Happy (belated) Valentines Day

I meant to post this earlier, but I just got these pictures from Brent the other day (actually I stole them from his facebook ... shhh, don't tell)  This year for Valentines day Chris and I went to a Stampede hockey game with our friends Brent and Laura.  Sound familiar?  Well, we did the same thing last year.  Except without B & L.  We love the Valentines game because they always play Green Bay (my home town) and they always have weiner dog races that weekend!  Yep, 30 little weinies scrambling across the ice as their owners shout and wave their favorite toy, bone, snack or whatever to get them to run in the right direction and faster than any other dog.  Sound like madness?  Yep it is.  And this year, we joined in. 

We actually entered Charlie in the weiner dog race and we had a blast!  You'll notice Chris holding our feather duster.  On a typical day, Charlie LOVES that thing.  But because of all the people and noise he was too freaked out to care about it.  We thought our chances of winning were shot.  But when we lined up on the ice I just asked Charlie if he wanted to GO in the CAR, and he was like "YES, GET ME OUTTA HERE!" and he ran straight to the other end of the ice!  He ended up taking 2nd place!!!  Not too bad for a rookie if you ask me.  We had some good laughs and Charlie was just happy to go home!

So if you're looking for a fun thing to do on Valentines next year, skip the flowers and romantic dinner and go watch some guys get punched in the face and weiners dog run across ice.  Yep, that says love right there.

  Coming onto the ice.

Brent got some great photos with his paparazzi lens!  He and Laura were sitting quite a ways up.

The poor dog just wanted to go home!

And here's the guy getting punched in the face.  Too bad it was the Stampede guy taking the blow.