The Art Book Event

This Sunday evening marks the ART BOOK EVENT, where we will raise awareness (and hopefully some fund-age) for the publishing of the Art Book and it's partnering network we created called "LAB" - short for "colLABeration". The Art Book is antiochs tool to begin connecting local artists together. Come and find out more information about the Art Book and LAB.

The DL: Sunday night, May 4th, 7-9pm at the Old Mill Marketplace. Address is 550 SW Industrial Way, Ste 44 ... Bend, Oregon of course... Wine, Food, Live Music, Art Book examples (that yours truly designed), voting on the cover and some art presentations will be a-happening! See you there!

Oregon Beach House

We just returned from a stellar weekend at the Oregon coast. We stayed at our friends beach cabin right on the water just north of Tilamook... the best news was that the coast was absolutely beautiful! Clear skies and warm! Yah, who would have thought! We were prepared for the rain and cold but were delightfully surprised the whole weekend. We made the trip with the Parlas (Anthony, Heather, their baby Samantha) and the Fithes (John, Jamie, their puppy Aspen) ... and then there was the two of us ;) Once we have our baby we'll fit in a bit better with most of our friends and their kids / dogs. It was so good to spend time and reconnect with the Fitches and Parlas. It had been way too long!

Although the trip was a couples get-a-way (well, semi-family get-a-way) the boys were still able to get a descent amount of surfing in on Friday and Saturday - thanks girls :) The surf was chest high, clean, and it wasn't that cold! The air temp was in the 50's and the water temp was high 40's. Still cold compared to good ole Maui, but totally doable! Oh, we also went to the Tilamook Cheese Factory... call me "old fashion" but factory tours are so interesting! I feel like an old man writing that, but the fact is that I enjoy finding out how things are made! Just look at those blocks of cheese! So weird!

Grandpa & Grandma Keating

Courts folks were able to come visit us this last week from SoCal! It was so good to celebrate the news of the upcoming baby and be genuinely excited for the little bugger inside Courtney. Dennis and Marsha are overly excited to be GRANDPARENTS (this is their first grand baby on the way) We had an awesome time with "Grandma & Grandpa Keating": snowshoeing, downhill skiing, eatin' out, playing games, catching a movie, walking around, making fires and having meaningful conversations. Dennis spoke at antioch this last Sunday on Psalms 42. Watch the videocast by CLICKING HERE... he spits truth! Well, we're off to the Oregon Coast for the long weekend with our good friend the Parlas and the Fitches! We'll catch you upon our return - with a story and some pics I'm sure.

Antioch Art & Music

The last couple Sundays, as we've been prepping for the art book at antioch, I've had my camera(s) at the morning service... so I snapped some photos of the music and art that we partake of at antioch on an average Sunday morning. Tom Monson & Lori LaBissoniere - above. Justin, Kim, Ian, Travis, JC and Shaun - below

Our Wedding Book

I surprised Courtney on her b-day and gave her a coffee table book with our wedding images (I wrote the story and designed all the layouts). Our photographer, David Hessemer, flew out from Maui for our wedding...amazing imagery! So I put his images and our story into a 40 page book and got it printed just in time for Courts birthday. The book is beautiful! The print quality and construction is superb! This is something that I offer to my photography clients...I take the pictures, design the books, and will even put your story into the design of the book (optional). Everyone I know hardly USES their wedding images after their wedding (even us), so this is a great way to show them off and keep them forever preserved! People LOVE looking through the book and reading our story! Everyone that comes over takes a gander at it and wants me to put their story & photos in a wedding book! Although it is an investment, it's well worth it!

New B.Cards

Got some new business cards in the mail today that will complete my new branding scheme... and I'm really excited about 'em! If you take a look at my website(s), blog, b.cards, quotes, invoices, marketing materials ...etc... you will see a uniform "look & feel." This is something that I stress to my clients - Consistent Points of Contact.

Oh Marriage!

We just got back from an antioch marriage retreat in Portland, OR. There was tons of couples and it was loads of cheeky fun! Here's a picture from the weekend - Disclaimer: some folks may find the image below disturbing...so divert your eyes and don't look. We were downtown Portland and went to the IceBreaker store (New Zealand based clothing store) and they had these sheep pictures with cutouts for your head...thus the following image...

Ooooop! :)

It is official, we're 11 weeks pregnant! Surprise SURPRISE! The story goes like this... We were informed of this shocking news on the 2nd day of our vacation in Maui. We were originally supposta be in Africa (but that trip changed (for the better), so we took ourselves off the team), and then we found a similar trip that was leaving the same day as the Africa trip, but it was going to Nepal to make a documentary on human trafficking (which we couldn't get all the funds together, so that fell through at the last minute). So the two trips happened without us and we couldn't go "save the world", BUT we were able to take an unrehearsed trip to Maui instead...which seemed ridiculous that God would let us go "sun ourselves" in Maui, but not let us go make those documentaries - which we would rather be doing anyways! It didn't make sense to us until the second day we were in Maui and Court took the test...well, three tests just to make sure! 

It was the perfect place to process this shocking news!... away from the day-to-day grind in Bend. It was PERFECT timing and we were able to get a lot of wisdom and guidance from our mentors and friends in Maui.  This baby was no doubt given to us by God, because we were using like three birth control methods to make sure it wouldn't accidently happen. But it did... So, we're still figuring out what this all means and what life will look like with a little baby ...we'll keep you posted! Check back often for updates on Gary Jr ;)  Play the ultrasound video below...