So much has happened over the past few months, since I wrote our last entry! Unfortunately I have no Nationals or Regionals show photos to add at this time because the show photographer skipped out half-way through the event and will not return anybody's contact attempts. Unbelievable and so very disappointing.
Cassie, BPIS BIS AKC/CKC Ch Spiritrun's Singular Sensation, wrapped-up a very successful year by attending the Eukanuba National Championships with me in Orlando Florida, just before Christmas. We exhibited over the course of four days as three Orlando area kennel clubs hosted all-breed dog shows there as well. She was in very good company with exceptional "bitch specials" to compete against. It was nice to see that each day, a different, yet equally deserving bitch won Best of Opposite Sex. Cassie was one of them. It is nice to compete in good company with healthy competition. We are very proud of her showing -- beautiful as always.
Cassie, Shelby, Spiritrun's Cool Ride, and I reluctantly travelled to the Elora gorge shows between Christmas and New Years. Though I dislike showing that week, the turnout was amazing. Cassie won 2x best of Opposite and 1x Best of Breed. Shelby won a Reserve Winners Bitch and a Best of Winners for her first points. Both girls show great!
Cassie put a wrap on her 2011 run as #4 overall Alaskan Malamute and #1 Alaskan Malamute Bitch for 2011. Not bad for a veteran! We have received confirmation that her entries made it into Westminster again, so we will be in NYC for that prestigious event in February of 2012. We are very excited about that! Please, Cassie, hold coat!
Our family enjoyed a lovely holiday season -- we wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
Our first sledding event of the year had to be cancelled due to lack of adequate snow and trail conditions. This as been a strange winter, to say the least. Today is brilliant, sunny, crisp and white, while tomorrow calls for warmer temperatures and rain.  
Ah well....Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.  ~John Ruskin

Cassie, BPIS BIS A/C CH Spiritrun's Singular Sensation, has had a great couple of weekends this September since emerging back on the scene after her summer off. At the Sudbury Shows she won two Group 1sts, under judges Mike Jackman and Anna Hewson, a Group 2nd under judge Fred Gordon and a Group 3rd under judge Richard Lake. The nest weekend out we were at the Burlington Kennel Club shows and she won a Group 2nd under Donna Conod, a Group 1st under Cheryl Myers-Egerton and another Group 1st under Jacqueline Rusby. She then went on to win....BEST IN SHOW...September 25, 2011...under judge Cheryl Myers-Egerton. We cannot express how thrilled we are that this singleton puppy has blossomed into everything a breeder could dream of. She is certainly following in her father's footsteps (the multi BIS BISS A/C GCH Spiritrun Marlaynes Tobe Tyler). GIRL POWER!!!! (photos to come)