
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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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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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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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See you next year garden!
Fall is almost here and the weather and pests have conspired against my garden. In the last update we told you about our attempt to rescue all our pepper plants and the harvest of the sweet potatoes. We discovered that squash bugs were the reason why our plants died, but luckily we got the peppers […]
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2012 TN State Fair!
The recent “drop” in temperature (I think we may permanently be out of the 90s!) and crisper morning air all signal the arrival of my favorite season of the year – fall!! To me, fall is 100x better than spring because I’m spared the horrific pollen allergies (though there’s still the dreaded ragweed) and the temperature […]
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