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Photographic Journey: Our Thanksgiving Family Vacation in New York

Posted by PapiBlogger on Sunday November 25th, 2012 at 04:09 PM

By MANNY RUIZ

Our Thanksgiving break family vacation to New York marked a number of milestones for our infant Naomi and her sister Briani.  Our trip began with a few days in the city, where Naomi officially uttered her first word “Mama” (she said it twice so we know it was real) and culminated with a visit to family and friends in upstate New York where we spent Thanksgiving and also had a chance to visit the famous Orange County Choppers headquarters.

New York City Moments 

Visit to Orange County Choppers

Although I’ve never cared for motorcycles I have to say we were very impressed with our visit to Orange County Choppers in Newburgh, New York.  Orange County Choppers is the headquarters for the Discovery Channel show American Chopper.  The new restaurant next door is also notable for what I thought were some amazing burgers so when you go be sure to visit the restaurant.

Thanksgiving 2012



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And Then There Were Two: Meet the new West Coast PapiBlogger Octavio Navarro

Posted by PapiBlogger on Monday November 12th, 2012 at 09:51 AM

Octavio Navarro and Manny Ruiz form the new PapiBlogger.com tandem of old school Latino dads.

BY MANNY RUIZ (@MannyRuiz)

I love blogging because over the past two years of publishing PapiBlogger.com I’ve had the chance to journal about my family and in the process I’ve been able to do some amazing things that are truly a blessing.  Blogging on this platform has not only taken me on some incredible road trip adventures but it has also helped keep me fresh thinking for other ventures that I’m involved in such as the Hispanicize event, Latina Mom Bloggers and the new DigiBunch.

As this blog goes on its third year in operation, I’ve come to realize that in order to take things to the next level, PapiBlogger has to evolve beyond me.   I know this platform matters to many of you as well so I’m proud to say that PapiBlogger is ready to take a major step that will not only change it but will improve it.  Today I want to announce that my marketing industry colleague, friend and former Ford Motor Company client Octavio Navarro of Orange, California is joining me as my co-PapiBlogger.  (You can call him West Coast Papi). (more…)

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PHOTO ESSAY: Voting with My Kids is All in My Familia

Posted by PapiBlogger on Tuesday November 6th, 2012 at 09:58 PM


BY MANNY RUIZ (@MannyRuiz) 

I’m more jaded than ever about politics and politicians but one thing I don’t ever pass up is the opportunity to take my kids with me to the voting booth.  Today’s brave soul was my eight year old daughter Elena.  This was her third presidential election and its only fitting my kids always accompany me to the polls because each of my four children were born in presidential election years: 2000 (Jonathan), 2004 (Elena), 2008 (Briani) and 2012 (Naomi).

Makes you wonder if that’s just coincidence or an omen of things to come.

Vote from the past in 2004: Elenita was 8-months old when she first went to the polls with me.

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Cooking from the Heart: Favorite Recipes from L.A. Bloggers

Posted by PapiBlogger on Thursday November 1st, 2012 at 07:09 PM

By Octavio Navarro

Dia de los Muertos feast.

In celebration of Dia de los los Muertos, I recently got together with a few Los Angeles bloggers to share and enjoy some of our favorite meals made with Mazola Corn Oil. It was great fun tasting the various traditional dishes and sweets.

My earlier post included a video of how to prepare my favorite dish of Papas con Carne. To review the video for cooking instructions for the ingredients below, click here.

Papas con Carne (serving for 4) (more…)

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