The Drew Israelsen Family

Robert and his friend Christopher have a new favorite game and it is Lego Star Wars for the Playstation 3. They will spend hours trying to defeat "dark vader" and love to be "rodger rodger" They get so excited while they are playing that they continually jump up and down. You will never catch them sitting down while playing the game. Neither one of them had a clue that I was taking these pictures of them. As you can see Robert takes his game playing very seriously. At least he is working off some of his untamed energy while he is playing.

We had a cookout at Brady and Bonny's house and Robert and Lena loved chasing the goats! Rob was a little stand offish at first until his sister got right in there and went after them, then he decided it was ok if his little sister could do it so could he.

Drew and I took My mom and step Dad to the show last night as a Fathers day birthday combo gift. Drew's mom had seats right next to us and Melissa and Anna joined her. We had a great time and really enjoyed the show. I wasn't actually aware when we bought the tickets that it was a Saturday's warrior, white star combination and none of us had ever seen the white star. It is the continuation of Jimmy Flinders life (post Saturday's warrior). Jimmy's son sings a song in it about his dad and how he looks up to him and there is a part in it that hit all of us setting there pretty hard. He started to sing about how he was on a camping trip and got lost for 2 days and his dad found him. (As many of you know Drew got lost in the Uinta's on a family camping trip.) He talked about the comfort he felt in his fathers arms. It was pretty AWESOME to say the least. At the intermission break Melissa looked at Drew and said "I think that song was written for you." We had a good night with everyone and recommend the show to anyone who has the chance.

We have been wanting trees in our backyard since the only one we have is my poor apple tree that has already been completely eaten by one of Drew's dogs. So we went to Sam's club and they had a great deal and we came home with 5 new trees. I can't wait until they get big and we have shade in our backyard!! Drew felt really ambitious in the morning when we started planting the trees and decided to stain the fence as well. Half way through Drew said we should finish another day but....you know me I hate having something half done so of course we finished the job in one day. We were both beat and in need of a shower by the end of the day but the fence and the yard look great!

We went to Stacey's house on Friday night for our weekly steak cook out (ok it's only been two weeks in a row but I think we should make it a ritual). Robert and Landon decided that they wanted to have a sleep over so Meg and Lena felt a little left out. Stacey kept Rob and Landon and Meg came home with us. The girls had a great time!! They played princess, house (of course Meg was the mom) and tooted away on the flutes that Uncle Chad brought home from Mexico for the kids. These girls are so funny together!! Their imagination runs WILD!

The other day I walked up stairs and there was Lena on the potty wearing her sun glasses of course. She has such a funny personality and there is rarely a day that goes by that she doesn't make me just laugh!! I love her so much and love spending time with her.

No Drew does not own a Harley. This is his friend Mark's bike. He was just sitting on it and dreaming. He took it for a ride up the canyon and really enjoyed it. Maybe some day he will have one just not today.

So I got a guitar for Christmas and have only learned 2 cords and have NO IDEA how to tune the darn thing. Looks like it is my turn for lessons next!

This is how Drew wishes he could play the drums but I must admit he is getting better.