Gardening by the square foot

We finally finished the garden boxes in the back yard! Here they are! I will post another picture when they are filled with veggies, herbs, and flowers! It was a lot of work, probably 15 hours of total work to put them all together and fill them with dirt. We ended up getting free dirt from the landfill, which saved about $300, so that was definitely great.

Rachael's Dinner Party

For our friend Kathy's birthday, Rachael came up with a great idea to have a dinner party! Here are some pictures from the party.

This is the awesome centerpiece that Rachael had the idea for. I helped with the construction, and it was definitely a two person job.

One of the napkins rings/place settings:

The beautiful table setting...looks fancy, doesn't it?

The menu with appetizers behind it...

The menu was from Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee from The Food Network. Click here if you want to see what we ate! We didn't have the dessert listed there, because Bert brought an almond cake and I made a lemon cheesecake (lemon is Kathy's favorite, as you can tell from the lemon themed meal). We also didn't drink the martini listed there, but we had Italian Wedding Cake Martini's instead.

A good time was had by all!