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A year ago, these days were some of the most stressful of my life. Ezra was born on May 28th, 2009 and for the next few days we paced between Jess’ recovery room and the hospital’s specialty care nursery where Ezra was being taken care of.

A year later we are blessed with an incredible, healthy son! Thank you, Lord!

Yesterday, his birthday, our family’s arrived for the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate Ezra’s first birthday! Even my sister, Sherilyn, was able to come out from Chicago to be with us for a few days!

Today we had the “official” birthday party and experienced some timeless moments. Of course we captured some of those moments to share with the world:





After my parents and sister headed back to Middleburg and most of the rest of us took naps we took some time in the evening to enjoy our local park and got some great pictures there, too!

Cool video featuring my sister Sherilyn’s story:


Today I was rescued by a little program called Handbrake. It’s designed to help rip video off of DVDs and make that video playable on the computer and/or other media devices (iPods, PDAs, PSPs, etc.) It also works great for converting other file-types into usable file types.

My situation today came up while using our church’s new Canon Vixia HF200 Camcorder. This camcorder is great – shoots a beautiful HD picture and features a built-in mic-jack for us to run audio from our sound booth directly into the camera. The problem today, however, was in finding out that the file format was not a standard web-format that I could upload to our church’s website without converting.

The file format that the Vixia saves in is .mts – an AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) that our website software does not recognize.

Thankfully, after a little digging, Handbrake came to my rescue. Below is a screen-captured tutorial on how I used Handbrake to convert my file for use on our Cloversites.com website. I’m putting it here on stevansheets.com to possibly help others who may come across the same situation and need a little help.


BABIES (the movie)

5.11.2010 — 1 Comment

This documentary will be seen either in theaters or on DVD by me and my family:

This morning was Ella’s preschool Spring concert. She has been looking forward to this opportunity to be on-stage for who-knows-how-long! Now we know why:

UPDATE: Tonight’s performance wasn’t nearly as animated, but cute nonetheless: