January
- Started school...again! (almost for the last time!)
- Ontario was born to Philly and Antoine
- Carlisle got career changed
February
- Sonny's 2nd b-day (still in the kennels at that point)
- O'Connor's 1st b-day
- Got O'Connor's recall notice for April
- picked up Sonny's brother, Sprite, from the airport and housed him for 1 1/2 weeks until his raisers could get here to pick him up!
March
- Found out that I was getting MGSD "O"
- Sonny went to class
- I went skiing with my 2nd grade class every tuesday
- picked up Mr. "O"...Ontario!
April
- Visited friends and family in Oregon
- Presented Sonny to his partner as a working guide dog
- Returned O'Connor to the Boring, OR campus for his formal training
- Flew with O'Connor
- Passed my classes for the semester
May
- Visited with a dear friend in Phoenix, AZ (first time I ever went to Phoenix)
- Got hired as the Arts and Crafts Activity Leader at Camp Bloomfield
- Attended a military funeral for my cousin (not so fun, but very neat and sad)
- Dog/house-sat for the entire month
- Said "goodbye" to my 2nd grade class at the end of the school year
- Prepared Ontario for Camp
June
- moved home with my parents for 2 weeks (just about killed me! ;))
- Drove to Malibu with some friends to go to camp
- visited Anya, Melissa, David and Greta
- Swam in the ocean for the 1st time!
- Met a lot of wonderful new people at camp
July
- Visited Alisa in CA
- Visited Tricia in Durango
- O'Connor made it to phase 4 and passed all breeder exams and became an official breeder
- O'Connor was bred to Trina
- I went to Disneyland and Universal Studios
- Ontario loved camp :)
August
- Went to CA Fun Day with Ontario and some other people
- Flew home for 2 days to see my neices
- Went to San Francisco with somebody who had never been there before and walked 7 miles through the city to get to the Golden Gate Bridge
- Got home from camp
- Started my last semester of my Bachelors Degree Career
September
- Found a house to live in that had a fenced in yard for Ontario
- Ontario got neutered
- Started my student teaching
- O'Connor was retired from breeding and put back in training
- O'Connor and Trina had 5 yellow puppies-Frisco, Fulbright, Fantine, Fontina, and Fritzie
- Ontario was a very good boy at his evaluations!
October
- student teaching for me...all day everyday monday-friday
- went to a conference and ontario was very good
November
- My second mom died
- Presented on Guide Dogs at a conference-once again, Ontario was great
- Picked up Frisco
- Ate way too much food at Thanksgiving with my family
December
- Finished Student teaching
- Finished College
- pulled off the GDB holiday party that I had been planning with my CFR
- Saw my 6 neices and 2 nephews (I had never seen my nephews before)
- Ate way too much food over the holidays
So yeah...that was my year in a nutshell! The good and bad...but it was a year right? LOL
