Summer

This summer has seemed to have gone by way fast for me! Its crazy! This summer has been kind of crazy but it has also been a lot of fun! I have done lots of fun things. Here are some fun things that happened during the summer.

• EFY: I had the amazing opportunity to go to EFY! It was so much fun and it was one of the greatest experiences ever. My testimony grew so much stronger and I felt the spirit so much during the entire week. I also made lots of new wonderful friends and lots of wonderful memories that I am sure to never forget.
• EMILY AND JOSH'S WEDDING: My sister Emily got married to Josh Armstrong on Saturday July 12th in the Logan Temple. After the wedding they had a luncheon at Coppermill. I am so happy to have Josh as part of our family now.
• CALIFORNIA: Emily and Josh had a wedding reception in California so we got to go to California! The reception was great and California was fun! We went to Disneyland and California Adventures. In California Adventures they had a world of color show that was absolutely amazing! It was my favorite part of disneyland. it gave me the chills. So if any of you are planning on going to disneyland don't miss the world of color show. We also went to the beach which was really cool and fun!!! I loved it!
• GIRLS CAMP/YOUTH CONFERENCE: For girls camp we went to Cinnamon creek.... AGAIN. It was pretty fun though! And this year I am 14 so I got to go to youth conference and it was a ton of fun! We went and rafted the Snake River which was a ton of fun!!! Then we drove to Bear Lake and stayed the night there and then the next day we hiked to Bloomington Lake. At Bloomington lake they have a rope swing which people swing out and jump into the lake. But the Lake was FREEZING so people were just swinging out over the lake and swinging back in. I looked at everyone doing it and I thought it looked like fun but I was also nervous that i was going to fall in. But finally I decided I was going to try. So I was kind of nervous but I grabbed onto the rope and swung out but as I was swinging out over the lake I could feel my hands trying to slip. I tried to keep my grip but I couldn't and next thing I know I'm in the freezing cold water. But it was actually pretty fun and the water didn't seem too cold to me.
• FAMILY REUNION: We had our annual Swenson Family Reunion at the Redneck Water slide which was a lot of fun!!!!!! It was fun to be together as a family. Also my family made a train to see how far we could get and it was a ton of fun! We have lots of fun memories from that day.

• RAFTING: The next day, after the reunion we went up to Jackson and went Rafting the Snake River! It was a ton of fun, although on our second trip down it everyone kept on pushing me in. It seemed like every second they were pushing me in. But it was really fun to go rafting as a whole family again.

• IDAHO: Sarah and Garrett let me stay a week with them in Rupert which was a ton of fun!! I loved it! We went boating and I got up on a wake board and so did Sarah. We are very proud of Sarah because that is the first time she has gotten up on anything! I also went to Sarah's classes. We got pedicures, went to Twin Falls, went shopping, went to the fair, and did a bunch of other stuff. But it was a ton of fun! Thanks Sarah and Garrett

So this summer has been full of lots of great memories and lots of fun times. It has been kind of crazy and stressful at times but it was still a lot of fun! And I loved it. Its just too bad summer is now coming to and end. I guess I will have to wait for a whole other year for summer to come again.

Back to School

So it has been forever since I have updated my blog so sorry. But school is just a week away and I am getting pretty nervous. I am going to a new school that I haven't even been inside of so I have absolutely NO idea where any of the classes are, I also don't know very many people there so its going to be pretty scary but hopefully I will like it. Another bad thing about school is that North Cache starts a week later then Logan, so for this past week I have been really bored because everyone is at school! I can't believe I am actually saying this but I actually kind of wish that school was starting now, I'm kind of ready for school. Its not that I want school to start or that I'm ready for summer to be over its just I'm ready for school to start. I hear about everyone going to there first day of school, or people are talking about how their first day of school was and it kind of makes me wish that I was starting school . But I only have to wait another week. So wish me luck at a new school (I might need it)

12 more days!!!!!!!!!!!

Time flies by so fast!!!!! Now there are only 12 more days until I go to Disney World! (a little over a week and half.) I am so nervous though! The first thing to worry about is all of the school That I will have to miss. I will miss 4 maybe 5 days of school and that will be a lot of work to make up! Also I will miss the last two days of the tri and the first two maybe three days of the first of third tri. So I'm kind of stressed out about all of the school work. Next I will have to worry about the flight. I haven't gone on a plane since I was about 7 so I can't really remember it so I am way scared! I am first of all scared about having to sit next to some creepy man! Im also scared because of all the things with bombs on planes going on lately! Another thing to worry about is loosing my luggage. It would be horrible to have to disneyworld without any clothes :( And then I am afraid about the actual flying part. Did you know that........

• Planes usually fly around 500-600 miles per hour?!?!
  
• That a passanger plane weighs about 57,000 lbs! (give or take a little it depends on the plane and how many people are going and what the plane is holding.)
• In 12 days from now I will be in a big piece of metal that weights about 57,000 lbs going up in the sky flying up in the air gowing about 500-600 miles per hour.

How can a 57,000 lb. piece of metal holding a ton of people stay up in the air? Its so scary to think about! And whats even scarier is that in 12 days i will be flying in one! Yikes! So after I am done with the flight you would THINK that I would stop worrying and I would have a worry free time in diney world right?.... Wrong! After I get off the plane i will then start to worry about competition. I have never done a competition before so I am REALLY scared and I don't know if we are ready! I think it will be so scary though I mean performances are already scary enough but now you have to do a huge performance and this performance will decide if you are champions or.... well loosers. And as you do this dance performance all of these people are going to watch your every move.... just waiting for you to mess up so they can knock points off of your score....... they are judging you and at the end of the competion they will decide whether or not you are good dancers or not. Scary and stressful right? But after I am done with competition then I won't have anything else to worry about..... well except for the rides are really scary if you think about it (But I won't get into that because I don't want to be scared for the rides!) But I am still way excited but also way nervous! Lets hope I come back alive haha!

A quick update

wow I really haven't written for a long time. (sorry I have just been so busy and I always forget about my blog.) But so far everything is going pretty good. I am just trying to get through the school year (I can't wait for this year to be over!) Dance is going really good! I am loving it and I am going to Florida in less then a month! Wahoo! We are going to be gone for six days and we are going to compete in Disney World. For the next three days after the competition its just us and the parks. (How fun is that?!) So next week is one of the worst days of the year for me and that would be..... Single Awareness Day (More popularly known as Valentines Day.) I know I know I am so young and I don't care that there isn't "someone speciel" out there in fact I really quite enjoy it. I mean I'm 13 years old. But Valentines Day bugs me because you walk around school and you see everyone carrying bouquets of flowers, stuffed animals, chocolate, candy grams, presents, and there I am with nothing. Haha oh well its ok. I am sorry for not updating in a long time... I just get so dang busy. But I will try to write more often from now on.