Memorial Weekend

Happy Memorial Weekend

This week as we prepared for memorial weekend there was plently for the puppies to like and dislike about the week.

Prada and Bentley discorvered they loved ice. Bobbing for ice in water, playing with ice, and licking ice like it is a puppy popcicle.

They disliked Victoria's Secret:

For memorial weekend we went to the west side with the pups to visit family. We had plently pros and cons for the 3 day weekend:

PROS:

* Bentley did not throw up in the car

* We realized Bentley is a lot like his daddy

* We got to see family and friends

* Went to the farmers market, Prada made a friend.

* Shopped, Shopped, and shopped!
Andrea got 6 shirts, 4 jeans, 2 shorts, 2 sandals, and 1 dress. Jason bought 2 shirts, 2 jeans, and 2 shorts.

* Went to Olive Garden, Red Robin, Pizza, and Arby's...

* Jason golfed while Andrea did some more shopping

* Prada and Bentley got new toys

* Prada looks good in Sunglasses

* Bentley and Prada had fun getting dirty.

* Prada and Bentley could run around the backyard.

* Prada and Bentley slept the entire way home.



CONS:

* Prada got sick in the car half way to the west side.

* The ride was 5 hours and about $60 gas one way

* Prada and Bentley did not like us shopping, they whined when we left.

* Prada and Bentley had to be cleaned after getting dirty

* Prada would wake up wanting to play at 5 AM

By the end of the trip Prada and Bentley were ready to go home.

The weekend went by quick but Prada and Bentley seemed happy to head home and relax. Time for work and school again!

Andrea's Birthday

Andrea's birthday was May 18th and all day long she was treated like a princess. When she got to work there was a cute little sign on her computer that said "Princess + Cake = Princess Andrea's Birthday!". Her work loves to celebrate everything and there is always food and cake to celebrate with. So at 10:00 in the morning they started the celebration at work. The back room had princess decoration and the first thing you noticed when you stepped in the back was the bright pink cake which had a wearable princess crown and septer. There was a princess bag and inside it was another princess crown. Her coworkers like to joke that she is a princess.

At lunch time Jason came to pick her up from work to go to lunch. He had a huge balloon that said Happy Birthday and a dozen roses. At this point you couldn't step past Andrea's desk without realizing it was her birthday.

 After all that rain last week it warmed up for her birthday and we got to enjoy the sun.

After dropping Andrea off at work from lunch Jason had to take the dogs down to the groomers for an appointment to get their hair cut.

BEFORE

We asked for them to look like little lions for their summer hair cut.

... and After:

Miss Prada's hair cut

and Bentley's

Jason brought the poms in to work to show off their new look. When Andrea got home there were cute little cupcakes and more flowers at the door.

We typically just have one big birthday dinner in the middle of our birthday since Jason's is April 12 and they are pretty close. So we already went out for our birthday dinner at Sangria's in Moscow. Andrea ordered a steak and Jason got Salmon. We ordered out pizza on Andrea's birthday though for fun. Afterwards we decided to take the dogs on a walk around the park. They got to chase ducks and see llamas! Prada was pretty emabarrased about her new hair cut and didn't really care for walking, she preferred sitting so that no one would see her near nakedness.

By the time we got home the neighbors came up to surprise Andrea with more cake. This one wasn't pink but was a  delicious ice cream cake. That wrapped up Andrea's 24th birthday!

The rest of the week we plan to finish the ice cream cake and relax, no big plans. Jason will be working on homework since he is doing summer school. He has two courses for this Summer term session- Spanish and Economics. He enjoys the Spanish class because it mostly focuses on translation. The economics class is harder than he expected. Andrea is just busy with work and clearing the graduate students degrees for May 2011.

Royal Wishes and Birthday Celebrations!

As everyone knows, Friday was the Royal Wedding. Andrea watched the wedding with her friend Emily. Everything was beautiful except Beatrice's pink bow hat. Andrea loved Princess Catherine's wedding dress. Maybe we should have a for fun wedding reception so we can all dress up again and Andrea can wear a knock off dress.

Most of this week was all wedding hype but at the Butcherite house it was also busy as we prepared for Prada and Bentley's first birthday! Today they are officially adults, although they may not act like it they are big kids now! We had a little dog party for them and we invited their doggie friends like Elwood, and our neighbors dogs (Buster, Bell, and Sage).

For the puppies we made doggy muffins from scratch. Andrea got the recipe from Emily. It was mostly made from wheat flour, honey, mash banana's, and carrots with some seasoning like cinnamon and such. All the puppies enjoyed it and got to take some home after the party.

We also celebrated the doggies party by having lots of munchies. We had chicken/pineapple kabobs, hot dogs, fruit salad, broccolli salad, and rolls. For dessert we had angel food cake since the pups are our little angels

They got a new toy from us and Elwood spoiled them. Elwood gave Prada and Bentley each a new bone, a bag of treats, and 4 new squeaky toys.

After the party was over we let the puppies take us on a walk so they could go wherever they wanted on their birthday. They ended up taking us on a loop that ended at the dog park. Since there were no dogs at the dog park we closed it off and let them run around and play together for the first time. They had a lot of a fun and Prada can show that off because she got muddy paws there. After cleaning her paws off and relaxing at home they enjoyed the day out on the deck chewing their new bone. Today was a good day not only because of the birthday but it was a nice sunny day to sit outside on the deck with the pomeranians.

By the end of the night the poms were pooped...

Tomorow is the beginning of finals week. Jason's last final is friday and then we goes immediately into summer session.

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.