He’s not IN that crate on the left, but if he was you’d never see him with all those ribbons :)!

We went to a CPE trial this weekend, trying to get a little farther in Bryce and Jayda’s respective classes before July 1 when the titling requirements are changing.

All in all, it was a successful weekend. Bryce went in 1 Q short of 4 titles – we qualified in 5 out of 8 runs, finishing 3 of them! After a rocky start, Jayda pulled herself together and had some nice runs also, qualifying in 4 out of 7 (those are her ribbons on the right) and even qualifying the first time I ever ran her in the rain! (I think she sort of liked it – less worrisome activity around the outside of the ring!) We left before her last class on Sunday – I hated missing that class (jumpers) but the trial was running soooo slooooow and we still had a 2.5 hour drive ahead of us.

Saturday was “family day”. Jayda’s younger cousin Clipper (and his owner Pat) made a wonderful debut and Bryce’s litter brother Grady came along for the ride. Jayda’s breeder Toni Mapes came to the trial bringing Bryce’s great-grandniece Mira along for socialization. It was great seeing them all! After the trial Saturday we all went back to Pat’s (where we were staying overnight) for some pizza, cupcakes (in honor of Jayda’s 3rd birthday Sunday) and sheltie entertainment – a grand total of 7 little pointy noses! Since we always commute to trials, this was Bryce and Jayda’s first sleepover. Jayda slept like a log and was a reasonably polite houseguest (other than using her impressive height to go around the table examining everyone’s plates, and later deciding that one of Pat’s dogs was the first dog she ever met that she didn’t like – sorry, Risk!). OTOH, Bryce was feeling restless and talkative and made little “Hmph…. mmph … hmph…” noises all night long – neither of us got much sleep but at least they were QUIET “Hmph … mmph … hmph …” noises so our poor hosts fared somewhat better!

I’m hoping for some good pictures from the weekend, will post a link after the photographer posts them on his site!