Tag: summer
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End of Summer Adventures
Last year I was 36 weeks pregnant with Penny when we went to the KY State Fair…5 weeks away from her birth. We took this photo… El año pasado 36 semanas de embarazo con Penny cuando fuimos a la Feria de Kentucky…a 5 semanas de su nacimiento. Sacamos esta foto… And we decided to re-take…
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Summer So Far
School is out, lightning bugs are here, and it’s 90 degrees every day this week, all of which make it officially summer regardless of what the calendar says. We’ve been making the most of it already with the help of Gia and Jackson – it’s fun to watch them learn to love summer and I…
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Taylorsville Lake
Every summer we look forward to frequent trips out on Taylorsville Lake with Marian and Stephen on their boat Water Music. Last June I had a pretty big baby bump on the boat…this year that lil baby was decked out in a super cool baby life jacket ready for her first dip in the lake! She…
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The thing about blogging…
The thing about blogging is that if you leave it alone for any period of time you feel like you have to catch up, and catching up can be a drag (especially if you’re translating the post!). The longer we wait to catch up, the longer the recap post gets and then suddenly several weeks…
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Fire pit seats
So, back to where I left off: I had these 5 huge logs in the backyard and I wanted seats for the fire pit. Since the logs were tall, using them “as is” was not an option, and if I could cut them each in half I would have double the amount of seats. I…
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One person’s trash…another person’s project idea!
A couple of weeks ago our neighbor across the street decided to cut down a big tree from the front of her property. Well I think she decided anyway, I didn’t actually talk to her, but I saw a guy with a chainsaw going at it. Once the job was done there was enormous pile…
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LRL out to the ballgame!
Summertime for us means a number of things: gardening, heat, porch time, pool time, summer shandy, grilling out, gardening…but rarely does summertime mean baseball in this household. Javier isn’t a huge fan of the sport and I’m not a big enough fan to push the issue of going to the ballpark from time to time,…
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Choripan – the food not the pup
I mentioned on the pan amasado post that we used the bread to make Choripan – so here is that story. Choripan, besides being the name of our youngest pup, is a popular dish back home in Chile. It is similar to a hotdog but instead of a regular hot dog you use chorizo. This was…
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THE FINISHED LANDSCAPE!
I still can’t believe we never posted about our finished landscape. After all that work and all those updates along the way – we never showed off the finished product! I think it was such an effort to do the landscaping that the thought of describing the final push to finish was too much to…
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Our newest backyard addition
Wooooooo we have a picnic table! Since we moved in 2 years ago I’ve been toting a folding card table between the front porch (where it belongs) and the backyard (where I occasionally like to work) and now I can be as lazy as I damn well please because we bought a wood picnic table!…
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Instagram Summer
Alright alright – time to finally concede to the heaping pile of fall semester homework and say farewell to the dwindling bliss of summer living. I know I know, I complain (excessively) about summer heat, bugs, sweat etc. – but those are all weather concerns. For the most part, summer treated us really, really well…
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The last of Cali 2012
So it’s back to Nashville – for a few days! I left California yesterday morning and was home by the early evening. Flying is crazy…you know, the whole crossing the country in a matter of hours thing. I still get freaked out about flying because of that one time our plane was hit by lightning…and…
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Crazy August
We’re closing in on the last few weeks of summer and we’re packing a ton of stuff into the last couple of weeks. I think we planned our summer this way anticipating that I’d be completely finished with my thesis by now…well, it was a nice dream. Actually I’m so close to finishing that I…
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Bobbie’s Dairy Dip
A couple of nights ago we were all sitting down at the table (and when I say “we” I mean Leslie, her parents, her grandma and me) after a delicious meal – we made pesto again – wondering what we could do to extend the joy of our dinner. At that point, Annie came up…
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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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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 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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And our vacation destination is…
We’re going to Colorado!! So first, thank you to EVERYONE who commented, texted and e-mailed us ideas about vacation destinations – we have about 50 ideas for future vacations and every single one of them sounds awesome. I know we originally said that the west side of the country was out of the question, but…
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Around the house
Since I posted about the signs of spring popping up all over our yard, we’ve had a variety of plants and flowers sprout and bloom everywhere. The woman who used to live in our house was an avid gardener and luckily for us she planted flowers that don’t need any upkeep or attention from us.…
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Summer prep and other weekend happenings
Over the weekend Javier pretended it was summer. We went to Lowes Saturday morning to buy some spackle to fix something in the office and we left with a brand new charcoal grill and a weed whacker. Javi spent the afternoon assembling his new grill and giving our lawn a much, much needed manicure. This…
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