Ok, first things first,

For my birthday here's what I got; both of my rings are fixed now, one of them just broke and the other my cat Tiger bit so hard that I could barely get it off my finger. I think he must like the taste of gold or something. O.O . I got two robotic bugs, one blue roach sort of one I named Blueto, and the other is a teal crab which I named Zeal. I got a hairbrush. Don't laugh, I did need one, my Mom just procrastinated getting one. I finally got another pair of church shoes since my old ones were looking pretty rugged. My mom also got me animal crossing city folk for the wii, and I must say, it's great. I went to town for the day with my mom and we went shopping. We got a couple pairs of clothes and went out for Chinese food.

I did finally get Corel Sketchpad "working", with some help from my grandpa who is really good on computers. I must say, I'm not impressed with it at all. The paint bucket tool didn't work, and neither did the blender or oil brush. So now I scrapped Corel, and switched to photoshop. Everything works on it, and you can type text.

I got my first illustrating job! One of the girls in my church wants me to draw for the book that she's drawing. It's set in sort of the medieval ages, with kings and dragons and what not. I'm getting paid a dollar a picture too!

Also 95-year-old-grandma had me design a shirt for him, and for that I got four dollars.

We've been playing tennis with a family recently. It's a girl about twelve and her brother who's thirteen. Sometimes their older brother comes and plays with us to. He's twenty, but he's a real good sport, which is why I like playing with him, ( can't say the same for the thirteen year old though). I am so the worst player there, I've been really stinking up the court lately. When serving I can get it into the right box like twice in the whole game, and return it like four times. Yeah, I'm lousy.

My family went to a family camp in October. There was repelling, canoeing, ropes course, sewing, volleyball tournament, horse back riding, carpet ball, and tons of other stuff. The last night we where there, (it was a week long), there was a couple hour long play. That has to be the single best play I have ever seen! I think it was called the knight's tale, a quest for the heart. It's the story of a squire and a bunch of knights going to find the lantern of purest light while leaving the royal family without any real knights. Well, to make a long story short, the knights get the lantern and and arrive back just as the castle is attacked be an army of evil knights, and save the kingdom, and everyone lives happily ever after. The sword fighting was so cool! There where sparks flying everywhere, and people being flung of the stage, and a smoke breathing dragon! *sigh* It was so great.

Me and my big sister have been going to a constitution class each week and learning about the principles that the founding fathers used while writing it. I've been learning a lot.

I actually entered a contest sponsored by the same tea party that sponsors the constitution class. the theme was "what does freedom mean to you". I did a drawing of a pioneer family in a log cabin reading the Bible next to a warm fire, with garden and a grain field out the window. Anyway, Me and another girl won. Hers was really good. Both of us got a patriotic 2010 calander.

I'm working on a several prodjects right now. First I have to finish three more character profile pictures for my illustrating job. I also want to start a pic your path comic called toads' adventure. All I got so far is the cover. I've started on a comic called The Storm, but do to lack of experience on full blown comic pages, it'll probably take a while. I finally started designing my card game on the computer. It would just take too long to do it by hand, and I like it better computer drawn anyway. I want to start illustrating John's Story and work on writing on it again, but there never seems to be enough time.

Ttyl,

14Dreamer