A fun weekend away...

"I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand - not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand - life is good today.  Life is good today."

It was a wonderful weekend away for a mini-vacation.  I was in Michigan... playing on the beach with my family with the dogs as well as going to a small agility trial that was close by.  Rumor had a very difficult time with the footing at the trial and the courses were certainly a bit unfair/dangerous for fast dogs... so we didn't have as much success as I would have liked... BUT we had a wonderful time hanging with friends and playing on the beach!

I'm looking forward to my next few agility trials, but I'm REALLY looking forward to our Hawaii trip!  Rumor is going to turn 3 on June 14th (can you believe it??  3!) - not a bad birthday present for the 3 year old .  I haven't ever been to Hawaii before and I'm really looking forward to playing on the beach as well as introducing (and competing) DockDogs over there.  It should be a great couple of weeks... can't wait!

Rumor's hat trick...

Rumor had his 1st 'hat trick'... he has won each of his last 3 DockDog events. 

He really has been coming into his own and had a lot of fun this weekend.  We were in Berwyn, IL for the Chicagoland DockDogs event and it was our 1st outdoor event of the season.  SO NICE to be jumping outside!  Since I am Vice President of the CLDD club I tried to volunteer as much as possible so Rumor didn't get to compete in that many waves.  He jumped a couple 25' 5" jumps and was 1 of 3 dogs in the Super Elite Finals.  I was impressed that we had 3 dogs jumping that far... the other 2 were very good WI dogs... both Labs.

The Super Elite Finals were quite exciting... Rumor came into the Finals in 2nd place.  After all 3 of our dogs jumped we were still in 2nd.  Callie jumped a big 25' 8" jump before us and so Rumor had to give it his all and hat a tie... 25' 8" too for the little Rumz!  That was a new personal best for him.  We ended up winning b/c our other jump was slightly longer than Callie's other jump.  For a relatively small event, it really was an exciting Fials! 

Now, Rumor is taking a little break from dock diving until next month... when we head to Hawaii!!!

Our 1st National Agility Event!

Rumor is now, officially, qualified for USDAA Nationals!  This is the 1st National Agility event we have qualified for and I'm very excited.  We finished our last Steeplechase Q this past weekend so now we are qualified for Steeplechase, Grand Prix & DAM Team.  Should be a lot of fun... now, to wait until Mid-October  :)