(NBC) -- Mother's Day is usually about taking care of mom, but this year Donna Dedas had to take of some bad guys at home.

"I said 'Get down on the ground, don't make me shoot you over a piece of jewelry! Get down on the ground!'" Dedas said. "In all honesty, it was more drama than I care to have."

Dedas and her son returned to their Louisville, Kentucky home after a Mother's Day lunch to find a strange truck parked outside and two men inside their home, 40 year-old Larry Tedrow and 43-year-old James Brewer.

That's when Dedas took action.

"I went in the backdoor and came up the steps and as I was going up the steps the two men had my pillowcase and things in their hand and they went right out the front door," she said. "I got my gun and came out and got on the deck. I yelled at them to get down on the ground, then they jumped in the truck."

Dedas had parked behind the men, who began ramming their stolen truck into her vehicle.

"They pushed my truck back and I fired at them, just a warning shot, strictly a warning shot," she said.

Brewer and Tedrow succeeded in pulling out, but the two didn't get far.

"As soon as they hit the mud, they were going nowhere. They got out of the vehicle and I
told them get down on the ground," said the mother of two. "I had 911 in one hand and I had the gun in the other."

Dedas says one of the suspects then began dumping jewelry out of his pockets onto the road.

Bullitt County Police say this was not the first home the pair hit Sunday afternoon.

At least four others were burglarized that day with computers, a digital camera, .357 magnum handgun and more than $800 stolen.

That was not all two were taking.

"These nuts, stealing meat, that's a little different," Detective Scotty McGaha explained as he pulled three packs of meat from a police department freezer.

Donna Dedas also had a package of meat taken from her freezer.

"Now that's different, I know groceries are high, gas is high, but I can't imagine," she said.

Brewer and Tedrow walked away from Dedas' home and were later arrested by police after another resident grew suspicious when the two arrived at the front door and asked to use a phone.

Both are charged with burglary, theft, wanton endangerment and criminal mischief.

Police say more charges could follow.

Both men are being held at the Bullitt County Detention Center.