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.