Fourteen years down, starting on fifteen today! I wasn’t even a dot on the radar when Emma founded this blog on November 8th, 2011! Sometimes I wonder how she would like having a brother and two GBGV sisters. I do know the work she put in to start the blog, start dog sports with our breed and getting out to promote our breed is amazing! Today we celebrate My GBGV Life. Emma’s color was red, thus the red balloon.
Since I never met Emma, I can only recite what others have told me about her. Reading her posts also helps one get to know her. She sure was a professional, that is a fact. CBO, Chief Blogging Officer is a lot of work I have learned but she did the job for seven years and did it so well.
When Emma passed away on October 30th, 2028, Madison stepped up and took over the job of CBO. She too was awesome and managed to run things for six years. Each of us has our own agenda but it all flows together and helps the blog keep evolving.
To celebrate this year, I had the balloon idea. We have five chairs for five GBGV’s. The two empty seats have big accomplishments, the blog, and Emma’s book. The rest of us have our laptops as we are still actively creating posts for the blog five days a week. Each of us has our own color balloon too. We all celebrate the blog as well as the two CBOs we have lost today.
I thought I would go over some things that may be interesting to you about My GBGV Life.
- The focus of the blog has changed over time from Emma with a big focus on cooking to me with more of a focus on our sports and travel adventures.
- This is the third theme the blog has had. Mom thinks about revamping but we haven’t had time to do that. Maybe this winter, maybe not?
- As of this post, we have 20,576 images in our blog media library! That is a lot of photos!
- Today, we are posting our 3564th blog post. For a time Emma posted seven days a week! We are good with five now.
- Over the last fourteen years we have accumulated 141,390 blog comments.
- Emma wanted to call the blog Emma’s Life or something similar but Gramma convinced her to use a more generic name so other GBGV’s could use the blog if they came along. Thank dog she listened to Gramma.
- The My GBGV Life logo was designed for Emma in 2014. Although it looks like her, it also is generic enough for us all to use.
Thank you to all of our blog followers and friends for being our fans! Over time, we have met some of you in person which is really fun too. Fasten your seat belts, we are now starting year fifteen and we plan to continue blogging at this point without any scheduled end.
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