What's in a bag?

We went rock climbing on a pretty windy day and we didn't have a tent for Fisher. We were getting fustrated trying to protect him from the wind while still having freedom to climb. Finally, Heather Lords came up with a solution. It worked perfectly, but I had to wonder, is this legal?

You may be thinking, is that a baby in that rope bag? Here's another glimpse:

And a close-up of him sleeping:

Got pictures:

It's been a while, so here's a photo journal of a couple of weeks ago. Last week we had a long vacation at City of Rocks and with family in Logan, and those pictures will come soon. But to tide you over until then, here's a few recent snapshots:

We finally caught a (blurry) picture of Fisher smiling at his mommy:


Indy loves to come sing to his baby brother. When he says baby brother though, it sounds like peanut butter. It's cute when Indy rubs Fisher's head, he always says "awww..."
Jennilyn, Indy, Fisher and Chaco after a morning run (why I'm posting a picture of me after running I don't know).

WHOA and Chaco has psycho eyes.
To even things out, here's a picture of Ben and the boys playing on the couch:
We also went to the circus in the early part of June. Indy LOVES elephants for some reason, so he was way excited to see them. We didn't pay to let him ride the elephant (like $10 for a 30 sec ride?!!) but standing by the ring we were an arms reach away.
On June 14th, Ben rocked the Teton Dam Marathon. He was the race director this year, and I must say it went well! Here's a picture of him at the 5k/10k race award ceremony:
To everyone's amusement, one day while rock climbing Marty encouraged Indy to ride her dog Magnum. We caught a picture of my son torturing the dog:
Fisher also gets to party while climbing. We set up a tent for Fisher, Owen, and Micah to have a place to chill out of the sun and wind.
Last but not least, here's a picture of Indy collapsed on the floor. Normally he won't sleep anywhere but his bed, but one day after lots of playtime at the park he walked in the door, collapsed on the floor, and passed out. I think I'll go to the park everyday.

Bean: WANTED, dead or alive!

It finally happened, the day of devastation and destruction. We lost the bean. In case you don't know what "bean" is, here is a picture of how Indy sleeps, lives, and functions:Okay, so Indy looks demented in this picture. But that is nothing to how he looks when he's at Wal-Mart, climbing out of the pathetic single-strap grocery cart and throwing cheezits on the ground because I ate one while he's screaming at the top of his lungs. That yucky blue blanket above, that's the only thing that can stop one of those tantrums.

At bedtime, we realized bean was gone. We searched the house, tearing open closets and cupboards trying to find it, while I'm cursing under my breath about not having cut the stupid thing in half and hiding it for times like this. Then we realize: maybe it's at the church! So I run over to the church, in my jammies and without shoes, but no luck. I call the nursery leader and get the keys to the nursery closet. Ben searched every toy box in the nursery (looking in the dolls and dress-ups first since they are cloth) but found it in with the trucks. My hero!


We made coldstone (that's right Liz, I have a personal coldstone set at home) with peanut-butter and chocolate fudge to celebrate.

The next Chris Sharma

We made a mini jug haul for Indy to climb at the local gym. He can climb it all by himself! So here's a video of his accomplishment:



Since I am fully aware that many of you do not know who Chris Sharma is, I have a reasonable excuse to post a beautiful picture of the best climber alive.
Ahh, that made my day.

Now, here's a cute picture of Fisher. One day, he'll climb too, so he can be on this post as well.
Since I'm posting about beautiful beings and climbers, here's the most handsome (I'm not allowed to call Ben beautiful) climber of them all:
Haha okay here's nice picture of Ben:
That's right, he's cute, he snuggles babies, AND he does dishes. (And he scored in-law points for making the first "Fisher" boy, who is very cute.)

Indy's Potty Mouth

Here's a cute video of Indy, who recently learned the word "frog." Now everything is "frog." He says it so much, and so incorrectly, I had to educate some of my nieces and nephews on the curse word Indy was saying. Oops! We did not teach him that word, here you can CLEARLY see him, unprovoked, talking away. Enjoy.

Bling Bling Bob

This is a Bob the Builder music video. If you know Indy, you know he is obsessed with precisely two things (other than ice cream and cereal like his mommy): Bob the Builder and music. So the combination of the two things makes Indy go wild, singing this music video over and over in sacrament meeting, at Wal-Mart, etc. Even now, sitting next to me, he is singing with the occasional patting of the keyboard and yelling "more." So we will watch it again right now.