The lights are on but no one is home!

We spent a great deal of time yesterday replacing our outdoor light fixtures on the front of our house. It should have been a rather small job but each time we were sure we had the new light fixtures wired correctly and flipped the breaker switch, they wouldn't turn on. We changed light fixtures, we changed bulbs, we tried everything we could possibly think to try. After several hours we were ready to just give up and call an electrician. It was then that Adam saw something at the bottom of the box that said, "From Dusk 'til Dawn; turns on automatically at dusk and turns off at dawn. No special timers needed." We hadn't realized that the fixtures we had purchased had such a feature and that the reason they weren't turning on was because it was still full daylight. DON'T YOU THINK THEY SHOULD MAKE THAT A LITTLE MORE CLEAR IN THE INSTRUCTIONS!?! Not a word was said in the instructions, only on the bottom corner of the box. After 4 hours of frustration and questioning our own intelligence we discovered they had been correctly installed the entire time. As soon as dusk arrived they turned on and worked perfectly. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. We are pretty tempted to write a strongly worded letter to the company and tell them to at least mention it in the instructions, we can't be the only people ever to have such difficulties.


Britton lost one of his front teeth on Friday. It had been loose for a long time and really needed to come out, but it was nothing a little dental floss and Grandma Price couldn't handle. She popped it right out and Britton said it didn't even hurt when she did it. He is starting to look like a Jack-o-Lantern so I guess it is good that Halloween will be here before we know it. He has several more teeth that are loose. As you can see the tooth fairy is his main source of income right now.

Adam passed his real estate test this week to get his license. He is happy to be done with classes and to move on. Now he can start developing all of his business ideas.