Welcome to your support group. Don't be in a huge hurry to get a male unless your female is already up to size. Females take a lot longer to mature. I would also recommend a 2-3 gene male, some of these can be had at a quite reasonable price. I'm not going to give advise on morphs, too many choices. World of ball pythons morph calculator will be very useful to you. I would start by find some base single gene morphs you like, then use the calculator to start combining genes until you hit that magic combo that just wows you. Then just look for that specific combo, and get the best example of it you can.