A few weeks back, Cat and I went on a little family vacation with her grandma, aunt, and cousin.

We have taken so many pictures of Payton (Cat's cousin) over the years, and when Jan (Cat's aunt) put the plans together for a family trip to the beach, we knew that we would be able to get some more images of Payton, but this time they would be on film!

(Holy run-on sentence! Sorry, Internet!)

One evening we walked around the resort and played Port Aransas' Next Top Model. Jan was Tyra, Payton was the model, Cat was Mr. Jay, and I was Nigel. Of course we took some digital shots just to make sure that we were on the same page with the film camera, and we finally have the film scans back. Here are a few of our favs!

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!

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