The Move, Renovations and Lawson at 19 Months!

Hooray! We did it.  We survived the 108 degree move!!!  

It was definitely a scorcher, but nonetheless, we pushed through and made it all happen.  It has been an absolutely insane past month!  I had no idea what an undertaking moving was.  I seem to always underestimate these types of things?!? 

I'm not sure who buys a brand new house and then rips everything up and renovates it within the first day of receiving the keys but that is exactly what this crazy Van Buskirk household did and I think we might have gone a little nuts in the process, but the good thing is that it is all done now.  

At least the main renovations, like the floors, cabinets, countertops and landscaping, are finished, so we don't have to live through that anymore.  We literally had four different crews all working in the house at the same time and I'm pretty sure they all hated me for that :/  Oops!  This is why I am a bakery manager and not a construction manager, haha.  

There have been endless projects since we moved in and so many more on our wish list but they will have to wait.  It is so hard moving into a new house, you just want everything to be done all at once and in a sense we did but Prescott and I have to restrain ourselves from going overboard, which is oh so easy to do!

Lawson has been a total handful recently as well, which has not helped maintain our stress level along with constant issues at the bakery and Prescott's job.  We have definitely overloaded ourselves once again, but are also starting to see the end of the rainbow and are ready to get there!  For now we just have to remain patient and do what we can when we can.

Here are some photos of the pre move, mid construction and post move with post renovation photos to come soon once I get everything in order :)

Lawson and Daniel having their last spin around the old house

Having fun boxing everything up

Hey look mom, look, I found my shoe (Lawson's FAVORITE word to say)

All of the construction crews, all at once!

Kitchen Before

Kitchen During

Obsessed.

Every hard or bad day I have, I just remind myself that this is my range

Lawson ready to "GO" (Also his favorite word, we don't know where he gets that from)

Installing the hardwoods

Installing the baby gates, which Lawson was less than fond of!

Lawson enjoying his new playroom

Patio Before

Pouring the Concrete

Sodding the yard

Lawson's abode.

Lawson at 18 months, Half Baked 5 year anniversary and new house updates!

Well this past month has truly flown by!  It has been yet another busy time for us with the combination of the bakery turning FIVE, Lawson turning a YEAR AND A HALF, Prescott turning another year older and the new house being born.  Whew, I'm exhausted just writing that!  

We were so busy that I feel like I could only half way plan/celebrate all of these events :/ All I could muster up for Half Baked's five year anniversary was a special deal that actually got us a good amount of traffic but of course it was on a day that we had a ton of weddings and other events that it was probably more stressful than anything else. But, Prescott and Lawson helped celebrate by bringing us some awesome balloons :)  Then I barely remembered Lawson's 18 month milestone and for Prescott's birthday, we just had some friends join us for a fun birthday dinner.  So nothing over the top or spectacular but still nonetheless special and meaningful. 

Lawson's new favorite things to do are cuddle, read books, try on shoes (be it his own or mommy or daddy's), play at the park, kick the soccer ball, hit the baseball and play golf with his little toy golf clubs.  He is really starting to talk a lot, some actual words but definitely lots of baby words.  He likes to speak spanish, his favorite word in spanish is dos and his favorite word in english right now is juice. Lawson has learned how to nod yes and no and really understands most everything we say, especially if it is words he likes, like park, icecream or outside.  

His favorite place to go is to the new house and he starts screaming as soon as we turn into the neighborhood.  I can't blame him, I get excited to.  Sometimes, when there are so many stresses at the bakery and at home, it is easy to get bogged down, but then when we go to the new house it is a sign of why we work so hard and the one good thing/reward we have for just our little family of three to enjoy (and all of our family and friends too!).

I am looking forward to getting this move over with next week and starting our life at the new house.  Hopefully filled with less stress and more fun :)  We are going to make lots of great memories in this house and I can't wait for it to all begin!

Lawson got into mama's chocolate!

Hugging my new range OMG

True chef kitchen!!!

Countertops and cabinet color will be changing as soon as we get keys!!!

Pre wood floor installation

This master closet could seriously pass as a bedroom