Happy Mother's Day!

Today was a wonderful Mother's Day! But before I start with today let me do a very brief recap of my last two weeks. We've had Miss Bella for two weeks now...she is the cutest thing ever but she is such a little spoiled brat! It is hilarious to watch her play with Denali and to watch them wrestle for a bone. Last weekend there was an incident between Denali and Bella. They always play and wrestle and play tug-of-war but last Saturday morning at about 4:00am is when the "incident" happened. We were sleeping so we can't be sure but based on their behavior every other minute during the last two weeks that we've had Bella we came to the conclusion that Denali and Bella were wrestling by our bed and Denali caught Bella's ear as they were playing and he either shook her head or she jerked back but he got her pretty good. She started yelping and I shot up out of bed and it took a minute to get Denali to get off of Bella and Ryan immediately took Denali out to the back yard so that we could find out what happened to Bella. I look down at the carpet and notice that it is now dotted with blood and I look up and Bella comes running around the corner back into our room and she's covered in blood. Ryan takes Bella in to start cleaning her up and I start working on trying to get the blood out of the carpet (something I wasn't able to completely do). Ryan finally finds that it was Bella's ear that got hurt. Once he finally got the bleeding to stop she bounced right back and was ready to start playing again. She is such a little trooper! So, we get her cleaned up and put her in her kennel to keep her safe for the rest of the night while we slept. Denali was brought in from outside and he was put in his kennel to sleep because I was furious at him for hutting our baby girl. We walk back into our room and Ryan picks up his shirt from off the floor that was near the scene of the crime and he loudly gasps. I ask him what is wrong and he shows me....the piece of Bella's ear that Denali ripped off! OMG! Later when Ryan took her to the vet they said there wasn't anything they could do and that it was healing nicely so to just keep an eye on it. :-( My poor cute baby Bella!

Later that day my friend Karen and I went to Jacksonville and met up with our friends Debs and Jan and we went to an arts market by the river and we went to an antique mall before we went to have tea. It was a wonderful day spent with wonderful friends. It was such a fun day and we laughed all day long...I love getting together with those girls! :-)

From there I'll fast foward to this weekend since nothing big or exciting happened during the week. Friday night we went to the Relay for Life and spent four hours out there selling hot dogs, popcorn, and sodas for Capital City Bank's booth to raise money for cancer research and Libby and I walked several miles around the track to get points for the Capital City Bank team. It was a busy but fun night. Saturday afternoon I took Libby in to get her pictures taken since I decided to skip out on her end of the school year school photos at school. This morning I received my 20 Mother's Day cards from Libby :-) and my Mother's Day gift and she and Ryan made me chocolate chip pancakes. :-) We went to church with Ryan's parents and then went out to lunch with them. We came home and enjoyed a nice afternoon relaxing at home. It was a wonderful Mother's Day!

Here are some pictures from my day today: