If you don't have work, make work!

Well we have rented 1 apartment and 3 houses since we have been married and there is one thing that is common in all of them. They are not yours. You live in a house and want so badly to make it your own but you don't want to spend money to do it cause... its not yours!
I don't care. I did it anyway. I spent 25 bucks and bought a ceiling fan (on clearance) at Lowe's to replace the 1936 light fixture that is in our baby room.

the new fan

the antique fixture (so pretty)

When i got it home i was so excited to put it up but Anna had a better idea. "The baby doesn't need the fan and we do so why don't you put the light from our room in the baby room and the new ceiling fan in our room" she says. "Of course," i say, "why not," because i learned a few months ago not to argue with a pregnant wife.
This is when the fun part begins. I thought it would be a piece of cake. Match the new wires from the new lights and fan to the old nasty corroded non colored wires from the 1915 house. That was the easy part. a bit of guess work and a quick flick of the switch and Abracadabra it worked. The real problem came before i even hooked it up. It went a little bit like this. (start time: 8:30 pm)
1. Take down old light from baby's room
2. Take down light from Mommy and Daddy's room
3. Pull down on the outlet box in Mommy and Daddy's room to make sure it can
hold the new ceiling fan.
4. Find out that the ghetto contractors that put in the new light cut a hole in
the ceiling in a random place and stuck the outlet box in and anchored it to
the cardboard ceiling (or something with the same amount of structural
integrity) and nothing else.
5. Make the decision to continue the project tomorrow (it was now 10 pm on a
school and work night)
6. Recon the attic to find its structural supports.

This is the size of the opening to the attic that i had to climb through

7. Find no supports so i cut a piece of 2x4 and screw it to the 2 crossbeams.
8. Check the newly constructed brace and find that now it shakes the whole
ceiling so now i get another 2x4 and attach it from the ceiling crossbeam
to the roof crossbeam. (sorry I forgot to take pictures and decided not to
go back up in the asbestos filled attic)
9. Bask in my brilliance and take a Dr Pepper break.
10. Begin to hang the ceiling fan with the help of my friend Jon.
11. Realize that the night before i put the ceiling fan together and was
supposed to wait until after the motor part was hung so now i get to take
all the blades of and start over.
12. Hang the fan, take down the fan, hang the fan, take down the fan, and hang
the fan one more time hoping that i finally get it right.
13. End the adventure at 10:15 pm with the wife climbing into bed saying
"turn off the light when you are done cleaning up."

Oh the things we learn while in our youth!

I miss Todd Tyler!

Life changing times

Dear Diary, I know it has been a long time sense I have written and I will do better…. I looked back at some of my childhood entries and noticed that they were all about 2-4 months apart and then noticed that my blog was turning out the same way. I would not be a good Nephi.

Well a lot has happened sense September that is worthy of a shout out.

1. We are having a baby. Not just a baby but we found out last Friday the 14th of November that we are having a baby girl! She is due to enter this frozen arctic ice flat on the 10th of April







2. I completed my first solo in the H-300 helicopter about a month ago.





3. I Built a Bassinet for the soon to be here baby from scratch









4. I just got called last Sunday to be the Assistant Teachers Quorum Advisor. (yes I can finally test out my new sleeping bags true sub zero potential)

5. Hello, my name is Dusty and I am addicted to Facebook.

6. We moved to a newer, nicer, cleaner, bigger, better house just down the street (the baby room is going to rock your socks)