So, you are probably wondering what this picture has to do with our family, much less our expected bundle of joy (No family tree jokes either!  >:-/  ) .....

We were putting the finishing touches on our nursery's brand new paint job just the other day.  In addition to that, we installed a fancy ceiling fan with an integrated light.  The coolest thing about it is the after-market remote wall switch.  O.K., so Dad will get the biggest kick out of that little feature.

So, what does this have to do with a tree again??

While I (Dad) was demonstrating the fancy new ceiling fan to (Mom) Gina, I learned a little more about electrical work and that we have a 3-Way switch in that room after all.  How did we learn this??  Well... the light didn't exactly work after all of the wiring was complete.  Even worse than that, the light no longer worked in the guest room next door.  Right at the moment we made that gem of a discovery, we heard SNAP, CRACKLE, POP, POP, POP, and the lights went out in the rest of the rooms!!

I scratched my head and thought to myself .....  just how badly did I wire up this fan in our evolving nursery??  Ironically, the tree in this picture came crashing down at the very moment we turned on the new fan.  If you look at the top left corner of the picture, you can see the power line that was formerly attached to our house.

Thanks to some candles, we were able to survive the rest of the evening.  Thanks to the two guys from Dominion Virginia Power, our lights back on just in time for bed.