I'm a MOM!!!

Her name is Stella and I'm in love : )

We adopted her from an animal shelter in our area on Saturday.  She's from a litter of 7 puppies.  Someone left them on the side of a freeway!

We were so lucky to get her!  She's been at the shelter since the beginning of January, but was recently with a foster family to prevent kennel cough.  She just got back to the shelter on Friday.  I'm pretty sure all of her brothers and sisters have been adopted by now.

She's a shepherd blend, two months old, barely over 3 pounds.

Mr. GG and I have been talking about getting a dog for about 4 months now.  We originally went to the shelter at the start of our search, but weren't committed yet.  Our biggest issue was breed.  I wanted a mutt, shelter dog and DH went from wanting a Pug, to a French Bulldog, to I don't know what.

He's been travelling a lot of the last few weeks for work and so I told him on Wednesday that we were getting a dog on Saturday and he went with it : ).

We went back to the same shelter and saw a lot of great dogs, but really liked these puppies.  Mr. GG was really not convinced that we needed a dog NOW, but he's a sucker for a cute dog.  I liked pretty much all of the dogs in the litter, but he preferred the runt.  I wanted to make sure he was fully in, so we went with his choice and she's perfect : )

We started crate training right away and she is totally comfortable inside the crate which is great.  She only let out a couple of yelps the each time she went in during the night Saturday and Sunday, but at 6 on Saturday morning, she was DONE!  She yelled like a banshee.  Luckily on weekdays, I get up at 6 so I thought it would be fine, but DH called to tell me that she pooped in the corner of our bedroom while I was brushing my teeth.  Arg.  We've got a long road ahead!
I'm nervous about leaving her today, but Mr. GG works near our house so he'll come let her out around 11:30 and then I'll be home around 3:30.  I hope she doesn't think we hate her!!  Fingers crossed today goes well!