embrace the camera

These are our friends Seth and Kelly. It feels like we've been friends forever, but we've actually known them for less than 2 years. We lived RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from each other for a while, but never actually met until we were both in a "Love and Respect" community group through crossroads. Matt and I couple crushed on them from afar for a couple weeks, and then by God's glorious hand we were walking by their house one night when they pulled up and got out of their car. I, not being able to contain my secret love for them any longer, shouted at them. And from there it's all history. They have been great friends to us. They moved to Madison, Wisconsin last year and we miss them terribly. This picture is from when they came to visit us at Christmas time. We had a breakfast and church date. Then we discovered that someone *ahemmattahem* locked our keys in the car, so they stood out in the bitter cold with us until we could someone to drive out and break in our car for us. While doing so, we took this picture. Since I'm thinking of them and missing them today, I thought it appropriate to make it our first "embrace the camera".

p.s. Matt has a job interview today, please be in prayer for him!

30 Days of Thankfulness: Day 3

Today I am thankful for one simple thing. The music of Kate Nash. This girl is fly. I was totally obsessed with her about 3 or 4 years ago, then somehow sort of forgot about her for a while, and today I randomly thought of her again. Her music is so fun and upbeat. I can't listen to it without dancing and getting in a good mood. I totally bopped around to Kiss That Grrrrrl whilst putting away laundry today. She is awesome. You should love her if you don't already. There's nothing like good music to put one in a great mood. I'm thankful for that.

Frost Like Ashes

A BeardedLady Christmas

What a great Christmas! This was our first Christmas with kids involved and it was so much fun to just snap snap snap away at every move they made. Caraline loved eating the bows and playing with the paper and reaching for everyone's drinks. She's starting to develop her own personality and it's so much fun to watch her! Madison, our 6 year old niece, is so sassy and funny. She is hilarious. We love them. Here are some pictures of our Christmas.

mounds and mounds of presents.

Madison

Cara

nom nom nom

Madison got a notepad to practice her writing in and this is what she wrote : )

We played Pretty Pretty Princess!

And we played Twister!

It was fun. The end.

1866

This post really has no significance. I was a little bored so I messed around with this picture i took of the Roebling. I've been kind of diggin' the fuax-rays in the prints lately. Haven't quite decided if i wanna throw this up on Storenvy yet, so we'll let it simmer on here for a little bit.

What do you think of the new sidebar??? ----->

Harlem Jones gets a snow day

Man, oh, man; it snowed A LOT in these parts last night! The whole little family got to stay home today. Our little princess LOVES the snow. She flips out anytime she gets to play in it. She especially loves when the beard throws snowballs at her face. And I'm not being sarcastic. She loves being pelted in the face with snowballs. Here are some pictures I got of our Miss Jones having a good frolick in the first big snow of the season.





She's one happy girl.

2 new prints.

Just wanted to throw a quick post up to let everyone know that we have 2 new prints up in our Store.

Check out "Hail Gladdening Light" & "Closet"


Working merch tomorrow night for Needtobreathe and The Daylights tomorrow night. Gonna be AWESOME! Probably gonna take a ton of phone pictures. Lookout...

This was our weekend...

Thanks for stopping by =) Run by our Store and check out the prints we have for sale.

Matt & Lanna

Promises....

I promise i'm NOT a liar....i just get distracted sometimes. Here are a couple pictures i took of Harlem yesterday =)



Please go to my IWYS profile and comment,rate and share this video with everyone you can. I really want to be one of the 4 people they hire for 2011!!!

Let's play some catch-up?!

OOOOOOOOK, so it's been a few days. Busy, busy, busy. Columbus was AMAZING! We're already planning another trip to visit our friends Bethany and Aaron, as well as an early spring family vaca together to Nashville!!! Gonna be some good times.

On Saturday, we went to Columbus' Oktoberfest. Day 14 is the first picture, the other two are extras...


It was still dark when left from Columbus, so we got to see the sunrise. It was amazing...and day 15


Day 16 was monday, and band practice day for The Waking Point. We needed an updated picture, so with the help of the self-timer, this is the end product:


and for day 17, we had coupons to try Chick-Fil-A's new spicy chicken nuggets. AMAZING? How could they put out anything thats not? Seriously. The cow agrees....



p.s., sorry the pictures are all over the place. its acting goofy when i try to post.
Hope you enjoy, regardless.

Day 13

So we forgot the camera at our friends' house last night so no real shots....but we did get a picture of the delicious Jeni's Ice Cream in Columbus, OH.
Lanna got Salty Caramel and Pistachio Honey. I got the Salty Caramel and the Bourbon Buttered Pecan. OMG! There's ACTUALLY bourbon in this ice cream and it's AMAZING! Seriously, if you're ever in columbus (or anywhere else where there's a Jeni's) you have to stop and get some ice cream. Some of the best i've ever had. Click the picture below to show your support.


Going to Columbus' Octoberfest today with the Bentons. Looking forward to NOT forgetting the camera again and getting some awesome shots for you. The next post might be a good'n.

-Matt

day 6

Date night for the Hoffmans included sitting at the airplane viewing spot at CVG and this place...


...yumsville...