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. 

Sierra Noelle Baumgartner

Sierra Noelle Baumgartner Born February 18th 2010 at 6:03 am, weighing 8lb 11oz 21 1/2 inches long. She came one day before her due date. This was deffinatley not the labor experience I was expecting. We went in around 9:00pm the 17th to be induced, and around 10:30 they induced me, and around midnight a nurse came in and told me I need to start walking around to help the contractions start so I did, I walked for maybe 10 minutes with Patrik up and down the halls and then I needed to be back in my room because my contractions were getting pretty bad. Around 4:00am they gave me a shot to numb the pain a little then they gave me my epidural around 4:30, so i tryed to sleep then around 5:30am they came in to check me and told me and told me I was at a nine, but my body told me I was at a ten because I started pushing, thats when I realized that my epidural wasn't working. I remember I yelled at everyone in the delivery room except my husband and I remember screaming that we were not going to have any more kids, everyone laughed and cryed because they were all laughing at me. The nurses told me to control my breathing over and over so I yelled at them over and over, later Patrick told me that my doctor told everyone that I am usually a pleasant person, I didn't hear him say this, which was probably a good thing. fineally I made the nurses bring me in a mirror because I told them they were lying to me about how good I was doing and how she was almost here. then what felt like 3 hours later which was only 24 minutes later came our little girl, 8lb 11oz, she was perfect. they put her on my belly, I said hi to her and thanked her for coming out of me and Patrick cut the cord and then they took her to clean her off and then I was out, I fell asleep so fast. Belle got to meet her little sister and she didn't know what to think, but now she can't get enough of her. She wants to hold her all the time and hugs on her and gives kisses. My baby Belle isn't a baby any more, she is our big girl.

Belle is growing up too fast

Well Our little Belle isn't so little any more, she is talking more and more everyday. She is 18 months now and is about to become a big sister any day now. Belle has Mom and Dad wrapped around her little finger. She sleeps in her big girl bed and she is really smart. She learns more and more sign language every day. She know a little over 20 signs and she know how to say about 7 or 8 words out loud. Belle is a busy busy girl, which is why we can't wait for spring so we can take her to the park so she can run around and release some of that energy. Belle gives good kisses, she use to give open mouth kisses but she has learned to make the lip smacking noise when she kisses now. Belle is going to be a great big sister, she kisses mamma's belly everyday, and she carrys her babies around the house and gives them kisses all the time. We are just a little scared she is going to want to play with her little sister as rough as she does with her baby dolls, she likes to poke at their eyes (Mom and Dads eyes too). Belle loves that right now Daddy has almost as much energy as her, she gets to be thrown in the air over and over and her laugh is the best. She is such a cuddle bug too. She will come up to you where ever you are sitting and turn her back to you and lift her arms up for you to pick her up. She likes to dress up as well. She will go into dads closet and get his ties and put them around her neck, then grab her necklaces and bracelets and put them on, grab a purse or two and come out with her cell phone and talk talk talk, we never know what she is saying, but she looks like a big girl when she has that phone of hers. Belle just learned that when we ask her to smile she doesn't squint or blink her eyes anymore she actually smiles. We are such proud parents, we can only hope all of our kids are as well behaved as her. She may be small but she has a big personality. Our next blog post will have big sister and little sister. Wish us luck and pray for us. We will let everyone know as soon as she gets here. But until then we will let Belle have all of our attention and be the only child for a few more days.

She has a name

Sierra

She doesn't have a middle name yet but we will have one before she is born

Baumgartner Family Pics 2009

We got our pictures taken and it wasn't easy to get Belle to smile in any pictures with all three of us in it, but when she was alone with mom or dad or just by her self we could stand behind the camera and make her smile real big. She Started wondering off and dancing. She though she was pretty cute. So this was out fun fall day of taking our 2009 Baumgartner Family Photos.

No No Belle

Our curious little Belle loves to get into things she isn't suppose to, and lately she knows she isn't suppose to but she does it anyway. She knows what No means now, in english and in sign language, if you sign no to her she will most likely start crying. Nobody likes to hear no. Well Belle has more teeth she has her two bottom teeth and now her two top teeth and one more is coming in on the bottom. Looks like it's time to wean her to a bottle. We have been trying to wean her to a bottle and a sippy cup and anything else we can think of, but it doesn't seem to work. She doesn't know what to do with it, she just plays with the bottle and sippy cup as if it were one of her toys. So that has been a little frustrating, but she will get it, I have complete faith in her!!! She has taken her first steps!!! Yay for Belle!!! Our goal was to have her walking by Tims Wedding. Now she is walking like a pro. Belle also got her first hair cut, her bangs were getting in her eyes. She is such a mellow little girl. We are so happy with her, she is such a good little girl!!!