A lot has happened in 10 days!

Wow, a lot can happen in 10 days! Since my last post I met up with my bestest girlfriends and celebrated the birthday of our wonderful friend Debs (along with some of her family). Her birthday get-together never seems to go well and this year wasn't any different. :-) We planned on going to the Wine & Cheese Gallery...when we've gone before they've started serving in the restaurant at 11:00am. Their website says that they open at 11:00 and the sign on their door says 11:00am but when we got there they told us that they didn't open the restaurant until noon. Ugh. Whatever, we weren't going to wait there for an hour so we went to another restaurant that was pretty close. There we had a great lunch and time to sit and chat. After lunch was over her parents and grandmother left and we went over to a little coffee/tea place and had some delicious dessert. Instead of coffee or tea, though, we had some drinking chocolates...they were soooo yummy!

Then on the 22nd it was Ryan's birthday!! His birthday was also Take Your Daughter to Work Day so Libby got to go to work with him and she learned how to be a banker. :-) She had a lot of fun at work with him. Thursday night we had sushi (Ryan's favorite), cake and ice cream, and then it was time for the birthday boy to open his presents. :-) He got exactly what he wanted (he always does!).

Today Ryan, Libby, and I met his parents for lunch to celebrate Ryan and his mom's birthdays. His mom's birthday is April 17 and Ryan is the 22nd so we always do a combination birthday get together for the two of them. After lunch and the exchanging of gifts we stopped at PetSmart to look for a seat belt for Denali for when he's in the car because he's way too big to sit in our laps anymore. He needs to sit in his own seat with his own seatbelt. We walked in there and ended up walking out with this:

Our newest addition to our growing family. :-) Bella is an adorable 8 week old labrador mix puppy. She is so stinking cute. She's so sweet and so laid back (hopefully she stays that way!!). We adopted her and got her a pink collar with rhinestones and a pink leash (and had them put pink bows on her ears) :-) and we were on our way home. We were wondering what Denali would think of her and how he'd react because he's been the center of everyone's attention since he came home the last weekend of January. He loved her right away! They started giving each other kisses right away. They became instant best friends!! Whew! He even once helped us in starting to train her...she started nibbling on the carpet (which Denali learned his lesson about!!!) and he walked over and literally gave her a tap on the nose with his paw!!!! If Denali starts walking somewhere she gets up and waddles (hee hee, Karen, that just made me think of you!!) :-) after him. If she gets up and starts wandering off Denali jumps up and runs after her to see what she is getting in to. He's been playing very well with her and he's even sharing his bones and toys with her! He's a great big brother (and she's a seriously cute little sister!!) :-) Ok, two puppies, two cats, and one fish...we are DONE! :-)