Hannah is Six!

Time is flying by.  In 2007 after my sophomore year of college, my mom got a call from my grandma saying that there was a puppy who was going to be sold. We were told that if the dog wasn't bought that it would go to another home where there was a pit bull. I know there are kind pit bulls out there, but I just was not willing to take that chance. I told my mom to call them that I was going to buy the puppy. I had worked at a Montessori school during that summer and I used my first paycheck to get her. My plan was to buy her, then find her a home since I was so busy with college and I didn't think I was ready for the responsibility of owning my own dog.  It all changed when I saw her. She rolled on her back(which she still does when I come home) and she peed all over herself. I scooped her up and gave them the check and left. By the time my mom and I were in the car for about 5 minutes I already had a name for her. Hannah.  I liked it because it is spelled the same backwards and forwards. We went to Pets Mart and I called my roommate in College Station and told her I had a dog. Holland was surprised because he had tried to talk me into getting a puppy and I kept saying no. It was all meant to be this way. 

My Hanners is SIX!!!! Hannah is one of the most active, crazy dachshunds I have ever known.   All through college she was used to Deanne and I. She never fully accepted Holland until we lived together and now she snuggles up with him on the couch instead of me. She LOVES other Dachshunds, and only two large dogs are her friends(Shadow and Bleu.) She has a doppelgänger and its funny that her twin look alike is Deanne's dachshund, Annie. When they are together we call them Hannie!

If you have known her as long as I have had her, you have seen the change in her especially in the last two years. I do not want this to get all depressing but it probably will. When I first got Hannah she was 6 months old and she was really skiddish. Her previous owner kicked her, locked her up and well he never let her really be a dog. She was up for sale because he was tired of her messing in the house, chewing up stuff and all the things that puppies do. She had a dislocated shoulder when I got her and she was so afraid of men. I have found tricks that have let her trust the males in our lives. If it is a new guy she has never met before,  I have them sit on the couch when they come over so they are on her level and within ten minutes she follows guests around and gives them her ball to throw.  

She has a personality.She sleeps in later than I do and she loves that Holland can stay in bed until 11 a.m. She is a stubborn German and refuses to take any pills, she loves the lake and swimming,  she likes perching on couches to people watch out the windows and she LOVES LOVES LOVES her green ball. I cannot imagine how different the last 6 years of my life would have been without her, she is one of my favorite things in life. 

I made my traditional doggie cupcakes that I usually make for Hannah and Bleu's birthdays and we celebrated!!

Of course Bleu was never too far away until he got his cupcake!

Doggie Cupcakes:

Mix together: 

-1 cup flour

-1tsp baking soda

Mix in separate bowl:

-1 tsp vanilla

-1/3 cup honey

-1/4 cup peanut butter

-1/4 cup veggie oil

-1 cup shredded carrots

-1 egg. 

Add dry ingredients and bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes. 

Top with icing: 

8 oz cream cheese

2 tsp honey 

few drops of food coloring. 

Look at that tongue!

Pretty girl. 

I only have one picture of Hannah when she was a baby. Since I got her when she was 6 months this is about how big she was. SHe brought this stick in from outside and carried it around all day!

WIENER DOG!

Hannah and I in the College Station apartment. 

guarding the Thanksgiving rolls. 

I expect to have MANY more years with Hannah. My family has had a dachshund live until 16 and one until 19! If all goes well, we have time to make more memories to remember.