THE BACHMANN FOUR

Welcome to the craziness of our life!

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Turning the Big 3-0

If you have the cake why not celebrate early?!

Riding the lazy river at Ray's Splash Planet


Off to a birthday dinner!

My birthday celebration started a day early as Dave arrived home with tons of balloons. After one of our free birthday dinners, we picked up the icecream cake early and of course cut it when we got home. Savannah was so cute as she sang happy birthday to me before getting her piece of birthday cake. I have it on video, but can't seem to figure out how to load it onto the blog. :( Anyway, it was a super night to start the celebration.

On Wednesday Dave took the day off and surprised me with breakfast in bed. Savannah also surprised us by sleeping almost until 9:00!!! When we finally got her up we headed to Ray's Splash Planet for the morning. It was pretty icky outside so what better way to spend a morning?! Then we had lunch at our favorite Chick fil A and headed home to open all of the birthday cards. One of my favorite things to do is grocery shop, so Dave gladly tagged along yesterday as we did our normal Harris Teeter run. When we finally got home we put Savannah down for a nap and she must have been worn out as we had to wake her up at 6pm to go to dinner. After dinner I opened gifts and had more cake. Yummy!

So far thirty isn't that bad . . . what's bad is the awful feeling I have today as I've eaten WAY too much in the past two days. The diet starts again today! As I've said all along, if you already feel old, then the number doesn't matter so bring on 30 and all the fun awaiting me!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

A Fun Filled Saturday in Burlington


Dave and I learned the hard way that we should not tell Savannah in advance of any fun filled days . . . from Friday night when we told her that we were going to ride a train tomorrow with Pawpaw until we finally arrived at the park on Saturday morning, all we heard was "I ride choo choo". She actually cried, screamed, and kicked the last hour of the trip to Burlington she was so ready to ride the train. Whew. It was a long trip, but super fun once we finally arrived!!

We rode the train (only once because the loud whistle scared her to death) and then the kids all rode in a truck, carousel, helicopter and even a boat! What a perfect park for kids this age. There wasn't one thing there that they couldn't ride. After riding everything once Deborah had packed quite a spread of a picnic. There were all kinds of sandwiches to choose from, chips, tons of fruit, and even a birthday cake for me and Denny! After lunch we headed back for some more rides and finally left around 2:00.

Then we headed over to Granny's house to visit with her before heading back to Charlotte. They picked some fresh flowers, played in the garden, and even caught a bumble bee. Savannah had a blast all day and totally crashed once we were on the road home.

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Discovery Place Playdate

Exploring Air Currents

Playing in the car with Jack


Riding the train with Caleb

Today we ventured uptown on the light rail or "choo choo" as Savannah called it to play at Discovery Place. My friend Jessica organized the playdate and lots of friends from church were able to come with their children. We experimented with levers, saw a huge dinosaur exhibit, played in the children's museum with water, watched fish in the aquarium, and ran around the place for a few hours. Savannah is very hard to keep up with as she has her own mind and does her own thing . . . wonder where she gets that?!

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Quiet = Mess


Maybe one day I'll learn that when my sweet little girl is quiet and the TV is off, then she is most definitely making a huge mess. Today I was trying to type my mystery shop from this morning and I knew that Savannah was in the living room. Thinking that there is very little she could destroy in there, I left her be. This is what I found . . . every DVD she could get her hands on out of the case and tons of Dave's alphabetized CDs out of their proper case and put into different cases. As I went to sort through the rubble we had a brief conversation about how she had made a big mess and then the phone rang. Well you guessed it, she made another big mess while I was on the phone. As I was talking I heard her dump 100+ pieces of play food on the office floor. Thankfully now she is quiet and sleeping!

Monday, August 04, 2008

25 Random Things About Me

Okay, this seems to be the new blogging thing to do so here we go. 25 Random things about me that you could probably live without knowing!


1) I currently hold a NC Life and Health Insurance license. It was awful going through the class and state exam, but I did it and am determined to keep the continuing education credits current!


2) I have been in at least 6 car accidents, probably more that I can't remember. Two cars of mine have been totaled!


3) I love multitasking. It makes me happy to have the dishwasher and washing machine running while I'm sending an e-mail!


4) I was offered my teaching job after just talking with the principal. I had not applied or even given her a resume!


5) I worked as a bank teller for 8 years during college and in the summers while teaching.


6) Before Savannah, I wanted 3 kids . . . now I'm still trying to convince myself that I can possibly handle two!


7) Dave and I met and were married at our current church, Carmel Baptist.


8) I get a huge rush over saving money, especially at the grocery store. To date we've averaged $48/week on groceries for our family of 3!


9) The Math Counts team that I coached the year I was pregnant made it to state level competition after coming in first in the region . . . I had a way of making those kids LOVE math as much as I did.


10) I seem to have this gift of dreaming people are pregnant before they know it or right after they find out. I'll let you know if I have a dream!


11) I despise cooking. Partly because it makes a mess in the kitchen, but mostly because I'm just plain bad at it and have no creativity. Thankfully Dave isn't a picky eater!


12) I was forced to take piano lessons as a child and hated every second of it.


13) When I was a freshman in high school my geometry teacher paid me to grade all of her final exams over my Christmas break.


14) I also despise the dentist. I would rather go for a full physical with blood work than go to the dentist!


15) I never drink coffee or tea. YUCK!


16) I loved Appalachian so much that I decided to stay for graduate school. I crammed my Masters degree into one year and one summer while working 20+ hours at BB&T and a 20 hour assistantship each week. (There's the multi tasking ability again.)


17) I survived four years of college without a computer of my own. My mom bought me one when I started graduate school.


18) Some of my fondest childhood memories are spending Friday night at Grandma and Pawpaw Page's house watching the race cars go up the road to the Friday night race and then watching Hee Haw on TV while eating saltine crackers and peanut butter.


19) I love family reunions! What a great tradition and fun way to catch up with family members.


20) I would love to take shag lessons someday.


21) Until recently, I could not swim.


22) I work out 6 days a week and hate most of it! I do it to stay "healthy".


23) I have zero creativity and hate making decisions of any kind!


24) I never wanted to live in a big city. Just the thought of having to get on a highway to get anywhere scared me to death . . . look how things changed!


25) I live with a to do list! I always have at least one list of things to do and constantly cross things off after I do them. It makes me feel good to mark things off the list. I've learned that Dave hates lists. I also have two calendars to make sure I don't miss or forget something important.

My Gym


Thanks to a very generous gift from Deborah and Pawpaw we started our My Gym classes today. I have been wanting to get Savannah enrolled for a few months, but between swimming lessons and everything else it just hasn't happened. So, after mentioning it to Pawpaw and Deborah they mailed us a check to cover several months of classes! Savannah had a BLAST today. She loved the playing in the ball pit, jumping on the trampoline, swinging, sliding, and climbing lots of ladders. Hopefully this will improve her balance skills along with helping with her shyness around strangers. I am so excited to get her started. What great mommy and daughter time too. It just happened that her best buddy, Jack, is in the same class so that is an extra special treat! This is the only picture I got that wasn't blurry . . . she was on the move today! :)

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Sunday School

Growing up I don't really remember much about going to Sunday school. I know that I went, but as far as the details and Bible stories, I think it was much later in life that I really started learning and understanding biblical things. Anyway, I have known for awhile that Savannah's experience would be vastly different than mine. She already LOVES going to church and is learning tons, even at the age of two. I am so thankful to be part of a church that loves and nurtures children from the youngest ages to know that God loves them. So today as we're leaving church I asked Savannah what she learned, as I do every Sunday. Most Sundays she says her normal one word answer . . . anything from "God" to "church". Today, however, was a different story. When we finally got in the car and I again asked Savannah what she learned in church today she said "Jesus loves me!" I could feel the tears coming as my heart swelled up with pride. Yes, Savannah, Jesus does love you.

I am so thankful for Ms. Teresa who faithfully teaches Savannah in Sunday school every single Sunday. It's sad to even think that in just three weeks Savannah will be moved out of her class; what a blessing she has been!