It's Summertime

I find it amazing and also a little scary how fast time goes by. I swear I was just here, preparing for summer and wrapping up the last few swim meets. And I was, only it was a year ago!

Emma graduated from Kindergarten this morning, I can't believe that my two kiddos will be be in 1st and 2nd grade next year...

Here are a couple of pics of my little octopus (who happened to win the "most likely to be a supermodel" award, not sure whether to be happy or scared about that!)

Riley also had his end of year ceremony yesterday, him and his friend Kira have grown so much since they started out together in Kindergarten last year...

In other news, swimteam is going AWESOME! My little otters are proving to be quite the swimmers and I am so proud of their improvements in the last meet!

And finally last but not least...in the latest edition of the Bella Chronicles, or should I say the "Bad Bella" chronicles. She is growing quite comfortable with herself and loves to get in to all kinds of mischief. From playing attack the cat to finding out what is in the BOTTOM of the trash can to chasing the kids while they run screaming for dear life, she is a constant source of energy and flying fur. However, it's hard to get too angry with her, after all....she is such an angel!

Marley moments...

Ok, since there is always so much to talk about, I have decided it is best that my person just does all the writing....!


Let's see, where do I start...seeing that I let too much time get by since my last post I guess I will start with Saturday morning. We were up early, the kids had their first swim meet which I naturally forgot to bring my camera so I don't have any pictures! As we were running around the house trying desperately to get out the door and to the pool by 7am, Bella in her "curiosity is going to kill the cat" mode was tormenting George, chasing him all over the house. I was in the middle of trying to catch her to put her in her "house" when I heard a yowl from the cat and then a yipe from Bella...I looked under my bed and discovered a tear in the bottom of the boxspring....I am sure you can figure out the rest. Yep, both cat AND dog were now trying to kill each other INSIDE my mattress.....if this didn't qualify as a Marley Moment, I'm not sure what does. After much coaxing, by myself, Tyler and the kids we were finally able to get her down. Needless to say I got the kids to the meet 15 minutes late! UGH! I can say that Riley did amazing and I am so proud of Emma, she is such a little noodle but she managed to boogie her little booty down the pool!


Sunday was Mother's Day. The highlight of my entire day has to be when my sweet, precious, awesome little boy decided to make me breakfast. It went something like this....
Around 7am Riley came in asking where the butter was, I figured he was making toast or something so I just said somewhere in the fridge and closed my eyes to sleep some more....15 minutes go by and he comes back in, still looking for butter, I told him we must be out and he said he HAD to have it because the recipe needed it. This definitely got my attention. I asked him what he was doing and he informed me he had googled scrambled eggs and was making me eggies for Mothers Day....be still my heart, it is really impossible to get even slightly upset even after finding out he had used 6 eggs, ALL of the milk (because he didn't know how much a tablespoon was) and then had put it all in a metal BOWL on top of the burner....we did have to talk to him about using the stove without an adult though! I had to get a picture of this....

Ok, back to Bella. She is 9 weeks now! Her blue eyes are almost completely green now and she is definitely giving me a challenge! I forgot how much work puppies really are! She is right around 16 pounds...pretty soon there will be no more carrying her around. Baxter came by to visit Sunday afternoon. He is getting so big and is SO cute...

For some reason, Bella has decided that Baxter is the enemy...here are some hilarious pictures of my vicious puppy standing her ground when she is confronted by the "BIG BAD BAXTER"...

Oh well, I guess we are going to have to work on that relationship....

Bella is still trying to snag whatever food she can, she eats and eats and eats....then still wants to eat more. Yesterday she actually took Riley's Oreo Cookie shake and managed to finish at least half of it. Not sure she learned her lesson though, even after her little tummy was making the loudest noises all night! This morning she tried to get to the table to steal my toast......time for some manner lessons!

The antler training is going great, Bella loves her toy and has started retrieving! Hopefully will be able to get the Texas chapter of Antler Dogs started soon....

My photo shoot with Seth

Today I went and had my pictures taken, my next door neighbor Seth came along to jump in with me on some of them. It was alot of hard work, we had to walk around and find all the right spots. I got really tired and my people had to carry me....it's really tough to be such a cute, good looking puppy!

Just to show everyone how big I am getting...here is a picture of my Aunt Kelsey, she's trying to hold me like she did the first day I came home....if you can't remember, check out the picture below in the first post!!!

Oh and by the way, everyone kept talking about some graduation thing and said that was why Seth was in the pictures....Happy Graduation Seth!!!

MMMMM....People food!!!!

Dog food is for the dogs! I have discovered that if I sit close enough to Emma and Riley and wait till just...the....right....moment.....!!!! Scraps!!!! MMMMM! So far I have managed to snag pizza and french fries! And today I knocked Emma's milkshake out of her hand and that was so much better than plain ole' water! I can't wait to find out what they are eating tonight!!!

Whew, it's been a busy week!

Wow, my first week has been so much fun here! I've got a lot to share with everyone! I got to meet a new friend last Friday, his name is Baxter, he's a little older than me AND a little bit bigger but I wasn't scared...he might have been though! :)

I was taking Baxter for a walk!

Meeting my big brother, Remi, was a whole different story! WOW! He is really big!!! I really enjoy playing with him, but getting swiped across the room with one paw isn't so much fun! I also learned not to try and sneak any crumbs from him either! I think he tried to eat me!!!!! I ran and hid under my mommy's bed until I thought it was safe to come back out!

On Monday I got to go to the doctors for a puppy check up! I weighed a whole 9 LBS!!!! I got a clean bill of health, however I didn't really like what the doctor was doing and I kinda nipped her nose when she tried to kiss me...guess I showed her who was boss!

There is a cat in the house where I live, my people call him George...I call him FUN! I love to sneak up and pounce on him or chase him through the house. He thinks he's being tough when he hisses and meows at me, but I think he knows that he is in a losing situation! I will soon be MUCH bigger than him!

I'm growing more and more everyday. I am also pretty smart, I've already got that whole sit thing down! Playing with Riley and Emma is also alot of fun...I'm going to figure out how to get on the couch and bed pretty soon and then they will never be able to escape!

That's about it for now, tomorrow I get to go to a triathalon, whatever that is...it should be a fun day...look for pictures!

Hi everyone, let me introduce myself. My name is Remington's Sterling Cabela....but you can just call me Bella. It's a lot easier to remember! Anyway, I just came to live with my human family 2 days ago and already have so much to talk about!

Before I came to live with my mom and dad and my brother and sister, I lived in Huntsville where I was born to my dog mom Salt, I had 3 other sisters and 5 brothers! Boy did we keep my mommy busy! My humans there took such good care of us and all the dogs that lived at the Ducks in A Row kennels...if you ever want someone like me, I suggest you go look there first!

Thursday April 23rd was a BIG day for me and 2 of my brothers! First of all it was our 6 week birthday so we were feeling pretty important! Also, we were on our first big adventure on our way to live with our forever families! My adventure wasn't as big as my brothers they were getting on something called an airplane and flying (and I always thought birds were the only ones who could fly!?) to North Carolina where they were going to live. I was so excited and also a little scared...what was it going to be like where I was going? Finally after meeting my new family in Livingston I was on my way to my new home...here are a few pictures of us!

This is my human sister Emma....she is awesome and SO much fun to chase!!!

This is me and my new human mom, I have a feeling I'm going to be good and spoiled!

This is my Aunt Kelsey, she came also to pick me up and takes care of me when my mommy has to leave.

After I got to my new home, I was pretty tired and slept alot. I needed to build up some more energy to keep up with my brother Riley and sister Emma and all of their friends! I also met George, he is a cat, I don't think he liked me very much at first...I kept feeling like I was being watched and stalked! He is warming up to me now, not much for playing though! My dad was happy to meet me too, I think he was trying to act like I wasn't the cutest thing in the world (because of course I AM!) but it didn't take long until he was cuddling me and loving on me too!

On Friday my mom kept saying I needed a bath...I didn't know what a bath was. I soon found out! She put me in a tub of water and started to rub soap all over me...even though I wasn't really sure I liked it, I do look really clean and I smell so good now! I think I might get used to baths!

I liked being wrapped up in the warm towel!!

I'm starting to really like it here, I know that I have such a great family and so much to look forward to! I have a big kennel to sleep in and lots of toys and stuffed animals too. I haven't slept in the kennel yet, I prefer to snuggle in my mommy and daddy's bed for right now! They don't mind, I'm not taking up too much room....yet!

This morning I got to meet Remi and go out for a walk with him! Remi is my very BIG dog brother! He scared me to death at first and I ran crying to my mom, but once he calmed down and gave me a big kiss I was all over him...really. I tried to climb over his back, but that's going to take a little more growing from me!!! When we came back in from our walk my mommy gave me something that smelled really good. She called it an antler and said I was going to find a bunch more. I don't really know what these antlers are yet or where I'm going to find them but I have a feeling it's going to be a lot of fun and I'm going to be really good at it!!!