YAHOOOOO!!!!!!

A deer!  A deer!  My dad just got a DEER!!! A BUCK!!!! HIS FIRST DEER EVER IN TWO YEARS OF HUNTING AND IT'S A BUCK!!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRODO AND BILBO!!!!!

Many, many thanks to the Society of Avid Young Readers, who reminded me of this most important event!

Bilbo and Frodo Bagginses Birthday!!!!

And now, for what is probably the most famous birthday speech in history!
(this is just what Bilbo said, not the whole commentary in between. If you want that, read the book.)

My dear people,
My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burowses, and Hornblowers, and Blogers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots! [Proudfeet! ;) ]
Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville-Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthda: I am eleventy-one today! I hope you are all enjoying yourselves as much as I am. [Yes! =) ]
I shall not keep you for long. I have called you all together for a Purpose. Indeed, for Three Purposes! First of all, to tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that eleventy-one years is too short a time to live omong such excellent and admirable hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!
Secondly, to celebrate my birthday. I should say: OUR birthday. For it is, of course, also the birthday of my heir and nephew, Frodo! He comes of age and into his inheritence today. Together we score one hundred and fourty-four. Your numbers were chosen to fit this remarkable total: One Gross, if I may use the expression. ["No cheers. This was ridiculous." I love those two sentances!]
It is also, if I may be allowed to refer to ancient history, the anniversary of my arrival by barrel at Esgaroth on the Long Lake; though the fact that it was my birthday slipped my memory on that occasion. I was only fifty-one then, and birthdays did not seem so important. The banquet was very splendind, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say "thag you very buch". I now repeat it more correctly" Thank you very much for coming to my little party".
Thirdly and finally, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!

I was in awe with this video... and got an award!

Second topic first:
My very dearest and wonderful daughter Grace gave me this wonderful award today.
The SuperCommenter Award, which I am not sure I deserve, and of course, she gave me more compliments that still have me blushing. *shakes head and giggles* Grace darling, just you wait until you see what I have planned for your birthday and then your face will be burned off! (I hope.) (Yes, that isn't a threat. =)
So I am now supposed to bestow this award upon seven people.
Ahem. As Lady Rose of the Rose of Bethlehem, Lady of the Sacra Cor, I bestow this award upon:

Elenatintil
My Fairy Godmother
Vicki:
Hannah
Delaney
Autumn Rose
Kaila
My Mom
Ella
and Paul, who doesn't really deserve it, but I'll give it to him anyhow.

Can you re-award people? Just in case:

To Grace: The sweetest daughter ever!

AND ALSO TO:

MJ. As far as I know, she hasn't a blog, but she is one of the nicest and most frequent commentor's on here!

Yeah, yeah I know... more then seven. But who cares? I hope you all enjoy it!

And now for the 1st thing 2nd!

I got this video in an e-mail... and it is soooooooooo cool to watch! Those people must have practiced really hard!

Guess What!!!!!

No, I did not forget to mention this in my last post.

MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS IN THE CIVIL WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*runs around screaming her head off with an excitement only a true Civil War Buff would understand* YAAAAAAHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EULAAAAAALLLLLLLIAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, think I got it out of my system. But any how HE WAS HE WAS HE WAS HE WAS!!!!!!!! And he DIED too!!!! Isn't that GREAT???????? He wasn't shot in battle - typhoid fever actually - but one can't be too picky about how their ancestors die.

*completely stunned and disbelieving looks from blog readers*

What? So I am excited that my great-tho-the4th-power grandfather died in uniform, is that so odd? *grins* Don't worry, I am terribly sorry for his family. Er, my family! But not so much, because obviously he left children behind. (Which sounds awful, but if he hadn't, where might I be?)

How did I just find out today? (When I told my mom, she shook her head and said something to the effect of "You knew if you looked hard enough you would find connections. Now you can die happy.") Well for a project, I needed just thre great-granparents, and asked my great-aunt -who did extensive geneology for her side of the family - for the names on my grandma's side of the family. God works in mysterious and splediferous ways, because instead of giving me just the names I needed, the dear sent me a copy of everything! Thus fufilling a dear wish and dream of having an ancestor in the Civil War.

I won't tell you his name (internet security and all that. The stalkers are just waiting for his name so they can find me and track me down. *grins* And yes, I AM making fun of it! *giggles and horrified readers who can't believe she joke about such a serious matter*)
I won't tell you his name, but he was in the 29th Wisconsin Infantry, Company D, and he died of typoid fever Feb 1st, 1863. Alas! He made it not to Vicksburg. BUT HE WAS IN THE CIVIL WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*lets out one more whoop of joy before leaving*
YEHAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!