2011 - What a year...

2011 has officially been one of my favorite years EVER. So many awesome things happened, for one Trixie started competing in Agility in late May/early June, I still can't believe she has achieved so much in only six months. And I can't forget about Scooter who earned all of her AKC Novice agility titles, including her NA! it only took us like 12 tries no big deal...stupid teeter...Speaking of teeters, we bought one and both of the dogs overcame problems they had with it. When Trixie's teeter problem started I decided that before I trained my next agility dog I'd buy a book/DVD about training that thing because clearly I can't do it right from the start. Probably my favorite part of this year was I discovered agility juniors existed! well okay it was late December of 2010 but it was really summer/fall of 2011 that I met everyone! I can't believe I used to think I was the only one around who trained their dog, haha, so much for that. I'm really looking forward to 2012 and the challenges it will bring with it, known and unknown :)

Here's a video of some of our best agility runs from this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPFmsln413s

and, as you may or may not have noticed I love making goals, helps me have a sense of purpose and things I want to work on and things I want to achieve. So here are the goals of 2012:

For Trixie:

1) Get into PIII in USDAA
2) Qualify for 2013 AKC Nationals in Tulsa, OK
3) Q at least 4/8 at CPE Nationals
4) Earn our C-ATCH this year
5) Get our AKC MJP and MXP titles
6) Earn our APDT ARCh
7) End the year with 30+ performance titles (she currently has 18)

For Scooter:

1) Earn her Open AKC agility titles (STD and JWW)
2) Earn her CPE CL3
3) Earn her ARChEX
4) Earn her SPD and other PI USDAA agility titles
5) End the year with 35+ titles (she currently has 24)
6)Possibly earn our AKC Therapy Dog title (depends upon somethings which may or may not happen)

I'll make these goals their own page so everyone can see the awesome progress we'll be making!

30 minutes till 2012!