The Picassa-less part of graduation

So I've wanted to share these photos from my graduation trip but I've been super busy so here ya go.

Me and Amanda with Snickers and Breeze left for graduation on Friday morning and drove home on Sunday. In a three day span we spent about 32 hours in the car. It was a fantastic trip though and totally worth it. The pups behaved themselves beautifully. And, Oregon is gorgeous so we got a little bit of touristing into our busy schedule. Anyway, here are photos from Breeze and Snickers part of the graduation trip.

Snickers using Breeze as a pillow in the car. The pups did some rough housing in the car but most of the time they slept or chewed on bones.

Breeze using my suitcase as a pillow.

After we arrived in Oregon we took the dogs for a walk and it was so gorgeous and green. There were some really cool plants and moss growing from absolutely everything. I loved it. Unfortunately there are no pictures because I left my camera in the car. :( But, it was a lazy night after that. I did homework and Amanda graded papers and then we headed to bed, and yes we are super cool people. :) The next morning was graduation, so it consisted of getting ready. We got to campus and had to drop the pups off in the kennels. Snickers was super popular on campus, everyone asked if he was. . . the chocolate. LOL, he got lots of pets and attention and he just soaked it up and was on his best behavior. He got to meet his big sister Picassa again and was so very excited to see her. After all that craziness me and Amanda were starving so we went to Olive Garden for some Lunch/Dinner and the dogs were perfect!

Breeze sitting in the waiting area of the restaurant.

Snickers in the waiting area.

Snickers snoozing away on the floor while we ate.

Breeze sleeping in the restaurant.

Since we still had a lot of the afternoon left we asked our waitress if there was anything close by that was a good tourist attraction. She told us about some winery's so we decided to do that. Well, on the way we got lost but we found some cool views so stopped for pictures. :)

Me and Snickers above a very large river. It was pretty gloomy but I like the picture anyway. :)

Snickers with the river and evergreens behind him.

Breeze with the river and trees behind her. The sky kept getting scarier and scarier.

Right after that picture it started hailing and raining really hard so we ran to the car. While in there a rainbow developed and we could see the whole thing. It was awesome!
We decided to chase the rainbow for a photo opportunity so jumped in the car and sped away. (You know your a puppy raiser when. . .) Anyway, we found the end as it was disappearing so quickly took photo's of both dogs. I love this picture!!! (It's the one I sent in for the GDB 2012 Calendar)

Breeze in front of the rainbow.

The valley below where we had parked. I LOVE OREGON!

We managed to find our way home and let the dogs blow off some steam by playing a short game of chase.

Then it was dinner time! Snickers waiting so patiently for his dinner to be poured.

Snickers inhaling his food. It kinda looks like he is vomiting but he's eating I promise.

Then more homework and grading papers and then bed. We left early Sunday morning to head home but on the way we couldn't resist hiking up Multnomah Falls. It's gorgeous!

Snickers and I in front of the Multnomah Falls sign.

Amanda and Breeze in front of the sign.

Snickers posing in front of the lower falls.

Breeze in front of the lower falls. This picture turned out so good of her. She's a cutie!

Me and Snickers walking up the trail.

BEAUTIFUL!!!

Snickers and Breeze half way up the upper falls.

That's the last picture of the trip. The dogs were perfect traveling companions and the trip was amazing! I loved every second of it.

Catch Up Post #4-Puppy Sitting Breeze

Over the weekend me and my roommate got to puppy sit Breeze. She is a ten week old puppy and we loved having her. She was wonderful! Picassa was so gentle with her it was really cute. Since I have been having major puppy withdrawals lately I was more than happy for the puppy fix. I took a ridiculous amount of pictures of her so here are a few:

[Breeze lounging across Gabby's lap on the way home. She is such a calm puppy.]
[Breeze with her mouth open wide over a wishbone.]
[Breeze with a bone sticking straight out from her mouth, I thought it kinda looked like a cigar or something.]

[Breeze helping me put together our new bookshelf. She is laying down on one of the shelves. It a really neat bookshelf too, it has Shakespeare quotes written in green all over it.]

[Breeze's cute puppy yawn.]

[Breeze looking down at the camera with her ears flapping out and her tongue out a little bit.]

[Me holding cute little breeze.]

[Breeze standing while on tie-down. She wasn't thrilled with the tie-down but she got used to it fast.]

It was a good excuse to get all my baby puppy toys out. They are pretty neglected since I haven't had a puppy in quite a while, Breeze loved all the toys.

[Breeze sniffing the pile of baby toys, trying to pick the perfect one.]

[Breeze chewing on her favorite one, the baby Galileo bone.]

[Breeze chewing a little Nylabone. I love that it is sticking out both sides of her mouth.]

[Breeze liked to sleep upside down and against the wall. What a cutie.]

[Breeze using her green fleece toy as a pillow.]

[I was so impressed with her 'wait'. She did really well waiting for her food.]

What a good puppy she was. We didn't want to give her back, and she is welcome back anytime.

New Puppies!!

Me and Paris went up to the puppy truck today to see all of the new puppies come off. They are all so cute and making me miss puppies, it's been a long time. We got two new puppies in our club today (and two more coming on Sunday one of which is mine. ;) FYI: Yes, I do know about my new puppy but I am going to be horrible and make y'all wait until I get him/her. Evil I know, only two more days though. :)

The first new puppy to our club is a female yellow lab named Breeze. I love the name! Her parents are Piedmont and Geraldine. She is a really light almost white color with such a wrinkly little face.

[One of Breezes raisers give her a hug at the puppy truck.]
The other is Jacinda. . . still can't quite get my tongue wrapped around that name but at least she is cute. Her parents are Simon and Elsa. She is a little black lab.
The rest are just random pictures from the truck.

[Me, Paris, Becky, Sarah, and Rafferty in front of the truck. This is a fun picture because it is Sarah's 3rd, 4th, and 5th puppies all in one place.]

[Paris says hello to little Jacinda.]
[Paris, Becky, and Rafferty laying in some grass.]
[Jacinda asleep in the car. Her head is kinda wedged so all her skin is pulled over her face giving her wrinkles galore.]
Tomorrow is Paris' last puppy class and so I made cupcakes to take for everyone. (I love how the first thing my family asked when they saw me making cupcakes was "Are they dog cupcakes or human cupcakes." ha ha ha, shows how I never cook!) I have really shown my club my nerdy side this year so, why not go out with a bang? LOL Anyway, I love how the cupcakes turned out, they are so awesome. I spelled out "Good Luck Paris" on the cupcakes, each cupcake has one letter on it and then there are four cupcakes with big paw prints on them. I am kinda ridiculously proud of them. YAY ME!
Only 2 days left with the Paris. . .