Mormon Battalion

Today we took an adventure down to San Diego.....we went to visit the Mormon Battalion Visitor Center.....At the museum, you experience the long march from Iowa to San Diego with the Mormon Battalion. We learned how this group of Latter-Day Saint men and women joined the U.S. Army and what they accomplished during and after their march.

This center was remodeled last year, they did a fantastic job. It has hands-on exhibits and resources for learning more about those who served in the Battalion. It was a fun time and makes me appreciate the sacrafice of the early Saints. The trials and experiences they had paved the way for the Latter-Day Saints of today.

After our museum visit, we went to Old Town San Diego and had lunch at a nice mexican restaurant & the went into Old Town to visit some of the other sites. It was a fun day....our Friday Adventure.

The Garden

We have talked about our Garden before...it's been a long process, but it is finally done.....after many long hard hours of strenuous labor, it is growing!

We have several fruit trees around the yard, some have produced some delicious fruit...and it keeps on giving..... I love when the daffodils start blooming, it reminds me of spring in Ohio. It was a pleasant little gift when I found out that we would have spring flowers blooming & reminding me of beautiful Ohio.

This was what the garden started to look like after the garden beds were built...and stood waiting....

Everyone has a pretty flower bed in their garden, right?!

Now the garden is complete....food is planted & growing, the pathways have been lined with rock walkways (7 1/2 tons to be exact)....a lot of hard work, but it will be so worth it.....

Scott is so talented and it is completely obvious when you step out into our yard...the garden beds, the flower beds, the beautiful scenery that we have everyday in our home.

Professor PennyPickle

This is one of Noah's favorite places to visit in Temecula.....

PROFESSOR PENNYPICKLES MUSEUM!

It is a fun interactive science museum. Tons of fun things for the kids to do, find, explore....Noah loves it. We only go when Grandma is here, so it was fitting that he exclaimed, "We HAVE to go to PennyPickles!"

It was fun, just like it always is!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

We started Spring Break on Monday, March 28th and we are so lucky & happy that Grandma Judi arrived on March 29th.........

Just in time for March 30th...........

Grandma Judi's Birthday!!!!

Hooray! We had a great day celebrating & ended it with a yummy dinner out!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

WaCkY Hair Day!!

Today is WaCkY hair day at school...................................................

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! This was Noah's Valentine's Box for his party at school. He loved the cat box & his friends thought it was pretty cool (including a bunch of Mom's). The cats head would lift open & that is where you would put the valentine. It is probably the last time that I will be able to make a "cutesie" box and I wanted to take advantage of that. This was the first family dinner we had in our new dining room. We had a fun dinner and enjoyed eating in our beautiful room. We had a nice surprise from our friend Crystal, she came and dropped off some red velvet cupcakes. It was a perfect treat!

Happy Valentine's Day from the Barbour's

100 days of school

Today was the 100th day of school.

Noah had the assignment of wearing something to school with 100 items on it...anything that he could come up with. We had a lot of talks about what we could make. Some were crazy requests...and impossible. I finally suggested 100 eyes. So we bought the eyes and peeled each one because they were self stick. Yeah, that didn't work out very well. So, later that night I had to take it apart & glue each one back on with some strong glue.

YES, there are 100 eyes on this shirt!