Tag: fun
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Visiting the Bernheim Forest Giants
It’s a long weekend for Javi and it’s been a good while since we’ve been on an adventure outside of our 15-min driving radius, so we decided to take a trip to Bernheim Forest and check out the Forest Giants! We didn’t do much research before going…we heard it was best to visit before 11…
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Arrington Vineyards
A couple of weeks ago Javier and I spent a lovely Sunday afternoon with friends at Arrington Vineyard. Like the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Arrington Vineyards was another Nashville favorite that Javier and I had never visited in our years living in this lovely city. Arrington is about a 40 minute drive outside of town and…
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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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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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Decorating Christmas Cookies
Every year at Christmas my parents would drive me and Ian down to Birmingham after we opened our presents in Louisville to spend the rest of the Christmas holiday at my grandparents’ beautiful farm. While we were en route my grandmother would bake and cook up a storm for us – and she always included…
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Time to celebrate!
Sometimes, it’s best to just find things to celebrate to a) not feel guilty about having some fun (you’re celebrating something! It must be legitimate!) and b) to force yourself to enjoy a day, or even a few hours, off. Over the last few days, we’ve found some things to celebrate. Javier had a long…
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Cali days and Driftwood Surf Club nights
This week I’m on vacation in California and my brain has totally shut down. I finished working on a couple of big projects last week before I left for Cali and right now even writing coherently on the blog requires a superhuman brainpower effort that I’m sure will leave me with just enough energy to…
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Chicago Trip 2012!
This past weekend was amazing in every way. On Thursday afternoon, once we finally corralled my parents out of the house, we took off for Chicago for the weekend. The drive was surprisingly short and we got up there in time to grab dinner with Ian and Andrea at a little Mexican restaurant 10 steps…
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good company and a bit of suspense
This week is going by SO SLOWLY. Last week we were spoiled because we started the week still on a little vacation high and then the 4th of July holiday in the middle of the week, so it seemed like we got to the weekend in no time. On Friday Corinne came into town just…
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4th of July – mid-week holiday!
Though it was the first year we didn’t have a pool party at my parents’ house, this year’s 4th of July was a total blast. We didn’t do the pool this time around mostly because it was a Wednesday so it felt kind of weird to plan on drinking and playing beer pole all day…
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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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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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A weekend of Puerto Rico
Javi and I just wrapped a terrific weekend spent in the company of Ian and Andrea who came down from Chicago to visit for a few days. We found out they were coming last weekend so it was a great surprise – Ian had a few meetings for work that he managed to schedule on…
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Adventure Science Center
This past weekend, Javi and I went to the Adventure Science Center to check out a new bilingual exhibit called Cyberchase. We wrote a review of the exhibit for HispanicNashville.com, which you can read here. We loved the Science Center and can’t believe this is the first time we’ve ever been. We didn’t allot enough…
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New Years Fiesta!
Our night was simple and hilarious. Maca spent the whole day cutting out pictures of things we like from magazines for our photobooth backdrop – pictures of things like snow, dogs, lights, food, people laughing, etc. She also made little signs that said “Rodriguez McClure,” “amor hope paz” and “Feliz año nuevo.” We spent most…
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FFF (Forced Family Fun) at Dave and Busters!!
It was Friday night before our cousin Heather’s wedding and we needed to find something low key to do since the next day would be packed with fun activities. After the rehearsal dinner, we all decided to engage in a little of what Leslie’s parents call “forced family fun” – and Andrew (also our cousin…
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