I would like to thank all the hard working members of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Club for their wonderful hospitality this past weekend. Except for Saturdays weather, it was a great weekend, you all did an awesome job. Friday was one of those days I will always remember. My little homebred girl "Kia" (Joelle's Aramist Tanbark's Kia) owned by myself & good friends Amy Hubbard & Tiffany Bartley, gaited her little heart out with Jeff Pyle on the lead. They are an awesome team and she won a very deep American Bred class. When going back into winners, we had another flawless performance and she ended up going Reserve Winners Bitch. That win gave her a Major Reserve (I believe it was 5 points) which allowed her mother, Aramists BlingBling v Joelle, to accomplish her ROM requirements (pending Parent Club confirmation). BlingBling is my first ROM, so this is very exciting. She came into my life so unexpected and has given me these beautiful children, needless to say she is very special. I will never be able to say thank you enough to Tiffany, Joann, Leslie & Donna for giving me this awesome girl. Thanks Ladies, you know I mean that from the very bottom of my heart. I would like to thank Sally Hayden for an outstanding job judging, it looked like Sally was having fun and there were some great dogs for her to judge. The 12-18 bitch that beat Kia in Winners was absolutely stunning, huge congrats to Joe & Leslie Beccia and Paula Conclioni (I know I mispelled that, sorry Paula, I do not have the catalog in front of me). She is one of the most beautiful sables I've seen, she also went Reserve Futurity Bitch on Sunday, wow, what a super nice girl! So many nice dogs and their wins, this email would read like a book if I listed all of them, suffice it to say, congrats to all the winners! Then on Saturday under DD Ardoin, Kia again won the American Bred Class. She really did not like the rain and poor Jeff had his work cut out for him. She always has hated the standing & stacking thing, and then throw in some rain on top of that, needless to say she was being a pill when DD wanted to look at her. But she still gaited her way to the front of the class, thank you so much DD for seeing past her antics and giving her the class win, as said before, this was a very quality filled class. I would like to thank Tiffany Bartley for loving and training Kia and turning our wild silly blond into a beautiful Lady! Jeff Pyle, you make her look like she's been doing this for years instead of just a few week ends out, she looks awesome with you! Last but not least, Amy, for taking my word and believing the "ugly duckling" could truly become a swan. Sorry this was so long, it was a fun weekend and prooves once again that dog showing can be fun!!!! Chris Chris S. (Jolley) Kimerer www.tanbarkgsd.com Ch. Tanbark's 2MuchBling Joelle Aramist OFA H/E Ch. Trotwood's Emerald v Tanbark Joelle Aramist AOE Sel.Ex.Ch.Carousel Farms Samantha, PT, TC OFA H/E Ch. CaralonQED JD Drew Bleibtreu, RN OFA H/E Ch. Cresther's Blast of Kenlyn, HI, CDX, OFA ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================