1.10.2008

Christmas Race

Here is a little photo documentary on our annual Christmas competition: the race for the pickle ornament! It is a fierce and fast competition. What's at stake? A bonus prize and glory.

This was Shawn's first year as a competitor. He played well and demonstrated great effort. However, his weaknesses are sill evident. Here you can see that I nudged him out using tush defense.
High or low? Which way to go?

Since we switched to a fake tree, the competition difficulty and duration has greatly increased. The judges like to bend the branches and completely camouflage the pickle.

Complete possession must be demonstrated before a winner is declared. Here you can see my clean exit from the tree area and use of two hands for maximum stability.
Victory is mine!

4 comments:

Katy Shamitz said...

what's the prize? it looks like it must be good.

Grandma said...

I heard about the 2nd place prize not being too shabby!

Bahston Beans said...

Yeah, Mom rigs the competition so "we're all winners". Whatever! I crush the competition every year!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Kel!~ I'm already thinking about cool pickle prizes for next year! Mom