Posts filed under 'Home'Thanksgiving Snow VideoIt snowed here on Thanksgiving this year. I put together a little video to show the family and friends back in San Diego what snow looks like. I had to ask Sudi, who has lived in Minnesnowta, if it was snowing because I wasn’t entirely sure what snow falling from the sky looked like. The Fort Worth area is only supposed to get one inch of snow per year. I think that might have been it. Deer in Benbrook on Christmas EveOn Thanksgiving we had snow. On Christmas Eve, on the way home from church, we spotted some deer down the road from our apartment. Six of them staring at us! It reminded me of seeing dolphins in La Jolla. There’s something amazing about seeing animals in the wild and seeing them on Christmas Eve was as special as Thanksgiving snow. Benbrook is really growing on me. Happy ThanksgivingJoin me in singing… “When I think about the Lord, When I think about the Lord, It makes me wanna shout It makes me wanna SHOUT!!!!” Happy Thanksgiving Miss and LoveYou haven’t heard from me in a while. I’m busy living my dream. I’m a Full Time student. All thanks to my Baby-Love. One of these days I’m going to write a deep entry about life as a seminarian. One of these days when I don’t have hundreds of pages to read. True story, I’ve been working like mad to get ahead on my reading, yesterday I finished a 900 page commentary on 1st. Corinthinas. Excellent by the way! I love that class. I finished the last chapter and walked to my computer with a huge sense of accomplishment to check my email and I found the syllabus for an Intensive class I’m taking in Januray. A real breeze!, only 4 books to read and 5 papers to write in the next 35 days. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! So as I was saying, one of these days when I have time, I will write about deep matters and the things I’m learning. For now something light… What I MISS The Most About San Diego: (Things that I really miss, it hurts thinking about them) Our Family -There was something very comforting about having mom and dad 20 minutes away, now it is 20 hours.
Seminary- Going to Class is the best feeling, like a fish in the water. So many things to be thankful for. No Alcohol in BenbrookPosted by Steven in Home on October 15th, 2007 at 04:32pm
I read this about our town on Wikipedia.
You can buy beer (and only beer) but you have to get out of town to drink it! Benbrook has the third lowest crime rate out of the 42 cities in Tarrant county. Correlation? I don’t know, but I like a town that understands nothing good can come out of alcohol consumption. From The Lone Star StateEarlier this month we moved to Benbrook, TX (population 22,000, map) which is on the southwest corner of Fort Worth (population 650,000). It connects to Fort Worth by Interstate 20 or the “back way” through a little country road. Fort Worth is about 30 miles from Dallas (Arlington is in between). The whole area is called the DFW Metroplex and has six million people. Fort Worth is the cowboy side of town where life is a bit slower. They say this is where the west begins. Sudi’s school, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is about 10 minutes from Benbrook. Gettin’ Here: The Drive It was a 1,300 mile drive (our route) from Mom and Dad’s in Chula Vista, CA. The rocky hillsides leaving San Diego County are beautiful (pictures below). Seeing them was worth the crack Sudi noticed our windshield had suffered. We saw Mark and Dan’s Cracker Barrel in Yuma, AZ. In Tucson, we couldn’t find a stinkin’ Subway so we gave up and kept moving until we got to a nice little town called Benson where they had our Subway. Aside from a short drive through some impressive boulders, the rest of the drive through Arizona was like watching a never-ending slide-show of cactus and Dr. Seuss trees. We passed through a huge storm and noticed that apparently nobody lives in New Mexico. That is, until you get to Las Cruces which is set in front of some 8,000 foot mountains where we spent the night and ordered a pizza. Day one was a ten hour journey. Day two was under eight hours because we floored it. We passed through El Paso on the border and noticed things starting to get green while the mountains started shrinking. I had no idea the area near El Paso was made of lush farmland. We left the I-10 for the I-20 toward Fort Worth and passed through Midland which is where President George W. Bush was raised. Lots of oil pumps around there. It got progressively greener heading toward Abilene then finally on into Fort Worth which greeted us with a wonderful thunderstorm. We spent a couple nights in the seminary’s very nice hotel before moving into our apartment in Benbrook. What’s Different from San Diego Here it’s greener, more hamburger-only restaurants, less crowded, friendlier people, more telephone poles, hotter, less health food stores, bigger ants, more trains, triple the rain, most houses are brick, no ocean, many lakes, flatter (but somewhat hilly), more laid back, Target sells groceries, more butterflies, cows and ponies. And old ladies drive trucks. Fort Worth is fairly diverse with a mostly white, black and hispanic population. Mom and Dad: no worries. We are OKAY. Within an eight mile radius we found Tofurkey, veggie burgers, rice milk, soy ice cream, nutritional yeast flakes, tofu and Nayonaise. Mark, no worries: we live one mile from Cracker Barrel and there’s a steakhouse on every single corner. Here at Home Our apartment is the same size but here we have a fireplace, dishwasher, washer, dryer, garden tub and covered parking. We have four windows in the living room which makes it nice and bright. As in La Mesa, we are a mile from a lake and have a little bit of a view from the balcony (not of the lake but of the suburbs and green areas below). Lucy is here visiting and next month Mom and Dad are coming in their motor home. Sudi starts school later this week. Here are pictures from our drive and of home here in Benbrook. You can see our pictures here: Driving San Diego to Texas and Our Home in Benbrook, TX. February FunPosted by Sudste in Family, Fun, Holidays, Home, Photography, Places on February 24th, 2007 at 11:04am
February was a load of fun. Our friends from Minnesota the Sea-Birds, I mean the Sieberts and us went to En Fuego and took a stroll in Del Mar. Valentine’s Day was romantical and delicious. Last weekend we celebrated Mom’s Birthday at PF Changs hence the photos by the horse. Here we present a collage of fun pictures, which by the way, are not in order. Valentine Bacon Cheeseburger PizzaA few weeks ago I told Steven that I was craving a slice of Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza, yes you read it right. Imagine a Bacon Cheeseburger and all its ingredients including crunchy little pickles and combine them with a pizza. Back when I was living in Mt. Lake MN, my friend Sue and I would have lunch every week at the Pizza Ranch, yeah I know it’s a sad name, but what can say it was Mountain Lake. So for Valentine’s Day I come home and Steven is making me, miracle of miracles, a Vegan Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza. Pizza crust, pizza sauce, veggie ground beef, veggie cheddar cheese, veggie facon and tiny crunchy pickles tossed on the pizza after it is baked. WOWSERS! It was a fabulously unexpected and delicious treat, not to mention very thoughtful and romantical. May I add this feast was accompanied by many other surprises such as Red Roses, Heart Shaped Ballons, Sweet Cards, Teccino and White Cake for desert and lovely Frank Sinatra playing in the background. Swept off my feet all over again. To Chef Boyardee Five Stars! Heaven and ChristThis morning for my devotional I read: “Heaven and Christ are the same thing. To be with Christ is to be in heaven, and to be in heaven is to be with Christ.” “O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a hell; and if I could be in hell, and have thee still, it would be a heaven to me, for thou art all the heaven I want.” All we need to be blessed, supremely blessed, is “to be with Christ.” -Charles Spurgeon It’s FreezingPosted by Steven in Home on January 17th, 2007 at 08:23am
This is from weather.com at 7am. Yesterday our windshield was a sheet of ice.
"I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."Genesis 12 Calendar
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