 it's another road trip today not as a as fun of one as yesterday today we got to go to the doctor what is this checkup is this the this is the first checkup it's two weeks even though he's almost three weeks that we had a blizzard last week so had to be rescheduled to today so that you know we weren't driving in the middle of a blizzard so doctor's gonna check you out make sure you're still 150 i bet you will you keep getting better looking so we're gonna quickly run him into winter peg get the doctor to look at him run back here and then i've got to take old blue to the shop to get that visor installed today again starts with starbucks sorry timmies two for two i want a starbucks it never used to be this way it used to be timmies and timmies only i thought starbucks was disgusting and then somehow that's switched we got a starbucks in town here and i thought it was just gonna flop like ah we already got three timmies we don't need starbucks it actually does pretty good and you know what the service here goes a long way that that's what does it the people here are so friendly they remember you they talk to you like you're an old buddy i mean when you're all selling the same thing you've got to differentiate yourself from the other businesses if you're selling coffee and they're selling coffee and you both make good coffee what can you do to win the business so that everybody wants to buy your coffee right the only thing you really can do is treat the customers better unfortunately a tim hortons here in town they mess up our order a lot almost every time brit has her order messed up if you go through the drive through guaranteed something's going to be messed up and sometimes it takes a really long time to get your coffee in the drive through i mean those are all things that like you still get your food you still get your coffee it's still good i still go to tim's but that never happens here just saying oh here she comes here she comes bad lid thank you save the day okay i'm gonna go get my drink okay have fun i'll see you when we get back the food is also better at starbucks that's one thing that you want people to come buy your coffee i guess offer them better food hey you just started squawking oh goodness you heard about the great coffee debacle i know it's really okay one of these is yours are they the same thing well you figured out they're both the same okay let's go to the doctors well thank you but you don't have to bow every time i come in it's all right i made a promise and i keep my promises we're getting rid of the garbage in the shop look at this mattress garbage styrofoam and there's more yet at the house but for now i can take this to the dump get this cleared out of here since theo was born we've been very very busy very busy uh mostly just trying to keep up with him we're on his schedule now uh we don't have a schedule we don't have a normal you know nighttime schedule daytime schedule no no no no we have a theo schedule so he's not sleeping right now for more than about two to three hours at a time there was a night there in the past where he was sleeping four to five hours or four hours at least no that's gone down to about uh two and a half sometimes just 45 minutes and he gets up and you know stretches himself out he's alerted for a little while and you got to pick him up hold him and put him back to sleep and uh he'll be down for another you know 45 minutes to an hour to two and a half hours so it's going through a phase right now where he's awake a little bit more than we'd like him to be so we're taking shifts at night but i've got four days four days now until i'm back on the road we're really gonna be tested brit will be tested at home but she has family of course we're surrounded by family who can come and help at any time uh we're gonna ease ourselves into this a little bit i'm gonna take a few short trips and see how everything goes but yeah four days left and old blue is in the shop right now getting that visor installed once i have that back tomorrow i have an appointment in winnipeg with the doctor uh it's just a follow-up appointment pretty much it's nothing nothing big but that takes up a lot of the day tomorrow the day after is my day to get the truck ready and then one day yet we're going to have with just me brit and theo at home from sunrise to sunset for 24 hours just us and we're just going to spend time together as a family and enjoy it because after that we have one late late easter gathering yet with my family and then i'm back on the road back at work i've got to start saving up money again because we're going to need a bigger house as soon as possible the house we're in now has served its purpose uh it got us to a spot where we could afford the ivf procedures to get theo we're so thankful for that we're on a very low budget right now this house is amazing it's cheaper than rent but you know having a baby around and we're we want more we want to keep growing our family we're going to need a bigger house sooner than later so with the housing market right now and the way the banks are right now and the interest rates i'm gonna really have to put my what's the saying nose to the grindstone you know what i mean i'm gonna really have to focus hard putting money away getting ourselves into a spot where we can have our down payment and get into the house that we want to uh you know be our forever house uh a bigger house bigger yard fenced yard the basement garage and we can just ease into our role as a typical suburban family and after that we've got to get a new vehicle too because our terrain is not going to cut it for more than one baby it is good for one once we have another one we're going to need a bigger vehicle too so we're looking at you cons which will be another thing for the future but hey there's always something to work towards there's always a goal i'm i'm going towards as long as i have a goal in my mind i'm good if i didn't have a goal to set or a goal to reach i think i'd be pretty lost a goal gives me purpose and it gives me drive to get things done and make that money needed to achieve it like i've said in past vlogs all of this stuff is just storage for the house because we don't have room for it in our tiny house right now so once we get a bigger house this will all go you know into storage in the basement probably or spare room or under the stairs well i don't know what kind of house we're going to get yet but so much to do as long as you have your site set ahead you know where you're going anything's possible anything's possible you've got to work hard for it make your dreams a reality there we go doesn't even look like i'm loaded up with garbage all fit in there nicely yeah let's bring this to the dump and let's come back here and start organizing stuff my stuff i mean everything the dump we used to come here all the time i used to have to haul away my own garbage then we moved into town it's very convenient having someone else come pick up my garbage from me usually but this time i have to come here so the styrofoam goes in these bins over here and the cardboard goes over there and then the mattress goes over there because i don't need to take up the hole then there's two parking spots here all right here we go back right up to there get the tailgate nice and close not too close but close all right let's get this done this has been a long time coming all these bins are pretty full already and it's windy here it's always windy at the dump scared i'm gonna throw them in there and it's just gonna fly away fun times right and last but not least this is where mattresses go to die and stine back riveting yes i know and that was my exciting day for you wow and it's not even half over wow i know the things i do i haven't been making videos every day that i've been at home because this has been the most excitement i've had vlog wise other than staying at home don't get me wrong i thought about that after i said it we've been having a lot of excitement with theo obviously but uh you know other than like being at home taking care of theo uh taking care of brit the house helping her with things i haven't gotten out of the house much except for like doctor's appointments a couple of like getting together some family now we're slowly starting to get ready to get back to life like normal normal life we're never going to get back to that life life has changed there's a new normal now we have a baby and i'm so excited and things will will be different from now on going out on trips is going to be harder than it already was and i might be in a little bit more of a rush to get home that last day on the road and every time i come home he's going to have grown a little bit gotten a little bit bigger right i can't wait to take him with on a trip in the truck i got to look into the laws of what the law says about taking a child in a big semi truck since where would you put their booster seat or their car seat right normally like in this vehicle i can't take theo in this vehicle unless he has his car seat or booster seat i can get a big ticket big fine right it's illegal it's not safe so in a semi truck how would that work am i able to get like a passenger seat with the anchor points for a car seat or for like his booster seat as he gets older or uh how does that work like i went on the truck with my dad back in the 90s but that was the 90s that was a different time different world you know now there's all these safety regulations and laws do any of you know what the law is us and canada like are we allowed to take kids in trucks if they have their booster seat because there's no airbags in the front right either way he's gonna come ride with me in the truck even if it's just around the parking lot i don't care well let's go around the parking lot then but on an actual trip that'll be a big day i can't wait to to film that i so clearly remember going on trips with my dad and that's where my love of trucking was born that's where it started right i always love the smell of diesel fumes there's nothing better in the morning the best way to wake up and i never sleep as good as i do with a diesel engine just giving me that little bit of a little bit of a vibration you know i sleep really good in the truck plus you're like a paid tourist you get to see the whole continent well north america well canada in the u.s which is pretty much the whole continent one problem complete no one problem solved no one the garbage is gone the garbage is gone i've got to patch up these tarps a little bit yet i have uh the patch stuff over there i might have to wait till i actually roll them out when i use them next uh that green moor back there my dad is taking he's gonna fix it up sell it i don't want it i just want it out of here this atv i've got to fix up and sell it's got a brand new motor in there i just rebuilt it probably has about 10 hours on the motor needs new wheels on the front these ones are bent and needs a new muffler and a new battery and i can sell that thing motorcycles staying you kidding me that's that's not going anywhere other than that yeah we're slowly slowly making space who goes there progress i got this section pretty well organized i got the table cleared off anyways got my toolbox here a little better organized so progress right progress all i have to do yet let's just focus on progress we did make yay and the visor has been installed i didn't thank you to uh people at pbx here in blue menor meet you at the shop it's good all right i'm gonna get a little blue inside i'm gonna take it from there i think it looks great where there she goes i'm gonna keep her waiting and you see the visor doesn't hang down too low it's right it's actually above the six inch mark so it doesn't even hang down quite six inches so it's well within regulation i'm very happy with it i think it looks awesome i'll show you on the side there in the shop either today or tomorrow we're gonna rush home it's getting kind of later ready uh how they mounted it and what the difference is to how uh it was originally intended to be mounted see originally it would have gone down to pretty much here and that would be uh it would get me into a little bit of trouble it could so they had to modify it a little bit on the sides bring it up a little bit and still make it look good and they nailed it really happy more into this in the next couple of days but you can see the uh custom work that was done to angle it back just a little bit really you can't even really tell it sits on there just perfect now there are those logos on there and um a little sad that they didn't show up a little better on this side here is the tjb logo i'm sure you can even see it and then on the other side is the bullsnot logo you sort of see it in the light here very very faint i thought that they would be a little bit uh more obvious than that i was thinking they would actually be like cut out so you could see it from a mile away but really you have to be right up close and know that they're there to see them but we know they're there and i'm pretty sure in the right light yeah from here you can definitely see it bullsnot and tjv it's the same logo as this right back here the tjv logo that's the logo that's on the driver's side right there yeah i can see it from here no problem i don't know if the camera from here will pick it up i don't have a very good uh zoom on this lens but wait that's actually pretty good thumbnail i might use this as a thumbnail point your baby bring your baby like a baby show you fast asleep the car is a magic magic trick put them straight to sleep but we did pay the price for that because when we took them on that two hour car ride he slept the whole way and then when he got home he didn't want to sleep at home it wasn't a good night let's take them out of here see that scrunch okay here we go oh you ready shabby mom always gets very excited for this oh you weren't smell you weren't scrunch you weren't snuggles those are my three favorite things about newborns here it is you scrunch you good mom shabby had a bath today at daycare he smells better than we do smells wonderful unlike someone's breath over there hey that's our fault we need to get them done yet these we need to get your teeth cleaned it's definitely on the list of priorities very soon