Whew.

It's been a busy month! We made a lot of progress on the house (or at least it looks like we did):

We painted the living room a reddish-orange, with a yellow accent wall you can see in this photo:

And then we got some new curtains up, bought a better bookcase (to replace our two Ikea monstrosities), and got everything back on the walls. It's like a whole new place. I can't tell you how much I love the color we chose. In the shadows, it's a cozy, earthy, red; and when the light hits it, it's warm and bright and wonderful.

And we got all this done in time for a visit from Bryan (Scott's brother) and Celia (his wife). We had oodles of fun cavorting around DC, Frederick, and Gettysburg this past weekend.


There were many good times to be had, and of course, a filthy cake: