Luke is four years old now! It's hard to believe that his birthday is actually January 1st, but considering he was surrendered to the Humane Society as a puppy by the people who bred him, you wouldn't think they'd lie. If it's true, it's pretty cool to have a New Years puppy! Plus it makes remembering his birthday really easy. 
We've been busy since I last posted! Luke is enjoying the added exercise in his life! We've been playing lots of frisbee in the snow, which he LOVES -- but he gets upset when I throw it low and duff it in the snow so that he can't jump up and catch it. Maybe some day I'll let him go back to his spectacular leaps, but I'd like to keep him in one piece for a bit longer. I'm hoping to get him in for a chiropractic appointment soon to see how things are going.
Luke spent New Years Eve at Grandma & Grandpa's, as I didn't know when/if I'd be coming home. It turns out that G&G were party animals this year and Luke had to ring in the new year alone (although he enjoyed sleeping on their couch!), as they didn't get home until 2 a.m.
He had a fun birthday morning of sledding with his "cousins" (my nephews) and by the time I got up to my parent's house he was wiped out! We just hung out there for a few hours and then Luke got to come to the barn to help out with chores. It was a pretty fun birthday for him and by the time we got home at 5:30 he was pretty tired and ended up crashing on the couch for the remainder of the night.
Life returns to normal now that the holidays are done. Agility classes start up again next week and I imagine that I'll run Luke through some of the exercises. I'm teaching the beginner class at 6:00 and then there is a "fun agility" class that follows it -- the fun agility is supposed to just be course running, so that will give us some nice practice time.
Our next trial is at the end of this month and I've got Luke entered in Open Proficient 20" in everything, so we need to start practicing the 20" jumps again! If Luke seems comfortable at this next trial we'll be able to move up to Elite in some of our classes and start working towards our NATCH.