Middleburg Christmas Parade

I haven't been very good about keeping the blog up to date.  Between a fabulous vacation at Disney World, a couple overnight trips for work, planning for an upcoming cruise, and all of the other parties and social events that go along with the holidays - there just aren't enough hours in the day!  I apologize for not making it around to most of your blogs lately, I barely have time to do my own it seems! 

Anyway, this year we walked in the Middleburg Christmas parade with VAGA and I just wanted to share some pictures.  We have never done this parade before and I really liked it!  It was very dog friendly with a lot of rescue groups in the parade and tons of dogs watching it too.  In fact, the paper said there were over 10,000 people at the parade this year!  That's pretty amazing for a small town!

We decorated the wagon and I pulled Lauren while Tracy walked the dogs.  We ended up having about 15 greyhounds walk with us.  Lauren waved to everyone along the whole parade route and we all had a great time.  It was during the day and the weather was great too!  You will notice, however, that our pups are almost the only ones not wearing coats - that's because Buford refuses to wear one and I forgot Puddin's!   

I thought we were going to be late meeting our group because we couldn't walk 20 feet without being stopped by someone who wanted to pet the dogs and learn about greyhounds :)  They were superstars! 

We had a pug when I was growing up and I thought this little guy was simply adorable!

Puddin was very brave - until the llama moved!

In other news, I just wanted to add that we got through the one year anniversary of losing Macy on December 17.  I still think of her so often and especially for the last couple of months when we would do certain things...like walking in the parade and going to SPCA to see Santa, for example.  Last year, we walked in the Fredericksburg Christmas parade and it ended up being the last time I got a picture of all three hounds together.  It was a tough day, but I kept myself very busy and am still so grateful that we had Macy in our lives for the time that we did!

I'm not sure if I ever posted this or not, but this is the proof of the granite memorial stone that we have where Macy is buried so I still get to see her sweet face every time we go outside.