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We are being very rebellious. It's almost nine o'clock at night right now. We went to go put the kids down for bed and we were like, hey, you have two options. You can either go to bed right now or we can go see a movie. So we bought tickets to go see Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit. And the boys are gonna have so much fun. So we're in our pajamas, we got blankets. Our movie theater reclined so it's super comfortable and we're just gonna go do something we've never done before and take the kids to a movie at 10 o'clock. Wish us luck. Oh, would you look at that? Ashley lost her phone. I'm gonna kill you. Imagine that and she says, Thomas loses everything. I do say that. Yeah, well where's your phone? Wait, you know what happened? Peek-a-peek-a! Mommy told me that joke. Whoa! I went to go start this vlog and tell you, my, you, friends, what I did and Ashley goes, don't start and say, you guys because every time I start a vlog, I say, you guys and every time I do an Instastory, I say, you guys but you guys, check this out. This was all covered in leaves. Russell and I spent like two and a half hours out here just getting the leaves out so check this out. By the way, these are rat's nests and spider nests so these, if you have these, you should rip them out. So today, Russell and I are gonna do our best to rip them out. All of this was covered in leaves, all of this, all of this, like I'm talking six inches of leaves, guys. That's probably exaggerated but whatever. But look at this, disaster now. I mean, the zone looks good. However, over here, not looking so hot. We have about 250 of them to 10,000, somewhere in that range. So what do you guys think? We did a good job, huh? My goal this year is to make this area look like it should be in a magazine and if anybody knows old T-Money, if I've got a goal, I'ma make it happen. I'ma, I'ma make it happen, what? Hey guys, tomorrow is Valentine's Day so I spent a little bit of time today going around and getting a few things for our, for my mom and our grandmas. The boys are gonna make a few cute little crafts. They're gonna write notes to them and cut out some things on construction paper. So that's what we're gonna do for the next couple minutes. Just getting things ready for tomorrow. I hope everybody has a fun, happy Valentine's Day tomorrow and you spend it with someone you love. And if you don't have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a husband or a wife, then just go give some love to anybody in your family. Happy Valentine's Day. Okay guys, who should we give Valentine's to? I'll give Valentine's to Adley. Okay, who do you think, who else should we give them to? Grandma Corbin. Okay. Your mom. Okay, what about great grandma? With the glasses? Your teacher? Yeah, should we give one to grandpa? Yeah. I'm gonna give one to mommy and daddy. Ooh. I want to have purple. Purple? Okay, so let's pick out some crayons. Crayons, I say crayon. Okay, what color? You want purple? Well, think about this. Whatever color we draw on, you want to make sure, I don't know if you'll be able to see that, will you? Try, can you see it or is it kind of the same color? Okay, hold on, I'm gonna cut this out first, okay? ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ Okay, draw Cohen right there. Little, so Simon can fit his name too, okay? My name starts with C. With a C. Put C. Make it little, okay? Because Simon needs to fit on there too. What should we do now? Should we do other Valentines for like Izzy and Lexi and those guys? What if we use something like this? Do you guys want to use that? Yeah, they're cards and then we'll put candy on. Okay, do you want me to teach you how to do that? And I brought R2-D2, a Stormtrooper, and a girl, and a red Stormtrooper, and a good guy Stormtrooper, and everybody. And everybody. Which one do you want to give to Izzy? Which one, which person? Do you want to give to Izzy? This one to Izzy? Okay, Cohen, which one do you want to give to Izzy? Okay, let me see. Black Widow. Black Widow? Okay, now watch this, two, wait. I'm gonna write Izzy, to Izzy, and then from Simon. Put your name right there. Write your name Simon, so she knows it's from you. Okay, Cohen, which one do you want? Black Widow? She gets it. Okay, Black Widow. So what we're gonna do is we'll write to Izzy from Cohen. Okay? Okay, do you want to know what we do now? You fold it in half like this, and you put a candy inside, and then you use the sticker to close it. So should we get candy for her? Okay. Okay, now what we're gonna do is you'll put the candy right here, okay? We need to hold it still. We'll get a sticker out. Okay, like this. Okay, Simon, will you push it down? Push it down over the top, so it closes. There's the heart, so see? So there's a candy in there for Izzy, is that cool? Oh, oh, oh, it's okay, we can just slide it right back in. Is that cool? Hi, Mommy, I like those candy. Yeah, do you want a candy for yourself? Yeah. Here. I just got back from a business meeting out in Lehigh, and Cohen and I are gonna go for a ride on the four-wheeler, huh, Cohen? Tell me how excited you are. Are you not excited? I'm so excited because I did it last time, but now I'm doing it another time. Okay, come on. I think the four-wheeler's back here, buddy. Okay. Oh, I love you, Ezra. Ezra's been sick for a couple of days. Really sick, heart, like he hasn't had an appetite. He's just been crying constantly and just sad and sick and won't sleep, so this is really good to see him so happy today, huh? Yeah. It really is so good to hear him laugh. Like, I haven't heard him laugh in probably. Like, four days? Four days, yeah. She's been a sick little boy. We are gonna go run Valentine's around right now because tomorrow we got plans, we're gonna be busy, so we're gonna go to, like, my grandma, my mom's, my grandpa, I mean, my dad. Why would you do that? And my dad, we're gonna go give him their Valentine's right now. Hi, baby, say hi. Hey. Hi. Happy Valentine's. Wait, let's see what you got. Oh, you guys. Uh-oh, uh-oh. You. Oh, wow. What's in yours? A paintbrush? You wanted one? Cute. We got news tonight that Thomas' dad had a stroke and it's not looking good right now. I guess it happened earlier today, but we didn't find out until just barely, so Thomas right now was at, his friend died yesterday, and so him and, like, the rest of his friends got together tonight and they did, like, some memorial thing for him, and then he just found out about his dad, so he just, he's rushing home right now to grab me. We're gonna run to the hospital and he's gonna give him a blessing. And we're just, we haven't seen him yet, but everyone that has seen him says it's not looking good and things aren't looking good, so I don't even know what that means. But obviously we're praying for the best that I know with a stroke, like, strokes are very scary, and a lot of the time people are never the same after them. So we're just hoping that the best case scenario, that he recovers fully from this, I just, like, can't even imagine losing him right now. Hey guys, it's two in the morning. We just barely got back from the hospital, but I just wanted to give you guys, like, a quick update. So they had to do, they did, like, an emergency surgery on his brain. There was a blood clot, and it was, like, in his largest artery that there was a clot. And they think that he had a stroke at about two a.m. yesterday. So it happened in the middle of the night. But the weird thing was that he woke up, he had use of his right arm and, like, his entire body, but he couldn't speak. And so everyone at the house was just like, what are you saying? Because he'd, like, make out two words, and then the rest of his sentence would just be gibberish. So nobody knew what the heck was going on. They said, now if he were showing other signs of a stroke, we would have thought, like, maybe dad had a stroke. But because he wasn't showing other signs, they didn't know what the heck was going on. He was just speaking weird. So, and, like, getting really frustrated. So anyway, it was, like, imperative that they operate ASAP, because if a clot is there for 24 hours, it's permanent damage, if not death. So they did the surgery while we were on our way to the hospital. When we went in to see him, it was really hard. Like, he, I don't know, just, he seemed scared. He just seemed like he didn't know what was going on. It was just really, really sad. And it was me, Thomas, and his mom were there at the time. His brother and his sister were there before, and then his other sister came up after. So a lot of people have come in to see him. What they think right now is he's still being looked at. Like, they have him in the intensive care. So they're keeping an eye on him to make sure for the next 24 hours he's feeling improvements. From there, they're saying, you know, as long as everything's going good, that it looks like he will just be in, like, speech therapy and other therapy, just, like, relearning how to use things. So that's all we know as of right now. We will definitely keep you guys updated. Please keep him in your prayers. We're so grateful to be able to use our platform, especially when we're in need of a lot of prayers. And I always ask this because when we lost our son, I can honestly tell you it was the strangest feeling when a lot of people collectively are praying for you. You physically can feel it. And so, really, if you can, please just, for two seconds, just say a quick prayer that he will fully recover and that he will be okay. But I'm gonna end this vlog here. Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you guys later, bye.