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00:00hi guys big day here in our world today is my grandma's 98th birthday that is

00:10quite a milestone to get to 98 and my mom is in town my uncle's in town and

00:16we're gonna head to her place to celebrate with her today the kids are

00:20really excited everyone's here so I think everyone's gonna be able to come

00:24as far as my family so yeah we're gonna have a good time are you ready to go to

00:30grandma's yeah are you excited mm-hmm my grandparents lived a long time in

00:37Detroit that's where they're really from well there's several other places they

00:41live but then Danville for a while Illinois they planted a church and then

00:47they were missionaries all around the world and then at some point when my

00:50kids were little they decided to kind of just retire in Lincoln which is where

00:57we live in Nebraska because my mom lived here and she's the oldest of their four

01:01children and the only girl and so you know how that goes and so they moved

01:06here and then they ended up we all ended up living my parents my grandparents and

01:13even my aunt Sharon ended up living within doors of each other and that that

01:19was like 10 years of our life and we always look back at that time is like

01:23the best it was basically a family compound with other neighbors involved

01:28my kids would run to my parents house my kids would want to run to grandma and

01:32grandpa's house one year it snowed so much it was like up to our waist at

01:36Christmas the whole city shut down church shut down everything shut down

01:40and we put all like this food and presents on sleds and got it all to my

01:45grandparents house because my grandpa couldn't get out and had Christmas

01:50together even though we were snowed in and we just have the best memories from

01:53that time I think we're always solo and I always think one day it will be great

01:57if we have a compound on our own house on our own property like that because we

02:01just love kids growing up together with family in our last house in Lincoln our

02:09neighbors were like family and so that was pretty good too but we love the

02:13multi-generational thing to happen so anyway it because of that my kids

02:19they're close to grandma my grandpa went to heaven a while ago Eli was a baby and

02:24he's 11 now so that was 11 years ago but yeah they know he's 12 12 years ago I

02:34start asking me the ages of my kids and it gets a little sketchy anyway that

02:40it's a blessing that she still has so much life about her she reads books

02:46several books a week like big novels and all kinds of books she's always telling me

02:50what book I should be reading and books about heaven all kinds of books and yeah

02:56she's just amazing her mind is like very very sharp so she hasn't been to our new

03:02house though because she had a big fall right before the wedding in September

03:06and just hasn't been able to get out and winter has made it a lot less

03:10motivating to try but I have faith that this spring or summer one time when my

03:15mom's visiting

03:18everybody's home from piano and voice lessons and we're gonna leave

03:22Thank you so much

03:24How old are you?

03:26Only 98

03:28Only 98

03:30Wow

03:32She says 52

03:34She got stuck at 52

03:42Best thing that ever happened to you in your life so far

03:47No

03:49And don't say coming to Jesus because we know that's the main one

03:53Second best

03:55What's the second best?

03:59I guess

04:01I was just amazed

04:03I didn't know what a great

04:05husband I was getting when I got a call

04:07Aww that's so sweet

04:09Like you wouldn't believe it

04:11He was so good

04:13That was the original

04:15He was handsome too

04:17You know what? He grew up

04:19in an ordinary

04:21home in Cleveland, Ohio

04:23He went to the Navy

04:25the day before he was

04:2718 he joined the Navy

04:29and in my room

04:31they have a big beautiful picture

04:33of him in his Navy uniform

04:35but I

04:37had no idea of all the things

04:39that were in him

04:41concerning

04:43the ministry and the love of God

04:45and the love of Jesus

04:47and the love of people

04:49and wanting to help people

04:51I had no idea that was all in him

04:53I didn't know

04:55it was all in me either

04:59That's probably the best second thing

05:01and the next third thing

05:03is that of course

05:05all the kids God gave me

05:07that was also a blessing

05:09a big blessing

05:11They couldn't have come without the husband first

05:13That's right

05:17Remember this kids

05:21You gotta get a husband first

05:25So I hope that makes you understand

05:27about my first

05:29That's good you got your priorities just perfect

05:31Those are great priorities mom

05:33They're so pretty those little girls

05:35Aren't they though?

05:38Vitality oh God

05:40Even in this coming new year

05:42in our life

05:44Now we pray that you bless the food

05:46Happy Birthday

05:48Dear Grandma

05:50Happy Birthday

05:52to you

05:54to you

05:56Thank you

05:58Happy Birthday

06:00Dear Grandma

06:02Happy Birthday

06:04Dear Grandma

06:06Happy Birthday

06:08Dear Grandma

06:10Happy Birthday

06:12Happy Birthday

06:14to you

06:16Happy Birthday

06:18dear Grandma

06:20May you have

06:22many many

06:24many many more

06:26so many many more

06:28May you have

06:30many many

06:32many many more

06:34Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear grandma!

06:42Wooo!

06:44Hot dog cake is sweet!

06:48Hot dog cake is sweet!

06:57Thank you, oh my goodness!

07:00What does it say?

07:02It's a part of me, oh, it's not.

07:04What does it say?

07:06Tell her what it says.

07:07Happy birthday.

07:08Oh, that's awesome.

07:10Have a great birthday.

07:12I love you so much.

07:14Love, Hope.

07:16Oh, is that me?

07:18Yep.

07:19You messed it up a bit.

07:20Wow.

07:21That is so sweet.

07:22Oh, that's beautiful.

07:23That's good.

07:24Isn't that great?

07:25It's got a great smell.

07:26I wish I looked that good yet.

07:28You do.

07:29You just open it by pulling it apart.

07:30Oh, what is it?

07:31Oh, is it empty?

07:32No, I have candy in it.

07:33Oh!

07:34Whoa!

07:35Girl, look up!

07:36Whoa!

07:37Isn't that cute?

07:38Whoa!

07:39Whoa!

07:40Whoa!

07:41Whoa!

07:42Whoa!

07:43Whoa!

07:44Whoa!

07:45Whoa!

07:46Whoa!

07:47Whoa!

07:48Whoa!

07:49Whoa!

07:50Whoa!

07:51Whoa!

07:52Whoa!

07:53Whoa!

07:54Whoa!

07:55Whoa!

07:56Whoa!

07:58Whoa!

07:59Whoa!

08:00Whoa!

08:01Whoa!

08:02Whoa!

08:03Whoa!

08:11It's the next day here, and look at this amazingness.

08:16Just kids outside playing, in the sand.

08:21They packed a big picnic, as ususal, by the pond.

08:24It's beautiful!

08:25We still have some snow lying around, but not too much.

08:30My hairdresser daughter is doing my hair.

08:34She's crimping it for me with the crimper.

08:37Have you used this before, the crimper?

08:40No.

08:41I didn't even know you had anything like this until a couple years ago.

08:43No, but I showed you a few days ago.

08:45Yeah, that was when I first saw it.

08:48Oh, okay.

08:49So for her birthday, she got a couple dolls that have hair that you like, they're heads,

08:56doll heads.

08:57What do you call them?

08:58Mannequins?

08:59Yeah.

09:00And for doing hair.

09:01So one has black hair, one has hair like mine more, Caucasian hair, and so she experiments

09:09on them.

09:10And then she has sisters, and then she has me.

09:14You could crimp my hair.

09:17We need to get a tiny crimper, that would be funny.

09:22That would be actually really funny.

09:23That would be funny.

09:24Here, I'll bring it back over.

09:25Okay.

09:26Go and grab like a clip so I can clip your hair up.

09:30Oh, fancy.

09:31My mom and I were just talking about gray hair, because see, I have some.

09:36I've got my strands.

09:38I see people in the comments once in a while comment, and I'm really basically, I think

09:45I would color it, except I'm lazy and cheap, and it takes a long time, and it costs a lot

09:53of money, and those two things keep me from doing stuff.

09:56That's why I went gray.

09:58Lazy and cheap.

09:59Really?

10:00Yeah.

10:01She used to color her hair.

10:02I was just asking her, I remember when she was talking about, should I just go to my

10:06natural?

10:07But I was about your age when I stopped, wasn't I?

10:09No.

10:10When you got married, how old was I?

10:14How old were you when I was 23?

10:17So I was 20, let's see.

10:21What year did you get married?

10:22That's the easier way to put it.

10:242002.

10:252002, and now it's what?

10:292025.

10:30It doesn't make any sense.

10:31How do I figure it out?

10:32I'm 72, so 2002.

10:33I was born in 52.

10:3452 to 2002.

10:35I could just subtract how many years I've been married, but then I'd have to know that.

10:51I've been married 22 years, 23 years in this summer.

10:56So 22 years ago, I was 52.

11:00I wasn't quite your age.

11:02I'm not ashamed of my age.

11:03I'm not afraid of growing old.

11:05I'm 46.

11:06I have 11 children to show for it.

11:08I was 50.

11:09Yes, I'm 50.

11:10And I only have a little, like, I've done highlights a couple times in my life a long

11:16time ago, and then I did lowlights a couple times in my life, more recently.

11:21I like the lowlights better, but she tried to aim for the gray a little, but that was

11:25years ago still.

11:27So I don't know.

11:28No, I did.

11:29I think I'll just leave it.

11:30What do they call reverse frost?

11:32That was lowlights.

11:35That's what I did to eventually grow it out.

11:38So you had been coloring, and then you grew it out?

11:40No, I never colored.

11:41I didn't color for years.

11:43I was a blonde when we got married, and then I stopped coloring, probably.

11:48So you didn't let it just go gray, though.

11:50Why did you put streaks in it?

11:52It was starting to go gray, and I didn't like it all gray.

11:56So you'd made it dark?

11:57So they said, well, to keep it from looking so gray, put some dark streaks in it.

12:05So that there's gray, but not all gray.

12:08And then that made my scalp show up because my hair, I didn't have a lot of thick hair

12:15like you do.

12:16You have tons of hair.

12:18Yeah.

12:19Okay, that's interesting.

12:20I've been talking about lately, some of my videos, like some of the videos that Instagram

12:25serves me, and mostly they're funny because I love funny videos, but I have been seeing

12:31a lot of women in their 30s with very gray hair, like fully gray.

12:36And it's women who went gray very young, like in their 20s, and then have been coloring

12:42for a long time, and so they're growing it out.

12:45So then they're like fully gray by the time they're 38 or whatever, because they grew

12:50it out.

12:51Yeah.

12:52And they're beautiful.

12:54They're actually beautiful.

12:55And then I was telling her, I don't know, sometimes you think they're just beautiful

12:58people.

12:59They're not average people, I don't think, maybe, because they look so good with their

13:05gray hair.

13:06But I'm definitely solidly average, not saying that badly, but I don't know if I can feel

13:13gray yet.

13:14I don't want to be gray.

13:15No, you're not.

13:16You don't have enough gray to go gray.

13:17Yet.

13:18Will it be like three years from now?

13:19No longer than that.

13:20With how much I have?

13:21You don't have much.

13:22You don't have much.

13:23It just only comes in gray from now on.

13:24You have, like, sparkly.

13:25It's like somebody sprayed your hair with sparkles.

13:26Yeah.

13:27It's fun.

13:28It's shiny, though.

13:29I would maybe try some other...

13:30It should go pretty shiny.

13:32Yeah.

13:33Like pretty white.

13:34That's the thing.

13:35Some people's hair goes gray, gray.

13:36I feel like if I wasn't so cheap and lazy, I would probably try eyelashes.

13:37Here.

13:38I just pulled a gray.

13:39There you go.

13:52There you go.

13:53Thank you very much.

13:54And, like, permanent...

13:55Not permanent, but what do they call it?

13:56They're not permanent, but they...

13:57Ah!

13:59That's cute.

14:00Look, it's totally gray.

14:01It fell out.

14:02Did you get all of it that quick?

14:03Yeah.

14:04Oh, that's great.

14:05You did better than I do.

14:06Okay.

14:07You got a job now.

14:08Thank you so much.

14:09I actually have a friend who wants to do this, too, sort of thing of starting a business

14:10together.

14:11Oh, that's so fun.

14:12That would be...

14:13That's a great one.

14:21That's a great way.

14:22I have a friend that also is interested.

14:24She did a very good job, from what I can tell, compared to when I do it.

14:29I'm also not very good at doing hair, like curling, but I should let you try the wand,

14:33too.

14:34I'm terrible at the curling wand.

14:35Okay.

14:36That's awesome.

14:37It's new levels unlocked when your child can do your hair.

14:41I love having so many kids, because they all have different...

14:44Talents.

14:45They all have different talents, gifts, like...

14:48And desires.

14:49Yes.

14:50I was telling Belle.

14:51She does musicals.

14:52She's in plays all the time, musicals, specifically.

14:55I hated musicals.

14:57She knew it.

14:58Everybody knew it.

14:59And now I've gone to so many, like, I'm really liking these musicals.

15:03It's so fun.

15:04I'm excited when she has another one.

15:06Okay.

15:07Let me show you what else I've been doing today.

15:09I've been making bagels, and these are all like salted bagels.

15:12There are about 16 over here.

15:14But then I tried, for the first time, putting cinnamon and sugar on some bagels, and they

15:20were so good.

15:21There were 16 of them.

15:22We basically all had a bagel, and they were amazing.

15:26They were wonderful.

15:27They were wonderful.

15:28I'm so excited.

15:29I'm definitely doing this again soon.

15:32Okay.

15:33What else did we do?

15:34That's the water I did the bagels with.

15:36We've collected a bunch of eggs today, as usual.

15:40We've been eating a lot of eggs.

15:41Right before, or last year, we got this egg thing and egg thing.

15:47It's like one of those hard-boiled egg cookers, but it does a really good job with soft-boiled

15:52eggs, which we're all obsessed with, most of us.

15:55And so we've been making those a lot, which is good.

15:57I also made some artisan bread this morning.

16:00I milked almost six gallons of milk, and Luca was my helper today.

16:05Luca and I mucked out the barn for like, in an hour straight, we made so much progress.

16:11So my mom thinks I need to switch my pictures.

16:13There's someone else on your channel, I think.

16:17Okay.

16:18She reads my comments a lot.

16:22Say hi to my mom in the comments.

16:25Oh, gosh.

16:28Okay.

16:30I've just been ignoring her when she says this, but maybe she's right.

16:34Oh, you might not even have to move a nail.

16:39I guess the frames meant...

16:40Oh, yeah, definitely would have to move a nail down a little, I think.

16:43Move it down a little?

16:44Well, I don't know.

16:45Just move this one.

16:46I might be too lazy for that.

16:48Oh, there you go.

16:49It doesn't look that bad, actually.

16:51She thinks the bigger, darker one...

16:54And this is your green chair.

16:56Oh, okay.

16:57Look at this.

16:58There you go.

17:02Maybe she's right.

17:05I'm lazy about some things I recognize about myself.

17:08This is...

17:09Decorating can be wonderful.

17:10Look, those colors go together better.

17:11That color, it's not straight.

17:12Let's see.

17:13Wow.

17:14I hate to admit it, but I think you're right.

17:15Say it really loud.

17:16I think you're right.

17:17It is because the colors just pop more.

17:18Yeah, definitely.

17:19It's a village scene, which I love.

17:20And they match the chair.

17:21It's gorgeous.

17:22The green chair.

17:23I love it.

17:24I love it.

17:25I love it.

17:26I love it.

17:27I love it.

17:28I love it.

17:29I love it.

17:30I love it.

17:31I love it.

17:32I love it.

17:33I love it.

17:34I love it.

17:35I love it.

17:36I love it.

17:37I love it.

17:38It is gorgeous.

17:39That chair, the green chair.

17:40That chair I got from Amazon.

17:41I'll link it.

17:42If you just need a little sitting chair, I have one in my room in white linen too.

17:46It is so comfortable.

17:48We all love that chair.

17:49Put your random nails there.

17:52We had some there at one point.

17:54Let's see, this one could go down a little, but I don't think anybody will look at it

17:59and go, that needs to go down.

18:00Someone definitely will on the blog.

18:05It looks...

18:06I can't believe you're right.

18:07Look it! It just goes together better. It does. Hey, your father liked your baskets.

18:13Oh yeah, he hasn't. He's never seen them. You saw him on FaceTime. He obviously doesn't watch my videos.

18:18No, he doesn't watch your videos. I love those too and then I have these spoons I bought in Kenya this last

18:25trip. I haven't been sure what to do with them. I was gonna maybe just hang them

18:29here. I got them at a grocery store for like 50 cents each. They were so cheap

18:34but they're really cool. Hand-carved. I don't know what to do with those. Maybe the wall

18:40here but then it's a lot of the same baskets and spoons. I don't know. Okay, this is the basket corner. Yeah.

18:47My mom has a space app. I wanted to see if I had gray hair. It does not. You can

18:53make your hair other colors at least in the free version but you can be cool old.

18:56So I just took my picture. Cool old. It looks like you gave me Botox. I look

19:03better than I do now. It's terrible. It's the eyelashes. Okay, oh my gosh. Why do I look

19:13better than now? Do you have eyelashes these days? That's how I look. I look like my grandma, David. The one that just went to heaven. I

19:20promise you that's what I look like. Only with black hair. That's original. Okay,

19:25let's try Noel. I think it's only aging you 10 years instead of 20. The old? No. You don't look that old. That's the old. This is the cool old. The cool old looks

19:37better than I do now. Okay, wait. Hold on. It was an app I had that made you 20 years old. That's now. See, they hardly changed you at all.

19:49Okay, let's try Noel. Okay. That's alright. Oh, what? That's awesome. That could be her as an adult though. That's the cool old. Oh yeah. What? That's so, you look, you're gorgeous. Look at that. What? I wonder how, okay, let's save that just to see how

20:14accurate it is later. There's my mom after a while. Cool old. I love the cool old. It's so cool. There's the not cool old. Let me see. That one's beautiful. It doesn't change me that much. Yes, it does. Does it? Yes. No. The cool old is cool. It is cool. Okay, let's try some of these kids. See what they'll look like as adults.

20:44Destiny. It put makeup on her. What? We're just, we're just saving the cool old for, um, for research purposes. All right, here's Hope. Let's try hers. Whoops. Okay, Hope. What's it gonna be?

21:14No, do it on me. Okay, wait, we're saving Hope's. No. Okay, so here's Peace. Peace, do you think you'll look like that when you're an adult? I don't think they got yours right. Wait, wait, wait, just save it. Just save it. Let's see.

21:34Okay, here's Tori. Let's see how cool old looks. Oh, you're gorgeous, Tori. I still look like I'm wearing like a Gallant. Wait, can we check? I don't know. We did it on Micah. He wouldn't let us show it, but it was very cool. He had a big beard. Okay, my mom took off. That was fun. And now I'm making a really quick dinner because I didn't have meat thawed. I have a bunch of meat out thawing, but I didn't pull it out earlier.

22:04I wanted to get it done quick because I have some people leaving early. So I got one casserole in fast. Now I'll show you the second. I didn't have time to film the first one. But it's a meal that I make. I think I made it for you guys before, but I make it. When I don't have meat thawed, it's one of the things. And I want something really fast. So it only takes 20 minutes in the oven, about-ish. I'm breaking a broccoli, frozen broccoli. If you're wondering what I was doing.

22:32We're having broccoli. My kids love broccoli. It takes 20 minutes in the oven and like 10 minutes to whip up. So I just put a bunch of broccoli. I don't really measure either. So let me show you.

22:46So I use canned chicken. I like this big can from Sam's Club. I actually only have a few more of these. I'm using up my store-bought. I also have home canned chicken, which I prefer, but I need to use up the old stuff first. So I put in the canned chicken and I need some chicken broth too. The canned chicken usually has all this water in it, but I'm not a big fan. So I'm using my homemade bone broth. Just about a cup of that for that big can.

23:14All right, I need two hands. It's the rest of that jar. It's not very brothy. It's very jello-y, which is great. I love it. And then I'm going to use a couple of bags of this broccoli, which these are 16 ounces each, one pound each.

23:30I never measure this and it always turns out wonderful. I always throw in some bacon crumbles. I'm just going to finish off the bag there. I'm going to throw in some cream cheese, some mayo, and some sour cream, which is also homemade for me. I just finished that one off, but I have a new one.

23:50I did about a cup of the cream cheese, about a third or two thirds, a half cup maybe, of mayonnaise. It's just what I happen to have left over. I finished off that jar. I threw in some sour cream too. I may add more of that if it doesn't mix up well. I have more of that.

24:08Garlic and onion powder. I'm very generous with garlic at all times. I can't remember if I usually put salt in this, so the first one I did not. We'll see. That's a mistake. And then sometimes if I have shredded cheese, I put that in, but I don't have a lot of hard cheese right now to shred, so I'm just skipping that. It makes it just extra cheesy, but it's fine without. Okay, let me mix this up and get back to that.

24:31There it is. I ended up just putting in a little more cream cheese. No regrets. Took a little bite of that chicken. It was good. Spray down my pan. I just made bagels in this with parchment paper. It's still basically clean, except a little piece of bagel stuck there.

24:48And now I'm going to use my onion powder as a camera stand. Why not? Actually, my first casserole usually takes like 20 minutes, but I think I normally put this into two different casserole dishes, and since I put it all into one, the same amount for the first one, it was not quite heated through, and I start with frozen broccoli, which doesn't help compared to fresh.

25:17So, I added 15 more minutes on that, and now I'm going to have another huge one. My kids love this every single time. Everyone, I think, has come in here since I started and asked, what are you making? And when I say, like, broccoli chicken casserole. Oh, yum.

25:39Did she just lick that? That's disgusting. Go put this in the sink, please. I promise you, we don't usually keep our dogs near the counter. Actually, yeah, no.

25:53Alrighty, into the oven we go. Oh, no, sorry, one more step. I already cleaned these. Green onion on top, because everything's better with green onion on top. I keep these growing on my kitchen windowsill, so I always have a lot of green onion put on top of things.

26:16Here we go.

26:23Tomorrow, we're having a big group of Kenyans over for dinner, which is fun. We're going to cook a lot of Kenyan food. My Uncle John's here from, he lived in Kenya for most of his life, adult life, and so we'll have a grand old time, so it's nice to have an easy dinner tonight.

26:45Chicken, broccoli casserole. Guys, we're going to run outside. We're losing daylight quick. I just realized it's 6 p.m. We've got to lock the cabs up for the night, and I like to do it before it's dark.

27:01We're going to run. Tori's going to keep an eye on these casseroles. Thank you guys for watching today, and we'll talk to you in the next video. I think we have big news in the next video for you.

27:13We have a lot of big news happening here all the time because we have young adults, and big things happen when you have young adults. That's what I'm realizing. Every time we turn around, there's big news. It's a lot. Wouldn't you say so, love? It's a lot.

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