On a roll...

Yesterday Dave and I decided on a whim that we wanted to replace our kitchen light at that very moment. We'd been talking about how much we hated that light for the past 4 years (since we moved in), but never did anything about it. So we hopped in the car and drove on over to Home Depot to pick out a light. We came out of Home Depot with track lighting, plant food, cleaning supplies and a can of brown paint.

Yes, you read that right. While we were in Home Depot we decided that we wanted to repaint the tall wall in our living room cocoa brown. Right now it's a very pretty maroon with gold leaves painted on it (thanks for doing this, Riss!!), but we were ready for some changes. Then we decided we needed new drapes for the deck door, and found a good deal at Home Depot. And THEN we decided we needed a seatbelt for Gus, since he rides with us to and from work every day. If we ever got into an accident, he would probably take off one of our heads, he's getting so big.

We got home and got to work right away. We've replaced a couple of other lights in our house by ourselves, so it wasn't as scary this time. Dave got everything pulled down and got the track for the lighting mounted. I decided we needed to test the lights to ensure they turned on, so we flipped the breaker and it worked on the first try. Yay!! So we got everything mounted. We work really well as a team, and it ended up only taking a couple of hours. It looked beautiful, and I was so happy to have it done. However, when I went to turn the lights off to go to bed they WOULDN'T turn off!!!!! Dave remembered there was an "extra" wire that he just capped off, so that must be where the issue is. It was too late to do anything about it last night, so we'll work on it tonight and maybe call in Neighbor Bob the Electrician for some assistance.

I didn't take any before pictures, but found one of the drapes that was supposed to be just a pic of Gus. Here are some pictures of the new additions (and a super cute Gus picture thrown in at the end as well):

Before

(you can kind of see the drapes next to Gus. They were off-white)
After

I love this picture!!! I'll try to get some good seatbelt pictures tomorrow. He cracks me up.