♫ You have a birthday shout, hooray
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- [Jeremy] Happy Birthday, Mom!
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♫ You today while you're older, wiser too
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♫ Happy birthday to you.
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- [Child] Close your
eyes when you walk over.
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- You have a surprise for me?
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- [Child] You're 32.
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- Wow, that's beautiful.
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- [Jeremy] She made art
out of her eggs for you.
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- Wow, what is it a art of?
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- [Jeremy] Obviously.
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- [Kendra] Oh, it's art of a shoe.
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- From the art festival
I tried to make it.
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- [Kendra] You're right, we didn't see art
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out of eggs at the art festival.
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How creative, I love the
way your brain works.
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♫ Happy birthday to you
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♫ Happy birthday dear Mommy
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♫ Happy birthday to you
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things Kendra loves.
- Cha, cha, cha,
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with a cherry on top.
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- [Kendra] Cha, cha, cha
with a cherry on top.
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- Is fruit and muffins for breakfast
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and since we had raspberries
we're going to do
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grateful raspberries, Mom edition.
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Laura is sad over here, she
just wanted a raspberry.
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Laura, what are you
grateful for about Mom?
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- I'm grateful that Mom had me.
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- [Jeremy] Yeah, she had you.
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- Grateful for Mom that
she rocks me to sleep.
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- [Mom] I like rocking you too.
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- I'm grateful for Mom that she is a
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- [Jeremy] She is a very--
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- And a very nice Mom.
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- Yeah.
- Thank you.
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- I'm grateful that Kendra is so honest.
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She's a sincere, honest, authentic person,
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like she faces her weaknesses
and she wants to improve
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and she's a very honest about that
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and I love that about
her, it's very inspiring
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and a neat thing to be married
to someone who's like that.
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- Thank you guys, you guys are so sweet.
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I am grateful that I have
a family that loves me
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and is patient with me in
spite of my many shortcomings.
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- [Child] I love you.
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Should we eat some muffins?
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- For my birthday today we
are going on an adventure
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as a family and I got to
pick where we're going
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and I'm really excited
because I wanted to go here
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the whole time we've lived in Kansas City,
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which is five years, so I
chose the Kansas City Library.
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Last year on my birthday we
also went on an adventure,
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like a family adventure,
and last year I chose
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to go to the Arbor Day Tree
Farm, which is up in Nebraska
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and it's like an outdoor park play space,
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like almost an outdoor
children's museum for the kids.
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We weren't vlogging then
but we took lots of pictures
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so I'll try to ... ugh, that's
a bumpy part of the road ...
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Anyway, I will try to get
Jeremy to put some of those
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pictures in because it was great
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and I think we might have to
make this a family tradition
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that I get to choose
some like fun place that
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I've always wanted to go and drag Jeremy
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and the kids along with
me for my birthdays.
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- [Kendra] Awesome.
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- Hopefully we do Hawaii next year.
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- That would be fun.
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Well there's loads of
construction going on
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in downtown Kansas City and I accidentally
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took us to the wrong library first.
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I took us to the library on the Plaza
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instead of the library downtown.
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Oops, so everybody's
being really good sports
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and being patient as the drive is
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a little bit longer than we'd planned.
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Look at those happy faces.
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Look at them, they look so happy.
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They look like they're
overflowing with happiness.
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It looks like if they had
happiness in their noses
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it would be dribbling
out like green boogers.
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They are seriously just so happy.
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Their mood is contagiously giggly.
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It's like enough giggles that
it would fill helium balloons
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and rise them all the
way up to the ceiling
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and then they would burst
with all the happiness
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we have in this car.
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And this is the happiest site of them all.
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There it is guys, we found it.
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There it is.
- Look at this place.
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- Jeremy, two hour parking right there.
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I am really, really glad
that Jeremy is driving.
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I am a decent driver but I am
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the world's worst parallel parker.
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I'm a pretty lucky gal.
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- There's the Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
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and it's by Mark Twain.
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- What's Mark Twain's real name?
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- So guys, when this
was a bank this is where
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they kept the money to keep it safe.
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Guys, what is this?
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Whoa, it's a studio camera.
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This is a video camera.
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- You guys imagine if we had to vlog
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holding one of those things?
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- [Child] It would be heavy.
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- [Kendra] Vlogging in 1915.
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- So we're out on the roof of the library
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and they have a big chess set out here,
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which is kind of cool.
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- Alright, well that was
a great family outing.
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I really enjoyed it, there were moments of
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like pure magic and
then there were moments
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of tantrums and getting
lost and our schedule
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going way late and now
everybody's way over tired
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and over hungry, so, you know, real life
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but there were those glorious moments
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so I'm grateful for those.
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- This one's from Laura.
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Lets see her picture, ooh,
did you draw that for me?
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- [Child] Uh huh, she did.
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- Yeah, you sure did.
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- That's you and that's me.
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I was mad and you were happy
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and on the next one you
were mad and I was happy.
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- Oh.
- And I drawed a rainbow.
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That is a beautiful picture.
- Two pictures.
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- [Kendra] I love you.
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- Thanks for getting that for me.
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Happy birthday, I love you.
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There's a rainbow, is
that us playing together?
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Is that us swinging together?
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- [Child] A chicken.
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- [Kendra] And a chicken.
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- [Jeremy] Of course.
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Lisey, it's beautiful.
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Let's see what's inside.
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Oh, it's nail polish!
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Wow, what a beautiful color!
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Alright, well guys, this
was the best birthday ever.
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- Is there still one more?
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Holy smokes, good thing I had four kids.
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Alright let's see.
- That one's from Isaac.
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- [Jeremy] Good reason to have a fifth.
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One more present from
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the dollar store.
- From, Issac.
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Happy birthday, Mom, I love you.
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I'm excited for you, my
birthday too, you are 32 now.
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Do you like having birthdays
and do you like having kids?
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Yes, I like birthdays
and yes, I like my kids.
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- [Jeremy] He had little
check boxes for you?
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- [Kendra] Yep, happy birthday, Kendra.
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- And a goldfish over a
bridge with a rainbow.
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- And the water, like it's over a river.
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- Yeah, yeah, I can see it's a river.
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- [Child] Can I see?
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That's beautiful, Issac,
thank you so much.
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- I was, it's a Monet garden.
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- Oh, it's a Monet garden with the bridge.
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- So we have a really nice friend
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make this cake for Kendra.
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- [Jeremy] Yeah, yeah, there it is.
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(children laughing)
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Did Mom just blow out the candles?
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- [Child] Are you turning two?
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♫ Happy birthday dear Mommy
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♫ Happy birthday to you
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- So this cake is chocolate peanut butter.
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This is peanut butter mousse inside
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and dark chocolate ganache on the top.
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The box made it sound really good.
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- Yeah, there's mousse in there.
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- [Kendra] How's that mousse?
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- [Jeremy] Laura's loving life.
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- [Isaac] So moose meat is in there?
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- [Kendra] No, not moose meat.
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Mousse is like pudding or frosting.
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- [Jeremy] Okay, so how did this happen?
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This is all your fault.
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- Okay, so we started a new system
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to try to encourage the kids
to keep their shoes in the bins
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and if I find their
shoes out, I kidnap 'em
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and they have to do a
chore to get 'em back
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and if they see Jeremy or I's shoes out,
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they can kidnap 'em and we have to
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play a game with them to get them out.
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- [Jeremy] You've had to
play several games, right?
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- I have.
- This is my first time
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Dang it, you got me!
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You got me, what game should we play?
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- Rock, paper, scissors.
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- [Jeremy] Rock, paper, scissors?
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- [Kendra] Okay to get your shoes back.
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- Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
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Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
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Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
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Okay, okay, go get in the car.
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We're going to Uncle Brent's.
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He's going to watch them
tonight while we go on our date.
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- Yay!
- We're going
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to do the sprinkler with them.
- It's going to be fun.
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- Alright, so we came down
to The Cheesecake Factory
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on the Plaza for my
birthday dinner tonight
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and we got like my favorite seat.
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It overlooks the Plaza and the fountains
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And anyway, I ordered the same meal
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I get every time I come.
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Jeremy gets something
different every time we come
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and I like stick with
the exact same thing,
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I just love it and now we
got my favorite cheesecake,
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- The first time I got the vanilla bean,
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Kendra made fun of me, she
was like, it's so boring,
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and then she tasted some
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and she's ordered it every time since.
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- It's really good, if
you haven't tried it,
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you really should try it.
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Okay, we're going to go enjoy our food.
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Alright, so we are headed
home from our date night
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and it was an awesome date
and an awesome birthday.
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I just really enjoyed spending
the time with my family.
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Whoa, that was a dark tunnel, anyway,
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thanks so much for all the
birthday love on Twitter
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and Instagram and YouTube and Facebook,
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I really appreciated
that, so you guys, thanks.
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That's it for today, J House out.
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- Hi J House, my name is Maddie
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and I live in McKinney,
Texas, J House out.
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- Hello, I'm Melissa from
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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