Foster Got His PAX!!!!!!

This weekend in Benton, AR, Foster got his final (20th) Double Q to finish his PAX title in AKC agility!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!! It took awhile to get this last double Q but boy was it worth it!!! Check out the videos below!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Halloween and Fall

Just a few pics I have taken recently while traveling and of fall and Halloween at our house:)



Our Charlie Brown tree lost all of its leaves in one day!!!

Cotton fields on the way back from Paducah

Pretty fall colors on the way to Paducah

Our Foyer

Muddin' in Memphis

Better late than never...I started this post a little bit ago and had trouble uploading the video. So here it is!!

This past weekend Lexi and I competed in a USDAA trial hosted by 4 PAWS agility here in Memphis. It was great because everyone who normally cannot come to our agility trials when they are out of town were able to be here!! My parents came in from St. Louis and Mike got to come too. We had a great time playing all of the different games they have. We tried Snookers for the first time and I am hooked!! I can't wait to play it again. Lexi Q'd and took 1st place in Gamblers and Jumpers on Sunday!!! Yeah!!!

Also, Susan Garrett was competing here in Memphis as well, getting ready to go to the USDAA Nationals in Arizona!! It was really exciting to see her compete all weekend in person! Here is some video of Susan and Encore competing in Masters Standard on Saturday!





Jill and George joined us competing this past weekend, and they took 6 out of 7 Q's and all were 1st place!!! Wow!!! Poor Atticus (we now know) wasn't feeling well, and didn't want to compete. He has been a sick puppy, but he is on the mend now:)

A great agility weekend in Franklin!!!!

What a great way to enjoy the first agility show for the fall, in Franklin, cool weather, (could have done without the rain), good food, and great friends!!! And a few Q's didn't hurt either! Both Lexi and Foster Q'd in Novice Fast. Foster finished his title, and Lexi got her 2nd leg. The courses all weekend were a mixture of fun and challenging. Foster got 2 more Q's, one in Std, and one in JWW, just not in the same day, so no QQs. I had to pull him from a couple of runs that were just too tight and full of sharp turns. Lexi had a good weekend too, doing her weaves in 3 out of 6 runs. She was even able to put it together with the jumps for her first 2 Qs in Excellent Jumpers with Weaves!!! Very exciting! Hopefully I will have some video soon:)

This weekend Lexi and I will be at a USDAA show here in Memphis with Jill, Atticus and George. We don't do those shows very often, but we always have a lot of fun!

A couple more things...

Congratulations to Marion & Bunny on their MACH!!! Good luck to them at the Lab Nationals this week too!!!

Good luck to Tonya and Jason and their dogs at the DOCNA Nationals this weekend!!!

Monkeys Riding Dogs???

Yes...only at a Fair!! We went to the Delta Fair here last night and that was one of the big attractions that night, The Banana Derby! Very exciting!! A cute act!

A post about nothing....

It was really a very uneventful week! Mike and I started our fall soccer season last Tuesday. It was fun even though we lost by 1. Our porch needed to be cleaned up badly, so I did that yesterday. It was much warmer than I thought it was going to be!! But I got rid of old agility jumps that were broken and had just been sitting there, old tennis balls, dog toys etc. We just don't use the porch much when it is sweltering here in the summer. It looks much better now:)

Lexi, Foster and I played agility over at Janet and Carol's yesterday morning. Lots of people came! Some that I haven't seen in a while, so it was good to catch up and practice for our upcoming shows this fall. Weave update for Lexi...getting better, but we still have some work to do:) She can reliably send through 8 poles, she is about 85% on 10 poles... This is helping her to stay in the poles when she is ahead of me (which is ALL of the time) on the course. She is learning that no matter where I am, if she is in the poles, she needs to do all of the them:)

We spent the rest of yesterday afternoon hanging in the yard and destroying toys:) Last night we went over to hang out at Kim and Lee's house! Their daughter, Sydney, is almost 10 and really getting into cheerleading! She was showing us her back handspring last night! Awesome! She was just bouncing and flipping all over the house! She wants to be a flyer! (The one they throw up in the air, for those non-cheer people) So I will hopefully be able to go and see her squad compete! I love cheer competitions!

Here are some pics of the pups :) Until next time...

A little fuzzy, but the happy sun flying thru the air was to funny to pass up!

Bay jumped thru the pic I was taking, but doesn't it look like Lexi is sticking her tongue out at her??!!

Happy dog!

Lexi is ready to pounce!