Saturday, May 15, 2010

Dog Training/Yard Saling

Today we went to a bunch of yard sales in Daybreak with Kellie. I was so excited by what I got, I had to share! I was mostly looking for books for my classroom, since I have a total of 3 right now. I was able to get 37 books for $16.00!!! I was so excited!! Here they are:

I also got some other things for myself and my classroom. My total purchases were less than $30. I think it was a successful day.


After the yard sales we went to dog training. We have Stella working with a trainer named Greg in Alpine. He is awesome! We are going to have her learn to do agility courses. She does some of it right now and loves it! He mostly does attack dog training, which is really fun to watch. So today I got attacked! It was pretty scary, but it was fun. I had on the arm protection and the dog just bit my arm. It didn't hurt. Just a little pressure. But man, when that dog jumped at me, I was so scared! The dog's name was Q. He was a Belgian Malinois. He was really sweet (even though it doesn't look like it!)



The very first of the video got cut off, but drag it to the very beginning and look at the still shot. It's pretty funny.

Working with Stella on following a scent.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Bronson's Miracle

Today I was looking on MSN and saw a story about the Staker family. They are a family from Provo who witnessed an amazing miracle. The mom was bathing her 16-month-old baby, Bronson and his brother, and she stepped out for just a few minutes. She heard the other boy screaming, and when she ran back in, Bronson was lying face up in the bathtub with blue lips and no color in his face. She tried to rescusitate him, but he was unresponsive. The ambulance came and took him to the Emergency Room, where he was pronounced Dead on Arrival. They kept doing CPR and finally his heart started again. I won't tell the entire story here, but it is an amazing story. He was "dead" for at least 11 minutes, probably more. They didn't think he would survive, and even if he did, he would have severe brain damage. But he lived, and he is just the same as he was before. It is an amazing story. The Staker's Blog tells all the details. It is hard to read, and I tried my best not to cry while I was sitting at work reading it. But I couldn't pull myself away. It is such a miraculous story, and Sara's testimony is so powerful. This story truly shows that Heavenly Father is watching us and can hear us. My testimony has been strengthened by this family that I have never even met, and it made me remember to cherish the things that I have and not worry so much about the worldly things.