The Wright Life!

We had a wonderful housewarming party this past Friday night.  A few close friends came over to help us celebrate our first house! I was able to put up a few 'fall' decor items too.  We did a few last minute projects before the party...I'll post more on that this week...but for now here are a few pictures from the party.

Things are finally starting to slow down around here with Fall approaching us quickly.  At the end of August we both took some time off and crammed in one of the busiest vacations we've ever planned...a little too busy but oh well!  I flew to Chicago for a night, drove home with my best friend Stephanie to Michigan for 3 nights and a wedding, flew to LA for 2 nights where I met Rollie (who drove down by himself) visited LA friends, drove to Santa Barbara for a night, and then ended it with one night in Carmel....geez! I didn't have my camera in Michigan but snapped a few pictures on the latter part of the trip...here are a few: The poopdeck in Hermosa Beach...where we had our first kiss :) Kerrington...our good friends Ray and Tanya's little daughter Madison(our friends Todd and Kerry's daughter) and Kerrington playing together Add caption Some pretty roses in Los Olivos Walking around downtown Solvang Our balcony view from our room in Solvang....

We are back from vacation and ready to start working on the house again.  Right before we went on vacation we bought, painted and had our baseboards installed.  We also finally got a fence put in...so Rufus now has full reign of the yard!  Pictures on that to come... Last night a worked on a few small decorating projects.  A few weeks ago I was at Farmstead restaurant with some girlfriends and saw a neat idea with ball jars, tea-lights and small rocks.  While we were at OSH I noticed that a whole dozen ball jars was on sale for $12...plus the 15% coupon we found :) Here are a few pics of the quick, simple and cheap project to spruce up our deck a bit. Still can't believe this is our backyard this guy was a big help :) Love this deck! 

Friday was our one month anniversary of the closing of our house.  The list of to-do's continue but we've taken some time to sit back, relax and enjoy all of our hard work this past week.  Neither of us can 'relax' very well so we've of course still been working but just not as hard.  Here is a list of what we've been working on: -trimming trees -cleaning  up side yard (well paying someone to clean up all the junk that was left here plus what we've added to from our demo's) -continuing to replace outlet covers and light switches -bought 2 lamps on craigslist for $25 (total) for behind the couch -took down huge ugly dry/erase board that was left in the kitchen -brought in all the bookshelves and organized books in living room, bought a 4th at ikea -bought and put together sofa table (actually a desk from ikea but you can't even see it so nobody would know!) -bought and installed a temporary light above the dining room table ($13...thank you ikea!) -re...

So for the last few weeks we've been masking the smell of our master bathroom toilet with air fresheners, spray, candles, etc.  But neither of us could take it anymore.  It smelled like old pee.  Yes gross, but one of the fun things about being a homeowner.  After some research and asking around we decided to replace the wax seal ring that rests between the actual toilet bowl and your floor.  It wasn't a hard project but a gross one.  Thank god for rubber gloves, face masks, sponges and an insane amount of cleaning supplies.  We forgot to grab the camera until mid way through and then we also forgot to snap a picture of the nice clean new wax ring but here are a few 'during' process.  Basically Rollie lifted and held the toilet while I did the dirty work.  He claims this is even since he electrocuted himself trying to figure out our light switches and covers....hmmmm...ok! Old gross wax ring...and dirty floors and wall T...