FUN!!!!

I'm wondering, is it possible to have TOO much fun?? I guess the down side is, you just never want it to stop and everything else that happens after, doesn't quite compare..... OR could it be that it sets off a chain reaction and everything else feels just as awesome and you can't believe your luck!

Having someone come to stay is always fun :-) But when that someone, also has the same addiction as you, you know that an awesome time is going to be had by all! My friend Simone (who I met at one of Ann Braue's Camp's 18mths ago) came over from QLD to tryout for the Aust Team going over to compete at the World Agility Open. She stayed for 4 days and BOY did we have a BLAST!! Between Jules and Simone I don't think I've laughed quite so much or been lead astray quite so often!! :-D It was great to see her young dog Kye in action and Edge fell instantly in love with her :-P

Our weekend was jam packed full of good food, adventures into Fremantle and the Perth foreshore, as well as a shopping expedition which ended with a totally awesome video camera and the revelation that Simone is a pretty SWEEEEET negotiator!!! :-D

The tryout's themselves were great fun and I had entered both girls.....though had the reality check that Liryk had actually only ever done a full size seesaw a fortnight previous, and the day after when I tried it in competition, she flew off into space and that was from a stop about a metre in front!! So at training the friday night before tryouts, I put her over again, and this time made it part of the sequence and she did GREAT! SO..... I thought, hell.... why not try :-) And even though some were pretty... well.... unconventional..... she got them ALL!!! Awffy chuffed with her :-D And considering she's only 22mths I'm sooooooooooo proud of how she went on all the courses.... yes we may have got a DQ in pretty much all of the classes :-P but she ran like a trouper!!! That's one thing I LOVE about my girls :-) they give it their all, yes both are VERY different speed and stress wise, but they are the same in how much they both do the very best that they can! And as long as they think they've just done the most awesomest run EVA!! I'm happy too :-)

The other thing I did was try a new trialling method...... actually, it's Jules' method..... and it seems to work really well for her.....you drink... and you keep drinking! LOL Now the downside is, the runs are now a bit of a blur and when stepping up to the start line there was the dreaded thought of .... what's the course again?? But somehow it ACTUALLY works!! :-D Not sure I'll take it up on a regular basis, but it definitely completed a fantastic weekend, that was totally stress free and full of laughter!! And the bonus of all the FUN is .... we got on the Team! ARGH!!!!

I put together bits and pieces of the runs the girls did over the weekend. Awffy proud!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3Rf-lIH2c

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

What A Week!

Last weekend we had the last ADAA trial of the year. We had some knocked bars and wrong courses but both the girls and I had a BLAST!!!



Epic gained her AAD title and a HUGE rosette :-)



My first run of the night was with Liryk in Combined Starters Agility and it was one of those runs you'd like to run over and over it was so much FUN! I don't know what it is about ADAA but I just don't seem to dwell so much on what to do with the obsticle after the d/w, and it's not like it was a jump "straight" after it either, there was enough of a push to the jump to require you to be up there to handle it. And I managed to get there and she NAILED her contact!!! It's sooooooooooooo exciting to run when it works!! :-D Unfortunately she tried to jump the second last bar with one stride from the previous jump and it didn't go well. DOH!! One bar but EXTREMELY happy with how well she ran!! Thanks to John for videoing!!!

Tuesday I finally managed to put together a video of Edge's tricks so far. At one point I really felt like we were going to fall WAY behind in Silvia Trkmans course, Edge really struggled working out how to pivot and even walk backwards, but we got there in the end :-) and now we get to move onto new things!!

His legs are forever growing and he's getting much longer in the body now too, we've definitely reached that gangly stage!! He's not far behind Liryk in height now, and at only 17wks it'll be interesting to see how big he actually grows :-)

Edge has SUCH a smiley face!! Poor Liryk looks discusted that she has to sit next to him LOL



Wednesday I got to pick up my new car!!! Having four dogs has been a little tricky to squish into the old Hyundai Wagon and Clint finally relented and said we could upgrade :-D It's a 2006 Commodore Station Wagon and I really, really can't believe how much room there is!! It easily fits three crates as well as a passenger in the back......or a 4th dog!! LOL Jeddy LOVES that he's the only one NOT in a crate!!

Then Wed, Thurs and Frid we've been renovating our bathroom. It's been going on for the last 3wks or so, a day here and there. But I have a friend coming to stay next weekend so we really needed to get our butt into gear so she wasn't going to be bathing in the dog pool!! 3/4 of the tiling is done, just the floor and shower to go, then in goes the new vanity and shower screen YAY!!! I can't wait!! And I really need to say a HUGE THANKYOU to my dad, uncle and husband who have done an AWESOME job so far!!!