Meet Bella!

This is our new puppy Bella! Well she is not so new anymore. Our family only lasted five days without a dog in the house. It was the loneliest feeling ever and none of us liked it one bit. So we started researching breeds of dogs that would be good with kids and not get terribly big. I mentioned that I have always wanted a Beagle, but have always had larger dogs. So the next day in the paper there was the sweetest litter of Beagle pups and our fate was sealed. Quinn named her Bella on the drive home from picking her up.

Bella is fourteen weeks now, but we got her when she was six weeks old. She has been a little pistol! We started her obedience classes this week and for the next seven weeks we will be trying to whip her into shape. All and all she really is a very good puppy. Likes to howl and disrupted the training class by howling at the other dogs...it was cute though. Aidan took a long time to warm up to her, but is very active in her care and is always concerned with what she is doing. He says every day when we pull in the driveway when getting home from work and preschool, "I wonder how big Bella got?" As you will see below, they kissed and made up. Bella has been a wonderful addition to the family!