And then there was Light!

Our entry chandelier fell around Easter time (about 6 months ago) and we have been without light in our entry, patio, stairs, and upstairs hallway until this weekend! We now have light--thanks to Brian!

An inconvenient and unexpected repair, but we are lucky it fell when it did and nobody was hurt. Since we needed to replace the entry chandelier, we ended up replacing the other hanging lights on the main floor so that they would all match (at last). That was part of the reason why we waited six month to do it! Brian spent the weekend putting on his "electrician hat" and getting the job done. He kept saying "I'm doing this because I love you..." and I kept thinking, "Just don't get paralysed!"

The entry light was the most difficult because of the height. It was hard to find a ladder that could reach to the height we needed, so Brian rigged up a pretty scary, but pretty good scenario. He had to strap the ladder to the front door (locked so nobody would open it unaware) and then strap himself to the ladder at the top. That way, he could reach out to the ceiling without his body weight causing him and the ladder to fall away from the wall. I was nervous watching!

He accomplished the task without too much complaint other than his arms falling asleep on him from working at that angle...until we went to put the light bulbs in! He had changed ladders to a smaller cherry picking ladder and just as he was screwing in the last bulb, the ladder collapsed on him and he fell from about 12 feet up! He rode the ladder down, but the ladder scraped up his shins pretty darn bad. I couldn't believe the damage. There isn't much skin on that part of the leg, and well, he doesn't have much left anymore! He's bruised about the worst I've seen...but he's handling it like a man! He played tag football with some boys last night, is floating the Provo river with the YM tonight, and going fishing in the Tetons this weekend, so I guess you could say not much will slow him down!

Other than that, I'm amazed it's September! We're hoping for the baby to be born towards the latter end of this month. I am getting especially anxious to find out what we're having! We're close to picking names: Paisley Sophia (or Paisley Jane) for a girl, and Eli Austin for a boy (or Austin Eli- haven't totally committed to either way yet). Of course it could change anytime between now and then!