we are taking a break...

What is up guys? As you guys can tell by the title of this video, we have some news to share with y'all. Yeah, and before anybody asks, no, Julia and I are not taking a break. That's not... Can't ever get rid of it. Yeah, I wouldn't want to. That's not what's happening here, but I'll just preface with this. We are taking a break from this YouTube. We don't know, we don't think it's gonna be like a super crazy long break, but we don't know how long it's gonna be. And it's so crazy because we just like officially made this our family channel. But you guys, Julia and I have been posting consistently on YouTube for like two years now, and she's been doing a video pretty much every week for like two years. And then I also have my channel, and I've been doing pretty much a video every other week, so every two weeks. We just have so much we're doing. So just to dive in it super quickly, we are taking a break from posting on this YouTube channel for a little bit for a couple of reasons. Number one, we're so busy. We have so much going on all the time, even behind the scenes that you guys don't see. And we never want to be posting content that's just like fabricated and made up, and just like, oh, you know, we gotta get a video out this week. Like we want it to be real, we want it to have meaning, we want it to go deep with you guys. And I feel like with the season of life we're in right now, it has been getting to the point where it's difficult to like even have time to make a video. Like not only with just taking care of Judah, but with, like I said, other things behind the scenes that I can't talk about right now, and my YouTube channel, and then obviously all the other things that we do. It's just been a lot. It's been a lot. And so we thought that the best thing right now, because we noticed it was taking into our family time, and it was taking into, you know, stuff like that, that the best thing was to just take a break for a little bit, and just see what, yeah, what do you want to say? Like Jacob said, we don't know how long the break is going to be. It's definitely not going to be like a year extensive. Yeah, don't think like we're leaving and we're never coming back. But, you know, it's important to have rest. Yeah. And honestly, it's not something that we get a whole lot of. You know, you think of people like taking vacations, and taking time off, like when it's time off, it's time off. We have not done that well. No, and even when we have vacations, it's like, oh, we still gotta get a YouTube video up. We still gotta, and you know, we just wanted to take some time just to like kind of reset, refocus our priorities. We're still going to be showing up every day on our other platforms, of course. We want to serve you guys well. We want to put out quality content, and we felt like we were kind of getting burnt out a little bit, and we want to be putting out from a place of like overflow, rather than scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yeah, and like if we're, if that's the way we're feeling, and we're trying to make content for you guys, to help you guys not only grow in your faith, but like show you our family and all of that. It's not that it's not authentic, but it's not like where we should be to be posting that, and doing that. But I think the main thing for me is just rest in general. Like we kind of said like on Julia's channel, we haven't not posted really for two years. Yeah. That's a long time. Yeah, it's been a long. And don't get me wrong, it's fun, and we love, you know, making videos. Don't take it as an ungrateful way at all, but it can be hard. Like we, there's, there's this constant wrestle, right, of like we want to get the best videos out to you guys. We want to show you guys our family, all that stuff, but it's also hard to do that from an authentic place when we're like burnt out right now. We're just, we're in too many places at once right now, and so we kind of have to figure out, okay, where can we take a break and rest? Because YouTube is like, it's different from other content. It takes a lot of energy. It takes a lot of thought. It takes a lot of time. You got to edit it all. You know, you got to do all these things. Well, I don't know if you guys know this, if you're our primary YouTube audience, but YouTube really hasn't ever been our main thing that we do. No, yeah, we just, we really started it like two years ago. Yeah, we do a lot of short form on TikTok and Instagram. So YouTube is kind of something we're still learning how to make long form videos and, you know, it's a different medium than what we're kind of used to. And so it definitely has taken a lot more creativity and things like that. And so, yeah, like Jacob said, it's not coming from a place of like discontentment or us being ungrateful or thinking that this is like too hard for us to keep doing. That's not it at all. It's just, we want to be good stewards of the platform God has given to us. And also, you know, God commands us to rest. I think the biggest thing, as much as like the smaller behind the scenes things we're talking about, where it's like, we want to be authentic, we want to be this, we want to be that, you know, whatever it is, it's also just like rest is important. And it's been two years. And so like, at the end of the day, it's like, it's important to just sit back and take a break, even if it's for a month. Yeah, like, even if it's just for a month and just saying, okay, like, even the mental, the mental load of like, we're taking a month break, we don't even have to think about, you know, because we've come here and told you guys like, hey, we're gonna be gone taking a break for a little bit. But in that time, also, we're gonna be praying for God to just like really give us new ideas, give us the energy and the words and the things that he wants us to say to you guys and to teach you guys and to show you with our family, you know, obviously try to reflect the best we can as a good like Christian family. Yeah, like preparing us in this resting season so that we can come back and just like, go another two years, you know, where it's like, okay, we got our rest, we're ready to go. And now we can serve you. It's kind of like when I see pastors and whatever, they take a sabbatical, where it's a sabbatical, I think it's like a year, right? They just take a year break for ministry. I think it's a year, six months, something like that. And they just rest. So that's kind of like, what we're seeing this as just like a little mini break. Yeah. And like we said, it's not gonna be a year. It's not gonna be six months. If I had to guess, it's probably gonna be like a month. So we won't be gone from you guys for too long. It'll probably seem super, super quick. But yeah, just even just a little bit of time to just rest, recharge, and just be in a place where we can serve you all the best. Yeah. And like spend time with our family too. Like we're going to see my family for a week, which is going to be really exciting. And last time we were there, I think we filmed like eight YouTube videos while we were there. Yeah. We literally did not take a break. And so it'll be so good to just like spend time with them, not have to worry, not have to, you know, have that as something that we have to think about, but we can just rest and spend good time with them, you know, not miss out on things. Cause like, Hey, you know, we got to do this thing. So that'd be really good. We're also going to go see Julia's family for a little bit. So that'd be good. And so we're trying also like during the time of resting, like seeing the people that mean a lot to us and our family and doing the things that really matter while resting at the same time and making the most of it. The month of October is going to be really crazy for us. That's another reason we're taking a break too is because the month of October is crazy. And so adding this to the mix, it's just like, Oh, I don't know how we're even going to do it. And I don't want to leave you guys high and dry and then be like, where did Jacob and Julia go? You know? And then, yeah, like, Oh, it's so crazy. Like I'll just throw in some updates with Judah too. I mean, you can as well, but like, I think he's going to walk soon. I'm not even kidding. Like two, three weeks ago, he couldn't even crawl this boy. You can look away for half a second and he'll be standing on our baby gate, just standing up, holding on, looking above it. It happens overnight. Like a few days ago, he couldn't even get himself up like that. And now it's just so fast. He's crawling on his hands and knees. Yeah. It just happens so quick. It does. It's wild. But it's been so fun to watch him. It's so funny too, because we'll wake up in the morning and we'll get him and we'll put him in our bed and he's just running around like a little guinea pig or he's going the entire morning. That's all he does. But yeah, he is getting really big, which is crazy. Hasn't said any words yet. I'm sure to report back to you guys. He's like whistling now. He's like, yeah. I wonder if by the time our break is over, if he'll be That'd be crazy. Maybe our first video back, it'll be him saying dada. It'll be mama for sure. But yeah, guys, we just want to encourage you guys. Keep running the race. Rest when you need to rest with the Lord and spend time in the word. Like if we're going to do anything on our break, like it'll give us more time to spend time in the word and studying our Bible and spending time with family. And if there's anything we can encourage you guys to do, it would be that as well. Like if you're used to watching my videos on a Saturday morning, spend that 15 minutes to read your Bible and get to know the Lord more because that's our main mission in everything we do. Anyway, we want to point you closer to Jesus and all that we do. And so, yeah, just because we're leaving for a month or two doesn't mean that you don't need to spend time with Jesus or anything like definitely continue to do that. She said, you'll see us elsewhere. It's just going to be Julia's channel just taking a break for a little bit. And hopefully coming back from this break, we will be just rested, energized, ready to go, just ready to come to you guys with whether it's different videos about, you know, how to read your Bible or how to, you know, have a Godly relationship or how to this, or even just videos about our life and our, you know, walk, whatever it is. Hopefully with this rest, we'll be able to come back and just be able to go back to like the normalcy of what it has been in the past. And to like, if you guys have any ideas of like what you want to hear more about, like genuinely what you want to learn about, let us know because that is so helpful when we know like where you guys are at. And then we can obviously prepare for that and like meet you guys and talk about the things that you guys want to talk about and learn about those sorts of things too. So that'll give us some time to read through some of the comments on this video and just really think and pray like, okay, you know, what are we doing when we get back? And you know, where is that going to lead us? So if you guys want to, you know, have something you're want to hear from us, whatever, leave it in the comment section below, um, right now. And we'll be reading through that as we're, as we're gone. Yeah. A lot of exciting things behind the scenes, like some things we really can't talk about right now, but it's keeping us busy. That's for sure. So I'm not pregnant. No, she's not pregnant, but yeah, this is goodbye for a little bit. Yeah. Which is sad. I like, I'd never take breaks, which is not a good thing, but it's needed. It's good. It's going to be good for our family. It's going to be good for our health. It's going to be good for our souls, our spirits. But yeah, this is goodbye for a little bit. Love you guys. See you guys soon.