Halloween 2010

This evening we headed to the Sounders first play-off game against the LA Galaxy so we skipped out on the usual dressing the dogs up and passing out candy to trick-or-treaters though we are not really sure we would actually get any now that we live out in the county and our neighbors are mostly horses.

 We hope everyone had a wonderful treat filled Halloween!

Fill in the Blank Friday

Happy Friday! With questions inspired by this blogger, here are my answers to fill in the blank Friday. The theme was 'Halloween.' Feel free to play along in the comments or on your blog.


1. My Halloween plans this year will include spending the day working on unpacking and finishing the fence at our new house and then heading to the Sounder playoff game with my mom and sister.


2. My most memorable Halloween costume was cat in the hat from the Doctor Seuss book when I was a freshman in high school.
3. For Halloween this year I'm going to be me, myself and I.

4. I've always wanted to dress up as...hmmm don't really dream of any costume.

5. Halloween free association! pumpkins, chocolate, orange, candy corn.

6. The worst thing about Halloween is that is usually cold and rainy here. Makes you wonder why the kids want to go out in this weather.

7. The best thing about Halloween is admiring all of the creative costumes. I love to see what people come up with.

Another Win!

Odin spent October 14th - 17th being a show dog again this time in Boise, Idaho much to Ben's dismay as he would rather been hunting than packing or without hid buddy for the weekend. Odin took Best of Winner's at the Brittany Specialty which gave him another couple of points towards the championship title and some fancy ribbons for the wall.

Up next is another show for Odin the weekend before Thanksgiving and then a well deserved break for hunting season before more shows in 2011.

Odin's took Best of Winners at the the Idaho Capital City Kennel Club Brittany Specialty on Oct 15, 2010 with his pro handler Kevin Chestnut

Moving On Up!

For many of you this is not new news but for some of you it is. Last week Monday we officially said goodbye to Chestnut Trails and our home for the last 5.5 years and said hello to our new home in Echo Lake on Wednesday. We have had a lot of good times in our first house and the great neighborhood that we have lived in. We have have had the pleasure of having great neighbors who have become our friends and we will  miss seeing and catching up with them on our daily walks with the dogs.

While we are sad to leave the old neighborhood we are very excited to move into our new home since it is everything we have been looking for over the last few years. The house has a great room/game room for Ben and his toys and of course the dogs to roam in, a big shop for Ben's future toys and of course acreage- 5 acres to be exact. We are looking forward to getting settled in and making this our home.

Our new house

All In A Weekend

This was a divide and conquer weekend as we had a couple of commitments that we need to tend to. First was our usual of taking the boys to the trainer since hunting season is upon us. Normally I wouldn't mind packing up the car for the 8 hours of driving and getting teased by our friends all day about not wanting to touch birds but this time I stayed home and let Ben, the boys, Lisa and her girls have a day of fun since I had commitment number 2 to tackle.

Since my kid sister Tammy is now a freshman in high school and that means schools dances to attend I had the fun task of getting her ready for homecoming. Normally Tammy is a tomboy and wants very little to do with being a girl, let alone a girly girl so I wasn't sure how this was going to go. We started our adventure by getting dress shoes and a haircut. Then came the fun part- deciding which dress to wear and how to do her hair. 4 dresses and an hour and half of putting curls in she was ready for the dance and I was ready for a nap. The next day report indicated a good time was had by her and her friends and the curls stayed in all night.

Sunday was our last commitment and involved lots of driving. Since Ben had shared the 8 hours of driving the day before and Odin had to be taken to Moses Lake to the Professional Handler who is showing him in 4 upcoming dog shows in Boise next weekend I took one for the team and headed over the mountain with both boys. 6+ hours later our adventure ended with one slightly confused Loki since he wasn't sure he liked not having his friend around the house to play with. Not sure how this week will go for him since he is used to being around Odin all the time but being on his own should be good for him since it will happen once in a while.

We did notice that after three months of having two dogs who like to wrestle nightly our house was very quite since Loki was content to sit in one of our laps while we watched football and relaxed before the start of another busy week.

Oh Loki!

Not sure what to say about this other than we're pretty sure that the toy box is not a Loki holder. Give him another week or two and he won't fit so easily.

Sibling Fun

We had a treat last weekend as our trainer Chris Tewes made the trek up to Scatter Creek to work with everyone and their dogs. Since Chris made the trip up to Washington everyone invited their fellow hunting friends and dogs to join us for the day. Ben and I have stayed in touch with Barbara, the breeder that we got Loki from and knowing that she is into hunting we invited her and the puppy she kept from the litter down for the day.

We hadn't seen any of the other puppies since we picked up Loki so it was a treat meeting and seeing Jake in over 2 months. Loki and Jake had a blast running in the field, playing with the other dogs when they could and of course doing what they do best- pointing or should I say chasing birds at this age.


From front to back- Jake, Odin, Loki and Lisa's friends German Shorthair