Spruced the Place Up a Bit

If you have any experience customizing templates, I:

• Can't get the contact or about me pages to work. Also, I hate their colour.
• I can't figure out how to get my little dashboard menu in the corner.
  
• I wouldn't mind changing the background colour to something a little bit less beige!
  

Help??

(also, sorry for all the pop ups in Google Reader, I was mucking with labels)

Tree Planting

Mr. Spit and I are throwing a BBQ and tree planting ceremony thing on June 8th, to honour Gabriel. We got the gift certificate for the tree from friends, as a Christmas gift. It was a thoughtful and kind sort of gift. (Especially because they didn't get their Christmas gift from us until the end of Feb.)

And we aren't sure what to do during the event. The plan is to plant the tree, eat and visit. I thought we'd talk a bit, about how much the support of friends meant to us, and how much we missed Gabriel. A bit of a toast, if you will.

What else should we do? Can any of you think of readings or poetry or something?