Bella's First Agility Trial

I posted video from the agility show....

Getting advice from an veteran jumper.

Bella's 3 2nd Place Ribbons!!

Me and Bella about to run!! Us finishing the 1st course!

Tired and hot!!

So, Bella had her first show last night! She did a great job!! I have pictures and video to show everyone so they can see how she did and how it all works=)

This is from Bella's 2nd run....she does run off after about the 2nd jump-but that was partially my fault b/c I stopped b/c I forgot where the next jump was, so she got distracted. But it was better than the first run she did! She was only 17 seconds over on the Qualifying time too.=)

(1st just want to say-the woman in the background saying something about 'evil red dog!!' really loudly was talking about her own dog that just went...not Bella. lol)

This was Bella's last run (the 3rd one) and she did MUCH better! She was goin fast and doing all the jumps right....then, they added a tunnel..and it threw her off. She wanted to smell all the other dogs that had been in there, and then she got distracted. I had to 'pull her back' and get her to focus again, then she did a 'back' jump (which means jumping through the jump the wrong way) and that really stunk...that means minus points...plus she was wasting time. But, she finished it strong and I was very happy!!!

Overall she did REALLY well for her first time! A lot of other novice dogs had to leave, or they ran out of the ring, etc. But Bella never did that, so it was very encouraging.

Lots of fun, lots of laughs, and lots of soreness, b/c that little red thing is FAST! =)

Jordan's DBU Graduation 09...

At DBU Graduation, before it started! I stole a pic with him=)
 All of us family waiting for it to start!
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There he is!
  
Walking across the stage: Magna Cum Laude, nice.

with his family:
  
Cousins Ben and Abby came!! YAY!

My side of the family
 
The Carl's and then Jordan's Big sister Becca and her husband Jeff:

His Biology Honor Award and then Graduation Announcement, at the party:
 
Awww, our nephew Jayce and Emma!!

Becca, Grace (my niece) and Nana!!
  
Me and Becca!! They came down all the way from Kansas!

Playin Ping pong with Jeff and Gabe
  
My big Bro-Matt and his wife, Alethea

Peyton (my nephew-Matt and Alethea's son) and Gabe and EMma
  
me and little Em-she's a cutie!

Jordan with his Degree!!!
  
My niece Madeline! Soooo cute. (peyton's sister)

Playing Bad Mitten!!! lots of fun!!!
  
My dad leading the kite expedition!

Nana and Grace!
   
The Bacci Ball team....they dominated.

Me and my friend Natalie!! =)
   
Bowling with the Carls at Main Event:

Jordan and Becca!! she beat him, ya.

I have had SO many things going on in the last 5 days I don't know if I can fit it all in! Without this being too long, that is. We got the pleasure of leading worship at Real Life's Youth groups service wed night and it was a lot of fun!! Always good to see some old friends and play for that group. It is always a very worshipful experience for us, and we enjoy playing the 'louder' songs for the younger crowd=)
So for Jordan's Graduation, I thought I would just explain it with pictures. Since just the graduation had so many pictures, I will just post pics from that right now. I might add some more later, but I think these will be sufficient, its a little of everything I have from that day! Jordan's graduation went well, I couldn't be more proud! He starts graduate school for the Master Program in one week (what a summer right?) lol.
We were sooo glad that the Lander's came down to see his graduation and be here with us, even if it was only for 2 days.
I can't believe only 2 1/2 wks of school left!!! Its gone by so quickly. 9 days left!
I will post the rest of my weekend later.
Getting excited about Bella's show on Friday-interested in how that goes....
Ok, sorry this is random=) lots going on!!
thanks for reading=)
(ps.-you can click on any picture to make it larger if you want to see it better, I just made them smaller to fit more on one page)

makin me smile...mothers day

Whew, well, I really have been so busy I haven't had time to blog. And I will be busy for the next 3 or 4 days so I forced myself to do it this morning!

Anyway, lets see-last week was Mothers Day! It was a lot of fun going out with the 2 wonderful moms in my life=) I am so blessed to have more than one mom now!! I have a few pictures of being with them from mothers day....check em out=)

And Bella's training is going really well...she is almost ready for her FIRST agility trial!! She will be entered in 3 different jumpers courses on Friday May 22nd!! I hope some people can come to watch her, it will be pretty fun...=)

School is getting crazy! The kids are getting antsy, as well as the teachers! I can't believe I only have about 2 1/2 weeks left of school...Our Cinco de Mayo program went really well! I can't post pictures from it, but I did take a bunch. They were in full costume and everything!

Lastly but not least, Jordan is graduating on Friday! I am SOO very proud of him. He is graduating with honors AND he is the recipient of the Biology Honor Award from the Biology department at DBU. I couldn't be more proud of him and all the hard work over the last 5 years. 

Well, enjoy the pics from lately and have a great weekend!

This was at Rachelle's Birthday party at a Jazz cafe!! Also Natalie was there too-it was a lot of fun seeing them=)

This was the ladies tea party saturday before mothers day! We got to wear hats and bring our China with us to eat on=) It was very cute and fun!

jordan and I at the Harbor celebrating Mothers day!

Me and my mommy!! =) we had to take our own pic b/c the guys were being silly...

With my mom ! (matt was out of town...)

Gabe and Emma were excited about their mothers day gifts! =)

wrestling around with jordan-he gets what he deserves!

At Bob's Steak House for dinner! yum!

With Emma in the car

Cuteness.