Great Pumpkin Walk for a Cure

Halloween 2009

Maplesville's First Annual

Great Pumpkin Walk for a Cure

5 miles

Alabama Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Devin and I walked to help bring awareness

to cancer research, I dressed like a pink tiger.

Mile 4 was showing on Devin's face,...of course he was being a bit more dramatic

for the camera.

Almost there!

FINISHED....YAY!!!

We had a great time and made some new friends!

Cheering!

My cousin, Devin..

Fire up...

Go Red...

Make a child smile!

It only takes a few minutes... Sick children all over the country need encouragement
and prayer.

http://www.makeachildsmile.org/current/2009_apr1.shtml

Cleaning up!!

The CWM has supplied us with activity reports and other tools to help with progress.

We seperate the pieces out for recycling and throw away.

Suzy loves to seperate it..and chew on it! :)



They have a great blog that tells about other volunteers and projects:

http://www.cleanworldmovement.org/blog/

Butterfly Garden

We had a lot of flowers and butterflies!!

The garden was a big success. We were even visited by a very large dragonfly.

I am holding him in the first picture.

Suzy learns to sit!

Suzy has now learned how to sit. I taught her with a treat and a command. It took a very long time but she finally got it. I can now show her the treat with my hand in a special motion and she will sit. I don't even have to say sit. Next we will learn to come on command. I am going to use a whistle and more treats to train her.

Therapy Dog

God has blessed me with a beautiful dog, named Suzy. She is a white Siberian Husky with bright blue eyes. When I hug her she feels so soft, that it’s hard for me to stop sometimes. I have taught her to say I love you (RiRuROO) in Scooby Doo language.
She is such a joy to be around that I thought we could share her with other people. People who are sick or those who are lonely. I am on a mission to transform Suzy into a therapy dog. The first thing we have to do is teach her basic obedience, how to sit, stay and come on command. Suzy is a free spirit, she does not like rules. So teaching her to obey my commands will be a great adventure and a challenge. In the coming days we are going to transform Suzy.

I am trying to train Suzy to sit. We give her a treat if she sits. It is coming very slow, but it's coming together. She is going to be a goob therapy dog. I did it again today it took me 20 times to say it before she would sit.