Tag: love
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A Special 10-year Anniversary Gift
Ok I have to take a moment to share this incredible gift that Javier gave me for our 10-year anniversary. It’s been hanging in our house for a week and I still have to stare at it every time I pass! It’s a handmade wreath with meaningful mementos from our lives as individuals and together…
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Just the Two of Us
Javi and I are taking full advantage of the time we have left together as a family of 2 (plus three dogs) before Penelope arrives. Everyone has warned us (and warned us…and warned us…and told us….and reiterated to us…) that we won’t get out as a couple for a while after our little bundle o’ joy arrives,…
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5 years as a Rodriguez
Last month, well before our 5-year anniversary date, Javier told me (with that “I’ve got a plan” gleam in his eye) that he had an idea for my anniversary present. For the next week or so, I wasn’t allowed to check our amazon account to see what orders had been made, and one by one…
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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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Double wedding weekend!
Last weekend was an insane, crazy whirlwind mixture of fun, friends, dresses, cameras, brides and grooms, wine, beer, coffee, exhaustion, second winds, food, music, scenic views and a million other amazing things. Friday kicked off the weekend festivities with Nikita and Jordan’s rehearsal dinner back at Sylvia’s house where her wedding shower was. The whole…
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McClure takeover: congratulations Andrew and Camala!
Well, I’m pretty sure I’m all traveled out for the month of April! Javier and I just returned with my parents from a long drive home from Destin, where my cousin Andrew married his lovely new wife Camala. My parents and I drove down to Destin on Wednesday, stopping overnight in Birmingham and arriving in…
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Congratulations Danielle and Chris!!!!
I’m going to need the person out there working on time travel to hurry it on up. I know there’s someone out there working on it – just like there’s surely someone working on teleportation, telepathy, maybe a dog bark-to-English translator like in the movie “Up”. But really, let’s step on the gas with that…
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We support marriage equality!
Plain and simple – Javier and I support marriage equality. Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on the first of two cases that could establish the constitutional right of LGBT individuals to marry the person they love. I’m wearing red today to support marriage equality (Javi left for work before we got the…
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Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas from the Los Rodriguez / McClure households! This post is a little out of order because we have a ton of pre-Christmas events to share, but those things can wait. We’ve had such an amazing couple of days! Last Wednesday my aunt Regena arrived in Nashville and then on Christmas eve eve my…
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Happy 35th Anniversary J&A!
It’s my parents’ 35th anniversary!! My parents are HUGE UofL basketball fans and decided to celebrate their anniversary with a drive down to Memphis to see UofL play Memphis. Sounds like the perfect way to celebrate – here’s a photo that my dad posted on facebook last night with the caption “35th anniversary is paper,…
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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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Letters from Grandmother v.2
This is the second letter in our collection. For those who missed the first, please take a second to read it here. For this letter you must keep in mind that at the time the voting age was 21 and she was only 20. (the translated version is after the english version) Esta es la…
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Letters from Grandmother v.1
In our post about our very McClure thanksgiving we mentioned that we spent quite a bit of time during the thanksgiving holiday reading the letters that Leslie’s grandparents wrote to each other when they were dating (well, secretly engaged – in 1944). We are so happy that these letters exist – it really is a…
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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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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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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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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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DIY date night
Last Saturday I told Javier I wanted to go out just me and him on a date the following Saturday (as in, last night) since it was our first chance to take advantage of a few gift certificates that my dentist (…for a referral) and Javier’s coworker gave us for Christmas. My dentist sent us…
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Los Rodriguez Wedding
I already wrote out this long, detailed post about all the fun aspects of our wedding, but it was boring and I’d hate to have a boring post describing of one of the best days of my life, and one of the most fun parties I’ve ever been to. So here’s a few quick words…
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Los Rodriguez Anniversary
It’s our 2-year wedding anniversary! Happy day! Es nuestro segundo aniversario! Feliz dia!! Our engagement story is kind of funny, and worth telling before I post anything about our wedding, which I’ll do tomorrow. Javi and I both volunteered for a local Vacation Bible School in the summer of 2009, and on our way to…
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