- Alright. This morning we have cooking up
a lot of eggs.
So yesterday at our Bollie meetup,
my cousin came and she brought me
a full basket of her chicken's
her chicken eggs.
So, this morning I'm making up some scrambled eggs
for Mr. Tom Tom,
so you can have a good breakfast
and then I'm making up some hard boiled eggs for me.
And the kids are at school so I've kind of been having
like a really good morning, just going really slow.
I can tell a huge difference
between these eggs and the store.
Like, I cannot wait to get back
to having my own chickens sometime,
hopefully maybe next year.
We'll see what our schedule and life is looking like.
But I can tell, these are gonna be good.
And I even made a little bit extra so Penny could have some.
Want some eggs?
Want some eggs Ms. Pretty Penny?
Oh my goodness, you're doing lunges this--
what the heck? (laughing)
Oh, my gosh, you're stretching.
That was cute.
(upbeat music)
- For about a month now, my four wheeler battery
has been completely dead,
even after charging it up.
It has bit the dust.
So I got a new battery and the interesting thing
about it is, it's a different size.
It's the same battery but physically it's smaller.
So I'm trying to install it but there's
a couple things that I have to do and I'm terrible
with all of these things,
so I have to remember exactly how I put it back together.
But I need to move this because Bonnie and Joel
are gonna be using this guy next week,
or this coming week or something like that.
And I can't move this because the battery is dead.
So Joel's coming to pick up the trailer today
to get it ready for their trip
and this guy is just stuck here.
And I don't wanna push it out.
So, Penny, are you gonna help me?
We're gonna see if we can get the battery working
so we can get this out of the way.
Are you ready to do this with me, Penny?
(lively music)
There we go, okay, we're making progress.
We're getting there, it's going in.
Awesome, that's good.
(lively music)
I did it!
I think I pieced it back together correctly.
Let's see.
(four wheeler groans)
I think that's an okay sign.
(engine starts)
Oh!
We have power.
Yeah.
- [Jared] Oh, (bleep) did it go out?
- I'm sorry.
- [Jared] Oh, you ruined it.
- I'm sorry, the screw fell. - Okay. Alright.
Did it fall all the way down?
- I'm sorry.
- [Jared] Like to the ground or it--
Oh, I see it, I see it.
It's okay, I got it.
I got it. - I'm sorry.
- [Jared] Okay. It's okay.
Do you see the other two holes?
- Bum bum ba dum a dum da dum dum.
Like that?
- [Jared] Yes!
Thank you, honey.
I'm no Joel.
I mean, it looks good on your truck but
I think it looks better on mine.
- I think so.
(laughs)
- [Jared] Your truck could pull this through
like quicksand and it would be strong enough.
Your truck is like crazy powerful, man.
- I'm just gonna see if we can pull it
with four kids and not go crazy.
- [Jared] And like straight uphill and you'd be fine.
- Mm-hmm. I usually put it on the Tesla
I think it'll work.
- Ah.
- There's enough torque in this Tesla to pull that?
- It's pretty powerful.
- Oh yeah, the power's there.
Will the hitch rip out?
I don't know, there's not a hitch there.
- [Joel] Find out.
- [Jared] Okay, pull it out, let's see it, man.
- [Joel] Okay, sounds good.
(engine running)
- [Jared] Whoo!
I know, doesn't it look so little next to his truck?
(laughs)
It looks so little on your truck.
(laughs)
- It was a little scary pulling it out though.
- [Jared] Alright, partner.
Keep her in one piece.
(laughing)
I feel like a dad like handing him the keys
to his car to his son.
- Can I?
Come on, I got a date this weekend, come on.
- Hi, Mister.
Hi, Mr. Blue Eyes.
(laughs)
He's finishing up some lunch.
I had a phone call today with a nutritionist,
Organic Blondie, I talked to on a few videos ago.
And we just talked about a few simple changes that I
can make along with some of the changes I've been making
with my hormones.
And my doctor said I'd probably start to feel a lot better
and more myself within five months.
That's around April, which is,
Is that?
That's now, it's April.
Yeah, so like this month.
He said I should start to feel good.
(gasps)
Oh my gosh!
'kay, well, we're gonna see but actually
right now I'm not feeling the best.
And then I told Jared, I was like,
we're gonna plan a family trip when I feel better.
And we do have a family trip planned but not til
Mother's Day, so we're gonna go for Mother's Day.
But I, the last few days my eyes
they hurt so bad, this is how they felt
when I first had gone in
and that was a big sign of my iron being so low,
I was anemic.
And the last few days my eyes feel the same way.
They're force closing.
I went to pick up the kids from school and my eyes,
just the whole time I'm like, they hurt.
Like my eyes hurt so bad, and that's one of the things
I really want to figure out and feel better.
Because I know if I feel more alert and awake
I can be more productive and do stuff.
Like right now I just can't,
feel like I can function, I feel like I just need
to lay down just for a minute and close my eyes.
This is one of the very frustrating parts,
is just starting to feel better and I have to
tweak things, so I have another phone call with my doctor
coming up, so I'll bring that up to him.
Last time he said I needed to start taking fish oil pills
that that helps a lot and I completely forgot.
That was over a month ago.
He's like, yeah, I want you to start doing this.
Today my friend was like, yeah, you need
to start doing this, take fish oil pills.
And I was like ah, I was supposed to be doing that
and I forgot so I need to get some
but, yeah, just wanted to give you guys a little update
about what's going on with my hormones and my health.
I am feeling so much better but I know
that I don't feel 100%.
It could be because yesterday was a really big day
with our pop up shop,
maybe that's why I'm just kind of feeling
a little hard today, thinking.
Anyway, that's what's going on.
Mister, Mr. Tom Tom's gonna play with my pillows
and read my books.
It's time for a nappy-poo.
Not poop while you take a nap.
(laughs)
Nappy-poo, that's funny.
Okay, let's go get our brothers.
(lively music)
- [Jared] Nice!
(child exclaims)
[Jared] Yay.
The track is officially built.
Should we give it a test run?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- [Jared] 'Kay, on your mark.
Get set.
Go.
Oh, crash.
Test one, failed.
Calvin, give it a shot.
Oh, we gotta fix this right here, 'kay?
After some minor repairs, I think we're ready.
Jackson, three, two, one, go.
(exclaims)
High five.
Calvin, your turn.
(Calvin mumbles)
Whoa, you did it.
High five.
Mission accomplished,
we made it through the whole track.
(mispronounces words)
- [Jared] Tropicana kids.
- Tropicana.
- Yeah, Tropicana.
So you've got a Kinder Egg, you've got a chewy granola bar,
what else do you wanna put in there?
- Orange.
- [Jared] Oh, a cutie?
Alright, so we've got this guy here.
- [Other Child] I don't want orange.
- You don't want a cutie?
I think it's important that you have a drink in there too.
Should we grab a drink?
I'll help you.
Let's see, we'll grab these guys here.
'Kay?
There's one for you, one for you.
What about a yogurt?
- Sure.
- [Other Child] I don't want a yogurt.
- Okay, just a yogurt for Jackson.
So where you guys gonna go?
- We're gonna go somewhere in the grass
and we, we're gonna eat
an orange,
a drink, a granola bar, and a Kinder egg.
- Oh, my goodness.
That sounds like so much fun.
Huh?
You guys gonna have a little snack?
A little lunch date?
'Kay, you guys have fun and maybe afterwards
we can fly a kite.
Sound good?
- Yeah but it's not that windy.
- [Jared] Maybe it will be by then.
Oh, my gosh.
Can I show you how adorable this is?
This is the sweetest thing in the whole entire world.
My two kids right there, wanted to hang out with each other.
And so they're having a picnic together.
I just think it's so cool that my boys are friends,
they like to play with each other,
they like to have fun.
Oh my gosh, Ellie, that is the cutest thing
in the whole world.
- Are they flying their kite?
- [Jared] No, they're on the park strip
having a picnic together.
And they decided to do that.
- I know.
- How fun is that? - I saw.
My friend's post today, she was like, let your kids
be bored, they need to be,
kids need to be more creative
- [Jared] Yeah.
- This is awesome.
- [Jared] Yeah, they're being creative.
- Being creative.
- They're using their imaginations
and doing something fun
♪ Together ♪
- [Jared] Da!
- A-Da!
- [Jared] A-da, A-da, A-da!
- A-da.
Can you say grandma?
- [Jared] Say grandma.
- Mamaw, mamaw.
You say mamaw?
- [Jared] Say meemaw.
Say grammy Tammy.
(laughs)
- I don't know about grammy Tammy, yeah.
(babbles)
- My older sister Melanie was the first one
in our family to have kids.
And something that you do, or something that we did
as a family was we decided what we would call
my parents to the nieces and nephews,
so their grandkids.
You know, we have Grandma Great, we say Grandma Mecham,
we say
Grandma Tammy,
and I said "How about Grammy Tammy?"
and mom just about puked
when I said it.
Because we have a Grammy Vicki
and all of the cousins like that.
But mom hated Grammy Tammy.
I don't know why.
- [Tammy] I don't know either.
- [Jared] Don't you think Grammy Tammy
has a nice ring to it?
- I do.
(laughing)
(soothing music)
- There's a lot of questions that Ellie and I get
on a regular basis,
and one of them that we get most frequently
is how we organize our photos and videos.
Ellie did a project quite a while ago
detailing her photo project.
She wanted to save all of the photos that we had,
put them in different folders and
then print them into books.
And we're actively doing that,
or at least trying to actively do that.
We're coming up on the end of the month
and that's usually when we try and do this.
So what we do is we'll take all of the photos
that we've taken on our cameras, our DSLRs, our phones,
and we'll put them on the computer.
And then we'll organize them into various folders
whether it's by date, by person, or location.
I kind of want to show you how we do that here
and then give you a couple back up options
that we use that you can use as well.
So I've got Ellie's laptop right in front of me
and I've got her phone plugged into the laptop.
You can see here that we have an application
called Image Capture and what that does is
it pulls all of the photos from her phone
and you can save it to the laptop here somewhere.
I've got Ellie's photo project files right here.
So you can see 2019 and then 2018 and earlier.
So what I'll do first is I'll import
every single photo that she has taken on her phone
to the computer, into one all-encompassing folder.
Then I'll delete everything from her phone.
So there are no photos on her phone,
and she can say April 1st, you know, whatever date this is,
going forward is new.
And going backwards is already stored onto the computer.
So I have selected all of these photos
and I have it in the end of March 2019 import
and I'm gonna hit import all.
And that's gonna go through and take forever to import.
Once they're on the computer then I'll put them
in their designated files,
whether it's Jackson's photos, Calvin's photos,
Tommy's photos, group photos of the family,
beach photos, friend photos, all of those
kinds of folders,
each one, I'll put them inside of that.
They're not just backed up to this computer,
there's a couple different back ups that I like to have
because hard drives fail, computers fail, things fail,
especially when you least likely expect them to.
So I have a couple of redundant back ups that I'll
tell you about.
Once everything is done on here and we have them
organized to where we like,
I plug it into my mass drive,
and this is a large array of hard drives that you see.
And all of our vlog stuff is backed up here.
I'll take all of those photos and I'll put them on this.
So technically I have one, two back ups.
Once that's done, I'll take them and delete them
off of here because we will make them into books
before we delete them.
So each folder will be turned into a book.
That way we have a physical hard copy
that we can flip through.
Then on top of that, and this is actually something
I haven't told Ellie because I wanna be more
safe than sorry.
We use Google Photos to back up photos in addition to that.
So on my phone, every single picture I take
is automatically backed up to Google Photos.
Ellie's phone is not set up that way
but her computer is.
There's an application that Google has that
lets you back up any folder that you want to
Google Photos.
The cool thing about Google Photos is that they
give you unlimited storage for 1080p sized files.
So if you have a photo that's bigger than that
it will downscale to 1080p and you can have
unlimited storage.
Or what we do is we pay for like,
200 gigabytes I think of storage
and then it'll do the full size version of those photos,
and once we hit that cap, it'll do the free version
after that.
So that's nice, so I don't have to worry about losing
storage or that sort of thing, it's always there.
And I wanna show you Google Photos on the computer.
- [Jared] So this is my desktop and what I like about it
is that I can see all of the photos that I've taken.
You see Ellie has a bunch of photos from when
we did our little James Charles palette,
you see some photos from when we did
our Bollie pop up shop,
oh look, and then the candle that I just lit
right over here.
How fun that, that's pretty cool.
What I like is that Google Photos is smart.
If I go over here to albums, it will automatically
create albums for me.
So you can see I have people and pets, places, things,
collages, animations, all sorts of stuff.
And then some old stuff that I have.
But if I click on people and pets,
it will give me an album of all of these different people.
And I'll click on those photos,
and then I can see every photo that I have of that person.
So it makes organization really easy there.
But that's kind like of my back up's back up, in like a
worst case scenario.
If I ever need a photo, I'll grab it directly from
this guy here.
And really, when it comes down to it,
that's a basic rundown of what we do.
In summation, I'll make it really quick.
We import all of our photos to a laptop,
Ellie's laptop.
We organize each photo into sub-folders, whether
it's a person, a place or a certain memory that
we want to have organized into a book.
We print those books and then delete
everything off of that computer.
Before we delete it, we back it up to the main hard drive,
which is this guy here,
and then we have a digital back up on Google Photos.
So we kind of have it in three places,
the book, the main hard drive, and Google Photos.
And then we do the same thing
with all of our vlog footage, but that's on
a day to day basis, because that's how we do our vlogs.
And then SD cards with the photos we do the same thing.
So I'll gather all of our photos, put them in the folders,
back them up, print photos, boom.
You are all set.
This is all on Mac.
Google Photos I know will work anything because it's
internet based.
I know with Image Capture, that application that I use,
that's Mac exclusive.
It's built in, so it's free on all computers.
With Windows, I'm not sure exactly how you,
I think it's just the file explorer is
what you would use to organize your photos with.
So pretty easy.
The biggest thing, the biggest advice that I have
is just being consistent.
Find a date every single month or week or,
you know, quarterly to do this
so you're not overwhelmed.
When Ellie did this the first time,
she did it over the course of like five, six days,
and she did hours and hours and hours every single night.
So if you do it once a month then it's so
much easier to keep track of.
But that's it.
I want to know if you guys have any specific questions.
I think it might be cool to do like
a live YouTube or a live stream about this
and kind of show you more in depth.
If you're interested in that,
leave a comment down below, if they're enabled.
If not, head over to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram
and let us know if that's something that
you guys would like to see.
But from us to you, I think that's gonna be it,
Penny, should we say goodbye to our friends?
Should we eat our spaghetti?
Thank you so much for watching the video.
If you enjoyed it, give it a thumbs up,
and we'll catch you guys next time.
Bye bye.