We are almost finished with six months of home renovations!

We have removed walls, added doors, painted, redone the hardwood floors, bought furniture, returned furniture, and bought again. We have loved making our house just like us, and it is almost finished. We are just waiting for a few odds and ends to be delivered, then we will be able to unveil all that we have been working on. Until then, here are some looks into the rooms we have been working on.

We love the new "elephant skin" gray walls in our living and dining rooms! Plus sliding on the hardwood floors with socks never gets old!

We moved into the guest room, and got a king size bed! I "may" be officing out of there a few days a week! It is my new favorite place in the house.

Keep an eye out for the full tour in the next few weeks! Or, just swing on by for a tour and a quick game of Mario Kart!

What a fairy tale day!

It was a warm and sunshine-y afternoon in late summer, and Megan and Preston met up with their friends and family to be married. As we pulled through the gates at a venue that is very special to us (Briscoe Manor is where we got married) Luke and I both commented that it was certainly a beautiful day to get married.

I'll never tire of the majestic Texas Longhorns that greet you as you drive down the lane to Briscoe.

8-4... their wedding date!

Megan's father crafted this unique way to give the favors to the guests. An antique wooden door was fashioned with hooks, numbered by table, and hung with the favors. One of my favorite parts of weddings is when families come together to make a day personal to the couple. Megan had told me about this neat idea before the wedding, and I was so excited to see it come together so elegantly.

A quiet reminder outside the bridal suite reminds us: the reason we were at Briscoe that day, the reason why Luke and I were at Briscoe several years ago, and heck, the reason why we have our business little business of ours....

In what's becoming one of my favorite parts of wedding days, Megan and Preston took some time early in the day to exchange gifts with one another.

By the way, these are the first glances we're showing you of Megan. Is she radiant, or what? True happiness like this is one of my favorite things in the whole world to photograph.

This was one of Megan's gifts - a paparazzi style shot that Preston had taken while he was proposing to her.

Preston's gifts were hand-picked by Megan and included an antique compass (how cool?) and cufflinks.

Briscoe Manor's chapel was decked out. These arrangements featured lots of wonderful purple flowers. Especially notice the iris, placed in the arrangements as a tribute to Preston's mother. They were her favorite flower!

Laughs with mom...

... as an admiring dad watches on. Lindsey Connally assisted us at this wedding, and snagged this wonderful moment. Thanks, Lindsey!

What a lovely bride!

Briscoe's new bridal suite and courtyard is a lovely place for portraits!

While the music played and the guests were seated, Megan's dad helped her make some last minute adjustments.

Preston's Super Mario Brothers grooms cake! We all were so jealous. This made me want to get out my old school Game Boy (you know the one, it was NOT in color) and play.

Right around sunset, we got to go outside with the couple and take some portraits. The sky was too gorgeous to not photograph.

Handy groom you got there, Megan! Preston is such a fun guy.

Megan and Preston, thank you so much for letting us be a part of your day! We have had an amazing time with you guys, too many laughs to count, and plenty of memories. We can't wait to see where life takes you all!

To view more of Megan and Preston's wedding day images and sign their virtual guestbook, click here!

I posted a picture a few days ago of the first scan we saw from our first roll of film and we were blown away!

Just like when we got our first Digital Rebel and wanted to learn how to shoot with it, we used the scenery around us. Since we live on Cat's grandparents cattle ranch, you guessed it, cows are the subjects of the majority of our images:) #moo!

Dolores dog! For those of you that have came to our home, you most likely have met this little rascal!

Beans cat!

What a stud!

I knew I would, but I love my Canon 1V film camera. We have been taking it with us to weddings to get a few images in addition to all the others we have, and I can't wait for those to start coming back from the lab! I do love the instant gratification from our digital images, but something about having to wait a few weeks to see the film scans makes it much more fun to me. It's like Christmas morning!

When we get our next scans in I will put them up for you to look at and me to marvel over! I still can't believe that I am shooting on film. It seemed like such a mysterious creature for so long, now I am doing it!

Over and out!
Luke