Today...

First of all, let me wish a very happy birthday to my wonderful sister Amanda. I'd so thankful to have a best friend and sister rolled into one wonderful person!

Okay, on with the post. Not that I have much to report. We've been living life as we know it here in the Harward Household. For Grant, that means A LOT of drumming (on anything that will make noise), playing with cars, and playing on PBS kids.org. Those are his favorite three things (oh and eating cereal).



This is Grant, using one of his drumsticks as a guitar one morning in the bathroom. He was really rocking out. I wish the picture could have captured his intense passion!

 Ella has been so cute (and SO frustrating) lately. She's in that stage where she stands at my feet ALL THE TIME whining for me to pick her up. But she's also discovering her personality and realizing what things she can do to make people laugh. She's walking now, and is quite proud of herself. We owe it all to my dad, who spent a good part of our week visiting them at Christmas working with her to get her to walk. Once he showed her that she could do it, she's just taken off!!

When I was trying to take that picture of Grant, Ella kept shoving her face in front of the camera insisting I take a picture of her too!

This was Ella after a long day of Visiting Teaching and going down late for her nap! She was completely zonked! I wish I could sleep that soundly!!

For Christmas my mom gave me some make-up. I was pretty thrilled since I didn't own ANY. I kind of felt like a failure as a woman for not owning any make-up, but not bad enough to actually buy some. Anyway, the other day I put on some eye liner and mascara and when Landon came home from school he looked at me and said "What's that black stuff on your eyes? It's creeping me out!' Yeah, that was good for my self esteem!

And, that's about the gist of what's going on around here!