Swensen Sentral

Well, 2020 has been a crazy year! And we are now heading back to school, thank goodness. Jordan School District decided to open on a 4 day a week schedule with Fridays optional and masks mandatory. It will be a very different year with social distancing measures, but I’m so grateful we are returning these kids back to some normalcy and friends. They need it. And heaven knows parents need it as well. I’ve never been so grateful to be a stay-at-home mom to navigate these crazy times for my kids.  Both Rick and I drove them to their new bus stop this morning. Rick played an embarrassing back-to-school tune and rolled down the windows for the neighborhood to hear. Amelie was mortified. Chase took it in stride. This will be their first year attending South Jordan Middle School while living in South Jordan. So no more 45 min car rides to school and scooter-tram rides home to Salt Lake. We are all happy about that.  Love these two kids so much and proud of who they are becoming, but ...

To sum up the last 9 months... We went to Disney World and Universal in March with Rick’s family. It was a BLAST! Favorite part was Harry Potter world. Favorite ride was Rockin’ Roller coaster, or Hogwarts castle, or the Avatar ride.  Rick and I coached track March-May. It was fun but stressful. I like doing something for the community. I don’t like running a program w my husband and not enough adult help.   Kids finished school in May and we went on a camping trip Memorial weekend to St Joe State Park with our favorite people, Richardsons. Some other ward families came too. Marcellino’s and Smith’s.  Summer hit, Soleil got baptized, and Rick got a job offer to work for Cricut in Utah. Finally a job closer to family! We spent three very stressful weeks prepping our house for sale and then took off to Utah driving both our cars on July 13th.  The following week we vacationed in Lake Powell with my family. After coming home from that we settled into Heather’s basement ...

Last year I decided to make a goal that involved one phrase, no guilt. That phrase stuck in my mind all year long, and guided me through a lot of situations. I found by the end of the year, that I really had changed because of those two words. In all the years past that I have set goals, I have set very specific reachable things. I always find that a few months into the year my motivation drops off and I don’t follow through with the goal. By the end of the year I either feel disappointed in myself, or I can’t even remember what my goal was to begin with. Last year was different in a very good way. So I’ve decided to do the same thing this year. After pondering and praying about what my goal should be this year, I came up with the phrase be prepared. There are so many ways to be prepared in life, spiritually, physically, temporarily, etc. I find that a lot of my stress on a daily basis could be remedied if I had only spent a little time before hand to prepare for that moment for that s...

These two kids make me proud. They work hard to do well in school and get good grades. Tonight they were honored for that achievement. I’m proud of their efforts. And I told them if they keep it up that paper will turn into money someday!

We went on a group date Friday night with our best friends here in St Louis, Wilson’s and Richardson’s. We went to a new place in Chesterfield called Top Golf. We ate yummy food and visited while we hit golf balls off a platform. It was the first time I had ever hit golf balls in a real way, aside from miniature golf. It was harder than it looks. Everyone had fun and I came home sore.

Chase's birthday gift this year from both parents and grandparents was BYU Football Camp with his best friend from California, Natey Banry.  If you want to know how he felt about it, just read his face. Fans in the making  Tasting the field  Big Mo