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🎶 Music Outro 🎶 Wooo! Good morning! Good morning everyone! It's rainy here and miserable and cold. Yeah, it's been raining for the last three days. I have sunglasses, but that is just to hide my tired eyes. Because our kids woke up at 4 o'clock this morning. Yeah, Tyler was up at 4 and Elena was up alongside her. It's raining and I don't need these. Some people are going to look at me funny, but I don't care. I'm so tired. Yeah, it was a crazy night last night. Happy January! January 2nd already. Happy New Year! It's crazy. And most people are out starting their New Year's resolutions today. They're doing things like Me! Taking initiative. Being proactive. Dieting. Exercising. And we're going to Chick-fil-A. Because that is my New Year's resolution. That's our resolution. More Chick-fil-A. Enjoy life. I don't know. This morning John woke up and he said, let's go to Chick-fil-A. And I said, no. We don't need to do that. And then the more I sat and thought about other things that we could make for breakfast the more I was like, all I could think about was Chick-fil-A. It was the inception. I implanted the seed. Yeah, you incepted my head. And so, we're going to Chick-fil-A. We do need to pick up a few things from the store because we have no groceries and the girls start preschool again tomorrow. Thank God. So we need to get a few things so that they have lunches for the week. Breakfast. And so we can stop eating out. Because we do need a resolve to do that. We have 20 minutes. Oh my gosh. We're not going to make it in time. John and I we talked a little bit about resolutions. We haven't really sat down and had that what's our resolution? We haven't really thought about it. But every day I feel like I'm like that should be our resolution. And it's funny. What? To not spend money on food? I don't put a whole lot into resolutions. Like I'm not like a... Because unless you follow through it's just weightless. And I feel like I have trouble to follow through. But I feel like if we were to really sit down and talk about our resolutions we have like this laundry list of them. You know what I'm saying? Becoming morning people. Today Tyler woke up at 4 o'clock. Not that kind of morning people though. But still it was very hard to deal with. And then the next thing I knew I was waking up and it was 8.30. Me and John both. The past probably what? 6 days? 5 days? We've been like peeling ourselves out of bed at 8.30. It seems like every day I cannot function before then. Well last night though we did and the night before we got a lot of laundry done. We did. But even last night we were in bed before midnight. I still couldn't peel myself out of bed before 8.30. Well I think we were both up a few times because of the kids so it makes it interrupts your sleep. Either way it's been like a week of every day I try to get up I'm like okay I wake up at like 6 because I hear Tyler up or whatever I'm like I'm feeling okay. Like 5.45 I'm like I should probably just get up but then I don't and then I can't I cannot wake up until 8.30. But the kids have been waking up at 5.30. Which is so early. Well it's because we've been putting them in the same room I'm not sure if you know if we've said that but we've been putting Tyler and Elena in the same room trying to get Jude or getting Jude in the blue room in her own room and then she loves her own room. She's doing great not needing that crib anymore. Right in her big girl bed. And Adeline is not in her closet she's now in her own room. Last night was her first time she slept in her own room. We need to be able to get up at like 6 and start our day. So that's a big one. That's a big resolution. Well we have a new resolution to add to our list and that is we've resolved to make it to Chick-fil-A in time for breakfast. Going forward. We missed it again. So kind of our thing. It's a sad day. We are finally doing their perler beads and they are so excited. What did you make? Tell everybody what you made. I made a An ice cream sandwich. And we're gonna melt it now. Here we go are you ready? Of course. Okay this part's hot. Here here's Judy's lollipop we just made. It's very nummy to your tummy right? It's very cold. It's cold? No it's cold down. Oh that's good it's cooled down. It's not real don't eat it. Alright ready? I'm ready to eat it. It's hot it's hot. That's a nummy ice cream sandwich. It's very hot you gotta let it cool down. Whoa what do you think? Wow. How cute. This one's very hot buddy. That's a nummy ice cream sandwich. Cute huh? I bought these a long time ago like last year at some point. This is a Q&A for moms and so it goes through this is a five year journal and every single day you can fill in you know the different year Helena or Judy it's okay you can fill in 2000 whatever the year and it has a different question on each day and so you answer it every day and then for five different years then you have this record of look I love seeing my child blank. Describe your child's angelic side. One two. What was the last time your child was sick? Blank weather is a challenge because blank. So it's just random questions but a lot of them pertaining to motherhood and your children and so it'll be a really sweet keepsake one day when they're older. Anyway so January 1st you can see so every year on January 1st it's the same question but you answer it so you change obviously year to year like this year it says what's your resolution for your family? So this year I put intentionality making our time together meaningful prioritizing our relationships and simplifying life so we can focus on each other. That is my resolution for this year for our family. So some things about me some things about the kids I'm really excited about this. Q&A a day for moms. I feel like I got it on Amazon although I think they sell this one at Target. So then I also bought our Q&A and this one's for me and John and so on every day January 1st love is blank and then it has black lines and red lines so you and your spouse fill out every day and this one does three years so it'll be nice to see how our relationship changes, how our views change over the next three years. And then this one is a Q&A a day for kids and it is three years 365 questions all to ask your kids. They have questions like the first one says write your name so you can see how your child's handwriting probably changes. What are you excited about? Do you believe in aliens? Do you like your name? Is there another name you'd rather have? So it's all kinds of different questions and again three years so you can see how your kid changes and these are going to be really sweet keepsakes. I want to get one for all the girls that they can have when they grow up. So I'm really excited about these. I'm about to go get Tyler and have her come down and do page one. I just have to keep them down here because I know if they're out of sight I will forget and I really want to make sure we are committed to filling out these every single day. It's so easy and simple. Now when we have five kids filling them out it won't be so easy but you get the point. Well, it's 9.30. The kids are in bed and we are settling down. We just had our friends Rob and Janine over and so the kids played we put them down. They went to sleep actually really well. I wish we had the video. We'll have to post it later of Jude and William singing on the couch while William's dancing and Jude's singing and it was really really cute. But it's good to see I feel like we haven't seen our friends for a while. We've kind of been just busy. December was really busy but now things are winding down. January has got lots of promise lots more free time and I'm excited. I'm also excited to go snug up and go to bed. Yeah, I know. I'm tired too. Last night was crazy. And Tyler woke up at 4 o'clock this morning. Yeah, so. Alright guys. We love ya. Please subscribe if you're not subscribed. Click the bell if you haven't clicked the bell. Bing, bing, bing. And we love you guys. We appreciate you and we hope that you guys had a happy new year, New Year's Eve and just we wish for the best for you guys in 2017. We are praying for a good year full of hope and joy and promise and prosper and all the good words. Starting with P's. Starting with P's. Alright guys. We'll see you later. Good night. Bye.