On setting up house

Now that all the business of the wedding and the holidays is over, Blake and I are getting to the real business of setting up our house. I feel like I've become the queen of small appliances. We registered for most of them; I guess I didn't think about how many that would be if we got all of them. I'm pretty sure we did. I was organizing the kitchen yesterday and had to find space for the following small appliances (including some we already had): toaster, George Forman grill, crock pot, hand mixer, blender/food processor, knife sharpener, KitchenAid, ice cream maker, waffle/sandwich maker, popcorn popper, electric skillet, electric griddle, fondue pot. I used the KitchenAid for the fist time yesterday. It was glorious. I made white bread, ginger bread, and whipped cream with it. I'm already in love.


We've got the biggest portion of our bedroom set up. I painted it the week before the wedding. We shampooed the carpets last week and moved furniture in on Saturday. We could not have done that without the help of our wonderful friends Kim and Kyle. Thanks guys! We bought sheets for Family Home Evening on Monday so we could finally sleep in our bed in our bedroom. We've still got to hang this awesome light that we bought in Mexico on our honeymoon. (There are pictures of the honeymoon on facebook for anyone who is interested.)


We're also setting up house for our fish, 'Lil Jackie Sparrow. He made his debut at our wedding reception. We bought him a treasure chest for his bowl and were SO excited when he finally discovered that he could swim through the hole in it. His bowl gets dirty fast, and he really doesn't like getting it cleaned out. He's so stubborn. I'm really glad that 'Lil Jackie likes his treasure chest. He's been much more active since we put it in there (or maybe it was since we moved him in front of the TV speakers; they happened on the same day). I like to think that he swims around it singing "Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!"