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.