I am just putting the final touches on the vlog

for this morning,

and Jackson, Calvin and I

we're all just hanging out.

Hi, Buddy!

Hi, Buddy!

Oh, there's a wave.

- Aaahhh

- And Jackson is doing something

very interesting.

He has a bucket of rocks here,

and what he's doing is

he's testing the frequency of the sound of the rocks

on the pole, show us, Jackson;

(clanging)

and if it's a good frequency,

he puts it in the bucket.

Is that good?

Good job; now try that one.

(clanging)

Oh, what do you think about that?

Oh, that's a good one for sure.

- Big, BIG!

- That's a big rock!

(clanging)

Woo!

(clanging)

Those are some good rocks, huh Buddy?

(upbeat music)

- Good morning!

(sniffs)

I love... I love baby breath.

I love stinky baby breath.

I love it! (sniffs)

Call me crazy, (sniffs), but

that's something that I love.

I could just smell a baby waking up

like even Jax right now,

when he kinda has stinky breath.

Let me smell your stinky breath.

Come here.

Oh, you pooped!

Let me smell your stinky butt! (laughs)

Let me smell your breath.

No, no!

I don't want to smell your butt!

Did you see him turn his body?

Let me see you; I wanna smell your breath.

Lemme smell.

(sniffs)

Ooooh, that's so good!

That's so good!

Good morning, guys.

This is what we've been doing all morning.

I don't even think we've started the vlog,

but we just...

The boys are in their little matching outfits,

it's rainy, it's cold outside,

we've just been enjoying our morning together,

Calvin just woke up from a nap,

so this is what we're doing.

I think if, Jared, if I feel like

I can wrap up enough energy in me,

my stomach has kinda hurt this morning.

We will go down and pick out a garage door,

pick out a few things, so

we'll see how we all feel.

- A number 12.

- [restaurant employee] Okay.

- Guess what?

It's snowing.

- Medium.

- [employee] Okay, anything else?

- And Mom's with us, hi!

- No, just as it is.

- Jackson's asleep, and Calvin's awake.

- Sweetheart, what do you wanna drink?

- Pepsi?

No, no, no; I shouldn't have that,

my stomach's uh - do water.

- Just a water on that one if that's okay.

- [employee] A water?

- Yeah.

- [employee] Anything else for you today?

- We are ordering some food,

and we're gonna go pick out a garage door,

and we're gonna go pick out siding for our house.

- [employee] What size?

- Medium.

- We're ordering food; what do you guys want?

Dr. Pepper?

Want some fries?

- A water.

- [employee] All right.

- We'll get you some onion rings, too, don't worry.

- Jackson, we need to make sure

you deliver all the siding to us

in a properly fashion, okay?

- You like it.

- Do you have your license

for this heavy machinery?

Where's your hard hat?

You at least need your hard hat

if you're gonna drive it.

Where's your helmet?

- Right here.

- Oh, you have it?

- Helmet gone.

- The helmet's gone?

- Oh no!

- Oh no! (laughs)

Oh no, should we go get it?

(horn honks)

Oop, (laughs)

I never thought I would be at a point in my life

where I would say this:

I'm excited to go look at garage doors.

Garage doors is not something

that you typically get excited about,

but I am very excited to go look at garage doors.

- Garage doors are expensive;

be grateful for them!

- Are they?

- Yeah!

- Oh, I guess they're expensive.

- It's so pretty!

I love seeing the garage doors!

- These are cool; these are nice.

- How fun is this?

I love ones with little windows in it.

- Yes, well there's certain things

about garage doors

that I didn't even know about.

My dad actually had a client

who would sell garage door decor.

- Like that.

- I had no idea that that was even a thing!

- And it makes it look really fancy.

- It makes it look way better.

I mean, if you look at this garage door

versus that one, the decor adds a lot to it.

- Makes it, yeah, I love it.

- So it's just (mumbles) functional.

- I like the windows in it.

- Yeah, these are nice, too.

- Yeah, try all day opening that.

That'll keep him busy.

- I had no idea how far the garage door advancement

has gone with technology.

It's crazy!

We have the chains, what you're used to hearing,

the clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk as you open the door,

but now they have belts.

She was even saying they have all this stuff built in,

that if you want to hook it up

to your smart phone to open and close

your garage door, it's already built into it.

So it's just crazy how things change

from when you're a kid, to when you're doing it.

So when Jackson and Calvin are married

and building their house,

what kind of garage doors

are they gonna have?

It's gonna be crazy!

- I always pick the most expensive one!

I'm like, oh, never mind.

That one was pretty!

But we found one that we like,

so I'm excited.

- Good.

- It's gonna be a lot like,

it'll be white, it'll have six panels

and glass like that.

- Glass, yeah.

- It will kinda look like this,

but with thicker panels.

- But wider panels, yeah.

And we'll have the hardware on it, too,

and everything.

- Who knew I could be so excited about hardware?

- On a garage door!

- They're dreamy!

- Jackson, you've got your rain boots on;

what are you gonna do?

Jump in the water; woo!

Come jump right here in the big puddle.

Yeah!

Do it again!

Yeah!

- Me owie, owf.

Me owie owf.

- Jackson wants his owie off.

He's been trying to wipe it off.

Can you show me what you're doing?

He wants it off, he keeps saying,

"Owie!"

- E Owie!

- He doesn't like that it has a color to it.

He wants the color off.

He keeps trying to wipe it off.

Can you get it off?

- Nope.

- Why?

- No, owie!

- Because owies, it needs to heal, huh?

- E - owie.

E- owie.

- Yeah, it's an owie.

He's showing you guys.

He's showing you! (laughs)

Look, he just showed you his owie;

how cute is that?

And as far as the upgrades go,

what he was saying;

I think we won't do the upgrades

and we'll just do blinds or something

if you wanna do that.

- Sometimes I sit here with the camera

and see how many chins I can give myself.

(laughs)

We've been productive today!

We did the garage door,

we did glass on the outside of the house,

and what was the other one we did?

Oh we did siding, and windows; all those.

So we solidified all of that stuff,

and we're super excited; we're making progress.

Ellie was just saying

we're probably gonna start digging

in like two weeks, and we're so excited.

How crazy is that gonna be?

That's gonna be like right after our birthdays.

What a good birthday present, Ellie!

- I'm excited for your birthday.

- I'm excited for your birthday.

I have a special surprise that Ellie hasn't..

- ..surprise..

- You do?

Ah, this is great!

I really don't think you know what's coming.

I really don't, and I'm so excited.

- I don't think you know what's coming!

- Oh my gosh!

- Mom, it's your birthday;

you don't know what's coming!

- I don't know what's coming!

- Mom's birthday is a week after mine,

so we have to celebrate all...

and today's the, tomorrow, when this video goes up

it's Aspen's birthday.

Happy birthday, Aspen!

- Happy birthday, Aspen!

- Aspen!

- Excited!

- Say happy birthday!

- Happy to you!

- He said, "I'm excited" first;

say, "I'm excited!"

- Excited!

- Jackson, are you excited?

- Yup.

- Hee hee; yup!

It's like Goofy -- hee hee yup!

All this talk about birthdays and this weekend

made Mom realize that tomorrow is tax day

and they haven't done their taxes yet.

So I'm running into the store to grab TurboTax for them

so they can hurry and do their taxes tonight.

I can't remember, but I think it was Charles Dickens

wrote a book, and the first line in the book is:

There are two things that are certain in life;

death and taxes.

When the night of April 14th rolls around,

You definitely feel at least one of those things.

That's the one.

So there's a big puddle up here

and I'm going really slow

so the cars have enough space.

'Cause I wanna hit this good.

Here we go!

(engine revs)