More 'home improvement'

This past weekend, we went to Home Depot to get a rake (to help pull some of the weeds up in our backyard, but that will be another post), and it turned into a very expensive rake! We ended up buying a timer for our front porch lights as well. It will be nice to have if/when we go on vacations. We won't have to worry about the lights not being on/being on all the time and wasting the power or burning out the light bulbs super quickly.
We returned home, pulled some more weeds, decided to take a break, and Michael started installing the timer. It went fairly smooth until we saw the inside of the switch box. Michael turned off the power, pulled off the old switch, and went to attach the new switch, but had too many wires to attach on the new switch (there were 4 wires to connect, but the switch we pulled off only had 3 wires connected to it). Michael placed a call to his step-dad (an electrical engineer) to see if we could figure out what to do, Michael's dad came up to see if he could help, and we eventually discovered that there were wires that had been pushed to the back of the switch box (and had gotten painted over when they painted our house) where they blended in and we couldn't see them very well. We eventually got the wires all hooked up, and the timer looks and works great!

(I decided to take pictures part way through the project, so I only have the 2)

                 After hooking all the wires in                               All Finished!