Swensen Sentral

Chase played in his very first soccer game today. He scored the only two goals for his team and won the MVP award. Pretty good for a first timer. Way to go buddy!

Awwww...massages are great. I think every mother deserves them at least once a month. Wish they weren't so expensive cuz I think I need one about every week. I feel so calm and happy. What this house would look like if I felt calm and happy all the time. What my children would be like if I felt calm and happy all the time. What my husband wouldn't give to have me calm and happy all the time. Maybe I can convince him it's worth the $280 per month...

Can't forget some of the funny things Sawyer has said over the past few days. While driving home in the car from Utah, he was playing games on my phone.  I heard it "ding" signaling a text message so I asked him "What does it say?" and his reply was "Nevermind" and he continued to play. While staying at my cousin Aimee's house in Las Vegas, she was feeding the kids breakfast in the morning.  He didn't know her very well and didn't know her name, so to catch her attention he called her "Hey dude!" He overhead me talking to Chase & Amelie about going to school, and he said he wanted to go too.  I told him he has to wait until he turns 5, and pointed out that right now he is 2.  A little while later he said to me, "Mom?  I'm 5 now.  I was 2, and now I'm 5.  So I can go to school now!" He and Amelie were running in the hallway and I heard a loud BANG!  I turned around the corner to see both of them fallen...

Today was the first day of school.  Yeah!  Chase was excited to go back, Amelie excited to start kindergarten and be at school with Chase every day of the week, and I am looking forward to having only two kids to run errands with.  Happy mommy :)  Poor little Sawyer missed the kids while they were at school though.  He kept asking for them.  So I watched a movie with him, to which I fell asleep, and woke up suddenly to a BANG and then WAILING from him falling off the stair railing which he wasn't supposed to be climbing on.  He took full advantage of my falling asleep and suffered the consequences of it.  This kid is too cool and ready for school. After school we ran errands.  Filled car with gas.  Stopped at mall to get kids glasses adjusted so they don't look like Granny with them halfway down their nose.  Got Soleil's one-year pics taken, finally!  That little stinker wouldn't hold still.  Got some school clothes...

I love the way Sawyer talks right now. He says gloves "glubs", roller coaster is "co-coaster", hummingbird is "honey bird", and when he has earwax in his ear he says "a honey bee is in my ears". I will miss that someday.

Soleil can climb up on the table now (and everything else), and learned how to go down the stairs.  There are no limits now.  Dang it.

I was driving home from Wal-mart tonight, and suddenly realized today was a very important day, and I hadn't even celebrated.  Exactly one year ago today our family drove into the Santa Clarita valley, to become Californians, and to make this place home.  Soleil was just 6 weeks old, Sawyer 20 months, Amelie 4, Chase 6, Me 29 and Rick 31.  We've been here for 1 year now, and I quite like the place.  I know my way around pretty well, am completely moved into my home including wall hangings, the kids have made great friends, Chase completed one year of school, Amelie one year of preschool, Rick one year (almost) working for Nestle and loving it, and I have made the best friends ever.  Although some other things haven't exactly gone our way, we are trying to make the best of it, and learning and growing and stretching and all that kind of stuff that hurts. The old house Driving to... the new house Chase 6 Amelie 4 1/2 Sawyer 1 1/2  Soleil 6 week...