BACK IN ACTION! WE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR THIS!

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Like, how did you get up the stairs? I didn't carry you this time.

[00:00:02]>> Well, I almost checked my oxygen whenever I got to the top.

[00:00:08]>> Hello and good morning everyone. You guys, I'm finally upright. I was actually going to stand to do this video and I was like, look, I'm vertical. It's actually been several days since I have even been in a vlog. So, you guys, thank you for being patient. Thank you for all of the well wishes and all of the kindness that you've shown our family while I've been just like a little under the weather. Um, I have never been so sick in my entire life, and I'm sorry that that's been the theme of the last few videos. But if you caught yesterday's video, um, Brandon was very creative in his telling of how I was sick and what exactly was going on. He would like switch outfits and go to different areas of the house and he's honestly done so much. It's been so incredible. There are phases that we go through in our lives where you're just like, "Man, I feel like I kind of do a lot." And you feel like no one notices.

[00:00:51]And he has stepped up and he has been so sweet and so kind. Like, I can't believe how much you do. Hi, Luna. you want to say hi to everyone? And so it's been really awesome. He has picked up the pieces and done so much and been so I don't know, he's been so great. He has checked on me so many times. And anyways, I fully blame myself for getting sick because the day before I started showing symptoms, I said I never get sick. And well, I'm never ever ever saying that again because I feel like I was near death. But I am doing so much better. I feel like my voice sounds funny. I cough a lot. You know what?

[00:01:20]We're just trying to get my lungs back to being healthy. And today is the first day I've been able to like get up and do anything. So I I woke up and I showered which felt like a really big deal. My hair hadn't been washed in a week and it was disgusting. Very first thing that I have to do in the mornings is take my medicine. The funny part about the medicine is my whole chest was burning so bad. And so I did some research on the medicine I was taking and it can burn your esophagus if you don't drink it with enough water. So I have to take it with a very very very big full glass of water. And so, first thing I do when I wake up is I sit up. You have to be sitting straight up and down. And I have my medicine. You have to be upright for 1 hour. And so I sit upright for 1 hour.

[00:01:59]And then usually like after that hour, I would like maybe be on my phone for a little bit and then I'd get tired and I fall asleep. Today I took my medicine.

[00:02:06]Probably took 30 minutes for me to convince myself to get out of bed and wash my hair. The kids had a barbecue today at the school and I really, really, really wanted to be there for that. And so I thought, well, I'll just do my best and if I get to be there, I will be so grateful. I ended up having to grab a stool to sit on while I got ready and blowd dry my hair, but I was able to do it. And I was a little bit pooped when I got home for sure. I wasn't gone super long, but I um came home and I took a nap. And I think that that's going to just have to be something that I I do every now and then, but I'm really trying hard to take care of myself because I really, really, really want to get healthy. I have a lot coming up this month. And yeah, I just don't ever want to go back to the place where I was. So, a lot of talk of sickness. I'm so sorry, but that has been the theme of my life. I laid in my bed for uh six straight days and I never ever want to do that again. It was a very dark place, but I'm awake. I'm up.

[00:02:52]I'm on the road to recovery and I just wanted to say thank you to all of you.

[00:02:55]>> My guys, we had a pretty rare and exciting experience uh where Brexen and Hazy wanted to go to Five Below and we actually went on Saturday and I think we had a lot of fun.

[00:03:03]>> Five Below. Yeah, we had fun.

[00:03:05]>> Pretty limited test as far as like anything we found. So, we got candy and then what did you get Hazy girl?

[00:03:10]>> Some makeup stuff.

[00:03:11]>> We loving squishies, loving needles, loving anything like that. and kind of unsuccessful. So, one thing that we wanted to get is Brexen got this really cool AirPods case, but we got the wrong size. So, he wanted to go back and exchange it for the right size. But here was the deal. I was not available. Mom was not available. It was going to rely on big brother to take them. And so, Brexen built up some courage and asked Ryer if he could take him to Five Below and Hazy to go looking for some stuff and to do an exchange on the AirPods case. And to everyone, shocking surprise, RER emphatically and excitedly said, "Yeah, I'd love to." So, we don't know what he got out of by doing that, but it was something cuz he definitely was excited to take them. But then, apparently, they had some of the most success they've ever had in the history of their Five Below Hall. And so, Brexen would like to show me what they got.

[00:03:50]Surprise me, he said with, I quote, plural surprises. So, Brex, without further ado, let us present.

[00:03:56]>> First of all, I did get Squashy. Brought him to school today. And I >> Oh, the C. Oh, thanks.

[00:04:01]>> And then I also got the new AirPods case, like the one that fits.

[00:04:05]>> So, you have it though or is it?

[00:04:06]>> Yeah, it's at school. I love >> Dang it. I wanted to show everybody that. Okay, we'll show them.

[00:04:09]>> I'll grab it first. This is for you.

[00:04:11]>> Wait, wait. We're starting with something for me.

[00:04:13]>> Last time we went, I got something and you were kind of jealous.

[00:04:18]>> Guys, an original Silly Putty. This was my childhood. Although I think >> probably like random, but >> I think it might be my mom's childhood, too. Silly Putty is so old. We should look up when Silly Putty was invented.

[00:04:26]But I'm going to tell you guys what I told these kids. Sure, they were very excited about it. But back in the day when they had this thing called newspaper, we would take the Putty and I don't even remember like playing with it much cuz it looked basically just like gum someone left under their desk. But you take the silly putty and you could roll it onto the newspaper or push it down. When you picked it up, it would have exactly what was on the page. Like it was the printed words or it was like a comic. You could do like and pull it up and it would even take the color with it and everything. Like it was just so fascinating. Other than that, I don't know why we thought this was so cool.

[00:04:51]It's basically like an early slime that's really stiff. That's what it is.

[00:04:54]But I got Brex got one and I was like, "Dude, that's literally like my childhood." So Bon, thank you for bringing me my childhood. I love you.

[00:05:00]>> Then next Wait, there's more >> in the bag. And now they're in this bag cuz they just spilled. I got one to start.

[00:05:07]>> Oh, whoops.

[00:05:08]>> Okay. Uh, that's a good score. I mean, you can get that pretty much anywhere.

[00:05:13]They had a tablet squishy that you love.

[00:05:15]And wait, did you get matching ones?

[00:05:16]>> Yeah, I've got >> Oh, you guys, I love it. You know why I love these? If you don't know what these are, and this is >> from a parent who was very uncomfortable with them getting them in the first place because they feel extremely sticky. They're very gooey. If you were to touch them, you would think, "Oh my gosh, that's going to be everywhere. My hand is going to be sticky." Uh, how does it go on here? Have we ever done that before? If we show everybody that.

[00:05:36]>> Probably sounds good.

[00:05:37]>> So, you put it on here and you're thinking, "Oh, that's not going to come up." I don't even know how to explain to you texture-wise what. Look at that. So, this looks like glue. Like, if you were just to have be a parent and your kid brought you this, you'd be like, "You just stuck a water glue on my hand."

[00:05:48]Comes right off and then it feels like nothing. Like it's almost like >> Yeah, there's like no residue.

[00:05:52]>> Smooth and like not oily, but like powdery smooth on your fingers. I don't know what they're made of. We actually had a kit where we made them ourselves and it was some weird combination of things you had to do.

[00:06:00]>> A solution and B solution.

[00:06:01]>> There you go. A solution, B solution.

[00:06:02]And you had to have like the exact equal parts on there like one two threes. I don't know. Anyh who, they're very very cool. They feel limey to the touch, but then they're actually not very very cool.

[00:06:10]>> Okay.

[00:06:11]>> Okay. So, next that was like Five Below.

[00:06:13]And then next we went to Zurkers for like for >> RER did the multiple destinations. Guys, we were going to do an entire video about how we live in the Neato capital of the world. And if you go to this one intersection, there's like I think four stores that are very well known for their potential of having six or seven needles each. You have like Thurkers, Teton Toys, Hobby Lobby, Five Below, and then of course you got like your standard Walmarts, Targets, all on this one intersection. And just for fun, we were going to go and do a video about it and show you that every time we go, they never have any. So like it's funny that we have these places that could have them, but they never do.

[00:06:44]>> So we went to Zurkers. We go to like where the needles are supposed to be and they have like graduations. And so then they have like this >> school education. Who needs that when you can squish stuff?

[00:06:54]>> They have like a top shelf and it's like dance squishies. And then we look and there's dumplings.

[00:06:59]>> No. And >> there was four dumplings. One of them was like open.

[00:07:03]>> Did you go full giddy mode? Brexit.

[00:07:05]>> So I got a dumpling.

[00:07:06]>> You are joking me right now. We've been looking for these for I don't even know how long. How we used to call Five Below three mornings a week asking if they got a delivery of dumplings like >> so many times.

[00:07:14]>> You guys all know.

[00:07:16]>> No. You guys, how hard have we been looking now? You probably are. These are unboxed. You know what that's in them? I mean, you can wait for me after.

[00:07:22]>> I'll show you my >> Okay. Are you ready? Let's go. Rexies in three, two, one, reveal.

[00:07:27]>> Oh, >> I got the glitter one. It's like the super rare one.

[00:07:30]>> This is the glitter one. I thought the glitter one was gold. This is the actual glitter one.

[00:07:33]>> The glitter one.

[00:07:35]>> Even Luna's freaking out about it. It's the glitter one, Luna. It's the glitter one.

[00:07:39]>> Glitter one.

[00:07:39]>> Luna, look. It's the glitter one. Can you believe it? It's >> like the really rare one. It >> And this bushes fantastic. Oh my. Luna is so excited. She's going to camp out up there.

[00:07:51]>> Now, Hazel, I know it's tough to get two glitters. That's okay. But >> sadly, I got the glitter, too.

[00:07:56]>> There was two glitters. It was like a pink and a and a pink purple one.

[00:08:00]>> Literally, at this point, I think I'm being pumped.

[00:08:01]>> And then guess what? Riley got the normal one.

[00:08:03]>> You got like a normal one. That's >> But you guys, wait. I'm blown away.

[00:08:07]There's >> And it's crazy cuz he got the blue and I got >> four total in the store. You buy three of them and two of them were glitter.

[00:08:13]>> You're joking. I know. Can I just >> Oh, no wonder you were wanting to show me so bad. Bre was trying to FaceTime me. I was driving on the freeway. I was like, I can't really like FaceTime while I'm driving. He's like, "Okay, well, I have to show you what we got."

[00:08:25]>> There was eight options and they were cool options. They were like tie-dye one, and then there was like a blue glitter, this one, and like a pink purplish glitter. And I literally opened mine first and it was the glitter, and I was like, "Oh my god."

[00:08:37]>> Be honest, how nervous were you when you saw his was glitter, thinking that yours might be >> a plebeian regular.

[00:08:42]>> Well, mine was really heavy and was like, >> "Yeah, Riley was like the weight of this tower." I cannot believe I'm a little bummed I didn't see your faces when you saw the glitter for the first time.

[00:08:52]>> I never filmed it, but it's record the audio.

[00:08:55]>> Oh, okay. So, it sounds like if you want to go over to Riley Bingham on TikTok, uh you might be able to see the unboxing and opening of the glitter dumplings.

[00:09:02]That's pretty dang cool. And I think overall very cool that RER was excited to go take you guys and that you got such great stuff.

[00:09:08]>> Yeah.

[00:09:13]Heat. Heat. N.

[00:09:36]Guys, I just have to document this. Mom is alive, sitting up. That's >> hot.

[00:09:40]>> Talking doing nails.

[00:09:42]>> Barely.

[00:09:42]>> You open the vlog today. I mean, this is like a whole new >> I'm trying.

[00:09:47]>> Sorry, we're feeling thongish cuz we just came from Brexo concert.

[00:09:50]>> Oh, yeah. and he sang like a champion >> WPJs.

[00:09:53]>> And we are getting ready for our next singing event which is >> Hope of America.

[00:09:58]>> Hope of America. America. America.

[00:10:01]America. Sorry.

[00:10:03]>> Freedom ring.

[00:10:04]>> Tone it down a little bit. We got to take it one step at a time here. How did you get up the stairs? I didn't carry you this time.

[00:10:08]>> Well, I almost checked my oxygen whenever I got to the top. But >> you guys, it's no joke. We We are making light because we're so happy to see her moving around. But it is not funny how hard, very simple things are and how quickly she runs out of breath. It is insane like >> howffected her lungs are. Affected. Not infected. Sorry.

[00:10:23]>> Well, no, I am infected.

[00:10:24]>> Yeah. And infected too, I guess.

[00:10:25]>> It is insane how like big of a toll it's taking. But then I talked to a friend tonight at the choir concert and she was like, took me like a whole year to fill like myself.

[00:10:34]>> Oh, please don't. We've heard some stuff like a month and we >> Yeah. So, I mean, now that you've proven you know how to do the laundry? I >> That's right. You supposed to switch it?

[00:10:41]>> You were supposed to go crap.

[00:10:43]>> No, it's not a big deal. I did sit and fold this laundry today.

[00:10:46]>> Yeah. But I was doing some research over like how like I don't know what it means ease back into life. Like I don't really have like an in between. I like I'm dead or I'm alive. And so it was saying I was like can I do laundry?

[00:10:58]>> What did it say?

[00:10:59]>> And it said yes but don't stand and do one load at a time. I was like >> how do you do two loads?

[00:11:04]>> So I well like don't stand there and like do like fold like three loads. But I was like well I I'm sitting >> I don't know. You really got to I know you will but you got to pay attention to it. I think it kind of surprised you.

[00:11:14]>> It totally has surprised me. Like you got to take it serious.

[00:11:16]>> I'm actually a very healthy person.

[00:11:18]>> This is the first time you've been sick like this in >> our marriage. So probably your whole life. But it's been one that knocked on your butt. It is so good to see her up and going with the antibiotic doing its job.

[00:11:27]>> It actually worked so fast. The first chills getting better not having very much faith.

[00:11:32]>> Fever getting better. Uh we still got the cough headaches. How I haven't even really checked in on that. How's that?

[00:11:36]>> So Brandon, this really embarrassing thing to tell people. I figured out what the the headaches are from.

[00:11:40]>> Caffeine addiction. Figure out what >> surpris dad does have those.

[00:11:43]>> You guys have a headache. Dad doesn't stop long enough to get the headache.

[00:11:47]>> I got desperate enough yesterday morning. I like could not do anything.

[00:11:50]My head hurts so bad. Just went and had a bunch of caffeine. Guess what?

[00:11:54]>> All better. Oh, >> it's good.

[00:11:55]>> Dang it. Dang it. And it's good though.

[00:11:56]Okay, so really we're working on just those lungs not being up to their full capacity. And um >> I did talk to the doctor's been difficult.

[00:12:03]>> Um just about like what like my blood oxygen level should be. I have my old Apple watch that like basically a paper weight, but I charged it and put it on my wrist and like did my blood oxygen and it was like in the low 90s and I was like freaking out last night.

[00:12:15]>> What's normal? Mine was in the ' 90s just as >> 95. But I it said like if you go below 95 like that's kind of scary. I talked to the doctor today. Basically, if I stay below 90 for like a period of time, then it's scary. But I've only done that once, so we're good.

[00:12:29]>> But that's kind of fun to uh actually know what your blood oxygen.

[00:12:31]>> I bought a pulse oximter.

[00:12:33]>> Yeah, guys. Full-blown Grey's Anatomy over here. I mean, I have the white coat. Mitchell should try and borrow mine.

[00:12:39]>> Uh, but right now though, mom's wearing the hat of nail tech and awesome mom.

[00:12:43]>> I'm sitting though.

[00:12:44]>> Hazy's nails prepared for the Hope of America presentation tomorrow. Going down. Going to be amazing. Hazy's going to have probably what, like Fourth of July looking ones. What are you going for?

[00:12:52]>> Strawberry nails.

[00:12:52]>> Oh, strawberry. Okay, sure.

[00:12:53]>> It's basically an obsession. So, >> okay. Awesome. Love it. Tomorrow will be there cheering you on. Mom actually, if she's filling up for it, which she's currently saying she's going to do it, is going to be driving a bunch of kids there.

[00:13:03]>> Well, school's counting on me. So, >> yeah. to to get them practiced and then we'll go tomorrow night your hazion on.

[00:13:08]But I know the last video we posted was kind of an update without mom in it and the two before that didn't have mom in it and so it like I wanted everyone to see you actually up and about and honestly just to have you talk that long to the camera right now has been awesome that you can do that cuz we're not exaggerating she couldn't have done that over this last weekend.

[00:13:25]>> Yeah I I think I talked about it in the open just that like I have a really sad dark place being alone for that many days cuz I don't want to get anyone sick but I'm very happy to be among you.

[00:13:34]That's what we'll call it.

[00:14:06]Guys, we kind of both agreed that's enough standing for one day. We're going to >> We're at that like phase where like you like go to laugh and instead it's like >> it's a cough every time you go do like a little laugh like a not a concealed you're not trying to hide it but like when you like do a reserved laugh it's like a h like that but the air just goes guys. Thank you so much. So much like love and concern and checking in on mom.

[00:14:27]We've had like so many people uh flood us with their like remedies and and I had this happen to me and oh my gosh it's terrified me 10 times more.

[00:14:35]>> We have heard some horror stories but but I think that's been good if I'm being honest because it is I think getting in mom's head and it's forcing her to go slower than she would like to.

[00:14:42]>> You know I'm usually like I said earlier I'm like on or off.

[00:14:45]>> I think that you know you need to be at like 20% right now and then you crank it up to 30 and then 50 and and we move from there. But >> it's going to be May. Well, we do have Mother's Day, so that's usually like a full day of pampering, frozen toaster strudles, spilled flowers. Like, that's a great day.

[00:15:01]>> And I bet after me being out of commission, you guys really appreciate everything.

[00:15:05]>> Let me tell you, new appreciation every day for what this one does. And we're grateful that after like a week, she's letting us try and pitch in and do some stuff. So, she's like, "You know what? I maybe actually do need >> fine. Do the laundry."

[00:15:16]>> Thank you so much. And it's been amazing for us and for me to have mom here again. And I know it is for you guys just to see her face smiling, laughing.

[00:15:24]>> Oh, no. They love listening to you talk all the day.

[00:15:26]>> But like if you only knew like she was just right here in this bed and could not even >> muster up sentences. And the number of times that she was in tears or just distraught with her hand on her head and her eyes closed and it was just so hard to see cuz you've never been like that for even like an afternoon, let alone a day and a week. And so this is a a big deal to see you smiling, hanging out here. So we love it.

[00:15:47]>> I'm upright. That's the biggest thing.

[00:15:49]You guys, thank you for being with us.

[00:15:50]Thanks for being with our family. We're excited for tomorrow. It's going to be a lot of fun. We'll see you later.

[00:15:54]>> Good night, everybody.

[00:15:54]>> Bye.

[00:16:12]Woo.