Happy Halloween!

Overall, we had a fun halloween. We walked the dogs in the morning, it was a short one because of time pressures, but at least they did get out. Our cousins then came around in the afternoon, and the dogs were in the 'den' aka dog room, as Zoe is quite nervous around the dogs. We did some Halloween craft and then some of the children wanted to watch a spooky DVD, the annoying thing is the player is in the den, so I have to get the dogs out for them to do that and it means the dogs don't have a haven to get away from everyone.

They said hello to some of the visitors, but Cody was quite hyper so I decided to take them outside. We played with our new ball, a JW Hol-ee Roller, amazing toy!! Then we had a walk around the garden and did some training, practicing working with two dogs at once - leaving Cody or Amber in a stay whilst I work with the other dog. They love training time. By the time we were coming back inside, the movie had finished (it was quite a short one to be fair) so I put the dogs back in the den and fed them their dinner. 

The humans then ate and we carved our pumpkins, although we did it in a rush so they weren't as brilliant as they could have been! We did a Bernese Mountain Dog for one of them, just like last year - it was Cody's first Halloween, and being such a young puppy, he was in to chewing everything and ate the nose!! 

Later on in the evening, using my sisters 13 euro tiny barbecue, we made a bonfire to toast marshmallows. I kept burning mine, but it was fun! We started doing it last year, as we don't go trick or treating, so it's a fantastic way to celebrate Halloween. 

Then our cousins left, and we put the bonfire out. I let the dogs free and they sniffed around looking for crumbs from dinner. 

We are lucky that as we are out in the country, we don't get fireworks, which makes Halloween a lot less stressful! I don't know how our dogs would react to them, as they've never experienced them but it's a relief to not have to have that worry. We also haven't had trick or treaters for two years running, we keep the front of the house dark and don't put a pumpkin out. I wouldn't want people coming in dressed up and spooking out the dogs. 

I wanted to get a Halloween picture, but with the chaos yesterday I didn't get time, so here's this one instead!

Anna xoxo

P.S. Our cousins left yesterday to head back to England, so it's back to normal for us here! We did pop over yesterday again and went down to the beach, had a really windy walk but it was lovely.