Crazy but Good

The kids and I have had a crazy past week. Last week was full of tests and what not but we had a fantastic weekend. We packed up Friday afternoon and headed to Galveston with Heather and her girls, Karma and Blush for a fun weekend at the beach. Stacie and Ken joined in on the fun on Saturday with Riddle and Tryst and the dogs all had a ball. Shimmy actually really enjoyed herself and frolicked in the water like a "normal" dog. :) I guess she was just super excited since other dogs thought it was cool. Vengeance took to water like a fish and joined in fearlessly. He said hi to a few people as well and did so great in his first overnight hotel trip. Aside from that this week should be just slightly lighter since I've gotten all of my tests out of the way and am spending time getting ahead on homework tonight so I won't have as much to do the rest of this week. This weekend, we have nothing planned so I might see if some friends want to come over to snuggle with Vengeance and help him get used to more people. All in all he's doing really well with meeting new people and checking out new places. I'm super impressed. Poor Shimmer tore her front paw pads at the beach this weekend but is recooperating well and resting up. They don't seem to bother her as much as they did yesterday so I think she's definitely feeling better. Also excited for the upcoming Howl-O-Ween Festival end of next month. Shimmer will be joining in on agility demonstrations and it'll be awesome to get Vengeance out and about for something really exciting like this. Aside from that I need to look at my trial schedule and enter something else. I'm ready for some more agility. Lots of pictures from the beach are up on Heather Valenta's facebook-check them out they're amazing! Some of the most incredible shots. All dogs were captured really well. Lots of shots of Shimmy rolling around being an ultra dork and a few cute shots of the drowned rat swimming like a big kid! :)


Along with that, I took a few pictures on my phone today just playing with Vengeance. He's eight weeks old today! Can't believe I've had the little bugger for a week. He's turning out to be an absolutely awesome little puppy. Looks great, has tons of drive, loves toys, is really willing to do just about anything. Fantastic puppy! Can't express how happy I am with him. We'll focus on working on a few things this week now that he's had time to settle in and hopefully be able to report with some cool news of tricks sometime soon!

Tugging to his hearts content :)

Is it weekend yet!?

This week has been absolutely insane. With the new puppy coming home and the 4 tests I have this week (3 down, 1 tomorrow), I've been swamped. By this point I'm not understanding things anymore and doing more harm than good. My brain hurts and it's so hard to study for Calculus right now. So ready for the beach trip this weekend. Shimmer, Vengeance, and I are headed to Galveston with Heather Valenta and her kids to enjoy some beach time. Others will be joining us as well so this will be a fantastic socialization opportunity for Vengeance and a nice late birthday surprise for Shimmer. Speaking of birthdays, happy birthday to my best girl! She turned 6 today and had some special goodies and extra snuggles. I might end up buying her a new collar soon too. Gotta get her something. :) Aside from that I'm just gonna head back to studying now....might as well. Gotta get through tomorrow (at least it's a short day). So looking forward to sleeping a bit and relaxing. I need it!

This is the cool dog who has a birthday today. She thinks we should make it National Omelette Dog Day. :)

Welcome Home Vengeance

What can I say? I have a puppy. Still super hard to believe. I'm so in love with him though. The wait today was insane but I was able to prepare and feel like he's set. Melinda and her mom got to the house around 5:45pm and dropped him off (2 hours earlier than I thought I'd get him). Ginny took oodles and oodles of pictures and I took a few videos, which will all be posted soon. Right now it's just a bit hectic. Shimmer absolutely hates Vengeance right now and I think is just very confused. He however loves her and wants to play. He greeted all 3 other dogs with a burst of friendliness. He really is very social and loveable. Success was that he's already pottied outside and loves loves loves to tug. I'm excited to have a toy motivated dog that will hopefully play with toys even if there's food around though he is a little food fatty. He ate his dinner really well and then I used some more kibble later on to introduce him to the clicker. Seemed completely fearless and understood the click treat right away. He even stopped jumping up for the food. Such a smart little puppy! He's currently crashed but we'll play a bit more later and then I'll hopefully get some shut eye. Going to get up early to tire him out some more and make sure he has what he needs while I'm at school. For now he seems pretty tired though. He's being a very good puppy all things considered. I just absolutely love him. So excited for what's to come! :)

Studying? Never heard of it...

So, I *should* be studying for the 4 tests I have next week. Am I? Of course not. There's a puppy coming in less than 48 hours! Melinda and her mom headed out tonight to drive to Arizona and will pick the pups up tomorrow afternoon. They'll head back and I'll be getting him sometime Sunday night. I can't get over how super adorable he is. I feel awful having not updated in nearly 3 weeks but school has sort of been eating my life. I've been super swamped with everything this semester and have quite the work load, but I'm keeping busy so it's good. Physics sort of hates me, but persistence has paid off and I'm slowly understanding things here and there. Maybe I'm just physics impaired? Possible. So, I'm getting a puppy Sunday night, and I have a test Tuesday (Theatre History), Wednesday (Organic Chemistry), Thursday (Physics-fail), and Friday (Calculus). Boy, I think my week will be a buttload of fun. ;) Anyone care to take any of those tests for me? Didn't think so. At least I have all weekend to study and focus on trying to study (yeah, it's not happening right now). Regardless, I'm happy it's weekend and I can catch up on sleep. I've got Vengeance's crate and expen all set up and oodles of toys laid out for him as well as being treat prepared. Oh, also, back and forth with information seeing as it's been forever since I updated. Shimmer's USDAA show last week went fantastic. She did really well and had a great time. One Advanced Standard Q and one Masters Jumpers Q. The other runs were super close to Qs but little things here and there. 2 fantastic super confident teeter performances that were flyoffs, but it was great to see her enjoying herself. Hoping to do an AKC show or two end October/beginning November. It'll be fun and good to get Vengeance exposed to the agility world himself. Basically, all I can do now is wait. I still can't really believe I've got a puppy coming home soon. It's going to be an interested next couple of months, but I'm so ready for it. As for Shimmer, I can only hope she'll really enjoy the company and learn to like her new brother. Despite it all, she'll always be my number one girl! Here is little Mr. Small Dark and Handsome at only 4.1 pounds at almost 7 weeks old. He's going to be a little midget border collie. I like it. :)

Also, here are a few videos of the puppies outside playing and having a good time! Super cute :)