Happy Holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving Baumgartners!
Our first Thanksgiving on our own and luckily it was a success. I was in my own little paradise cooking dinner all day. Unfortunetley we didn't have fancy dishes to display our delicious dinner. We really realized this year how much we are thankful for our family and friends.

                                                             Patrick Carving the Turkey

Before                                     After






                       Feast

Christmas Parade!!!

  

Here in Davenport they kind of go all out with their parades. It was a mini macys thanksgiving day parade if you will. Something we saw through out the whole parade was.... wait for it.... CLOWNS. I dont know about you but nothing says Christmas like 1,000 creepy

Clowns roaming the streets of Davenport. The kids didn't like them at first but then they got free clown noses and their noses painted red and then they didnt mind the clowns as much.

There were probably 30+ big blown up baloons like rudolf and Santa. The kids loved it.

                                                                       Painted noses

 

Smile Daddy!

Our New Home

After looking at over 40 houses to buy.........We decided to rent. The houses here didn't excite us at all. We found this apartment and loved it. It's in a nice looking neighborhood. We did find out after we signed the lease though that to do laundry it will cost $2.75 to do 1 load. YIKES!!! Looks like we will be wearing a few things more than once now. Good news is we have plenty of room for VISITORS! (cough cough) Hint Hint! After we moved in that is when our luck took a wrong turn. That is putting it nicely. Our Bathroom toilet water was almost to the point of BOILING HOT. Our kitchen sink would run any cold water. Our dish washer was only blowing air. Our dish would only pick up a couple channels. Our internet could'nt be plugged in because we had dish plugged in. Our computer wouldnt pick up any signal to use the internet or any files on our computer. Because of the hot water problem the maintenence man had to come in and knock down some walls to try to find the plumbing and who ever built these appartments apparently had somewhere important to be because they threw it together to fast. the pipes to fix out hall toilet and kitchen sink were all the way over in our bedroom wall. Of course they didnt know this so they put 5 different holes (big holes) in my walls. one in the kitchen, 2 in the bathroom, one in the hall, and one in our bedroom. then they fixed our dishwasher, there was dry wall stuck in the pipe of the dish washer. WHEW! Now we are unpacked, pictures are hung up, toys are everywhere and now we can call this our Home Sweet Home.

Tears and Tears and Headaches and Tears!

Our last Sunday in the Cedar 3rd Ward.

Sheila's Gluten Casen free cake she made for our going away party! I loved it!

 

 

 

Illinois and the Nauvoo Temple (for those of you who couldn't tell)

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Okay...Yesterday was full of tears, hugs, pictures, food, and goodbyes. First of all, It was our last day in our pocatello ward and miss Belle bore her testimony for the first time. She said " I like to bare my testimony, I know this church is true, I love my Family, and I love you all, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

She did Great! I am one proud Mama! I was next... I bore a quick one because I knew tears were coming. Patrick bore his testimony and it was amazing (as always) and when he cries I always cry.

We got to our going away party and I was fine...until all of our friends and family came. Tears... laughs... tears... picture... tears... head ache... tears... eat... pictures... tears tears tears. We had a good time and are going to miss everyone and our perfect pocatello.

Today the packers showed up (an hour late) and started bringing in box after box. I loaded up the kids and went to Grandma Richardson's house to watch a little Disney junior, eat breakfast, and just hang out while Patrick supervised the movers.

So far so good... WAIT.... WHAT? They already broke 2 of my things? yes, yes they did. my flour and sugar containers are busted. Now we are getting paid for the damages...hmmm, maybe they will break our TVs so we can get new ones! yessss...

Well tonight we are sleeping in Pocatello one last time...(tear)... and then tomorrow afternoon we are on the road and heading on our great adventure. First Stop, Wyoming! We are staying the night in Wyoming and then we will head to Nebraska on Wednesday, and then, drum roll please......... ILLINOIS! Finally. We will settle into our temp home and then Friday we will start house hunting! Hopefully we find the home of our dreams on Friday so we can sign paper work and get moved in A.S.A.P.

Well everyone, we can't wait to see you in December. Until then please post pictures, keep us updated and for those of you that are pregnant I want to see pictures almost immediately after you have your new little addition!

 

Love you All!

Baumgartner Family

BIG CHANGES ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN

Well, first of all Patrick graduated from I.S.U. in December 2009 as a civil engineer focusing on land surveying. He worked as a land surveyor in Afton Wyoming during the summer of 2009 working for the forest service, May of 2010 until October 2010 for the B.L.M. in Idaho Falls, Farmers insurance November 2010 until May 2011, Idaho Falls B.L.M. May 2011 to October 2011, lived off love for 6 months (He was unemployed) and then May 2012 until October 2012 he has worked for the B.L.M in Idaho Falls surveying and he has loved it. Well Tuesday September 4th He got his First job interview for a full time job Surveying in Rock Island Illinois. It was over the phone and he didn't want to get his hopes up so he thought he might not get it since there are probably plenty of other applicants. Friday September 7th Patrick received an email that basically said "if your background check comes back clean the job is yours" The actual email was alot longer and only a surveyor would understand. So as I'm practicing my mad skills on the organ (I can't read music yet but I'm working on it) I hear "wife.....Wife.....WIFE!! So I turn around and he is just starring at me in shock, I look at the computer screen that started out saying Dear Mr. Baumgartner, we would like to offer you .......... then he interrupted my reading and said, we got the job. No tears yet just shock, I gave him a hug and said congratulations I'm so happy for you. He said "for us, be happy for us" then the realization of what this actually meant started kicking in...

• No more Pre-school
• No more Dance 
• No more Girls night out
• No more Thomas/Baumgartner Pinochle nights
• No more Sunday Family dinners
• No more Poker nights for Patrick and his buddies
• No more Mountains
• No more Mama Inez cheese crisps (why don't you just shoot me in the face)
• No more calling up my mom and saying can you watch my kids for a while so I can run some errands
• No more Dr. Burton and Nurse Holly
• No more 5 minute trips to see Family and Friends
• and so much more

instead we are trading all that in for

• Becoming a minority on religious views
• Buying our first home
• Home-schooling for pre-school
• Finding a new Doctor and Dentist
• Making new friends
• Flat Land
• VISITS FROM ALL OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY (hint hint)
• Visits back to Pocatello 
• Making my first Thanksgiving dinner all by myself
• Ward boundaries that cover 40 miles
• A sewing machine and a camera..........YES!!!!!!!
• Nauvoo Temple!
• and so much more

We've been crying tears of joy and sadness ( when I say we I mean me) We are excited for this awesome opportunity but are also nervous to leave our comfort zone and move somewhere we don't know very much about but we have been praying about it and we both feel like this is where we are suppose to be. Belle and Sierra are excited because they get to pick out some fish for our new home. They have already named their fish, Belles is Rosie and Sierras is Elmo, Henry's fish right now is AAAHHHHHHHHHHH, but then again he can't talk right now so we will name his fish Nemo. 

Belle is going to miss her friends the most, which is everyone she knows. I don't think she really knows what is going on, and I am pretty sure I will break down when we get to Illinois and she asks me if we can go see Izzie (which mean Lizzie) and Abby (which means Addy) and Emma ( well she says Emma correctly) and all her other little friends. 

Sierra is going to miss going to our friends and families homes and I'm sure she will miss being chased by Charlotte and Remi, She just wont realize it but I'm sure she will miss it.

Henry will miss.......hmmm, well I'm not to worried about him but I know he will miss all our family. 

Patrick and I are going to miss all of you, our perfect Pocatello, and everything else in this perfect little package. (tear) Be excited for us and even if you're not please fake it because it will be hard for a while but this will go by so fast and we will still come visit and we expect visits from all of you. I promise our next blog post will be happier but for now just deal with the tears. We love you all.