Bringing home {furry} baby!

The video above is the most recent one sent to us by our breeders!  We have been receiving videos every week since they have been born.  It is so much fun watching them grow!  Did I mention that the breeders are a husband and wife team who are BOTH veterinarians?  How cool is that?!  Needless to say, we felt pretty good about the litter and the conditions in which they would be kept.  This video cracks me up!  I love the two little guys who seem confused about whether or not to join the others.  The litter has eleven puppies and seven of them are males.  That is by far the largest number of males we have seen in a litter so far!  This makes it nice for us considering we want a male.  No one actually picks their puppy out until next Saturday, so it’s kind of neat watching this and realizing that ONE of these puppies will be ours!  Oh my goodness, are they not the cutest?!

You may remember this post when I asked for huge prayers about the breeders changing the ‘bring home’ date. I knew it was extremely unlikely, considering the puppies have to be 8 weeks old before they can leave their mom.  I was desperate though, because I have a flight booked to leave the DAY BEFORE for Maine.  My girlfriends and my mom and I are all spending a week there.  I’m super excited about the trip, but I couldn’t help be sad that not only would I not be able to help pick which puppy will be ours, but I will miss seeing what he looks like at the smallest he will ever be.  At this rate, even after one week he will be so much bigger. Well, to make a long story short, hubsy told me this is an important enough event that I should go ahead and change my plane ticket.  This is HUGE.  It’s such a blessing to have an understanding husband, and such an amazing mom and amazing best friends who are 100% supportive (they will now all be in Maine the first night without me).  I am so excited.  For the past six weeks I have been under the understanding that it just isn’t possible for me to be there on the big day.  But now, I can.  This day is a whole photo album in our puppy’s, and our, life!  Haha.  SO EXCITED I GET TO BE THERE!  We pick him up a week from this Saturday; I’ll have the whole day and night with our new little family, and then on Sunday I am off to Maine!  Oh, and more about Maine in another post to come; I have grown up going to Maine my whole life – LOVE it!

So, God answered my prayers in a different way than I had asked.  He is full of surprises, I just love it.  We are still in the final decision process for picking out his name.  Can’t wait to share!  Some of you may think I am ridiculous, talking about this and making decisions like we are bringing home an actual baby, haha.  But for now, this little guy WILL be our baby!  And it’s a big thing for us because we haven’t owned a pet together, ever.   Okay, I don’t want to make this a novel.  Thanks for reading!

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend! We’re leaving tonight to go home to my parent’s house.  My sister from Houston and my niece and nephew are in town!  This means my WHOLE family will be together this weekend; my other sister and niece already live here.  This only happens about twice a year!  Can’t wait to share pictures!

Blessings/XOXO