Tag: family
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Last week in Chile
We’re back home in Louisville now, but I am only just getting the photos downloaded from our last days in Chile. I have some beautiful photos from Santa Rita vineyard, a couple of shots from another grill out we had to celebrate Colo Colo’s decisive win in a tournament final, and another 3,000 (or so) shots […]
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Return to Chile 2016
We are back in Santiago with Javier’s family! The last time we were here was in 2014 for Macarena and Alex’s wedding, and Paula had just found out she was pregnant. It’s been two years and little Ignacia Paz, our “new” niece, is already so grown up! We’ve been communicating with her as best we can […]
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McClure Fall
It’s family photo time again! I have several shoots lined up over Thanksgiving weekend in Louisville and Nashville, but nothing beats spending the afternoon taking photos of my niece and nephew. I could not get them to smile at the same time for the life of me…hats off to Ian and Andi who smiled the whole […]
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MccRodLife
This time last year, I lived an 8-hour drive away from my brother, sister-in-law, and niece and nephew. I got to see them a couple of times a year for few days – usually when Humming House was in Chicago, on Thanksgiving, and maybe Christmas or a summer trip to Nashville. When we moved to Louisville, […]
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2015 begins (a late recap)
Some months are better than others for blogging. We had an entire week snowed in and even with all that time at home on my hands I still didn’t write anything out. I would just start with the immediate goings-on in our lives but I have so many beautiful photos worth sharing from the past […]
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Maca & Alex – MARRIED!
All of the posts from Chile have been leading up to this: Maca and Alex’s wedding day! In the last post we explained that we woke up early on their wedding day to make those centerpieces, and we didn’t go back to bed until almost 24 hours later. Chileans don’t just throw a reception for a […]
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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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Gia turns 1!
Back to my tales of visiting Ian, Andrea and Gia! It can be summed up easily enough by simply saying that Gia is growing up fast and is more adorable than ever, especially now that her personality is really shining through. She says “wow” all the time, loves to clap, initiates peek-a-boo, loves the song “itsy bitsy […]
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Catching up to April
I feel like way too much has happened to write a proper update, so I’ll post some highlights from the last month so we can catch up in one post and then *hopefully* stay up-to-date from here on out! Here goes…over the last month:We made 12 rolls of sushi at my parents’ house so they […]
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Last of Chile
Once we were back in Santiago, we focused on relaxing at the Rodriguez home. The heat outside made it difficult to move around too much, but the morning after we arrived back home Javier and I went with his dad to the farmer’s market to stock up on fruits and veggies for our NYE celebration. […]
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Roadtripping to the South of Chile
On the day we arrived in Chile, we drove to Osorno and finally arrived at Javier’s aunt and uncles house ‘s 5 in the morning. His aunt and uncle have a beautiful home with a brand new back patio furnished with an outdoor grill that Javier studied for about an hour so he could learn […]
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We made it to Chile!
It’s time for another Chilean Christmas!!!! Javier and I have been waiting for this trip since…well, truly since we left Chile the last time back in 2009 but this year since we bought our tickets in March. It’s been a LONG TIME COMING! We haven’t been since our wedding! This year we are planning to […]
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New Humming House Single / Music Video
Another event that was lost on this blog among the pressure to talk about kickstarter was the release of our brand new single “Fly On.” This was the first single we released with my voice on it and I love the song! Coinciding with the single release was the official video release, featuring the lovebirds […]
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Rodriguez / McClure Thanksgiving
With all the excitement about the kickstarter and the pressure to continue posting about it we never wound up posting about our Thanksgiving!! This year was a little different than usual because grandma was out of town and we did Thanksgiving at home in Nashville rather than Louisville. We made a feast fit for 3 […]
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Home again!
Ohhhh it is good to be home. I’m currently lounging on the couch, Chupi is curled up next to me asleep and snoring into my leg, West Wing season 3 is on, Javier is studying, the house smells like pesto pasta and life is GOOD. I’m so happy to be back! Humming House was on […]
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Baby Gia
Back in September the Humming House tour schedule took us up to Chicago where I got to spend two nights with Ian, Andrea and their sweet baby Gia. I still, still can’t believe I’m an aunt! I don’t think I’ve ever held such a small baby – I felt like I was going to break her. She’s […]
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Baby Gia is here!!
OUR BABY NIECE IS HERE! Gia Marilyn McClure was born on August 20 at 7:15 in the morning and she’s perfect. Of course I’m biased, but I’ve never seen such a darling baby in my life. Andrea and Ian called to let us know that they were heading to the hospital on August 19 and the […]
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Congratulations David and Sarah!
Last weekend Javier and I took a quick day trip to Bryantsville, Kentucky where two of our dear friends David and Sarah tied the knot. The wedding was held at a lovely farm outside of Lexington, KY, outdoors under a weeping willow next to a pretty little pond on the property. We were surrounded by […]
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Big changes in the LRL (don’t get too excited – no baby announcements here)
I play the “this point in time” game with my life regularly. You know, the: “this time last year I was doing this” or “this time last week this happened” or “this time tomorrow I’ll be doing this!” So here we go, time to do a little of that on the blog. This time last […]
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‘Merica party
On April 19 I became an American citizen and for quite a while we planned on having a big America party to celebrate. We wanted to have as many family and friends at the party as possible, but due to vacation schedules, shows, gigs, work, etc…we couldn’t find a good time to have this party […]
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