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Here are all the videos from our weekend at the 2011 AAC Nationals!! Whatta weekend!

Warm-up run can be found here.

Sanctioned Masters Gamblers can be found here.

Steeplechase can be found here :)

And, best of all, the main event... The National Events! They can be found here!!

Enjoy!

Sam.. the cat!

Sam is my Nana's cat.. he is so cute! Just look at him.



Sam <3

I'm visiting my Nana for a couple of days. And this guy is just so cute.
My Nana got him from her local SPCA. He such a happy cat :)

Nina Dobrev.

@ Teen Choice Awards

Nina @ MTV's Music Awards

You may know her from The Vampire Diaries, Degrassi or maybe even the Roommate (if you had the courage to see that movie..) or maybe you know her from any of her other films. Maybe you saw her at the teen choice awards this year, winning choice TV actress for fantasy/sci-fic. Maybe you saw her presenting Justin Bieber's MTV music award win, with her co-star Ian Somerhalder. Or maybe you don't have a clue who she is. I know her from the vampire diaries (one of my fav shows :)). And I'll tell ya, she's amazing. Not only at acting but as a person also.

She's Bulgarian. Although, her hometown is Toronto. She's 22, and loves yoga.

a quote Nina tweeted recently

Her twitter is the best. She posts an inspirational quote or picture quote everyday and they are truly inspirational. If you have twitter, follow her! (http://twitter.com/#!/NINADOBREV or @ninadobrev)

Camping.. is awesome!

Ah, the smell of campfires and mini barbecues, the fresh air.. it's awesome.
Such a great feeling.
Camping with the famjam is always the best.
Great times, great times :)

We went camping this weekend at Jellystone park :) It was the Halloween weekend, so lots of activities and trick or treating! I stayed at the trailer and gave out treats :) My little brother went trick or treating, had lots of fun and got lots of candy! There was a site decorating contest and we can in 3rd place. Not too bad!

I also finished another book. "The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion" 
4th book in the series, and a great book!
TVD is waaay better than Twilight, just sayin'!

Besides that, we were there with some friends we haven't seen in 4 years! Fun times.

And, the moon was beautiful! Full and bright.

Gotta love camping :)

This blog is undergoing some changes.

Yea, it is.
So, if you see anything weird or unusual, don't panic ;)

an amazing trial, for sure.

At the beginning of July we went to a trial held by FAST. It was an amazing trial for Jazz and I!! So many brilliant moments and as you can tell by the music in the video (link is below); "Never Say Never". Definetely one of my motos. It was definetely one of our best trials this year. We got 6/8 Qs, and that doesn't matter because he ran so well that weekend. Our only faults, were my fault. *Rachel, you know not to call his name while he's going over a jump.* 

Jazz and I with our Qs and judge Lynda Yielding 

For some odd reason, the photo above would not go into the video.
I love this picture of Jazz :) He also looks so happy and proud.

I finally got the video up and here it is :)

Sunday's National Events!!

Such. An. Amazing. Experience.
I repeat, Such an Amazing Experience!!


Nationals was so so so much fun!!
Absolutely Awesome!


On Sunday we ran Standard first. This was a nice course. At the end of the run we had 15 faults. Two bars and a refusal. I think the first bar could have been since my FC ended up being a little late. The refusal was since I did not support enough coming out of the tunnel (a little layering) then he knocked the bar on that jump since when I brought him back around, I did not give him enough space ahead of the jump :\ But, the rest of the run went really well. Beautiful contacts. He also did splendid with 3 FCs over the course, as usual ;) Even though we had 15 faults it was such a fun course to run!


Jumpers was next. Definetely one of our best Jumpers! With a time of 35.70 seconds; 9.30 seconds under time! Super good time for us! I even got a FC in where I thought I was going to have to rear. And, I thought I was going to have to hold my front longer so that I would not push him to the wrong side of the jump, but I got ahead of him, and got in the right spot! The front was right on time :) So many brilliant moments in this run.. I could go on and on! And, guess what.. we got a 5th place in this run too! Super proud moment!!! Jumpers has never been our best placing run at our local trials, because of time. So, I'm sure you could just imagine how happy I was! :) To get a 5th place in Jumpers at the National level.. I was speechless!


Gamblers was also a splendid run! 47 points in the opening with two dogwalks, a mini twice, and some other stuff in between :) We did not get the gamble, but still a great run! Such a great run to end the weekend :)


Our last run was the Steeplechase Finals. To be honest, I was nervous. And, I never get nervous before any runs, not even at Regionals or Nationals. But, there was a huge amount of people watching, it was being televised, a man was anouncing stuff and the music was blarring. It was a good experience, though! Jazz ran super, as usual :) I think the music bothered him a bit at the beginning, but a great run. Not our fastest, but still a great run. We got 2nd out of the juniors, and $15 :) Again, super proud of him!!

Jazz and I with all our ribbons from the weekend! :)

Such an amazing weekend, and I am so blessed  to have been able to have this wonderful experience. We had so many brilliant moments over the weekend, and I can't wait for our next Nationals!!