White Christmas Video
Posted by Steven in Family, Fun, Holidays, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather on December 25th, 2009 at 05:20pm
Here’s a video to go with the pictures of our White Christmas.
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A White Christmas in Texas
Posted by Steven in Fun, Garden, Holidays, Home, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather on December 25th, 2009 at 11:57am
Today is Christmas. It’s a White Christmas! We had snowed all day on Christmas Eve. It was 75 degrees and beautiful on the 23rd then it dropped to 30 degrees (that’s an insane drop) on the 24th, with 30 – 45 MPH wind! This “near blizzard” as they called it was unexpected and the amount of snow is very unusual for North Texas (three inches in Benbrook with some one foot drifts). How wonderful it was that it happened on Christmas Eve though, because here we are on Christmas day with snow all over the place… a real White Christmas. I even built a snowman. 
I’ll put together a video later… including some home storm chaser action of me jumping directly into the “blizzard” for some sweet footage.
P.S. Our street is frozen solid with 1 cm of ice (!) but it’s blue skies and sunshine again today so everything is starting to melt.
Promo Video for Storm Spectator
Posted by Steven in Fun, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather, Work on October 28th, 2009 at 04:36pm
Watch the promo video I put together for Storm Spectator, via the site’s nifty embeddable video player. Obviously, I did not take these photos. I just edited it all together.
Home Storm Chasers II (Video)
We captured enough footage on one day last week to make a whole sequel to Home Storm Chasers. Here it is.
Home Storm Chasers II: 96 Degree Day with Golf Ball Hail and Lightning Striking a Rainbow
Also watch Lightning Storm Video. It shows more of the lightning in slow motion.
Lightning Storm Video
Here’s the evening lightning storm footage I mentioned earlier. The second half is in slow motion. I’ll post another video tomorrow showing a rainbow, hail and part of the neighbor’s roof flying away. It was a day of sweet footage!
We’re Home Storm Chasers
Posted by Steven in Fun, Garden, Home, Outdoors, Photography, Video, Weather on May 16th, 2009 at 12:10pm
Spring is really exciting in North Texas. Wildflowers pop up, nights become warm enough to sleep with windows open, and cold dry air from the Rockies collide with warm humid air from the Gulf. That creates severe thunderstorms just about every week here in the southern tip of Tornado Alley. I’m talking loud thunder, big hail, wind that eats signs and, in isolated areas, more rain in one day than San Diego gets in one year! You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a dark green sky (that means get the horses inside now).
Graduation—Best Day of My Life
Posted by Sudi in Church, Family, Food, Fun, Photography, Seminary, Video on May 9th, 2009 at 12:26pm
May 8th 2009
6:00am We got up bright ‘n early to give us enough time to get dolled up.
7:45am The door bell rang…I was hoping Steven would get it but the door bell kept ringing so I got it.
Hahahahaha! It was my sweet darling ringing the door bell to deliver 2 dozen yellow roses (my favorite flowers).
8:00am We had a mini photo-shoot before we headed out to Travis Avenue Baptist Church.
8:30am Steven dropped me off so I could meet the rest of the graduates in the basement where we were told to meet.
9:00am Steven and Lucy were allowed in the sanctuary and secured pretty good seats. In no time the house was full. Beautiful church architecture!
9:55am We lined up for the Processional to begin at 10 sharp.
The ceremoy was beautiful. The message delivered by our president Dr. Patterson was Christ-centered and powerful. We also had a lovely time when spouses, parents, grandparents, etc were recognized. Steven and Lucy were honored and that made me happy. BRAVO!!!!
Walking up to the front to recieve the Diploma was thrilling, having it in my hand felt so good!
After the ceremony everyone, faculty, familiy members, friends and gradautes all mingled in the front lawn. Cameras everywhere, lots of fun, energy and hugs. Steven did a fabulous job at following me around as I chased all my favorite profs for pictures. It was a blast to talk to them and introduce them to Lucy. She really enjoyed finally meeting the great professors I told her so much about.
At about 1pm we drove northeast to Plano. Steven took us to a La Jolla type place called Shops at Legacy. We ate Italian at Nicolas and had the most heavenly desserts at the Bakery Bistro across the street. The pastries were heavenly. We took tons of pictures, and walked around. We were very happy and quite silly.
We drove home to open gifts that Steven and Lucy got me and beautiful cards as well.
Professors that touched my life and appear in the pictures:
Dr Johnny Derouen- Human Growth and Development
Dr Esther Diaz-Bolet- Administration and Leadership in the Church
Dr Joshua Williams- Genesis
Dr Gerardo Alfaro- Theology
Dr Octavio Esqueda- Principles of Teaching
Dr Robert Caldwell- Hermeneutics
Dr David Mills- Evagelism
Dr Scott Floyd- Marriage Counseling
Dr Marcia McQuitty- Whom I will be working in my doctoral work
For their investment in my life, I am indebted to them and forever grateful!
Friends shown:Grant, Peace, Debbie and Grace
Steven: Thank you for making all my dreams come true.
Lucy: Thank you for your prayers and your love.
Thank you both for believing in me.
Thursday May 7th- we had rehearsal, a fellowship at Price Hall and a grand reception at the President Mansion- The Pecan Manor. They really go all out.
God is Good and the Giver of all Good Gifts.
Veggieland
Posted by Sudste in Food, Fun, Garden, General, Home, Outdoors, Photography, Video on April 26th, 2009 at 04:00pm
Our big gardening project this year began a month ago when Steven decided we should plant a vegetable garden. We got the wood at Home Depot and baby-love built an above-ground-garden-box. This past weekend we were finally able to buy dirt, pete moss and potting soil in order to give the veggies the best possible soil to grow in. We got all our dirt at the local Plant Shed, a family owned, garden-lover’s dream place. We transported 800 pounds of dirt in our trunk/back seat. Who needs an F-150? We planted Juliet and Cherry tomatoes, green and yellow peppers, one poblano pepper, cucumbers, green onions, and radishes. On four separate small gardens, Steven planted 4 watermelons as well. Right by the fence we also planted sunflowers and wild flowers. Here are the pictures.
Steven has a serious green thumb. It’s amazing! A few weeks ago half of our pansies were eaten by a hungry rabbit. Steven came up with a concoction made up of chilli powder. A week later the pansies were back in full color bigger than ever. Very impressive!
Sudi Recieves Award from SWBTS
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while. Now I can! Here’s how the story goes.
We got a note in the mail asking if we will be attending Southwestern Seminary’s awards banquet on a Wednesday afternoon in April. Sudi had marked “No” and had it all ready to mail when I came upon it in our foyer. I thought, “Awards? If anybody is going to get an award it had to be my baby!” After all, Sudi has gotten an A in all 20 classes. So I told Sudi my theory and she called the seminary to find out what’s up with the awards.
As it turned out, Sudi is the recipient of the Elizabeth G. Price Memorial Award for outstanding academic achievement (she earned the highest grade-point average) in the school of Educational Ministries. Today was the banquet and awards presentation. We first went to chapel to hear the wonderful Dr. Paige Patterson preach. At the banquet we were quite pleased that they had fajita fixings for us. In other words, we had vegetarian food at a Southern Baptist institution in Texas (there’s a first time for everything).
I’m very proud of Sudi for her work as a student at Southwestern during the last two years. She is a true student if there ever was one! Graduation is in a couple weeks when Sudi will receive her master’s degree in Christian Education. Woohoo! Here’s my footage from the awards banquet and some photos.
Hail Storm Video
Last week a thunderstorm appeared on the radar out of nowhere. Here’s a video I took… of the TV. Listen to the hail that suddenly started banging on our roof and windows as the weatherman is talking. He was describing baseball sized hail in an area north of us. I only saw pea-sized hail so I can only imagine what baseball sized hail sounds like. I think it means a new roof.
I’m looking forward to the Spring storm season here in North Texas. I love taking pictures of the foreboding clouds and making videos like this. I especially love it when they send the low man on the totem pole directly into the eye of the storm (his name is always “Chris”) and when the news lady’s umbrella turns inside out, hits her on the head three times, then flies away.
This video is hosted on flickr. The upload to YouTube was faster, but flickr is so much more slick. YouTube needs a redesign. It’s so 2004-looking!
PS. If you want to see some REAL Texas hail, watch this and skip to 3:15.
