The Drew Israelsen Family

I wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!! There is nothing like a visit from Santa!(and this happens to be my favorite Santa in the whole world!!) Love you all and be safe in your travels!

One of our favorite holiday traditions is to decorate a tree on thanksgiving morning for Pa and meet Ma to delivery the tree and have a visit. We were lucky enough this year to have Uncle Chad go along. The kids know when we drive by there and they will always wave to grandpa and say hi. They have really enjoyed going by and seeing the lights on the tree at night. I think everyone needs to make a habit of a quick visit once in a while it creates a great time to share memories about him with each other and pass the memories onto the kids!!!!

Robert lost two teeth in the past week and was so excited about it!!! The second one he even pulled by himself. He was so funny when he lost them he had to call all his grandma's and grandpa's and of course aunt Jeana and Uncle Ron. He had a great time at the dollar store spending his earnings and told me that if he pulled all his teeth out he would have ALOT of money to spend.

It's been a while since I updated and it is pretty sad I am just getting to Rob's Birthday and Halloween. I can't beleive my baby boy is already 6!!! He loves school and is doing really well in it. The kids got TONS of Halloween candy and Lena absolutely loved it. Hopefully I will get back to updating more often!

Grandma Taylor once again held her tea party for the girls. They are supposed to bring a dress to wear to the party so this year I dug through my old stuff and found this old easter dress of mine for Lena to wear. She loved it and I think my mom loved seeing her in it!

This is Lena's new Greggy Girl outfit that my friend sent to me for her. She loved getting a package in the mail just for her and Chel sent her a bunch of little extras. What a lucky girl!

A friendly game of kick ball!

MINI ME!!

The love of my life!

Uncle Tom goes Head to Head with Baby Britan. (Britan WON!)

Three great kids! Alex, Maddy, and Paden.

Drew even got my mom to go for a cruse.

Picture perfect!

We had the annual Hale family get together with some fun games camping and boating! I love spending time with all of you and hope you all had as much fun as we did!!!

We had the chance to go boating with Matt, Jen and Abby. Thanks guys we had a great time!

We celebrated the 4th last night with dutch oven dinner and fireworks everyone seemed to have a great time and it was good getting together with my family! Happy 4th of July!

We went camping with our neighbors last weekend and had a great time. Rob did his usually climbing on everything and anything and loved every minute of it. Lena loved wondering around and exploring everything new that she had never seen before and Drew and I enjoyed each other and just relaxing by the fire! Hopefully we will have many more camping adventures this summer!

Drew woke up to Robert "washing" (with irragation water) his work van for father's day. Rob was so proud! We got a chance to visit our dad's. We love you all and are glad that we had the chance to show you the respect that you show us! We even got the chance to visit pa and take him a father's day flower. The kids were so cute when we left they both got right down in front of his head stone and said "see ya later grandpa Rob!" Sometimes I wonder how much they really know that I don't!! Drew is such as awesome daddy and I could never ask for anyone better to be the daddy to my kids...I love you babe!

I took Robert into the Dr today because he has had a rash and this was the third day with no improvment it has actually been getting worse. I contacted poison control because he had gotten into our fertilizer and didn't know if that was the cause. The Dr told me that it is actually a rash caused from a virus that he has had within the past few weeks and this isn't contagious it will run its course and nothing I can do. He did have fifths when he was a baby but he also ran a fever with that, so this one isn't near as bad. The Dr assured me that it wasn't caused from me not making sure the sunscreen was washed off of him or that I let him run through the sprinklers (irrigation water). While we were there I thought what better time to get the rest of school shots. BAD IDEA!!!! Rob has never even flinched with shots since he was an infant and his last batch we did in Dec he got 5 and it didn't phase him...today a total different story. Literally kicking and screaming. He had the death grip on the chair while hiding underneath it after I pryed him off of that it was a fight to keep his leg still enough to poke him. What happened in the last 6 months?! At least shots are done and he is ready for school. By the way the pics of his rash don't show actually how bad it is. It makes me cringe and want to scratch myself but it doesn't make him skip a beat.

I am asking for thoughts and prayers to go out to my mom. She has an appointment at the huntsman tomorrow to check a lump that was found in her head. She has been living with cancer for 5 years and has been awesome with dealing with it! I look up to her alot and each day see more of her in myself. We are all praying for good news tomorrow, so please say a prayer and send it her way! These pictures are of her youngest and oldest grand daughters both named after her. (Lena Jean and Bonny Jean)

After 6 years of dating Bonny and Brady are finally Mr and Mrs Roylance. I am so happy for them and the wedding was really fun. It was a long day but everything was great. The kids did awesome at their jobs and loved every minute of it. Rob looked SO cute in his top hat!