Kiara

A month in-a-half ago I got my puppy, Kiara. It is an interesting experience taking care of a two in- a- half month old puppy with the potty training and teething process. Every morning she gets up at 5:30am with my mom to go to the bathroom. Then she goes back in her crate until I get up at 9:00. All during the day I'm constantly pulling something out of her mouth or chasing after her so she doesn't eat the cat. Potty training is going O.K but could be better. Every now and then I find a present on the floor.( that's fun to clean up ) Kiara eats every morning, at lunch time, and dinner with a treat in her bowl. Her favorite thing to do is play in puddles. Every time it rains she is always whining to go out because she knows where there is rain there is puddles. She darts outside and takes a nose dive in to the ginormous puddle. She is very stubborn when it comes to making her do something she doesn't want to do. Every time you tell her "NO" she barks back at you and we get into an argument. Finally I'll end up winning the argument. I cant wait to see her when she is an adult and weighs about 125 pounds and her head is bigger than mine. She is a pain in the butt, but she's my pain in the butt and i love her so much!

An End Is Only A New Beginning

A week after Nara's death, i was so lost and alone with out a dog. I reserched a dog that i have always wanted, an Alaskan malamute. On the internet i found a kennal close to home called J and D kennals, which breed Malamutes. There were 2 recent litters. One would be ready April 28, the other would be ready May 9th. we first visited the older ones. I picked one up but did not feel any connection. So we went to the younger litter and as soon as we opened the top of the puppy kennal all of the puppies picked up their heads, but only one came wobbling over toward me. Her eyes werent all the way open yet. I picked her up and it was love at first sight.I held her up close to my chest and she started knawing on my ear and licking my cheak. Every time i tried to put her back in the kennal she would fight to stay close up to me. I had to ask my sister to get her off so we can see her father. In the end i ended up buying her and i will bring her home May 9th. I am so excited to bring her home. I aslo decided to name her Kiara.

Nara... My Angel

Everything happens for some sort of reason. I just dont understand the reason for Nara's death. I still believe that this could have been prevented, but the Lord was calling for her. It all happened on an ordinary night when Nara came to me wanting to go outside to go to the bathroom. So i got up and started walking to the door. She was so excited that she spun around and hit her head of the wall. She broke her neck and died in my arms. I could remember those beautiful white eyes look up at me on her last breath, but now i know she is looking down on me watching over me. Sometimes I can still hear that playful howl that she made every day i came home for school. I still remember every night she would climb in to bed with me and fall asleep next to me. But i know that where ever i am she is always by my side. Nara was sent to me to show me love, trust, and loyalty. I am still thankful for getting that short time to love her and take care of her and I pray to her every night. I miss her so much and I will never forget her.

Fundraisers!

Ski training and traveling is hard because of the cost its self. So to do my ski training i have fundraisers to raise money. Our first fundraiser is a motorcycle run on June 1st . We will have live music with Cool Ride, Hidden Drive & Abilene to rock the house! Registration is at Diamond MFG. Parking lot, 243 W. 8th ST., W. Wyoming at 8:30am. Riders $15.00- Passenger $10.00( including meal ticket) Children under 12 years of age-FREE. The kickstands will be up and ready to go at noon. We will end the ride at the Holly Child Fairgrounds,NewportSt.,(Sheatown) section of Nanticoke rain or shine. There will be plenty of food to enjoy and fun games to play for the whole family! If you have any questions please call Bob Wineman @ (570)510-5336 or you can visit my website at www.stephaniejallen.org. Thank you for your help and support.

Mount Sunapee

After training all week in Vermont we hopped over the border to Newhampshire in Mount Sunapee where i raced in the Diana Golden Race Finals. This is where i got my 2nd place silver medal. This was a great experience and a challenge for me. The mountian was beautiful up top. You can see everything.
I can still remember standing at the finish line thinking of my dad ,my uncle bill ,and Mau my ski coach. When the man at the starting gate said...5...4...3...2...right when he said 1 i pushed out of the starting gate as hard as i could and felt that no one could stop me. I was happy with my time andcouldn't stop smiling. I will never forget that day.

Someone Special I Met.

When i was in Vermont with the AIG ski tour, i met someone really special to me. Her name is Kathy Celo. She was in charge of the camp that i was in and im happy she was because i had the time of my life. Kathy was special to everyone there. Everyone appriciated her because she got us whereever we needed to go on time and ready. Not only that, we had fun with her too.
The camp was as much fun as it was because of Kathy. I can not wait to go to that camp next year and meet that special person again.

My Last Trip:(

2008's jurney ended at Vermont in the AIG Ski Tour which was sponserd by DSUSA were i won a silver. This was a fun camp that i will never forget!
Every day we would get up at 6:00am and be ready for breakfast at 7:00am. After we ate brekfast we would rush back to our rooms and get our equipment to lode up in my dads truck. There were 6 of us all together with 2 monoskiers(sit down skiers). We would all be out on the slopes around 8:30 ready for training. We usually trained on a race corse that Mau and AK set up. We practice a GS corses (wide long turns) and Slolom (short quick turns). There is Down Hill skiing too but you reach speeds of 80 mph so i dont do that............yet. We all train all day with a 45 min lunch at 12:00pm and of corse were all again, out shreding the mountians untill
3:oopm or 4:00pm however long we could go. When we reach the hotel again, we got dressed for dinner but first went to a team meeting to discuse what we did wrong or what we have to work on for the next day. Then we eat dinner...finally! When we go to our rooms we threw our pajamas on and crash in bed, then did the whole scedule over again!
So that was the regular scedule but there was always something in between to slow us down.For example the gas went out in breakfast so we could only have waffles and they took forever to cook, tha tmade us late. Then my room key diddent work(i dont know why)but i had to run up to the front office and ask for a new one. On the slopes is a different story.The gates (the poles you hit on slolom) seem to hate you. They come at you fast and wack you right in the face. Or like Sherwood, clips the gate and flips in the air over the finish line and doesn't even get a score because he went over the eye( the lazer that you go throught to get your time). Or me who flip and slides under the eye and doesnt get a time. Either way they both try to slow us down. Also two days from race day i hiperextended my knew and had to ice it everynight. Man that hurt!!!!!
Know I am geting ready for next years training by having fund raisers to raise money for the camps. Im having a motercycle run June 1st. Contact my mom,Deb, for more information at
(570) 690-3028.