Easter Weekend

Our home was decorated with bunnies and chickens to prep for the Easter weekend. We didn't too much in terms of Easter celebration but we stayed busy, especially with family & friends.

This week Jason's older sister Jessica made a quick visit. Her and her boyfriend stayed over night and we enjoyed a nice breakfast at Old European. Needless to say this Easter Weekend probably put 5 pounds on Andrea and Jason managed to keep his consistent weight like usual. Just as they were heading out Andrea's parents came to visit for the weekend. They brought their dog, Kipper. Kipper doesn't really like anyone but the direct family but she is starting to warm up to her cousins Prada and Bentley. Kipper is an Australian Sheppard and has never been truly groomed so Andrea gave her a thorough hair cut. Although the hair cut looked really good you would have though Kipper was a black sheep from the behind.

Andrea and her mom did lots of shopping to celebrate Easter and splurge! Andrea bought some stuff for the puppies since their 1st birthday is coming up in less than a week. She also bought chairs for the deck for when it gets nice and sunny. Her favorite thing she bought this weekend were new shoes.

On Easter sunday we went out to Sellas for lunch. Then went home and watched TLC's Royal Wedding Week. As the royal wedding approaches Andrea is anxious to see Kate Middleton's dress mots of all.

That night we went down to our neighbors for more Easter celebration. We enjoyed an Easter ham, Easter trivia, dying eggs, and a board game. After dying the eggs we rolled them down the hill to see whose egg would win the race. Seems like a fun tradition even though neither Jason or Andrea won. Jason lost almost right away because his rolled and then broke. Andrea lost one egg in the sewer and her second egg was stuck in a crack.

Bentley night nighting at the end of the day...

It is back to work as we count down the days to the Royal Wedding and Prada and Bentley's 1st birthday which is May 1! It is deadweek for Jason as he prepares for finals and Andrea is staying busy at work helping students prepare for graduation and commencement.

Here are some videos of the Pomeranians at play...

Prada and Bentley play with the paper towel roll

Prada playing with the moving mouse toy

OUCH! Jason lost a bit of his finger!

It has been awhile since the last update. The last time we updated we were just beginning March Madness. Well it has been awhile since UConn won the championship so let's find out whose bracket won this year at the Butcherite house. In order of winner we have...

1.) Andrea

2.) Jason

3.) Prada &  Bentley

Although WSU didn't make it to March Madness we did pretty good in the NIT and made it to the final four. We went to a couple of the games. Although Andrea only made it to the game against Oklahoma. She got really sick in March and had to call in sick from work. Here we are at the WSU vs. Oklahoma game.

This last photo was taken on our TV at home (Jason records all the games) and we had really good seats so we watched the game to see if we made it on TV. If you look carefully you can see us... Andrea's blond hair stands out behind the lady with the white vest.

We also had lots of visits this week. Jason's mom and sister came up for a visit during their Spring break for fun. Stephanie, Andrea's sister flew over to Pullman to put extensions in Andrea's hair. For mom's weekend Andrea's mom came up to visit for a few days.

For mom's weekend Andrea still had to work her normal schedule so there wasn't too much to do on Thursday or Friday afternoon. We enjoyed eating out but the real fun came friday night at the WSU fashion show put on by the Apparel Merchanding department. That was really fun. The first part of the show had clothes made from recyclable material like plastic, soda lids, and even VHS film. The still looked amazing! After that was the themed projects from students.

Jason worked Friday and Saturday so it was mostly Andrea and her mom going out on the weekend. They also went to the Vet open house and got some free treats for the pups, they were happy about that. Than they went to the craft fair.

Jason was scheudled to work nearly 12 hours on Saturday it was so busy with the flood of moms. As night drew on he became a little more tired and I guess you could say careless because as he chopped up a chicken he sliced his finger. He took a good chuck of his finger and finger nail clean off. He was bleeding pretty bad and had to go to the emergnecy room where he got bandaged up and had to take Xrays.

Jason's finger the bowl

In the middle of the night the Pomeranians pulled his bandage off and dragged the bandage to the end of the bed.

Needless to say his finger hurts quite a bit. He has some pain medacine and his finger will take at least 6 weeks to heal.