The Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point

Skiing at Park City

Two months ago (I know, I know, I'm trying to catch up)... my friend Andrea and I went skiing up at Park City. It was a blast!! I grew up skiing with my Dad a lot and now that I'm a mom and married to a golfer (not a skiier) I rarely go. Also I rarely see my great friend Andrea who I knew in my old ward when we were both freshly marrieds. Anyhoo, all of this rareness made for quite the special occasion and I loved every second of it. It was a beautiful day...very sunny and crystal clear. The picture of course doesn't do the view justice, but it was soo awe inspiring.

The skiing was fun, but the best part of the day was talking the day away with Andrea. She is one of those friends where even if you don't see them for a loooooooong time you can just pick up right where you left off and become instant friends again. It was a perfect day...other than the wicked sunburn I suffered with for the next week or so. Oh well...it just gave me an excuse to talk about my fun adventure when people asked about my bright red, peely face!

Whip it Good!

Oh the anticipation!

My turn!

How do I look?

At any given point during the day Isaac will decide he's low on sugar, run to the refridgerator, grab the whipcream can, bring it to me and say "One squirt please!" As I relent and am about to give a dallop he makes sure to add "BIG one!"

Whatever Keeps Them Entertained

Thanks to Grandma (who is no longer teaching piano) we are the lucky LUCKY recipients of a Yamaha Clavinova piano. It is by far the most expensive toy my boys have and they absolutely LOVE it! Each and every day any one of my boys will climb up onto the piano bench and get their favorite demo song playing. Isaac's favorite by far is "Do Re Mi" and he just can't help himself from running and dancing around the room in big circles. I never know what Zekie will be in the mood for...anything from a little "Love Story" to a patriotic "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

I just couldn't decide which one of these pictures I liked better. The top one is just so funny with his little "cheese" smile and the bottom one truly shows the joy he experiences with each song that he loves. Caleb can seriously get his groove on too...not to be outdone by his brothers.

Just look at that posture. I'm signing him up! This piano has really saved my life. Caleb thinks he needs to be hauled as often as possible. I often tell Rob about Caleb's proclaimed "hot lava" days when his feet are not allowed to touch the ground! The Clavinova is the perfect solution: I don't have to hold him AND his feet don't touch the ground. It's amazing.

Caleb's 1st Birthday!

My sweet baby turned 1 on May 2nd, 2009. We had a little party complete with balloons, cake, presents, and "helpful" brothers. (If you enlarge the picture you can check out Zekie and Isaac's artwork on the wrapping paper.) Here's the big birthday boy, grinning ear to ear at all the festivities.
Here are the aforementioned "helpers". Caleb wasn't especially into unwrapping his presents. Zekie and Isaac were more than happy to oblige. Caleb got a water table, giraffe ball toy, clothes, sippy cups, bubbles, and beach toys.

A little cake for a little boy...and plenty of cupcakes to go around. The cupcakes were officially GONE by the end of the day.

Dada and Baby Caleb, celebrating the joy of the birthday boy!

Caleb thoroughly enjoyed his birthday cupcake with rainbow chocolate chip frosting. Yum!

Happy happy birthday Baby. We LOVE you!

Fun in the Sun

Caleb is clearly an outside boy! As you can see, he does not shy away from crawling in the grass. He was loving every minute of his first splash pool experience.

What a poser!

We are so lucky to have a whole street chuck full of neighborhood boys. Here are Sam & Squeaks...and Zekie & Chaffee. They are so ready for the hike to the lake.

Zekie absolutely idolizes Chaffee. Luckily Chaffe is very sweet to Zekie and humors his requests to hold hands and be best of friends :)

Easter Eggstravaganza!

Here's Zekie doing his very best job of being brave while sitting on the creepiest Easter Bunny you've ever seen. I told Zekes to run up and sit on his knee so I could take a picture and he whispered back very concerned "ummmm....can you come with me?"

Good ol' Lehi City put on an Easter Celebration Friday that Zekie and I thoroughly enjoyed. The glory is we got into all the festivities for free (a $10 value) because right when we pulled up it started to drizzle and they packed up the ticket table and hauled it away. Our evening included walking through the Lehi museum, viewing live birds of prey, making a bunny shaker (pictured above), coloring an Easter egg with a gummy dinosaur inside, petting a REAL bunny, and eating a sweeeeet hot dog dinner with Costco cookies while listening to local bands. It was truly a fabulous Mother/son date of Easter joy.

Behold the Bachman boys...ALL of them. This was Sunday morning before church. I was hoping to get them cute matching vests but settled for shirts they already had that I told myself were practically Easter egg colors.

We were blessed to have Rob's parents come visit us for Easter. Our main activity was hopping into our new van (a light blue Honda Odyssey) and taking a joy ride up to the temple. After that we came back and bummed around the house. Everyone was happy because I got help with the boys, Diane got to play with her grandkids, Rob Sr. and Jr. got to watch golf, and the boys got plenty of love and attention. We never did get around to dying Easter eggs or having a true meaning of Easter lesson...but as before mentioned we were all happy...and that's worth celebrating :)