Bringing Home Baby (Yuna, that is!) Part 2

You know that feeling when you wake up in the middle of a dream and you feel so groggy that all you want to do is go back to sleep? Well, I feel like that happened to me at least three times this morning. I'm an extremely heavy sleeper (I've slept through several hurricanes) and it was definitely a struggle to get things up and going today. This face, does get me up and at 'em, though!

Wake up, Mom!

I sipped on some hazelnut coffee this morning while browsing the news and had some Publix greek yogurt with honey and some frozen peach slices. I've been obsessed with just munching on frozen fruit lately now it's so hot! Peach and mango slices are my absolute favorite!

Bringing Yuna Home Part 2

If you didn't get to read Part 1 about my process of finding my goldendoodle puppy, you can read that first, here.


(And before I continue my story, I just wanted to say that if there had been a rescue goldendoodle available, I may have decided to rescue instead of finding a breeder. I think in the future we will plan on rescuing instead of bringing home a brand new puppy if we can.)

The night before we left to journey to Athens, GA to pick up our new puppy was full of restless sleep. Nathaniel and I tossed and turned all night, anxious to wake up on time to leave early enough (we are both heavy sleepers and often need six alarms to wake up) and extremely excited to get to meet our little ball of apricot fluff! We somehow managed to get up on time and make the 5+ hour journey to Athens to pick up Yuna at the breeder's home. I must have been running on pure adrenaline the entire morning because I don't remember much of the trip. I was just so anxious to meet our puppy!!!


The breeder was wonderful about setting individual appointments to pick up the puppy so that she could give us enough time to answer any questions we had and to give us all the attention we needed in that first few minutes with Yuna. As soon as we walked in, I locked eyes with this tiny, fluffy being and the love was instantaneous. In that moment I felt my heart swell a hundred times larger and I knew I had made the right decision. She was perfect.

Our "orientation" with the breeder included a Q&A session and going over how to best to handle the ride home. We had to be careful not to walk her in any "dog friendly" sections of rest stops or gas stations since she was so young and not fully immunized. The thought of little Yuna contracting Parvo or other diseases terrified me so we took extra caution. We loaded up with our new puppy in my lap and we began the long trip back home.


Nathaniel and I took turns driving and holding our puppy.

Although she whined a bit in the car, the trip was mostly uneventful and just long. We got home late in the evening and had just enough time to get her all settled in in her new abode. Surprisingly, she was perfectly content in her crate the first night, allowing us all to get some much needed rest from the big day. 

And now here's a photo dump of the rest of the evening spent with little Yuna. 

And there you have it! Our journey to bring Yuna home had come to an end and our new journey, house training, was just beginning. 

If you have a dog, what was bringing home your new pet like?

Have a wonderful Saturday, everyone!