Archive for the 'Family' Category
Little League Baseball
My superstar younger brother is playing Little League baseball and I like to think of him as the next Alex Rodriguez, but as his older sister, I might be biased.
We have been going to see his games lately and what a blast it is! There is something about Little League baseball games. Something that makes […]
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A Fiesta Wedding
It’s official. I am married! What a year it has been preparing for that one special day. We had a wonderful wedding on Saturday, April 19th, the kick off weekend for Fiesta San Antonio.
As stated in a previous blog entry, Jason proposed to me on the night of March 9th, 2007 on Pier 39 in […]
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Our Marriage License
Jason and I went down to the Bexar County Courthouse to apply for our marriage license. We did all our research as to what we needed: $36 Cash, Identification, Birth Certificates (just in case). They open their doors at 8am sharp and we were there a bit early, 7:50 am. So we waited in the […]
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Yusuf visits from Dubai
It has been so busy lately and I haven’t had a chance to blog about a very important event that occurred 2 weeks ago. My good friend, Yusuf, flew all the way in from Dubai to visit San Antonio for a few days.
I met Yusuf 5 years ago when I studied abroad in Seville, Spain. […]
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What are the odds?
I had to catch an early flight this morning leaving to Atlanta and the funniest thing happened. It was the 8:05am flight on Delta direct to ATL. I arrived to the airport at about 7:30am, had no problems checking baggage, got through security fairly quickly, managed to get some breakfast in more than enough […]
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Las Nuevas Tamaleras
The Susan G. Komen Foundation San Antonio Chapter held a fundraiser this holiday season by selling tickets to the play “Las Nuevas Tamaleras.” Since the play mostly attracted women, I decided to take my mom, my sister and my grandmothers. Although they all had been a few times in previous years, this was my first […]
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UT and A&M pumpkin friends, oh and Boston College
We didn’t have a chance to carve pumpkins this Halloween but my brother, Wayne, did! My brother is an Aggie, his girlfriend Layla is a Longhorn and Layla’s brother Derek is a um, what’s the mascot for Boston College? Haha, sorry Derek!
They carved pumpkins this Halloween of their colleges. They came out pretty good. […]
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San Antonio’s very own Poker Superstar
The Jewish Community Center on the northwest side of San Antonio held their 3rd annual Texas Hold Em Tournament this past weekend. It was a big turn out with 90 participants all playing for the grand prize of a seat to the World Series of Poker MAIN EVENT, a value of $10,000. After 7 grueling […]
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A Hot Chicago Marathon hits home
Yesterday was the La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon, one of the most popular, eventful marathons on the running calendar. The Chicago Marathon is known for it’s flat course, event organization, beautiful run through the city and most importantly, the spectators. 45,000 runners were registered for this marathon yesterday. Chicago received unusually high temperatures this […]
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Remembering the World Trade Center
I was at my parents house going through pictures and came across our New York pictures. We had taken a family vacation to New York City back in August 2001. We went to visit a cousin in Baltimore, MD and following, we got a rental car and drove up to New York City. It […]
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