Bart & Rachel Wiltbank Family

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Easter

It was such a nice Easter. I think what made it all the more special was Conference. As a Latter Day Saint Woman, It gives me the strength to get through another 6 months. It seem to me that this conference was really geared towards the Women of the Church. Maybe we need to be a little bit more stronger in this world we live in. I really enjoyed watching it with Landon too. He woke me up on Sunday and asked if I would watch it with him. It is so great to see your adult children stand on their own and take what you have taught them and add upon it. It makes it inspirational when they then teach you.
Easter was fun. We went to Kami and Erick's and had a wonderful meal with the Wiltbank's. I tried to take pictures of the kids hunting eggs but all I got was the back of their little heads. They were to fast for me.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Spring has Sprung!

Yes, we have Popcorn on our Apricot tree. I love the little white blossoms but know that with blossoming out so soon will mean no Apricots.

They smell so sweet and you can hear the buzz of the bees.

The next day we woke to the blossoms covered in snow.

My Little Friends

I have enjoyed these little Birds that made a home on our Ranch. They are California Spotted Quail. Richville is the only place you can find them in Arizona. They probably were brought here from someone that had them as pets and were released or got away from their cage. My brother Sherod was the one that told me this info. Isn't that cool? We really feel special that they made this their home.
I have to protect them (they are an endangered species when you have boys with pellet guns). The boys see them and want to go after them. Bart will tell the boys to leave their mom's birds alone. I guess I have claimed them as my own. I have tried to raise every other kind of domesticated bird. This might be the only kind I can have, wild birds, and call them mine with out having to do a thing and they can take care of themselves. I can sit back, watch, and just enjoy.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Life has lost it's enchantment!

You know, I have realized that this blogging thing can be kind of therapeutic. You can write down all that you're thinking and someone will read it and give you feed back. How amazing is that? And I don't have to pay $80.00 an hour. So here is my therapy session for the day.
Do you ever get in the blog stalking mood and before you know it you are feeling really kinda lousy? The more I read about how successful people are with their children, husbands, jobs and general life the more I slump down in my chair. I think to myself "Self, you are just a big Dud! You are not near as successful in your parenting, your children talk back and don't mind. Your husband thinks you are a piece of the furniture and you are late on your bills!!" I really feel like others must live such different lives. Why, they must not have to clean house, fight kids and their marriage must be so loving. Where was that sigh-up list? I missed it. I signed up on the "Hard Knock Life" list. Or maybe it was the "Real Life" list.
Don't get me wrong, I have kids that are good sometimes. I have a husband that notices me when I put make-up on once a month and my bills are paid when I talk to the collector on the phone! (Hey, I do have my organization skills, that's just how I choose to be organized.)
I guess It's 1:08 in the afternoon, time to get dressed for the day, the kids will be walking in from school. (You won't read that on perfect blogger moms ' blog now will ya?) Whew that was a great session. Thanks, I feel better already!

Monday, February 22, 2010

Sunday with Jaxten and Brayden

Sunday mornings, don't you just love them? Ours' at the Wiltbank home are rough and hectic. However hard I try to be prepared, you know the song "Saturday is a special day it's the day we get ready for Sunday" I have 2 saboteur's...Brayden and Jaxten. On Saturday I ask the boys "Did you put your Sunday clothes in the hamper from last week? Cuz I don't think I wash them." I hear nothing but crickets. So what am I to think? Okay, don't worry about it. So we get up on Sunday and first thing both boys say "Mom I can't find my clothes." Me..."oh come on, I asked you yesterday if you had them." Brayden comes in with a ball of wrinkled clothes and says he found them under his bed. (Big Surprise) Jaxten goes into that ugly whine and says he can't find anything. We find his clothes mixed in with Landon's behind ONE shirt. How hard is it to lOOk? Then it's the belt and next the tie that was left in the car from the LAST Sunday. (Good Grief) It just seems to be one of THOSE Sundays. Bart and Brayden leave early so Brayden can do his assignment to get ready for Sacrament meeting and Jaxten and I have to drive Landon's pick-up because he has my car. I'm hurrying and can't figure out how to move Landon's seat forward so I'm pushing the gas peddle with my tippy toes. We walk in the church just as they're shutting the Chapel doors. I scan each row to find my husband's loving bald head. Can't see it anywhere. I look towards the front of the Chapel and there he sits...allllll the wayyy in the front. So here I go dragging Jaxten behind me trying to look put together and hoping I don't have my skirt tucked into my pantyhose and mooning everyone as I go (I think those weird thoughts when I feel hurried). So I sit and listen to the welcome and introductions and they announce the opening prayer will be by ME! I thought I was the closing prayer so I was glad I made it on time. I say the prayer and (is it wrong to say uhm during a prayer?) sit down. That's when Jaxten starts in on me. He has to go through my purse, plays with his gum, unzips my boots. He starts his gripes about being hungry, tired, thirsty. He decides that I'm the jungle gym and sits, lays, rolls on me. I am out of patients and turn to Bart and say "I feel like I've been holding a bag of monkey's"

Then it's all over 3 hours later. Time to head home and nap. The truck feels kind of strange, no power. What did I do to it? I look down and the gas gage is on the big red E! Thank goodness Bart comes driving up. Don't you just wish you were there or maybe you had that kind of Sunday too. Boy was my nap long and good!!

Friday, January 15, 2010

Surprise, Surprise!

It has been eon's since I posted last. My excuse was Landon's on a mission.
I had to write him a weekly letter so I used that as "my family journal". Isn't that good enough? I have a 2 year history. Well that is now over and I ran out of excuses. Our family has gone through many changes. Landon leaving now home. Macie graduating and moving to Utah, then coming home, than moving up there again, and now coming home again to get ready to go to the Valley in a few months after she saves up some Denero. Brayden has out grown me and is shooting up so tall. He is going to be huge if you look at his feet. They look like a rats foot, very long and skinny. I will have to post a picture, if I can catch him when he's not looking. Jaxten is the little one and drives us all to a point we feel insane. (yes we do love him) most the time.
We have enjoyed having Landon home. It is kind of weird having all our children under one roof again. It's also strange to not pray for Landon's missionary efforts but now have change to praying for all missionaries again. I can't tell you how much his mission has helped our family. We all loved it so much. It really did bless us. I know this because the first week he was home the dryer broke, I was overdrawn in my bank account and the t.v. when on the fritz! I had friends warn me that this would happen. I guess we were blessed that our junk would keep working while he was out. I guess we can look forward to Brayden going in a few years.
I would post lots of pictures of his arrival at the airport if I had any. My camera was turned on by accident for a day and when I pulled it out the battery light was flashing. Maybe some of those that were there will share with me.
We waited for Landon to open our Christmas presents on the 31st of Dec. It was the best Christmas ever! It was weird waiting. I thought maybe it wouldn't feel real but it was even better. I am kind of lazy right now so I will post pictures soon.
All I wanted to really say is "I'm back to the posting world" and I need to work on this so I can created a "fabulous" book for our generations to come will be impressed with there great-great grandmother's
family history skills. Maybe I can fool them!!