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Lucy 2008
Sudi Kate’s Photography Studio presents Lucy Fashion Show 2008.
Thanksgiving Snow Video
It 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.
Free Flickr Pro
Posted by Steven in General, Photography on December 13th, 2007 at 06:45am
I logged into Flickr to see if it was time to renew our Pro account and found this message.
“You have a Pro account, at no cost as long as you keep your AT&T Yahoo! service.”
I’ll take it! 
From The Lone Star State
Earlier 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.
The Blackhawk
On July 1st our church held our annual God and Country Celebration service. It was a beautiful service as all the veterans that have served on all wars were invited to come forward to receive a medal of appreciation. While the choir and a male quartette sang “You Lift Me Up”, the congregation gave them a standing ovation.
We also saw the presentation of the Flag and the Flag Folding Ceremony, something I had never seen before, it was very solemn.
As a special surprise our Pastor invited a Blackhawk helicopter to land on our softball field and we were invited to take a little tour of the plane, meet the pilots and get our pictures taken. Being the obsessive-compulsive-photography-family that we are, we were the first ones in line on Sunday morning. They turned out really nice and it was a special gift to me since this is my first 4th of July as a US citizen and also because we might never have this unique opportunity ever again.
Logan Elementry Extreme Makeover
Posted by Sudi in Church, Photography on March 24th, 2007 at 07:38pm
“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40
The day our church had been waiting for finally arrived, today 600 servants from Shadow Mountain Community Church went down to Logan Elementary and gave it a much needed makeover. Steven and I were part of both the Makeover Registration and the Celebration Registration Teams, we also did a bit of cleaning and I walked around with Steven while he took over 400 shots of “Servants in Action”. After the Makeover, we went to the adjacent park and had a huge party, there were six astro jumps, live music, clowns with baloons and lots of food, including 3,000 hamburgers, 3,000 hot dogs, cinnamon rolls, sugar and chocolate chip cookies, chips, cokes and water. Feed The Children delivered 800 boxes of food and 800 boxes of essentials to each family plus our church gave each family a Bible as well.
The Mayor of San Diego was there, which was a nice surprise and Fox News was there to cover the event.
It was an incredible day, a wonderful opportunity to show this community the unconditional and generous LOVE of Jesus.
To Him be all the Glory!
The Signs Of Life
Our church just embarked in The Forty Days of The Signs Of Life. The campaign is meant to be like a mirror showing us all how we’re doing as Christians. We are going to learn what the signs of a vibrant Christian faith are. Our pastor, David Jeremiah wrote a book with 40 daily readings for us to study for the next 40 days, the reading began yesterday. Steven and I loved it, it’s very practical and biblically sound. Church was so much fun, you could feel the buzz and the excitement.
The Five Signs of Life are:
Dusty Shoes: Living a Relevant Life
Worn-Out Kness: Living a Yielded Life
Rolled Up Sleeves: Living an Authentic Life
Open Hands: Living a Generous Life
Outstretched Arms: Living a Compassionate Life
As a way to apply Open Hands, on March 24th we are going to give an Extreme Makeover to the Logan Elementry School campus in Down Town SD. Last night at church we had the kick off for this event. The school principal, teachers and staff were all there. Pastor St. John and Pastor Gillette have this massive event coordinated and computerized. There is something to do for everyone, furniture assembly, gardening, carpentry, landscaping, painting, banner making, administration, clean up, set up and tear down.
Pastor said, people have been asking him, “Why are you doing this?” and he tells them, “Because this is what Jesus would have us do, give and give and give to people we don’t know and to people who can’t give us nothing in return”. 
Pastor Gillette asked Steven to take care of the photography, so that will be his primary responsibility. Another volunteer will be video-taping the before and after. When all the hard work is done we will celebrate with a huge picnic/concert where our church and the school staff, parents and children will all meet. WE CAN NOT WAIT!
God Is GOOD!
February Fun
Posted 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.
Lucy’s Birthday
Earlier this month we went to Irvine Spectrum Center for Lucy’s birthday. We ate at P.F. Chang’s. Without further delay, here are the pictures.
