Happy Anniversary, Grandma and Grandpaw!

Today is our grandparents' 56th wedding anniversary!! Mom got Grandma to scan her wedding picture. The quality isn't that great but, remember, this picture is 56 years old! Mom worked on it a little with Adobe Photoshop but decided the original was better than anything she had done. So, without further delay, here is a picture of our grandparents on their wedding day.



Aren't Mom's parents a good looking couple? Mom is short like her mom and looks a lot like her dad. One of these days she might let us post a picture of her.

Being a Foster Dog and Getting Adopted

Hello, everydog, cat and GirlGirl,

Andy here again.

As I mentioned, today is the anniversary of my adoption. But I had lived some of my life before my adoption day. Someone was supposed to be taking care of me but wasn't giving me my heartworm protection medicine. Heartworms are nasty, horrible things that can kill us if we don't get our medicine each month. Well, I got heartworms and Mom thinks that is why someone got rid of me. Dachshund Rescue of Houston thought I deserved a better chance at life so they took me in. I lived in a kennel at the veterinarian's office for a while because there wasn't a home for me to live in. I didn't even have a name so they called me Dachsie #2. Then Aunt Bec adopted Maggie (who was one of Mom's fosters) and Mom said she would take another foster. She asked for Dachsie #1 but he already had a home so DRoH asked if she would take me. I can't believe how close I came to never meeting Mom! Anyway, she took me home and named me and took me to the vet so he could give me the shots to get rid of my heartworms.

This is one of the first pictures Mom has of me. Aunt Bec took it when we were all at the country house. I had been living with Mom about a month. Aunt Bec sent the picture to DRoH so they would have a cute picture that would make someone want to adopt me.



It's a pretty cute picture, isn't it? Of course all of this talk about someone else adopting me had me pretty worried.



Mom started talking about adopting me but she was concerned about having three dogs. So I worried some more ...



I started showing Mom what a good guard dog I am.



So she finally adopted me and I could get a good night's sleep.



The best part about being adopted is I know I get to see Mom and Roxie and Sammy everyday. I know I'll get fed. I have lots of toys to play with. I get to be petted and loved on.

In fact, Mom let me celebrate my adoption anniversary by sleeping with her last night. She says it's not really sleeping for her because some little dog lays in the middle of the bed and somehow succeeds in leaving her one little spot to sleep in. I didn't see any other dogs in the bed so I'm not sure who she meant. This morning, Mom gave me some extra cottage cheese with my breakfast. I love my cottage cheese. I always eat it first. One time when Mom forgot to get more, I looked at my bowl and looked at her. She doesn't run out of cottage cheese anymore.

We didn't really celebrate today because Mom had to work. When she got home it was raining, raining, raining so we had dinner and sat down to watch some television. But I wanted to make a blog entry to let you know all about my adoption. I know some of you have heard this all before, but I want the rest of my friends to know too. I hope your humans remember that rescued doggies are good pets too!

I have to go now. I need to find out if that other dog is taking up the best part of Mom's bed. Maybe I can get him to go into my crate and I can sleep with her again!

Party #1 & Party #2

Party #1

First off we had a grand time visiting with everyone from Dogs With Blogs while celebrating the first year anniversary. The chat room was a great idea. Who would have thought that people from around the world would find things to talk about ... and it wasn't always about dogs. Since all the partying was virtual, we don't have any good pictures but we have some great memories.

Party #2

Today was the annual Spring Fling fund raiser for Dachshund Rescue of Houston.. We couldn't believe the number of dachshunds that were there! Check out these pictures.










But we know who you really want to see. Here we are trying to find out what Mom was doing with that camera when she left us.



We are tired from all of this partying so we need to go take a nap before dinner time. We hope everyone had a great weekend!

The Secret Revealed and Our First Anniversary of Blogging

Today we can tell the secret! We are going to work on this entry early even though we can't post it until this afternoon. Our friends made some good guesses - a new dachsie-limo, a pool, a summer house in the country. Well, Copper should be a detective because he figured it out! Mom and Aunt Bec bought 20 acres out in the country next to Grandpa's 40 acres. And Uncle John bought another 20 acres next to Grandpa's.

Here is a quick history about the land. Our great-great-great-great-great grandpa got some land in 1834. It has been passed down through generations and Grandpa and his cousin have each owned 40 acres of it after they inherited it from their parents. There is even a family cemetery that was established in 1838. Today Grandpa's cousin sold her 40 acres to Mom, Aunt Bec and Uncle John! Mom and Aunt Bec started talking about wanting to buy the land from Grandpa's cousin last year but thought, if it happened at all, it would be years from now. Well, it wasn't even one year before it happened!

This picture is from the front porch of Grandma and Grandpa's country house looking toward Mom and Aunt Bec's land. It was rainy that day so you can't see much. Well, there isn't really much to see. Right now it is just land with some trees and cowdogs on it but some day it will have our house on it, maybe even in the same place where the original homestead was built back in the 1830s! You probably won't be able to see Mom and Aunt Bec's house from Grandma and Grandpa's house but everyone will know they are close. And there are more cousins on the land next to ours.



We looked for some other pictures to share with you but they all look pretty much the same and, even though our human relatives are excited about this, we don't expect our blogging buddies to want to look at a bunch of pictures of empty land. That is pretty boring.

We are all going out to the country house near the end of April. We are going to walk around the land and look at where the original homestead was built and decide if that is where we want to build. We have plenty of time to do all of this stuff because we can do it when we want to do it. But now when we bark at the cowdogs, we will be telling them to not poop on our land!!

Oh, and tell Mom we did not blab this all over the Internet. We are only telling you, our closest friends!

Which reminds us of the other part of this blog entry. Exactly one year ago today, Andy made an entry titled "Andy". It was our very first entry. We were inspired to blog by Isabella, Zach, Cubby, Cairo and Pet Peeves. Along the way, we have joined Dogs With Blogs and met lots of other cool dogs. We even have a couple of cat friends, Zeus and Bobkat (this is really a human with a cat but close enough), a hamster friend, Fufu, and one really big lizard friend, Chicote. We would love to list all of our friends (and we see that we don't even have a link for everyone here on our blog; note to Mom: fix this), but there just isn't enough space! Just know that we are glad we have you as friends; we love blogging and we love reading your blogs.

Roxie, Sammy & Andy, Land Barons