Happy Sweet 16, I guess. . .

So apparently I'm 16 now.  Four days after my birthday and it's finally starting to dawn on me.  It's seems like a huge gap from 15 to 16, though I sure don't feel any different.  16's supposed to be some huge milemarker in a teenager's life or something but I don't feel like I've come-of-age or anything like that.  I still can't drive (and even if I could I don't have a car and I don't want to drive).  Whatever.  I'm 16 and that's that.  Anyways, on to my awesome family and the wonderful things they gave me.

From Megan
John Howe's Fantasy Drawing Workshop  Surprisingly, I actually got something from my birthday wishlist.
And also the movie Summer Wars.  I didn't really like it, so after watching it Megan and I bought The Girl Who Leapt Through Time on Amazon.  Love that movie!

From Nate and Jackie

A new sketchbook (hooray!) and cool art supply things. Erm, I don't really want to explain.

Last but not least, my parents got me an Intuos 4 Tablet from Wacom! 

I practically haven't put it down since I got it, and I made my first real-ish picture on it yesterday.  You can look at it on facebook, cause for some reason I can't load it here.

I love my family so much I can't thank them enough for everything they do for me.  Birthdays shouldn't be about ourselves but all the wonderful people in our lives.  Like my absolutely wonderful parents, who, even if they hadn't given me the one birthday present I wanted more than almost anything, would still be wonderful.  And Megan, who loves to spoil me rotten and is the best roomate/fellow Hogwarts student/advice giver in the world.  And also Leslie, Daniel and Camille who came rollerskating with me.  And everyone else who's so great to me.  Thank you for keeping me alive for 16 years.

Wake up, Followers, we're going to the Zoo!

My brother and his family drove out from New Hampshire two weeks ago and are spending practically the whole month with us.  Everyday's been chalked full of awesome adventures and escapades (one of which was going to see HP 7 part 2 at midnight!) and on Thursday we went to the Utah Hogle Zoo.  I love Zoos!  Megan and I brought our sketchbooks along and I decided to share all my pretty pictures with you folks.  I found the elephants easiest to draw and the wolves the hardest.  Not all my sketches made it into these collages but believe me, you don't want to see those ones.

I had two more pages but for some reason I can't upload them.  Sorry.  And I will totally pester my sister about putting hers up.

A Much Belated Birthday Post

What's better than your own birthday?  Your sisters' birthdays, of course!  So Megan's birthday was quite a while ago (May 19), but you know my blogging habits.  For her birthday I did a commission.  Her commission was, simply, the School of Athens.  So rather than have me talk about it forever take a look-see.

Top Row (Left to Right): Aang (Avatar: the Last Airbender), Dustfinger (the Inkheart Series), Sokka (Avatar...), Eowyn (Lord of the Rings), Baron Humbert Von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns/Whisper of the Heart), Makoto (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time), Chiaki (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time), Aragorn (Lord of the Rings), Astrid (How to Train Your Dragon), Suki (Avatar...), Faramir (Lord of the Rings), Megan, Me, Geordi (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Matthias (Redwall), Captain Picard (Star Trek...), Rapunzel (Tangled), Flynn Rider (Tangled), Shizuku (Whisper of the Heart), Seiji (Whisper of the Heart), Zuko (Avatar...), Bilbo (The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings)
Bottom Row: Waldo (Where's Waldo), Katara (Avatar...), Ron, Harry, Dumbledore, Hermione (Harry Potter Series), Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle), Data (Star Trek...), Hiccup (How to Train Your Dragon), Toph (Avatar...), Merry, Pippin, Samwise, Frodo, Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings), Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Here's the Original -

Last month was my other sister, Addie's birthday.  As a birthday present Megan and I ran a 5K with her.  Megan beat us all, but it was heaps of fun.  We were all around 37 minutes.

Happy Birthdays my Sisters!