Putting Our Wedding Gifts to Work

"Happy First Flight in an F/A 18" meal 

Colin had his first flight today, so I channelled my inner Rachael Ray and made him a Greek salad and lemon cake.  The salad turned out delicious, and the cake was good (just a little trouble with the frosting).  I put some more of our wedding gifts to work (the cake pans--thank you, Sheryl) and mixing bowls (from the Porepps--thank you Matt and TyRAN).  

After the new paint job

New drill--New shelf 

Kitchen-Before

Colin and I are currently renting a townhome from my friend Whitney while she is deployed on an IA to Djibouiti.  Since, I have a ton of free time before I start school, I decided to see if I could do some "home improvement".  The house had wallpaper with a sailboat border in the kitchen, and I wanted to bring it up to date with a fresh coat of paint. These are some pics of our handywork, and some of Colin using our new drill (from the Snakenbergs--thank you Shane and Katie) to build our new shelf (from the Parkers--thank you Betsy and Eric).