Our New Friends, Amanda and Bella (Amanda not pictured)

This is our new friend, Bella the Puppy.  She belongs to our friend, Amanda. I have no pictures of Amanda, so we will have to take one to post here soon.  Basically, we have a wonderful woman named Linda who helps me out at the house. Her daughter is Amanda.  When Linda started to not be able to come over as much, because of sick parents, she started sending Amanda, who is nineteen - and we may never let her leave!
   Amanda comes over in the morning on the days she works, she helps clean up from breakfast, she does laundry, she helps with cleaning.  One day she organized my spice cabinet.  She took all the spices out, she wrote the names on the lids so you can tell which spices they are from the top when you pull the sliding thing out and she put them back in - in alphabetical order!!  For a type-A person like me, it just doesn't get any better than that! 
   I could go on and on about how she helps us out, but suffice it to say, the reason I can sit down right now and type this out (and leave in a minute to go get my nails done) is only because Amanda is here!! She is also one of the sweetest and most genuine people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting! 
   So, the other day Amanda got a new puppy, Bella.  We all love Bella like she was our own puppy, but Caleb and Ryan especially love her.  The picture above is of Caleb sitting out front where we keep Bella during the day.  The below picture is just of Bella.  I'm beginning to see why my sister Bridget has a german shepherd! 
   Well, gotta go to the nail salon...