- Good morning,
are you going down - Good morning!
- the stairs all by yourself?
- [Calvin] Yeah.
- He is, are you making sure he's good?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
Look at you go buddy, good work.
I better get on the other side of you
'cause there's a lot more stairs coming up.
So apparently yesterday, he had a little bit
of a tumble, but I think he learned his lesson,
and he's doing a lot better now.
Okay, you've got all these stairs right here,
what are you gonna do?
Turn around, yeah!
Oh good job Tommy!
Ellie, he just turned around on his own.
- Yay Tommy! - Yay! (laughs)
Good job bud.
(distant chattering)
Yeah, you're doing so good.
Keep coming, keep coming.
Good job buddy, that's awesome.
(Tommy babbling)
Yeah. (laughs)
Oh man, no matter how many kids you have,
it never gets old, does it?
Does it? (laughs)
You're doing good, and made it!
That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for Tommy kind!
- [Ellie] Can you tell me how you make chocolate milk?
- First milk,
now two scoops
of milk salt. - Wow, you read
the instructions? - Mm-hmm.
- [Ellie] Cool.
(lighthearted music)
Okay now,
- Mm-hmm. - mix.
Is that chocolate milk now?
- [Ellie] It is.
- And I still mix it.
- My kids do this every morning,
and half the time they do it without me,
so then there's like chocolate mix all over the floor,
but they love being able to read the instructions.
- Oh boy, I know the girls had a lot of fun with
the makeup yesterday, but I didn't realize
how much makeup there actually was.
Jeepers creepers guys, I'm just trying to brush my teeth
and all this makeup is everywhere.
James Charles, is your pallette big enough?
Actually it is cool that it is so big, I like it.
The girls had so much fun yesterday, and I love it.
If you guys didn't see yesterday,
my nieces did Ellie's makeup, and it turned out interesting
so be sure to check that video out if you haven't already.
- Okay, this may not look crazy appetizing,
but I promise it's really good.
I preheat the oven to 400, I put in chicken strips,
I drizzle barbecue sauce over it,
and then I cut up fresh pineapple,
it has to be fresh, you put over the top,
you put a little more barbecue sauce,
you put it in the oven for like 45 minutes,
it is so good.
And then make some rice, and put it all together.
So I'm eating some leftover lunch right now,
and we are in the middle of filming for a brand right now
that's going to be going on my Instagram.
Part of this advertisement is about back to school,
and teachers, and we actually nominated
Jackson's preschool teacher, and I thought for this clip
it would be so awesome for his teacher to actually
come be here, and like watch Jackson read,
and say hi, and so I contacted her asking if this
sounded like something she would do,
and she totally said yes, and she came over,
and we spent the morning with Jackson's teacher,
and hanging out and talking,
and literally sitting while Jackson read us books,
it was so fun.
Here's a better shot of what it looks like.
(laughs) This is our leftovers, but it's just chicken
and barbecue sauce, you obviously salt and pepper
the chicken with fresh pineapple.
It is one of my favorite meals,
and it's so fast to make.
Like I make these on days where I know
we don't have much time,
and if we're out of Hello Fresh which,
this is not an advertisement, we have two left.
So that's gonna be for dinner.
When my family and I made our Griffiths Cook Book,
it was mostly meals from like growing up.
Like bread and pies, and some like dutch oven meals.
Like I love the meals in there,
and it seems like since we've made that book,
I've come across several meals I make consistently.
I'm like dang it, I wish that was in there.
So I wanna start writing down my recipes again,
and I want to honestly not do like a full production
like this, that would be crazy right now.
But just have my own little book to go with this book too
of meals that I like to make that's not in the book.
So that's something that I wanna do too.
Did you do that yourself?
- [Jared] Oh my God. (laughs)
- [Ellie] Did you put the rain cloud there yourself?
That's cool.
- I didn't put it there, I just drew it.
- You drew it?
I have a question for you Jackson.
- What?
- How did you like seeing your teacher?
- Yeah.
- Was it fun?
- Yeah. - Were you nervous?
- It was my first time seeing my teacher.
- Yeah, but guess what?
I think--
- When can I go to school?
- I think Calvin's gonna go to school,
so you'll be able to see her sometime then.
But you can go to school in two months,
two months. - I think it's August.
- Can you believe that?
I can't believe you're getting ready for school bud.
- Alaska.
- [Ellie] Where do you think Alaska is?
Jackson's concerned about where Ann's gonna be moving.
So we're looking on this map,
can you see Alaska anywhere?
It's towards the bottom.
(lighthearted music)
Can you read it? - Alaska.
- [Ellie] Does that say Alaska?
- [Jackson] Yes.
- [Ellie] It says A--
- Arizona. - Arizona.
So what does this one say?
- Academy.
- [Ellie] Academy, that says,
is that an L?
- California. - That says Ala--
- Alaska. - Alaska.
- I love the summer because Ellie is killin' it
with these audiobooks, what are you listening to right now?
- I had to come inside 'cause it was so hot.
(Jared laughing)
I'm reading right now The Gifts of Imperfection.
- Ooh, is that Brené Brown?
- Brené Brown. - Very cool.
- I like it. - Good,
my sister recommended that one to us,
and Ellie's been listening to it.
I gotta get caught up.
We have two books that I want to listen to that Ellie
already has because I think it's fun to be
like on the same page with some of these things,
especially if they're like life improvement types of books.
You listened to Essentialism, and I wanna listen
to that one too. - Oh yeah, I really
recommend that one.
- [Jared] That was a good one?
- Yeah. - Good, fun.
You look cute in your little summer night,
the kids are finally in bed.
We've been working hard and playing hard all day,
and it's just been fun now that we're sitting down
relaxing at summer night.
One year ago, we had one of the craziest moments
of our entire life.
It wasn't when Tommy was born,
it was just after that, it was when
we had someone break into our garage,
and steal one of our bikes.
Caught on camera, sent it to the police,
got the guy in jail, and because of that
we've took extra security measures throughout the house.
We already had an alarm system,
for some reason it didn't go off,
but like all of our doors now will lock
during certain circumstances including our garage doors.
Now one of the things that I have a hard time with
with all of this tech, I love it,
but if it's battery powered, sometimes it may fail.
A couple days ago, I noticed that our garage door
was not closing under the certain conditions,
and so I found out that the battery had died,
and I don't like that.
I got a new battery, so now I have to reprogram it,
this guy here, and I'm just thinking
there's gotta be a way to have me be more fully powered,
not just batteries.
So I'm looking into that while I re-power it,
but I highly recommend this kind of stuff.
Even if you're in a good neighborhood,
security is always a great thing.
Whether it's your door locks, whether it's an alarm system,
whether it's security cameras,
it's better to be safe than sorry,
and that's what we learned.
Even though it was very small in the grand scheme of things,
what happened to us, only our bike was taken.
It could've been worse, we're grateful that it wasn't,
but because of that we had to take extra measures.
(alarm ringing) That seems like
it's a good sign, yep that's a good sign. (laughs)
We have lift off, or take down, or landing, or whatever,
should be good now.
I do like how I can just click a button,
and the garage door opens.
That is nice, I wish it was like a continuous
power source not limited to just a battery.
But one year, that's pretty dang good.
All things considered, one year to one battery, not bad.
Now it would be really cool if I could just go up
to my phone and say,
"Hey Siri, close the garage door."
Or, "Hey Google, close the garage door."
That would be really cool.
Ellie, did you know that it's been nearly one year,
almost to the day that we got robbed in our garage.
Do you know how I remembered that?
- How?
- Because it happened the day of our
Griffith's family reunion, and our Griffith's family reunion
is coming up next week.
- Literally in like four days.
- [Jared] Isn't that fun?
Not that we got robbed, but that the reunion's
coming up? - The kids talk about that
all the time still, - They still do.
- and we make sure our house is really locked and armed
all the time.
- Well we try, I just went through explaining
that our battery died,
so can you believe that?
Like it's been crazy.
That what's happened
in just one year. - One year.
Also, the guy had a trial.
He's been robbing for like years.
- [Jared] He posted bail
or something like that. - He probably got
out of jail, and then he got caught again for robbing
for breaking in homes, like what the heck?
- If you have to go through a mistake
to learn a lesson, I get it.
It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
Right, right? - Right, don't rob
people's stuff. - Don't rob people's stuff.
And also don't spit in food in the supermarket,
especially ice cream.
I love ice cream, I don't wanna be eating ice cream
that people have spat in, that's gross, that's nasty.
Oh. - So bright.
(Jared laughing)
- [Jared] Ellie is admiring the sunset via Instagram,
and I'm admiring Ellie admiring the sunset
through the vlog. (laughs) - It's so bright.
- [Jared] The sunset is beautiful,
look at that cotton candy sky.
♪ The sky is on fire ♪
♪ This girl is on fire ♪
- I wish my face was brighter and not so dark.
- [Jared] Get some highlighter on your face girl.
- It's just so dark. - Hey, I like your
Little Mermaid phone case,
that's pretty cool.
- Thank you, me and Cullen have the same one.
- Yes you do, you and Cullen do,
how funny is that?
We have our nephew Tyler, and we made him
babysit the kids while we took Penny on a little walk,
and now we're just-- - He was playing video games.
- He was playing video games,
it wasn't like-- - Text us if someone cries.
- Yeah seriously, so we took Penny on a walk,
and now we're just out in the back swinging
'cause we don't wanna go home yet,
and we're just admiring
the beautiful sunset. - Oh, look at that sunset.
- Look at the sunset.
Look at the sunset.
Oh, don't you just love swinging?
- Penny move! - Ah Penny!
- Look at this, I feel like I'm flying in cotton candy.
- You're flying in cotton candy?
- [Ellie] And in Penny's face.
- (laughs) Get her Penny, get her!
(Jared laughing)
- Tommy says, "Dog."
- [Jared] He does.
- Whenever he sees Penny he goes, "Dog!
"Dog!" (laughs) - "Dog, Dog."
It's so sweet.
You're sweet Penny, you know that?
You're a good girl.
Bye.
- Kay, that's gonna be
it from us. - Peace.
- We're gonna swing off to the end of the day.
(laughs) Thank you guys so much for watching,
if you enjoyed the vlog - Back flip!
- give it a big, oh my gosh, whoa!
I can't do that, I can't. - I can.
- I can't do that.
I can do a back flip on the trampoline,
but I cannot do a back flip on the swing.
Ellie and I-- - Like this?
Like this?
- [Jared] Wait for it.
- Gotta get that momentum.
- Whoa, I've never even tried,
I've been too scared.
Thank you guys for watching, see you next time.
Bye.