On this day in 2011, My GBGV Life made its debut. That is right. We are officially starting our fourteenth year of blogging! Mom says she can’t believe it has been that long. Emma’s first post was all about how it began. In the beginning the blog was random, a free version of WordPress, and just for fun with no real plan. Then Emma discovered BlogPaws and it grew and grew, along with social media.
Emma ran the blog for almost seven years. She was five when she started My GBGV Life. Emma was very special and had a talent for promoting the blog as well as our breed. She was a photo model for the blog and for Target. It was her wish that Madison would take over the helm if anything should happen to her. Sadly, she did pass away on October 30th, 2018, and Madison then took over the job of Chief Blogging Officer.
Madison was only two years old when she took over Emma’s blogging dynasty. She did an amazing job keeping everything running smoothly. Things changed with time and the loss of BlogPaws. We became a three GBGV family and eventually there were four of us. Reviews started to dwindle, and Madison still was able to run a good blog.
As you all know, Madison passed away very quickly, but she still had time to discuss the future of the blog with me, Bailie, and Olivia. Bailie has been with the blog the longest, eleven years! Olivia likes being featured in our sports posts, but she has no desire to run a blog. Madison and I decided that I would be the best choice to take over the reigns. I’m only two years old, but I am a hard and honest working hound. We discussed quitting blogging but we all enjoy it, and Mom says she loves having a record of all our lives. So, here I am, Nelson the guy, running a blog with a bunch of girls.
Looking back at the blog, there are a few interesting statistics.
- Including this post, there have been 3,303 posts. The blog went from random posts to posting seven days a week, to our current five day situation.
- In 2014, Emma had the logo created. It is really her on the logo, but generic enough that we can all be seen in it.
- Over the last thirteen years we have accumulated 134,385 comments!
- This is our third theme for the blog.
Starting out there was Emma and Katie, the Kuvasz, Cat Bro Bert, and Sophie. All four of those fur siblings have passed now. Hopefully for a long time the three of us, Olivia, Nelson, Bailie will be stars of Emma’s empire. We all feel like things are a bit boring with only three of us, but hopefully that will pass.
Most of all, we all would like to thank all of you for loving us and our blog, following us, and caring about us all so much. Some of you have been with us almost since day one and that is really special! Cheers to year fourteen, may it be a good one!
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