Goodbye popcorn ceiling!!!(well some)

So all the drywall is up on the ceiling!! Well in the 2nd bedroom, and upstairs hallway, and over the stairs anyway, which is all we're tackling right now. The 2nd bedroom is looking absolutely GREAT!!! All the junk is out(and now all over the rest of the house), but it's emptied out, except for the all the tools, and ladders and platform, being used in the construction. With the help of Tony's dad, my dad and Johnny, this huge project is really coming along! My dad came by after work yesterday and helped Tony smooth out the taping joints, and Johnny is coming over tonight to help out. This part is kinda tedious, because they put mud on let it dry sand, and put another coat of mud on, but that's kinda the way it goes. Oh and we have a working ceiling light in the 2nd bedroom! With a working dimmer!! Thanks dad, for helping us figure out our electrical issues! Tony spent a good 5 minutes just playing with the dimmer last Sat! We are just so excited to have such a simple pleasure in life as being able to flip a switch and have a light in the middle of the room come on! It's so nice!!! It's one of those things you don't fully appreciate until you don't have it. Tony is really excited about all the work that's getting done before we leave on vacation to San Fransisco on Thursday. I'm really excited for that, as we're flying and I haven't been on a plane in over 5 years!! I love flying on planes!! Neither of us have been to San Fran, and Tony has a mission companion getting married close to there, so we thought we'd go support him, and make a little vacation out of it, and thanks to a lot of good deals we found, we were able to do it! I'm so excited!!!!