Steve & Amy – Hoping to Adopt

After 8 LONG weeks, we finally made it to puppy graduation.  We thought it was going to be difficult, but they just had us do the basic commands and then they had us take pictures.  It was more difficult to keep the hat on Maggie than to do the basic commands.

Then of course they talk up the intermediate class.  I’m not sure if we’ll do that with Maggie.  Life seems pretty busy right now, but who knows…maybe we’ll get brave in a few months!

Here’s our graduation pictures!

A couple months ago, we decided that we needed to enroll Maggie in Puppy School.  She’s a cute dog, but she has a lot of energy.  We knew we needed to figure out how to manage her, so that she would be a well behaved dog.  When we started we thought puppy school would be for Maggie, but really puppy school is for us.  We have learned how to better manage our puppy.  So here’s how puppy school has gone.

Week One:  We arrive at Puppy school.  Maggie is very excited to see other dogs, so we have to keep pulling her back on her leash.  After about 5 minutes…Maggie threw up.  What a way to start Puppy School!

Week Two:  Maggie loves puppy school when she gets to play with the other puppies, but she’s not a very big fan of waiting and listening to our instructions.

Week Three:  Maggie started coughing during Puppy School–the trainer thought she might have kennel cough, which is a highly contagious thing for dogs.  We had to leave the class early.  We later took Maggie to the vet and found out she had a mild case of bronchitis–which is not contagious.  We had to make up the class, so we went to the class again on Friday.  Luckily we found a smaller class that has only three dogs.  Maggie can focus a lot better, and we’ve been able to get a little more help from the trainer.

Week Four-Seven:  Maggie has really improved.  She now listens to commands like: sit, heel, come, down, stay, and wait.  It’s been fun to see how much she has learned.  She’s still really hyper, but she is much more manageable.

So next week is….GRADUATION!!   Maggie has to pass all of her tricks off to the trainer and then we will graduate!  I guess it’s quite the occasion..there are hats for both the dogs and the owners.  We will definitely post pictures.

I love digital scrapbooking! When I first started, my sister gave me the idea to create a book for each year. So for the last few years, I’ve printed a book with all the pages from the last year. I love creating the scrapbook and I love having it printed out.  It is so fun to be able to look back and be reminded of all the good times.

I know you’re thinking…this is March of 2010, but the site I usually order my book from finally had a really good sale.   Last week was pretty busy, so I had to rush and finish the last few pages.  I didn’t have time to finish scrapbooking all the pictures I had from last year, but I think it covered most of the year pretty well!

Here it is…2009 in review!

(It was too hard to get them in the order, so I just left it!)