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HI Beth, and welcome. I'm sort of jealous. I remember my first views of the sky the moon in particular very fondly - you'll see many amazing things in the night sky, some visually spectacular like the moon some visually unimpressive but awe inspiring from having see something so vast so far away. You've got some good advice below - as DP says have a look at the handle of the pot and see what you can see.
The other thing you must do is look at Saturn. Around 9pm looking directly north and about half way from horizon to straight up you will see a bright cream coloured "star" if you look at it with your scope even with your 25mm eyepiece you'll see a very tiny cream-yellow ball complete with ring and perhaps a few surrounding specs which are the larger moons...
just keep in mind the moon is very close and no matter what eyepieces you use will you see anything near the size or detail on the other planets, but, hopefully, the achievement of turning mere dots of light many millions of km away into littles disks with some detail will be enough to keep you chuffed.
cheers,
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