Puppy Class

There is a puppy class tonight. It is kind of sad in a way because I don't know how much longer we will be able to attend them. All we have left with Mulan is Feburary, March, April, and then she goes back in May. We are not sure when in May so it could be 3-4 months. Wow how time has flown!
On a different not Mulan has a very stubborn ear infection we are using Montemax twice a day as suggested by CCI. Does anyone have any suggestions for flushing it out?

Mulans Back:)

Mulan is back and doing well. She seems to get sweeter every time we get her back. Maybe because I miss her so much. I have a new picture of her just so you can see her I know it has been a while. Besides that there is not so much new. I guess because it is winter and we aren't doing as much as we do in summertime:)

Ice Storm!

Yes, there was a ice storm in Dallas while we were visiting. We woke up one day and it was a balmy 60 degrees, by that evening it was pouring rain and a good 30 degrees cooler.
Visiting Texas again was enjoyable but very sad. I don't know if I would do it again because it hurt so much. I guess it was too soon.
Mulan is still in heat at the kennel but we should be getting her back by next week. Then I can post some news that people will read! lol

Dallas

We are going to go to Dallas for the weekend:) Some old friends of ours are getting
married. We are all really excited about seeing everyone and visiting old haunts.
Mulan is still at the kennel and she will probably come home around the 24th. I still
miss her.

Growing Up!

Well it is kind of a funny subject but I guess it needs to go on record in some way. Mulan went into heat yesterday. She is growing up! We had to take her to the CCI kennel and she will stay there for the next three weeks! That is a long time. I feel really bad because we just picked her up again when we came back from Chicago. I also miss her more then I have the other times. I guess it is because I know she is going to be there for so long. I have to finish my geometry lesson now so G2G.

A New Year

Well it is the start of another year:) So many things have happened this year. I would have never thought last January that I would be living in Columbus, OH by the next year. It is kind of scary to think where I might be next year and what will have changed. I know that I won't have Mulan anymore:( I am lucky though that I am getting to keep her still for another five months. Well I have to go give Mulan a bath. I will post again soon hopefully!

Chicago

We just go back from a long trip to Chicago to visit some friends.

The trip took seven hours. We decided it would be more comfortable

for everyone if Mulan stayed at the CCI kennel. It is good practice

for her(and us).

We spent a extra day and visited different sites around Chicago. We

went to the Field Museum and saw the Tsavo lions and Sue the biggest

T-rex in the world. We also went and saw Frank Lloyd Wrights, Robie House.

He put so much work into it! Even the windows are incredible. Here are a few pictures.

Photoshop Class

I am taking a Photoshop Class for school and I had to create a layered piece for a assignment.
So all though this is fairly novice my mom said I should post it on my blog because it pertains to Mulan. . . .












Mulan Update: She is doing fine, we took her to the doggy park again yesterday. She played happily with her buddies for 45 minutes or so. She was all muddy when we got back and after I gave her a bath she promptly slept the rest of the evening.
I would also like to tell everyone that if you post a comment on a update that I did a while ago I probably will not see it. I will have a better chance of seeing it if it was posted on a new post.
-Thank You:)

More Snow

So I have not posted in a while because there has been not much new about
Mulan to post. She did see her first snow yesterday though. It did not last
very long and it melted by this morning. She would not go to the bathroom in it and
waited all day until it had melted more in the evening. I don't know what she is going to do when the snow stays for days! It has also been very cold and this morning I had to take her for a
walk in 14 degrees. It is a exhilirating way to start the day:)

Virtual human development game



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New Coat

When we were visiting my grandparents for Thanksgiving I mentioned

to my grandma that Mulan needed a coat. This was something she had not

needed in Texas being that is rarely rained and was not nearly as cold as Ohio.

A couple of days later we headed out to the store and bought her a brand new dog

coat. It is really nice and good quality. It is like a mini horse coat. Here is a picture of her

in it. . .

P.S. Hello Rose and Tjodie and Eddie:) Thanks for reading my blog. I miss you all! Mulan says "Hi" and says that she misses playing with Taco and Chico (If you can call it that:)

Extreme Makeover Home Edition!

Guess what? In Whitehall one of the nearby towns, they had Extreme Makeover Home Edition building a house for a family of nine. The reason they were redoing the house for them was that the father had been one of the firefighters at the Trade Towers on Sept 11th.

We went to visit the site on Tuesday and we got to meet two of the designers! First Tanya came up and we got to meet her and then Ed came up and we talked to him for a while. We also saw Tye (though only from a distance). It was a very unique experience:)

Do you remember when I said I was teaching Mulan how to turn? I was just telling my mom the other day that I couldn't really think of a place that we would be able to actually use the command.

But when we got our picture taking with Ed, Mulan had gotten turned around and was backwards and I had really wanted her face to be in the picture so I quicky commanded her to "turn" and she turned right around and plopped down! I was so happy that one of her commands actually paid off:) If you notice in the picture she is facing a little to the side that is a result of her turning at the last minute.

Today we went back to visit and see how the house had turned out. It was beautiful! Unluckily we were unable to stay and see the family arrive because it started sleeting! It was freezing! Welcome to Ohio. . . .

P.S. Go OSU!!!!!!!

The first picture is the day that they demoed the house and the second pic is of the house all finished. The last two pictures are of Cara, Mulan, and I with Ed and Tanya. The last pic is of Tye standing on top of one of the trucks they used for hauling the junk away. He is like a big kid! He crawled around all the wreckage when they were demoing the house and he loved it.

At Least Mulan Liked It:)

Yesterday I stayed home by myself all day while my family went
to church because I wasn't feeling well. It is probably just working to
hard and the cold weather. Sometimes I just feel stretched thin. Like
Bilbo says on "Lord of the Rings" he says, "like butter spread over too much bread."
Luckily I have Mulan and my family around me to keep me going:)
We took Mulan over to a new doggy park. She loved it! It was a huge fenced in area with
toys, water bowls, and even a small pond for the dogs to explore. We spent over 45 minutes
there just letting her run around. I think she liked just being a dog for once.

Turn-in

Mulan now has a official turn-in date. It will be in March. We were leaning toward
that but we haven't been sure until yesterday. When we were talking to Sarah at
the kennel we were saying we would like to know if it was going to be in Feburary or
March and she said that all her paperwork says March. So we will continue to
raise her for another five months or so. It seems long now but I know it will fly by.
We don't yet know how much we are going to miss her:(

New Commands

CCI has sent out a e-mail saying that there are two new commands we need to teach the dogs. We are working with Mulan on "turn" right now. This will help in grocery stores. I didn't realize how big she had gotten until I tried to move her out of the grocery store aisle. So this will be a nifty little command. I put her into the bath tub and used a piece of food to guide her into a turn. I said turn as she did it. We have been working on it for almost a week and she is getting pretty good at it. I wanted to show you how much she has grown compared to her old puppy pictures. . . .

First Snow!

My sister and I think that it is a minor miracle for it to be snowing
this early but it did! It flurried for over a hour. I could not concentrate
on my classes and I spent most of the time watching snow outside. It didn't
build up and finally it stopped all together but it was neat anyways.
I took Mulan out in it and she spent the whole time trying to figure
out how to catch it in her mouth. I can't wait until she sees real snow!

100th Pumpkin Festival

We picked Mulan up from the puppy raisers house Monday. She had a great time
playing with the ladies two dogs. Unfortunately I think she got into something
while she was there that she was not suppose to have and she has had a upset
stomach for a day or so. Don't worry if it goes any longer then three days I will take
her to a vet:) We went to the 100th Pumpkin Festival in Circleville yesterday.
We had the most delicious hot pumpkin donuts. They were so good. The whole festival was
based mainly around food. We tried pumpkin fudge, pumpkin cornbread, pumpkin chili, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin donuts, and pumpkin pizza(which happened to be delicious). We all enjoyed it and it was a welcome break from all the traveling.

left picture: A huge stack of pumpkins at the pumpkin festival

right picture: The "world's biggest pumpkin pie."

Another Trip

We are leaving again. This time we are going to Maryland to stay up in the
mountains for a week. It is suppose to be really pretty up there this time
of year. I hate leaving Mulan but she is going to stay with a puppy raiser
that is raising a young puppy at the m0ment. Mulan is not the smallest any
more:( I will update when I get back and if I have access to a computer hopefully
before that.

Apple Picking

We went apple picking for the first time! It was very pleasant.
The air feels like fall here. I have not felt fall air like this before. The
trees were dripping with apples and we all filled our bags to the brim in
ten minutes. They were Liberty apples which are very tart and sweet.
Mulan loved it! She loved just holding the apple in her mouth because it
felt like she owned it and it was hers alone. We also attended a Puppy Class
at the Polaris mall Wednesday night. We practiced walking up and down stairs
and various socialization skills. Mulan did wonderful(I am such a doggy mom).
One of her only problems was staying by my side towards the end of the stairs because she would get excited and want to get off really fast. It was a good refresher course for both of us.
Here are a few pictures. . . .

LPCCI Booth

Mulan and I got to help work the CCI booth Thursday at the Lions
convention. Mulan loved all the attention and behaved very
well. It was a very neat experience. I answered a lot of questions
about CCI and my personal stories of life as a puppy raiser.
One lady I talked to at the booth was getting her ninth puppy
the following week! Nine puppies is a lot. Mulan is now on four
cups of food a day. This is to fill her out a little bit. And the next bag
of food we buy will be adult food(we have been feeding her puppy food).
Here is a picture of us at the CCI booth.

September 11

I can't believe tommorrow it will have been five years since September 11. I remember
that morning very clearly. I feel for everyone who lost someone.
Today we took Mulan to a little outdoor tomato festival. It only had three tents!
I tried my first fried green tomatos and tomato fudge (don't try either of them).
My mom and I were discussing how Mulan has changed while we were gone. There
is a definant difference. Before she was unable to just lay and relax , but now she will lay
around for up to two hours doing nothing. It is kind of enjoyable. It makes life much easier
for all of us.