We are a crazy in love couple who will stop at nothing to make each other SMILE. Our little nugget has arrived and we are so excited for all of the adventures coming our way!!
{Photo above courtesy of Kellie Kano Photography}

Monday, October 26, 2009

Final Fire 47/365

Sunday was the perfect wrap up to a wonderful weekend! We were up early getting things done around the house after a quick walk to the Bagel Bin for our favorite Sunday morning treat. We are having tons of friends and family up for the FSU at Wake Forest game in a few weeks and with our schedule coming up, we needed to get started on preparing the house for visitors! After lunch, Tyler settled in for a day filled with football and I headed out to run some errands. I managed to find something to wear for gameday in Florida and also pulled together most of my Halloween costume. Tyler's is coming in the mail this week...easy enough! Once I got home we settled in to watch football together, opened a bottle of wine and turned on the fire. We lit all the candles, curled up with blankets and just enjoyed the end of our weekend.
Fast forward about 6 hours. I had just finished watching Brothers and Sisters and our last load of laundry was almost completely folded and put away. Tyler was flipping back and forth from the football game to the baseball game so we could text my dad updates while he was at the ACDC concert. I turned off the TV in the den and went to turn off the fire. We have a manual gas fireplace, where the pilot stays lit and then we just turn on/off the gas to turn on/off the fire. Well, I could not turn that knob! So I called Tyler out and he couldn't turn it either. The knob was hot so we put on gardening gloves to help our hands. After about 15 minutes, we had tried every tool we could find...still, we had a full fire.
At this point we started thinking about our options. There is a gas valve in the back of the fireplace but we couldn't turn it with our hands. Tyler ventured outside to try to manually turn off all of our gas with no luck. We even called the volunteer fire department at this point. We called our gas provider and unfortunately it is impossible to get someone on the phone at 11:30pm unless you have a gas leak. Finally, at midnight, we decided that we definitely had a situation that was "emergency-ish," so we claimed gas leak to the automated system and finally got a person on the phone. After telling her over and over that we weren't smelling any gas but just simply couldn't turn off our fireplace, she said she would send someone out within the hour. About 40 minutes later, two guys show up and use a big tool to turn that gas valve in the back of the fireplace. They look at Tyler, ask "is that all," and head on their way....
Little did I know when I took this picture of the fire earlier in the evening that it really would be the best possible image to describe our Sunday! I would have taken a picture of the guys who got out of bed to help us at 1am, but they were finished faster than it would have taken me to remove my lens cap and turn on my camera :)

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