the day I became an iphone junkie.

I would say how I feel about St. Patricks Day, but I think Abbi pretty much summed it up for me. I'm much more interested in the fact that today was the day that I joined the iphone club. And within an hour of having it I'd already tweeted twice. This may not seem like a big deal to many of you, but about a year ago I took a firm and solemn vow not to tweet because of something about narcissism and America. I don't know. Matt even created a twitter for beardedlady and I wouldn't use it. Apparently all it takes for me to become a narcissist and start tweeting like a madman is the iphone. But what I'm really excited about is the pictures!! I always wish I'd brought a camera with me almost everywhere so that I can catch little moments and have memories, but I never really want to carry a bulky camera, and the camera on my old phone Sucked with a capitol SSSSS. So needless to say I am all over the instagram and photo apps. Tonight we did some fun stuff so I got to break myself in. The huz and I had a little date at Johnny Rockets. Gosh I love cheeseburgers. It's almost embarrassing how much I love cheeseburgers. Then we met our friends Nate and Emmy and walked from their house in Pleasant Ridge to Molly Molones... but that's it. We literally walked there, saw the amount of people and heard that is was 5 bucks just to go in, and turned around and walked back. We opted instead to have some drinks on their deck and then go to yagoot with their super awesome dog, Zach. Zach loves strawberry yagoot. I got the italian cocoa and banana flavors swirled together with some granola. YUMSVILLE!!! I didn't get a pic of that because I was too busy devouring it. Anyway, here's some pics from the evening. Hope your's was just as swell : )







xoxo

Music Monday.....Bearded Birfday edition...

It's my birthday.....so i'm gonna put a couple videos...because i'm a man and i do what i want.

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!

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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??? ----->

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

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

12.

Got my face rocked tonight by my good friends Brent Reed, Jonny B. Tony and Randy at Fountain Square for the Midpoint Music Festival. These guys are incredible and i look forward to sharing the stage with them soon. I tried to get some good shots of them on stage, but the lighting was awful and we have inadequate gear to get good night time shots while stuff's moving all around and such. One day =)

Anyway, here are a couple of shots that turned out pretty good i think.

i actually like the motion blur in this. Most of the time blurriness can ruin a shot, but this one just feels right to me. If you haven't listened to Brent's music, check it out here


This one is by far my favorite of the night, and the picture for Day 12. Jonny, if you've never met him, is one of the kindest people i know. He's got such a heart for people, and this picture portrays that, i think. Again, the motion blur makes it awesome, for me.

We're heading to Columbus this weekend to visit a couple friends. Should be an awesome time and there WILL be pictures. If we don't update while we're there, lookout for the day 13 and 14 all at once =)

Day 10

It's a day late, but here's number 10:

Also, since i've got you here, if you haven't already (and even if you have) my band, The Waking Point posted the first song off our debut e.p. "Lifted" this week. Go to Facebook or Purevolume and listen to "Faint" and add us, like us, comment, tweet, whatever.

The artwork for the e.p. is one of BeardedLady's photos. It looks pretty nice. Here it is:

Something a little different....

Crossroads is doing a series called "PLAY", so in lieu of that, i wanted to give you some videos that make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.


This is how the series started... a flash mob to "Fireflies" by Owl City



"Marcel the Shell with Shoes On"



This one reminds me of our friend Seth. Cracks me right up.