(gentle guitar music)
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- [Jared] Penny, what good is a pillow
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if you don't even lay on it?
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- Well after laying in bed all morning
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and Jackson's like please, I want to eat,
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I'm like fine, I'll get up,
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I'll make breakfast.
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and Jackson wanted to eat outside.
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I said it's a little cold, I think.
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He goes that's okay.
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And so he is eating outside.
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Is that what you're doing?
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- [Ellie] And you can
see my pan the other day,
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I totally smoked the house out,
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so I threw it out here to cool off.
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Why are you cute to want
to eat out there Spiderman?
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Okay do you want me to close the door
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or do you want to come in?
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You want to come in now?
00:46
- [Jared] Hi, you're on
the phone with someone?
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Who are you talking to?
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Oh the graham cracker.
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What did the graham cracker have to say?
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- [Jared] Are you talking?
01:00
It's ringing, answer it.
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He's gotta update his app first.
01:02
- [Jared] Hey that's his
phone, where's your phone?
01:04
He's gotta update his apps
first, before he can use it okay?
01:06
- [Jared] The new operating
system just came out.
01:09
He's gotta update, so he
has the latest firmware.
01:10
- Where's the letter E?
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- Like what kid uses a graham cracker
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That is the time that
we're living in right now,
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where phones are this thin
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and they look like candy bars
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and graham crackers.
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What's the deal guys?
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We get home from church
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and the first thing you can do is just
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take off your clothes
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and you're in your diaper and undies?
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What's the deal, huh?
01:34
Huh, what's the deal?
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He gave this knife and
just patted me on the leg
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and was like, here you go Dad.
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Hey are you comfy now?
01:45
Are you comfy now?
- Yeah.
01:47
- [Jared] Close your eyes, go to sleep.
01:48
- That's his reaction from
when Mom and Dad just kissed.
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- Hey Jackson, I want to kiss her.
02:06
- Jared just kissed me and Jackson went
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Wait wait Jackson wait
stop stop stop stop,
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wait wait, hold on one second.
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- You're a goofball.
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Follow me this way here real quick.
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Let's take a closer look.
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Oh, some more evidence here.
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- [Ellie] Go tell Dad what you did.
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- Come over here young man.
02:49
Calvin Scott Mecham,
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I need you to come over with me please.
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Excuse me young man,
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do you know anything
about this right here?
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- [Jared] Well where's the rest of it?
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- [Jared] It's gone?
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- [Jared] Where did it go?
03:17
- [Jared] Where'd it go, you're
gonna show me where it went?
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- [Jared] Okay let's see, show me the way.
03:27
- No not here okay.
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- [Ellie] Did he look in the toilet?
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- [Jared] Well he went
in there and said no.
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Where did it go, show me.
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No, not down the stairs.
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- This is the great chocolate detective.
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Show me where it went.
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Okay, is it in your tummy?
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- Yes, it's in your tummy.
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It's in your tummy?
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- [Jared] You took me
on this wild goose chase
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and it's in your tummy this whole time?
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- Dad, he took one and
it was in his tummy.
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- Yeah, oh my goodness.
04:29
Okay well here's the deal,
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you are your mother's
son, that's for sure,
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that's point number one.
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Yeah, I'm looking at you.
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- Point number two,
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you can't just leave garbage
lying around the house.
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Let's go throw it in the garbage, okay?
04:42
- You know what, that made my
dad always always the maddest,
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he'd be like I don't care that you ate
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I don't care that you ate it,
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don't leave the empty bag in the pantry,
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because then that makes me mad
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when I go to eat the licorice
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and there's none there.
- There's nothing there.
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- That's the worse thing.
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I'm guilty of that more than anyone else.
05:01
in the world.
- Oh yeah.
05:03
- Calvin, that was hilarious.
05:04
- You guys have seen on our vlogs
05:06
and on Ellie's Instagram Stories
05:08
that we love Hello Fresh.
05:10
It is dinner time, so we
are making Hello Fresh.
05:11
But what you guys probably don't see
05:14
is all of the times outside of the vlog
05:16
that we're actually using
and making Hello Fresh,
05:19
because we love it.
05:21
It's easy, its quick and it's delicious.
05:22
Hello Fresh is a meal kit delivery service
05:25
that delivers food to your door for free
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in a recyclable, insulated box
05:30
and all of the food is pre-measured, cut,
05:32
whatever you need to
make it fast and easy.
05:36
Today we are making
Carolina Barbecue Chicken
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and I've just gotta smash
this chicken down to size.
05:42
(chill twangy music)
05:47
While we're watching this sizzle,
05:50
it smells so good already,
05:51
every week, Hello Fresh comes out
05:53
with new recipes and they come
05:54
with step by step instructions.
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And each meal takes
like 30 minutes to cook.
05:58
This one says it takes about 20 minutes.
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Each meal comes out to less than 10 bucks,
06:02
so it's a great deal for great food.
06:05
- So while Jared is
finishing making up dinner,
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I wanted to tell you guys
06:08
that we only have three meals shipped
06:09
You can definitely have more,
06:13
but we have felt that for our family
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that that's perfect,
because if there's a day
06:17
we want to go out to
dinner, we can do that,
06:20
and that also gives me the opportunity
06:22
to still cook some meals that I want,
06:24
but I'm not so overwhelmed
with cooking every night.
06:26
The meals that we've made
that I've absolutely loved,
06:30
I've written down, and then I go out
06:33
and by those on my own and make those,
06:35
in addition to the meals that we get
06:38
So I have Beef Ragu Spaghetti
06:41
that I have written down
that I really liked.
06:42
And the Southwest Stuffed
Peppers are awesome.
06:44
You can see Calvin drew all over it.
06:48
But those peppers are my favorite
06:51
and I instagramed those the other day,
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or I tweeted that the other day.
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It was by far my favorite
06:56
and then I made it for my
sisters the other night.
06:57
And then today for lunch,
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I actually made the Chicken
Pineapple Quesadilla.
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So good, like all the meals are hearty,
07:04
I cook a lot more in the kitchen,
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but it's just been a nice break for me,
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so I don't have to prepare dinner
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and lunch every single day all the time.
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It really has eliminated a lot of work
07:18
on my shoulders, so I'm glad.
07:22
We've been doing this for how many months?
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- Yeah, so the first time we did work
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with Hello Fresh, we really liked it,
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and then we worked with them another time
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and then Jared started just having it come
07:34
every week, just because we really
07:36
just fell in love with it, so.
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This would be awesome for
the holidays coming up,
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sometimes you really
don't know what you get
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your parents that have
pretty much everything
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that they want or need
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and this is something
that I'm writing down,
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shhh, I don't want my parents to watch.
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Something that I want to get family,
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because it's helpful.
07:56
- [Jared] So this is what
the final plate looks like.
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I'm so happy with myself.
08:00
I think it looks so delicious.
08:02
If you guys want to try Hello Fresh,
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check out the link in the
description down below
08:05
or go to hellofresh.com.
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If you enter the code ellieandjared30,
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when you subscribe, you'll get $30 dollars
08:12
off your first week of delivery.
08:13
Seriously Hello Fresh, thank
you for being today's sponsor.
08:15
Thank you for making my wife
happy and love you so much.
08:18
Because she really really does.
08:21
- Hey I want you guys to
come fold my laundry next,
08:23
that would be great.
08:26
- Full service Hello Fresh.
08:27
Hi sweet girl, did you
have a good potty break.
08:34
You're such a good girl.
08:40
Penny, what good is a pillow
if you don't even lay on it?
08:41
There you go, yeah, get
in your place, come on.
08:45
It's the funniest thing,
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lay on the pillow Sillypants McGee.
08:50
That is not comfortable.
08:53
That is much more comfortable.
08:55
In church, you know I teach primary,
08:56
so I teach the eight
and nine year old kids
08:58
and in the big class where
all the classes get together,
09:02
we sing primary songs,
09:06
and one of the songs we were singing about
09:08
is families, it's about families
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and families can be together forever.
09:12
The first words are like I
have a family here on earth,
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they are so good to me,
09:16
and while we were singing that song,
09:19
I just got punched in
the gut, in the heart
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and I just thought of
something for a second
09:26
We have been trying to have
09:39
- a baby and it has been difficult for us.
09:41
We've gone through two
miscarriages recently
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and I just have been thinking
about our future family.
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And I got hit with the realization
09:52
that we may only have two kids of our own
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and that's not a bad thing.
10:05
This may be our family right now
10:07
and I'm so grateful for them.
10:11
I'm not sure what the
future has in store for us,
10:13
but I just got hit with the fact that
10:17
this might be it and that's
not a bad thing at all,
10:20
but it was hard for me to hear that voice
10:26
say that to me, because of what we've gone
10:29
through and everything
10:34
and I'm not trying to set
any standards or plans
10:36
or anything like that,
10:41
but it just came into my head,
10:42
- [Ellie] You need to always
be grateful for what you have.
10:43
- Yeah exactly, I want to
be grateful for what I have,
10:45
but I also want to be prepared
10:47
for the events that may or
may not happen in the future.
10:49
Whether or not that is true,
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if we do or don't have more kids,
10:56
it just hit me that that's a possibility
10:59
that Jackson and Calvin may be it.
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And I feel like I have to preface that,
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I am grateful for our kids,
11:11
but it's just hard to have
that come to my realization.
11:13
Do you know what I mean by that?
11:19
That's what I wanted to
tell you a little bit.
11:21
It's not too often that I just get hit
11:32
with these moments, these
sudden clarity things,
11:34
and I never wanted to come across
11:37
that I'm not grateful for what I have,
11:39
because the amount of gratitude
11:41
that I have is unimaginable.
11:42
And it was just weird for
me to have that feeling
11:46
and to have it so close to me right now
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and I feel like that's
the feeling that I wanted
11:52
to have come across,
11:55
and I don't know what's going to happen,
11:58
but I want to be prepared
for any situation
12:02
You may have heard that this
video is filmed on Sunday
12:06
but it's uploaded later.
12:10
We're currently a day
ahead of schedule right now
12:11
and that's on purpose.
12:14
After Halloween, Ellie and I
are going to be out of town
12:16
and we're not going to be able to upload
12:19
while we are out of town,
12:21
so we have some videos that we're filming
12:22
in the meantime to go up while we're gone
12:24
and we'll resume normal schedule
12:26
as soon as we get back.
12:28
I wanted to let you
guys know ahead of time,
12:30
so you're not shocked when it does happen,
12:31
but it's gonna be a lot of fun.
12:33
I'm excited for you to see the videos
12:35
that we have planned,
12:36
but for now, we're gonna end the vlog.
12:38
Thank you so much for watching.
12:40
I hope you had a wonderful evening
12:41
and we will see you next time.
12:43
Go get Mom, go get Mom.
12:47
- [Ellie] Penny (growls).
12:49
- Go get Mom, go get Mom.
- Penny.
12:51
- Hey that's my towel.
12:53
- [Jared] She wants to wash her face too.
12:55