- [Chris] Look at this little cutie
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- Good morning everyone.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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We are getting ready to
go to my sisters house
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Colleen is hosting Thanksgiving this year.
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Bailey and Duncan are
finishing up their breakfast.
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What are you eating?
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- [Chris] You're eating
oatmeal too? So cool.
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- [Chris] Water, that's
a reason to celebrate.
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- Two days ago, me,
Jacob, Parker, and Daddy
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we made a whole bunch of muffins.
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We made 48 muffins,
but we ate four of them
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so now there's only 44.
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Let's take a look here.
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The kids made these
pretty much on their own.
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I got out the mixer
when the mix got too big
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for the bowl they were using,
so I helped them transfer it.
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But they really did this all on their own.
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These are banana muffins.
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Jacob, Parker and I made cranberry sauce.
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We made two of them.
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The store was out of vegetable broth
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which we need for our vegetarian gravy
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so I made vegetable broth
out of old veggies that
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I found in the fridge,
two jars of the stuff.
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So that's what we're going to bring.
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Oh, and also vegan oatmeal
chocolate chip cookies
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which Jess has been enjoying quite a bit
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because she is off of dairy because it
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upsets Luke's little tummy when she drinks
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dairy or has dairy, so vegan.
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And Rachel will enjoy those as well.
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Parker just got his shoes on, boots.
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Why do you have on such big boots?
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- Because I got them for Annie.
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- [Chris] For Annie?
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Because all of the orphans
wear these boots and
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you got some cool boots and
you've been wearing them
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like every day since you got them.
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- [Chris] Jacob's all
ready too, these two guys
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I've got to say, they super
helped out this morning.
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They got up early, they
did a bunch of cleaning,
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they did a whole bunch of
chores, getting ready to go
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and make sure our house is nice
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when we get back to it.
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So thank you fellas.
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Not only did they do their own chores,
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but their sister was
sleeping and they were like
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"let's do some of her chores too".
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- Do we get an award?
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- [Chris] You get two thumbs up.
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One on this side, and I've got to switch
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to hold the camera, and one on this side.
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I can't do both at the same time unless
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I hold the camera with my teeth.
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That's a bad idea, I'm not going to do it.
02:24
I'm not going to hold
the camera with my teeth.
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Why don't you hold the camera
with your teeth right here?
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- [Chris] Okay, so here
we go, let's do this.
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Here, two thumbs up.
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There's two thumbs up.
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- I'm never going to
touch that strap again.
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- [Chris] And then there's
this little sleepy head.
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- Hey you good morning.
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- [Chris] Good morning, how are you doing?
02:50
- Good, just watching over my little cutie
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while I sip my tea and have
a lactation boosting brownie.
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- [Chris] Yum, sounds delicious.
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You've been busy this morning, you pumped,
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you were taking care of the baby and
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taking care of the kids.
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- But it's been a great morning.
03:06
- [Chris] I think this
is like the first time
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you've sat down this morning.
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- [Chris] You're in bed
now, but you haven't
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been in bed all morning.
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- [Chris] Just saying.
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- I mean clearly this
isn't how I wake up, sorry.
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- Well I think she looks
that nice when she wakes up.
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- He's having a good first Thanksgiving.
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- He's got born in the holiday season,
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so he's experiencing every holiday.
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- [Chris] Isn't that cool?
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- [Chris] Are you excited
about the holidays?
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- [Chris] What are you
excited about for today?
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- I'm excited to eat the food.
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The funny thing about me is
I don't like chicken, so.
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- [Chris] Well it's a good
thing that Thanksgiving
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you have turkey instead.
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- Yeah I don't like turkey too.
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I don't like any meat instead of bacon.
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- [Chris] You're just a bacontarian?
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- [Chris] And fish. What
about eggs and cheese?
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Are you a lacto-ovo-pescatari-bacontarian?
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- Yeah I'll have that.
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- [Chris] Look at this little cutie.
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- [Chris] Are you tipping your hat?
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Who picked out your
outfit today, was it you?
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- No it was Bailey.
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- [Chris] It was Bailey? You
look like a little newsie.
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Are you a little newsie?
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- I packed two bags.
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- Because I'm doing
something special and please
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don't say what it is.
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- [Chris] Okay, we'll save it for later.
04:41
- Yeah, but you can
talk about the suitcase.
04:44
- [Chris] Okay, so you got a suitcase.
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But we can't talk about what's in it.
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- No you can talk about
what its in the suitcase
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Just not my other bag.
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- [Chris] Oh. So you've got
a suitcase and another bag,
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but we can't talk about the other bag.
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All right are you ready
to get in the car Duncan?
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- [Chris] All right, lets go.
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We are at Colleen's house now,
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and we're here a little early.
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So we're going to help with
some of the cooking and
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preparation, and the
kids are all distracting
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each other right now, which is great.
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They're keeping each other
busy while the adults
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set up everything and
get ready for the meal.
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It's going to be a great day.
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I love Thanksgiving.
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It's one of my favorite holidays.
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Are you guys playing?
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- [Chris] What is this?
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- It's a cape and this
should be spread open.
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- [Chris] Why is it
hanging from the second
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story down to here?
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- Because it's for a show.
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- [Chris] You're doing a show today?
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- This is what that bag was for.
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- It's all clothes.
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- So I guess we're getting a little
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Thanksgiving dinner theater.
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- [Chris] Your curtain doubled in size.
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- I know, I'm trying to figure out a way
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to make this the middle
because like these would
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be stripped there, but
these are too short.
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So I'm trying to figure it out.
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- [Chris] I think you could
just use these two and not
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need this covered, no?
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Rachel's here, Rachel's here.
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- What's up? I'm making
room for everybody.
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Jake come be strong with me.
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- I was standing right here.
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- [Rachel] You're holding a camera.
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- I was standing right
here, and she's like
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"No I want the Jake, he's the strong one".
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- Well he is, I mean look at him.
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- [Chris] Yeah, he is the strong one.
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- [Rachel] Is he going one handed?
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Oh look at that, let's
put it right here bud.
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- So every year, people ask me what is in
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this vegetarian gravy
that I make and this year
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it is vegan gravy because we are using
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Earth's Balance, instead of butter.
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- [Colleen] Hashtag sponsored.
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- Hashtag not sponsored Colleen.
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- But if they want us to do a sponsorship
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you know our email is down there
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- There's a contact somewhere.
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- Anyway, so it is half a cup of flour.
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You kind of brown it in
the pan and then you add
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a stick of butter, or
Earth's Balance and then
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stir that until it's all melted.
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And then you add at least
17 ounces of vegetable broth
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and just increase the broth until
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it's a consistency that you like.
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I think it usually ends up being closer
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And then you add two
tablespoons of nutritional yeast
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not brewers yeast, nutritional yeast.
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Add two tablespoons of soy sauce and then
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and then pepper and then salt.
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You don't really need salt,
mostly the pepper to taste.
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I put in a ton of pepper, I love pepper.
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And that kind of balances
it out, and that's it.
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And I always am kind of
tasting it near the end
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and making sure that it's
what I want it to taste like.
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Because it can get kind
of salty, or it can
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get drowned out by the
vegetable broth and you
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just kind of want to
make it a good balance.
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And it is delicious.
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- This is a recipe that Jessica has been
09:10
working on for years and so I'll show you
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a picture of her recipe.
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- [Jessica] I've just been
experimenting with it.
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- [Chris] So she makes
changes and then adds to her
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little recipe page that is now yellow.
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It looks like a treasure
map at this point.
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It's like the edges
are all burned and like
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- It's real recipe, it's the real deal.
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- And as a non-vegan this
gravy is really bomb.
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I've had it, it's delicious.
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- These curtains keep growing.
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Parker loves to make an entrance,
so he's setting that up.
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Sugar, butter flour.
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- [Jessica] It's vegan land.
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Vegan mashed potatoes, Bailey
made vegan banana muffins
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We have vegan cranberry sauce.
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All cranberry sauce should be vegan.
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Well except for white sugar
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but we're not going to go there.
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- [Chris] All the littlest ones.
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- Their first Thanksgivings.
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- [Chris] Did you tell them
all about Thanksgiving?
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You did? You told them?
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Okay, so they know?
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What kind of food are you going to get?
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- [Chris] A what, a sandwich?
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That's what you want is a sandwich?
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Let's pick out some food, let's get it.
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Look at this feast.
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- [Chris] No? You don't want the broccoli?
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The one tiny little broccoli?
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We're going to teach
you to eat the broccoli.
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- [Chris] It's happening.
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- I'm eating my food.
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- I'm thankful for Luke and everyone here.
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- I'm thankful for my family,
my friends and my pets.
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- I'm thankful for food.
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- [Jessica] And grandma.
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- [Jessica] And Aunt Rachel.
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- I'm thankful for myself.
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- Duncan what are you
thankful for, the Grinch?
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- [Chris] That was a very Grinchy frown.
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I'm thankful for all of my kids.
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Are you one of my kids?
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And I'm thankful for
mommy and I'm thankful
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for our family and
friends and all the people
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that are here today eating food with us
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or watching us eat food out there,
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I'm thankful for you guys.
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- [Chris] And I'm
thankful that he's asleep.
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- [Jessica] How's it going Duncan?
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- [Chris] Do you like Thanksgiving?
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- I'm thankful for you.
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And I'm thankful for you,
and I'm thankful for you.
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And I'm thankful for you,
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and I'm thankful for you.
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Let's go find daddy.
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We're going to tell daddy
we're thankful for daddy.
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Oh where is he, oh there he is.
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He's got a lot of turkey on his plate.
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He also has the most cat hair.
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- [Jessica] You're covered, I'm going to
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make sure that it focuses but
first I want to say something.
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I'm thankful for you.
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- [Chris] Wait I need
to show this to Colleen.
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- [Jessica] Colleen, look at Christopher.
13:03
You're used to this but.
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- [Chris] This is the grossest place.
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- My cats are really gross.
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- [Jessica] Hi little sweetie.
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Oh what are you doing? Are
you getting daddy's cat hair?
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What do you think, is that pretty gross?
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- [Chris] Oh Bailey, are
you getting some pie? Nice.
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So look at the chocolate
chip, the pumpkin.
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- [Chris] You want a goopy?
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- [Chris] Okay, all right.
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- [Colleen] Usually it's
more congealed, but I feel
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like that's just going to be a lot of
13:47
goopy delicious, so I'm not mad at it.
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- [Jessica] Oh he loves it.
13:53
- Turkey front, turkey
front. Hi little turkey.
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- [Jessica] Hi turkey.
13:57
- Are you a turkey? Look
at your little turkey butt.
13:59
- [Jessica] Let's see
give me the full turkey.
14:04
- Are you a turkey?
14:06
- [Jessica] Oh, gobble gobble.
14:07
- [Chris] Rachel is
playing a very stressful
14:13
- And the kids are making buzzing noises.
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- [Chris] Are you sure
that's not the game?
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Daddy it's your turn.
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- I'm about to do my show.
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Bailey and Duncan are in the show.
14:33
- [Chris] Bailey and
Duncan are in the show?
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Is the operation man in the show?
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Why, you left something in him here.
14:39
- Pee pee pee pee pee.
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- I'm going to pick him up.
15:10
- Is this what the show is like?
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- [Chris] Yes very accurate.
15:20
- It's a hard nock life for us
15:27
- Don't it feel like the
wind is always howling
15:31
- Don't it seem like
there's never any light.
15:35
- Once a day don't you
want to throw the towel in?
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- It's easier than putting up a fight.
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- [Chris] It's a holiday
and you're playing
15:44
a board game with family.
15:46
How excited are you?
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- [Chris] This little guy is having
15:50
a good first Thanksgiving.
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Go back to sleep, there ya go.
15:55
The game just ended. Who won Jake?
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- [Chris] Mommy won.
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And this guy is hungry.
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He's hungry, got to take him to the food.
16:08
He wants a Thanksgiving feast.
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- So Luke and I have
some pretty awesome news.
16:13
He started actually nursing
a couple of days ago.
16:15
It hasn't been perfect
but he had like two days
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where he did total like
breastfeeding without
16:23
the nipple shield and
then he had a day where
16:26
he completely went back and
wouldn't breastfeed at all.
16:28
And then today he's back
to being okay with nursing.
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So I am currently nursing him.
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So that's pretty exciting for us.
16:35
You guys know what a journey
this has been for us.
16:37
I'll pump and give him extra breast milk
16:40
or whatever extra he needs
just if he seems hungry.
16:43
But so far this seems good.
16:47
So we're really excited
about that and tomorrow
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is going to be a lot of fun.
16:52
Tomorrow, we are filming
our vlogmas intro.
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We love doing fun special intros during
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the vlogmas time, and we
have some really fun things,
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and I bought some special
clothes for the kids
17:04
that we're going to give them tomorrow.
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So I'm really excited about that.
17:07
I got some new things for
me and Christopher as well.
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So that's what we will be
doing tomorrow, so yay.
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Thanksgiving has been so much fun
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and we get to have a really
great day tomorrow too.
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If you don't know what
vlogmas is, it is a time
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when we start doing daily
vlogs from Thanksgiving
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all the way through to the New Year.
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It is a tradition in our
family, we have been doing it
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I think for maybe five years or
17:30
maybe this could be our sixth
year, I don't know for sure.
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We vlog every day through
the Christmas season.
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It's so much fun, we do
so much during this time.
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If you haven't seen those
videos, you can go back
17:38
and see the previous years.
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I think there are playlists,
I'll put a card here for you.
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Gosh we have been doing vlogmas since
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the kids were so little, it's so awesome
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to have all of those
memories compiled like that.
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And the kids love going back and watching
17:53
all of our vlogmas videos,
and like Christmas morning
17:55
and stuff is something
they watch all the time.
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It's pretty special.
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And this year is obviously
extra special, because
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it is Luke's first Christmas.
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So, he will be joining us
for vlogmas for his very
18:07
first time, so we get to do
all of the firsts with him
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this year, like the last
time seeing Christmas lights
18:13
and getting a Christmas tree,
and it's just really fun.
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I know he's so little,
you think that it wouldn't
18:18
register that much, and overall it won't.
18:22
But Christmas lights are
so magical, like babies
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love them so much, and the
Christmas tree it still
18:26
is such a big deal, so
it will be really fun.
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