Chrissy takes on the Honkers!

WE PACKED THE PARK!

Not an empty seat in the house!

One of my duties at the fortune 500 financial company is to be the event planner for Honkers event. We bought out the park and invited members and non members and asked them to donate a non perishable food item in exchange for their free ticket. We collected over 800 pounds of food and over $2,ooo was also donated to the food shelf that night.

My niece Chrissy was visiting and she got the opportunity to participate in one of the between inning games:

The objective of the game was for Chrissy to use the sling shot to shoot water balloons from 2nd base to the base board at the back of center field. You can see in the back ground the companies that paid for advertising on that base board. Chrissy had to hit the Perkin's advertisement (which is not in the photo). Chrissy came extremely close a couple of times. I couldn't see everything that was going on but by the reaction of the crowd I could tell she came extremely close.

Even Slammer, the Honkers mascot, thinks she's a winner!

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Petit tried grooming himself!

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While my neice was visiting us, Petit decided that he wanted to groom himself instead of waiting for us to do it....

At first I didn't see it but I heard an odd thumping noise as Petit was running down the steps..... apparently he got into Chrissy's room and found her hair brush!

Here's a side view that will offer a better perspective of what Petit got himself into :)

It was actually not as bad as it looks. It came out pretty easily. However, I was concerned that we would have to buzz cut Petit's tail!

Petit, we know you are a dog of many talents but how about you leave the grooming to Frenchie and me!

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Petit and Blanche's Perfect 10!

Here she goes. Looks great. The position of the paws are perfect, the ears at the proper flight position, and she is ready to leap over the hurdle...will she make it?????

Look at that body posistioning! As long as she can stick the landing....

Her front paws have touched the ground and it is all over folks! Blanche wins the women's event!

Now over to Petit for the men's event....

Now he takes on a much different approach. Instead of using the angles approach to go over the hurdle Petit jumps staight up and over. Will this technique pay off for him? We will find out!

UNBELIEVABLE! The technique works! Petit wins his perfect 10!

Thats the end folks! Petit and Blanche have trained hard (a whole 5 minutes before we took the photos) and have many people to thank for their support (ok really just mom and dad for teasing them with the treats). We asked if Petit and Blanche will be around for the 2012 olympics and they both said they will continue to train and see what the next 4 years will bring. Petit expressed some interesting in getting back into the "stud" business and Blanche wants to continue searching for the squeeker in her toys and is not sure if she will have time to do both. :)

Petit and Blanche Go for the Gold!

All summer I have wanted to set up some sort of agility course for Petit and Blanche and last week we finally started :) We found that the hurdles we made took less than 5 minutes to make and cost less than $3.00 compared to the $30 hurdles from eBay and other websites we checked out. We are now planning for the next part of the agility course...more to come :)