This is Maddi's first interaction with her aunties. The yellow lab is auntie Bailey, Drew and I refer to her as Auntie Bay Bay and the Golden Retriever is Aunt Holly or as Drew and I like to call her, Holly Bear. 

This picture makes me laugh so hard because Bailey is trying to figure out what Maddi is. She moves like an animal and smells like one, but she doesn't look like a dog? 

And this picture...oh my word. Poor Maddi was so used to eating from her Golden Retriever mommy that the first time she met Holly she tried getting milk from her. Sorry Maddi- those things are all dried up! And Holly was so taken back she didn't know what to do about this little thing trying to bite her. 

They quickly became friends and taught Maddi everything she knows, which isn't always a good thing.

Maddi was a Christmas present for my boyfriend Drew (the cutie pie below) and she was a surprise to him! He thought I was taking a final while I was really driving three hours to pick her up. I brought her into the backyard, where Drew was working out, and he was in shock when he saw her! He's dreamed of having his own dog since he moved out of his parents house when he was 18. 

Drew in love with his new soon-to-be best friend

The look on Drew's face says it all. He had so much love for her from the second he first held her. We didn't realize it at the time, but our lives would change forever after she came into our lives

This is Maddi the first day we got her! We wanted a pure bread golden retriever and there were none available in Arizona so we looked elsewhere. We ended up finding the sweetest family who breed's golden's who live in Utah and that's when we saw pictures of Khloe (who is now Maddi) and fell in love. They were willing to meet us half way, so my mom and I drove up north and picked her up! When we picked her up we got to meet her brothers and sisters. She had 4 sisters and 5 brothers and we almost came home with a second Golden they were so darn cute! 

This is Maddi and one of her brothers when they were only 5 weeks old