Week 2 of 2012

What a week ladies and gents! Second week of the new year, a.k.a, 2012. 

This week Steve, Cache and I packed up our stuff and headed over to my parent's house for a week of teen-sitting. We have been having some good times over here.

Mandi and I were being us and taking lots o' pictures when I said, "On three, make a face that you think describes this week." 

Yup....

One lost backpack resulting in one missed bus.

Lots of Monopoly.

Lots of cooking.

Lots of ice-cream.

One missing 19 year old, later found. 

A nail in a tire.

A few fights between the teens. No offense to the teens (if you're reading this) I'm just documenting life. 

LOTS of potty stickers....seriously, Cache can do the whole potty thing already, but he can't part with the sticker rewards. 

And one amazing husband who...found the backpack, took Mandi to school, fixed my other sisters tire, cleaned the kitchen, told me to calm down, made the milkshakes, made dinner while I had SEP's and kept everyone happy. THANK YOU. I just love ya!

Other events going on this week; Parent Teacher Conferences were tonight, I have a new student teacher and Cache is pro at being a big boy. We have experienced the occasional slip where we hear, "Oooh man. Oooh. Mom!! I went potty but I left my undies on!" Steve and I run to see what he is talking about and there he is, shorts pulled down, undies still up. Then when he sees us he says, "Oh see, dis' is freaking me out!" Yes, Steve and I are both trying not to saying "freaking" so much as that is a bit too much of Cache's language. Today he told me that helicopter was freaking nuts....thank-you T.J (said with sarcasm).

Oh, and did I mention that one of my students asked me what a virgin was. I told her that it was a mom question...

Also, another one of my students was telling me about all of these old books he has and the pages are yellowed (loved that description btw) and he said, "I am great at reading all them. I understand them perfectly. Except for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. You see, I thought it was about baseball." He said with a matter of fact tone. Then he gets this confused look on his face and continues, "I thought it was going to be about baseball played underwater, in the sea, and there were 20,000 leagues playing. That is the only one that confused me."    LOVE IT!!! 

Truth be told, I truly do love my job. A big part of that is the ladies I work with. I hope they know how fun and enjoyable they make it to go to work. 

Can you tell that school is on my mind? Remember I just got done with conferences an hour ago. ;) One last school thing...one of my students moved up 8 LEVELS in reading. That is monumental and I am very happy. 

That is just some sprinkles of the week. But, of course, what is a blog without some pictures from the week. 

We survived!!

.2012.

Hey, its been awhile. I know that in 2011 I vowed to blog once a week and I didn't do that. This year I am going to try again and on December 31, 2012 (if we are all still alive...wink-wink) we will see how I did. Hopefully I have 52 blog posts.

   One of the most important tasks I wanted to accomplish in 2011 was to potty train Cache Money. I am happy to report that after several stickers, dollar bills, train rides and dum-dums,  Steve and I were able to check that off our list! I don't know if you know how exciting that was. It's okay if you don't. It's also okay if you don't find looking into a potty to see what your two year old left is the most exciting thing in the world. Steve and I are happy and excited and ecstatic and exhausted. But mostly we are proud.

   Cache Steven Bourne. My little boy, not baby boy, little boy....big boy according to him. Don't worry, if I forget that he is constantly growing he will remind me. Thinking about it makes my eyes a lil' bit sweaty. 

   A few weeks ago when I had picked up Cache from his Grandma Bourne's house and we were driving home he said in this firm, sweet voice, "Mom, I can't stay little for you. I'm getting big. Dats' good because I can't grow up little." Such wise words filled with truth from such a young child.  

Yesterday I wrote this quote on my mirror:

"But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained."

- Virgil

I need a reminder here and there to cherish the moments and do everything I can to preserve them.  I hope that I accomplish that in 2012. Because before I know it, my old wrinkly hands will be going through scrapbooks, blogs, old facebook posts and journal entries to remind me of "back then". 

Here is to 2012. More time to fly and more moments to cherish....and no more diapers to change ;). 

Today Steve, Cache and I continued our drive around Utah County to check out the beautiful fall leaves and the amazing scenery we have here in Utah.  Good Times :) Cache LOVED it all, especially running everywhere and throwing rocks into the lake and river.

Utah Lake

                                                

I  am loving the fall leaves! The colors seem so much brighter this year!

Cache was pretty dang stoked about this little caterpillar...

Below: Nice Cache blooper face, yes?

The big mouth shot :)

Love,

Us

Sunday with Cache

October 9, 2011.

The Brother who was giving the opening prayer walks up to the pulpit. Cache folds his arms and squeezes his eyes shut. He is smiling because he knows he is doing exactly what he is supposed to. 

...two minutes later (prayer is still going strong, we are still in the thanking portion)...

"Mom. He's just talking."

In a barely audible voice I whisper in his ear, "Cache, he is still praying."

In a voice that echoed through the chapel, "Dats a REALLY LONG PRAYER!!"

It was a very long prayer. Pretty sure the whole gym/overflow section of the chapel was trying not to LOL. 

We had 3 baby blessings that day. During the second baby blessing Cache said, "I'm just gon fol' my arms. I am jus tired of prayin."

With 15 more minutes of the meeting left to go Cache is coloring. One of his little nursery friends runs over from across the aisle and takes a crayon and Cache says, "Excuse me. You are freaking me out!" Of course he would say that. That is how all 2 year olds respond to things like that, right?

5 minutes left to go we are singing the closing hymn... Cache is on my lap and decides to bust out some "Real Men Of Genius", you know the Budlight commercials. 

Cache is singing, "Real Men of Genius. Mr. T-shirt launcher-inventor-make-nose-bleed-crack-budlight" 

I notice that everyone on our row, the row in front of us and the back row have stopped singing and eyes are peering over shoulders. I will have to thank T.j for that one. Mr. T-Shirt Launcher Inventor Song if you'd like to listen, it is pretty funny.

So after Sacrament Meeting we went to nursery with Cache for the last 2 hours of church. 

FYI: Nursery is a great place to hide out when your child makes multiple offenses during Sacrament Meeting. 

Here's to you, Mr. Doesn't-like-long-prayers-gets-freaked-out-by-crayon-stealers-and-is-not-afraid-to-shout-it-but-your-parents-still-love-you

 Love,

Us

A Family First

The three of us went to the 1st BYU football home game this season and we have gone to everyone since then. 

Three games. 

We have loved it, mostly because of Cache Money. The first game he was taking it all in. Second game, he flashed his abs at the crowd on the first touchdown. Third game, tried to run onto the field...8 minutes before the game was over. Will there be a fourth game this season for Cache? I am not sure, we will see. We may end up going to a game and miss hearing his adorable deep voice say, "Cougar 1st down!" or "Go BYU Cougars!".

Blogging Resolution Fail.

I had a goal to be weekly blogger. Not happening and I want it to. Realistically, probably not going to be perfect at it, but I will try. I feel like I need a blogging face lift, some cool theme or I dunno, something. Mostly so I can organize what to write better. I get behind and I look back at everything that has happened in the last couple of months and I get overwhelmed with things to write. I will be thinking   ...

All good thing must come to an end...

True dat.


I have to tell you that I feel like I was just leaving my classroom for the summer, yesterday. But in reality it was several weeks ago and I have been back to my classroom making things, meeting students, meeting parents, planning, reading, planning more and going to meetings. 
Before all of these things fill my head up and spill out all the summer goodness, I best be writing them down. Because this summer was one of my all time favorite summers, definitely my favorite so far with my little family. 

June

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” - Anthony Brandt

My grandparents came over to visit us this summer and I was oh so happy they did. We really, truly, absolutely love them. They are spectacular people and I love being around them. 

Cache was warming up slowly, but Gramma knew how to charm him, CANDY! 

I smile just picturing her reach into her pocket and whip out a dum-dum and wave it in front of Cache. Cache would look at her and with a shy smile and nervous eyes he would walk over to Gramma take the sucker and whisper so very, very softly, "thank-you gramma." I hope grandma felt that thank you in her heart because I am pretty positive she couldn't hear it. 

My earliest memory of my Grandparents are when I was probably four or five years old. I can still remember always getting so excited for them to come because it would be a nice long family party. We always have lots of family parties when they come into town. Plenty food, plenty laughs and plenty unforgettable moments. Now that we are all grown up and doing our own thing, I am way more excited and way more appreciative of their visits...which I might add are never long enough. 

Grandma and Grandpa's visit was the best way to start off my summer.

This pictures just warms my heart n' soul. I really, really, really hope Cache will have memories of my Grandparents. They are such good people. 

Oh Gramma! Watching game shows or Korean dramas one minute and the next snoring away. I love it!! Hey, if I taught school for 30 years like Gramma, I would be sleeping 24/7!

Next year we are having a family reunion so I for one am very happy to report that my grandparents are coming again!

Art City Days: Children's Art Festival with my best friend, Cassie, and her cute nieces. 

 That night: FIREWORKS!! So. Much. Fun.

 Above: Cache's theme for the summer. He learned how to ride a scooter! Not a 3-wheeler one, a 2-wheeler one. He's really good at it, way to go buddy!

 We loved watching Gwenie and Cache play together, it was so cute. Here is Cache and Gwenie on one of their many adventures and obviously way too into it to even look at me for two seconds. That's okay because I can tell you that they are doing one of Gwenie's favorite activities: Finding T.j's airsoft gun bullets and collecting them into a nice pile.

 Our first morning together, Cache wanted pancakes and cars. So we ate breakfast in Cache's room and watched Cars on the laptop.

My child cracks me up, warms my soul, makes me love more than I ever thought possible and fills me with gratitude to Heavenly Father for giving him to me.
The first morning of summer vacation Cache woke up, ran into the kitchen and said, "Mommy, are you stayin' wit me? No work?" I said, "Yes, I get to stay and play with you. " He said, "Thanks mom, I love you." That happened every day for the whole summer, so you can imagine I was heartbroken when my answer had to change to no. But, I am so happy that I have my mom, mom-in-law and some sisters here and there to help take care of him and love him while I am at work. He has so much fun that he doesn't even care that I am working after the first day! (I do realize that school doesn't have much to do with summer, but you can see where my mind is now...school stuff)
The end of June brought more family and I was so happy that Steve could meet my Auntie Lorri and my Uncle Uale for the first time! More pictures and stories of that to come. For now I better say Good-Night, but I will leave you with this little gem...

He is just such a fun lil' guy who thinks he is 14 year sold. 
Love you Cache Money. Cha-Ching! ;)

Love,

Us

Cacherz

Click this: From the Mouth of Cache , if you would like to read some of the heart-lifting, smile creating, laughter inducing things that Cache says and does.

Potty Training Is A Breeze...

Agreed...If that is the breeze that has been causing all of the tornados in the Midwest. 

(notice the hair? He did it himself. Quite the stylist, yes?)

Cache is slowly adapting to this whole routine and he is loving his reward stickers. He has had some accidents,one this morning  led me to have him run around pant-less, which neither of us are a fan of. Cache loves his clothes and I love how cute he is in them. But, we have had 3 "number one" accidents and this morning was our first "number two" accident and today we almost lost a pair of pants. I did save them. It was yucky, but I did it. 

Everything I've read says, "If they have an accident assure them it is okay, but next time they should put it in the potty." Uh...so not okay with me. So hard to stay calm and not...gag. Cache was not a fan of my O.C.D Ninja gear. As I was quickly preparing to clean up the mess I grabbed one of my tank-tops and tied around my face (to block the odor) and I couldn't find my cleaning gloves so I wrapped my hands in plastic bags. Creative, right? I looked in the mirror after and I was a little afraid of myself :). 

Anyway, we here at the Bourne household are going to push forward with all of this potty training. No going back now. Until then, does anyone know where I can buy one of these...

Love, 

Us

Family is Everything...

And if it is everything, I have it ALL. I am extremely blessed.

Tonight I saw my family in action. We stick together no matter what. We will drop everything to support each other. It is beautiful really...

Extremely beautiful.

So here is to family. Cherish them and LOVE them with all your heart. 

Love,

Us