Happy Birthday Bird!!!!!!

Can yall believe the Bird is gonna be 4???? That means not a baby anymore! It's funny, because it seems like she was just this....

And now she is a little more like this!

She's still kind of the same though...I remember very well when she was about...I guess 3 months old I was holding her and Dad was doing something goofy and she looked at me and rolled her eyes!!!! :P It was great. I should prolly mention some things about her, as it IS the babyhood graduation....

• She responds amazingly to physical touch. It's her little love language. And if she's trying to sleep and you go hold her hand or snuggle she will be out within 5 minutes :)
• She is a lot like me on her annoying side. She tells it like it is (or is not) and has little emotional spells. She's pretty possessive, but I think that will graduate to "protective" as she gets a little older :)
• She's hard to buy for. She doesn't play with dollies like Lane and I used to. She likes to carry "That One" around and have baby doll things, but they just aren't ALL THAT like they were to us early Tagg girls.
• She likes pretty much all food, but she only picks around at it for two days straight, then eats a crazy amount on the third day, repeat :)
• She was determined to have "Kitty-Cat cupcakes" (the hello kitty ones at Sams) for her birthday.
• She loves to have braids in her hair
• She likes to talk. A lot.
• She is really smart. I'm hoping she'll write one day!
• She can look cute and sweet eve while she's throwing a fit
• She likes painted toes and her makeup set :)

Whoa! It's a DOUBLE blog party!

This shall make history, ladies and gentlemen! I'm glad you all could come to this momentous occaision! Now, without further ado...

Happy Birthday Lane!!! Lane is now 15! So Lane, believe it or not, this is what happened on your birthday three days ago. You went out to check the mail, and the owner of the zoo is running toward you. He says, "Are you Lane T?" You're a little freaked out, but he quickly says, "The zoo is in desperate need of your services! Most of our zookeepers have chicken pox and the others are on vacation and we can't bring them back cuz their wives just had babies!" (That was somewhat of an inside joke to all you curious onlookers:P) So you gasp and go to the zoo in the zoo guy's limousine!

Whoooooa! I want one! But anyway, now you're there at the zoo. You find yourself in one of those weird brown uniformish getups, then are shown the animal feed. You are a little nervous about walking in there at first, but since the lion and the more dangerous animals mostly look like this:

you don't have a problem. You feed all the animals, but you have a LOT of fun when you put on a rubber suit and join the sea lions!!! You THINK you're having the most fun ever, but when the zookeeper thanks you for all your work and gives you the baby sea lion to keep, you go a little nuts.

His name is Martin! You take him home and show everybody, but it turns out that he is not your biggest surprise. You look in the backyard and find that the boys have filled the trampoline up to the top of the netting in Red Flavored Fluffy Puff Translucent Dessert Related Substance! You jump in and have all sorts of fun, then hose off and come in for presents. Wait, AAAAAAA! Halt! Erak! What are you doing here? How'd you get in this blog party? Get out! Now!

Shiverys. Anyway, let's get to it. You get...

And no, it's not two inches long. And one more...

Gandalf comes and gives you his staff to use for one day as a birthday surprise! You turn several of your brothers into unnatural things and give the dog the toes of a dragon before you finally get the darn thing figured out. But soon you're flying around and make us a nice cookfire on the... kitchen floor. We are all very relieved when Gandalf comes to take it back. AND GUESS WHAT HE DOES WHILE HE'S HERE???

BIG FIREWORKS!!!!!!!!!! Huzzah!!!!! We have a lot of fun until the cops show up and give us a ticket. Oh well, it was still awesome:P

Now to the NEXT blog party!!!! J-dude is 8!!!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday Bah-bah!!!!!! For your blog party, you wake up and find...

A zillion awesome airsoft guns on your bed!!! You take them outside and shoot a bunch of people and rabbits and the like, until...

A member of the 501st rushes up to you and salutes. "We need your help sir!" He says. "The droids are too many! We need a Jedi!"
You smile and say "No problem!" You pull off your top layer of clothes...

And you are Jedi Joshua!!! You force run to the scene, where the droids are killing the clones. You turn all the droids into scrap metal!!! Yoda hears of your great deeds, and puts you on the Jedi council! All that action made you hungry, so you go home and eat...

375,497 pieces of pizza!!!

Present time!!! I give you a big box of robot parts and you build this robot!!!

He is called Bday8!!! Mom and Dad give you...

A bunch of old coins worth a lot of money!!! Oh wait, there's someone at the door!

Hi Ronaldo!!! He says happy birthday to you and shows you some new awesome soccer moves so you can smoke everybody! Hooray! Those kids don't stand a chance!

Welp, that's it! I hope you both had lovely blog parties! Lots of love!

Happy Birthday Drallen!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 16th to Drallen a day later than it actually happened!!! That is to say, this blog party is a day late. But better late than nary. Or counting your chickens before they're in the pudding. Let's see... to get started...

You get a box in the mail with 6 tickets to Colorado! As yall pack, you aren't as happy as a few others that hang around your house, as you know you are going to get beat by me at quite a few different games. But it IS a plane trip, so yall get here in time for lunch, and then we break out the cake!!!

And yes, he is a cake!

Time for presents! Your mom and dad give you...

a lightsaber! Bring out your inner Sith.

Jax and Jakers steal...

The Declaration of Independence and frame it so you can put it in your room, and JT got you...

A ducky. With little flowers on it.

We Taggs gave you...

A million dollar bill!!!!!!! And THAT makes you quit singing the Bare Necessities like nobody's business!!

Oh wait, look who's here!

Jack and...

um, Jack.

Our seafaring buddies say happy birthday, and spend some time talking to... each other. (and it was an interesting conversation, I'd seriously love to see that:P) Wifi and Empress also show up and we talk a lot of Trade Wars.

Alright, enough fooling around. We set up the laptops for Rise of the Witch King (and it does NOT take two hours and eighteen minutes) and see if the Wings can overthrow the Taggs as the champions of Battle for Middle Earth 2. And guess what? They do. Blasted Dwarves.

Then we do some Red Alert 2 and I try to regain some honor. And guess what? I don't. Blasted Russians. (and you have no idea how much it stings to say that:0)

Let's see... *checks watch* it's about 5 in the morning, and yall must to getting back to the Middle of Nowhere. Everybody says the goodbyes, except me - I'm still bedridden and hyperventilating from the overdose of defeat. You walk out the door and look around for your shoes.

I think they look nice up there, don't you?:P

Hope you had an excellent blog party and have a great rest of the year!!!!:D

You know writing this out made me seriously want to send yall 6 airline tickets... except I can't cuz I'm still in my bed hyperventilating. Drat those Dwarves and Russians!!!!

Happy Birthday Toria!!!!!

Welcome to your blog party doll-face!!!!!!!!!! Let's get started...

First you wake up, get dressed, all that, and get ready to do whatever you ORIGINALLY had planned for today. But there's a knock at the door. You open it and it is...

ME!!!!!!!!!! We begin to have a wonderful time, and you drag me about and I get to meet all your friends... wait - this sounds more like MY blog party. Uh... let's move along, shall we?:P

We watch a football game together (the WHOLE thing) - and the Colts beat the Patriots!!! Whoo-hoo!!! The whole time, we are eating...

Pounds and pounds of chocolate!!!!!!!!!! We'd best move along, we've got a plane to catch... oh wait. Someone's at the door.

I'm not sure who ends up freaking out more... I think me. Even though I ASKED them to come. But the only reason I invited Brett to come was so he could personally apologize to us for lying, then betraying Green Bay. But he does remember to tell you happy birthday through my screaming in his face. But Peyton has a good time:)

We've got to go. We'll take Peyton with us cuz he's going anyway - the Superbowl beckons. WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!! If Peyton's with us, it means he's NOT playing at the Superbowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arg. Make it the NFC Championship. Yeah. That's much better. Whew. We fly to Giants Stadium where Eli is warming up. He's playing da BEARS. We enter our VIP locker room passes so you can wish Eli good luck before the game, and Meggy can run to the Bears locker room and get the autographs of Brian Urlacher, Devin Hester, and Matt Forte and personally thank the latter for getting her into the FFL playoffs. (Hey, it's an excuse not to take a shotgun to Hixon, right?) Ok, to the box seats. They have great food. The president's up there too. Hello Mr. President with the reflexes of a puma!:P Who else is there... ah, hi Reggie Wayne!!!!!! You rock. WHAT??? FAVRE???? How'd you find us????? Ok, you can sit in the back far away from us as long as you cheer for Giants.

He seems pleased with himself, don't he? Alright, the game's starting!!!!!

4 hours later, after the Giants victory, we go down to the locker room again and Eli gets the chance to talk to us again. Lucky guy:P

He and Peyton even throw some with us and the rest of our lives we'll be able to say we caught passes from the Mannings. We get a whole book of autographs, and you get me out of there fast before I murder Hixon.

Well, I haven't given you a present yet! Here's what I got for you...

Lotsa land for your ZOO!!!!!!! Course it needs some work, but there's plenty of time for all that.

Well, my plane's about to leave and I must go home. But I hope you had a wonderful blog party dearest, and your REAL present is on it's way. *sigh* this was a lovely party. Someday I shall come up and we shall do all those things! Well, some of those things:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERRY!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to your blog party dear Luthien!!!!!!

I thought we might take our notebooks and sketchbooks and music here...

New Zealand!!!!! Mountains, forests, rocks, gorgeous weather, inspiration, what more could be wanting!!! Oh yeah, and we get to wear these...

Bee-you-tee-full!!!!! Gosh, the plane's about to leave. We'd better go home. You get to spend the night with me, so we can go to my room and eat...

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!! And tons of it!!!!!!!!! Let's just say it's your birthday so it's good for you. Whoops! Can't get too comfy! We've got a...

private Enya concert to go to!!!! She's even more amazing in real life than she is on CDs!!!! Hey, look who's waiting for us at my house!

The four hobbits!!!!! Though... they're a little bit... taller. Oh well!!!

Well now it's very late and we should go to bed. We don't though. We finish up our rampage and watch...

The RETURN OF THE KING - MY EDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the day's over. Hope you enjoyed your blog party Luthien!!! Have a wonderful year being 15, and thank you for being my first and best Coloradigan friend!!!!! I love you!!!!

~ Tinuviel

Blog Party!!!

Lucy is 11!!!!!!! Well, really not until tomorrow, but it may as well be today!!!! So, welcome to your blog party Lucy!!!

Thought we'd spend the day here:

You get to wear this!!!

Gorgeous huh? Well, anyway, what do they have for food around here...

Only the cutest birthday cake known to man!!! Oh gosh, we're gonna be late! We have tickets to a private concert, but it's only...

Tobymac. Yeah, sorry, we couldn't find anything better. When we're done, we find somebody that you know you've seen before, but you just can't place him until a little yellow guy comes waddling up behind him. It is...

Strong Bad and the Cheat!!!!! It's really awesome to finally meet them, but we gotta go. It's like 2 in the morning and we've got to go home and watch our own private viewing of...

Oh yeah!!! Well, now it's about 5 the next day, and... it's not your birthday anymore. Hence, your party has come to an abrupt end.

Welp! Hope you had fun at your Blog Party!!!!!! Hope you have fun for the rest of your REAL birthday!!!! I love you!!!!!!

Happy Birthday EMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My awesomest friend Emy is 16 today!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to your blog party Emy!!!!!!!!!!

You're just having fun hanging around your new house and your mom goes out to check the mail. There's an envelope addressed to you from me! You open it up and it is....

A plane ticket to Colorado!!! You pack up fast and all of a sudden YOU'RE THERE. And guess who's there to pick you up from the airport - me!

Hooray!!!!!!! We go to my house and talk a whole lot. Wait, time for birthday cake!

It is a Bee-You-Ti-Full pink one! And yes it's chocolate and we ate the whole thing. THEN we can go to...
The coolest cheap store in North America!!!! And we go a dozen other places and everywhere is having a sale because you're there. Now it is almost night. We go in my room and watch:

and

and

All of them!!!!!!! Finally!!!!!!!!!!! Now it's about... 6:00am. But not too early to have visitors... guess who's here to say happy birthday?

Anne Hathaway!!! We spend about 3 hours with her, then get an hour of sleep. Then we must drink

because it will keep us alive for our very own private just us...

BARLOWGIRL CONCERT!!!!!

Now you have to go home. It's not even your birthday anymore, it's the next day. And all of a sudden YOU'RE HOME. It's already over.

Ahem, THAT was an unexpectedly sad ending to an otherwise perfect party! Well, one of these days you're REALLY going to come and we'll do all these things and a lot more! Hope you have a wonderful year being 16!!! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!