July! Our house is finally feeling like home and we are ready to have folks over to help warm it up! Lara & Mansureh will be visiting this weekend and will be our first home guests, and we will be using the 4th of July as an excuse to fire up our new grill and have a housewarming party. Look out for pictures from that!

Meanwhile, Marc & I have decide to get a pair of kittens. They are sisters and we are working on names (right now, we are thinking "Coquette" for the faded calico who is more playful, and "Sophie" for the other one who is more dainty). They are about 9 weeks old right now, but we won't bring them home until early Aug after we are done with our travels later this month. Soooo terribly cute! We will have to train them well to ensure our new furniture do not get too scratched up!

~ Shuwen