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!

Early Birthday Party

Today we had a Fun filled, Active, Quite Boisterous Party for our little guy that will very soon be turning 6 years old!!

We had 12 of his friends over (this included 2 cousins also)...he was so excited for everyone to come over & celebrate with him. This is the first "friend" party that he has ever had. We told him he can have a "friend" birthday every other years & the other birthdays will just be with family (which is just as fun, right?!)

For some reason, these pictures did not post in order...I've tried to fix it, but I'm done trying.

We played some games: Blindfold Mr. Potato Head - this was a contest between two contestants, the kids loved this one. We also played Buzz Bingo, colored a giant puzzle, pin the badge on woody....and of course they ran around a lot! Boys are loud (and the 3 girls can be just as loud, but they were pretty quiet).

BUZZ Bingo

Boys being Boys!

The whole gang with their 3D glasses on

The "normal" picture

finishing up the giant color puzzle with Madison's help

Emma playing blindfold Mr Potato Head

Opening gifts (remember these are out of order! ugh!!)

Emma (cousin), Scott, Noah, Madison & Eric - enjoying pizza for lunch

Pin the badge on Woody & pin the Rocket on Buzz

The "crazy" picture

a favorite gift

Everyone was so excited to see him opening his gifts, at times they were swarming him...too funny

A favorite of his....coloring & painting

Cupcake time

Noah & his good friend Madison

Happy Birthday Noah, we love you!!! He asked me when the party was over if he was 6 now, he wasn't quite "getting" the early party. The one good thing is he'll get to celebrate again on his "real" birthday!