 Wow, I just walked through a giant spider web Welcome back to the channel. It's time to let these chickens out y'all All right, ladies Go on out do your thing eat them bugs Don't get in my plants Getting in my plants getting in getting in mama's plants. I'm gonna get in trouble now. Come on Come on now Margaret. You know better than that Go run around eat the bugs Here they go I figured it is high time y'all That we just do a home vlog Because we have a new addition in the family first things first. I Just need to thank you guys for all your prayers and support Baby Ben. He is a healthy beautiful little baby boy and he's He's back actually past his birth weight now and Mom is doing good as well. So she is back to where she can start driving again. She can she can't really lift Anything it's been kind of difficult. Amy's always like wanting her to hold holder So I've been at the house helping with the dual children Situation so I'm just gonna walk you guys through what it's like in in my life right now So first we call him with a new baby. All is always rough and my schedule Has been I was getting up at 3 a.m. I would go to bed at 9 and get up at 3 And take care of Ben from like 3 to 7 a.m. And then switch off a lot of dirty diapers But honestly all he doesn't even cry that much. It's it's pretty crazy How right off the bat we could tell that he his behavior is definitely different than Amy's Amy came out of the gate Swinging she's never stopped moving to this day I've been calling Ben sluggo and her turbo because they're just completely opposite the way they were when they were babies But it's actually a lot more work Taking care of Amy and watching Amy Around Ben then it is taking care of Ben because after you feed him he pretty much just goes to sleep And there's really not a whole lot to it. He doesn't cry a whole lot. He's just a good baby So after I get done taking care of Ben in the morning steps up and she's taking care of Amy and Ben Then I move on to chicken care So I go out I let the chickens outside and I let them forage around in the yard for about 30 minutes to an hour Usually about midday Amy comes outside She starts running around if she's not at school or dance class or something like that Which is another thing that I've been doing since I've been at home for these last week as I've taken Amy to school Something I've never even done before it's always been Stephanie while I'm while I'm out So, you know just being being a stay-at-home dad this This last 10 days New experience OSG cooking up something in the kitchen cooking up something delish you can always find me in here. I Love this is gonna sound Sexist but I love seeing you here in the kitchen. Just gets me excited in the morning. Well, you know what? I love to make you happy. So if this makes you happy food makes me happy. I'm a very easy man, please speaking of food Leftovers, you know yesterday last night. This is this is what we do We put them in our chicken bucket basket thing as we call it and we take them outside to the chickens That's our egg collection basket. I start my morning with a heavy dose of Espresso tar Get things going and this is where we collect the eggs. Oh, and someone sent us flowers yesterday Who'd you say this is from? From Gateway Church Got some we got some followers at the Gateway Church. Thank you guys very very much for sending that those are pretty. Those are very fall That's it. I've never seen Those are like straight from the fields I mean it looks like a pheasant or a quail should be flying on that thing I got Stephanie some Harry Potter socks and Pumpkin spice candle, are you wearing the Harry Potter socks right now? Did you play in that? No, I did not this that was my post pregnancy gift We're on a budget here socks and a candle, but you told me that you wanted to watch Harry Potter You need to go potting okay, and there goes the tornado And that's typically how it goes y'all so the eggs so the eggs can burn you gotta gotta watch out By the way, I have not done a at-home vlog and a long time Mainly because it's so chaotic in here, and I know a lot of you just you know You don't really care you just want to see fishing or hunting or whatever it is But I know some of you do so let me know in the comments if you want to see more stuff at home I feel like we used to film a lot more at home and it was simpler times having two kids now It's like having two fish on the line the same time you got two rods, and you're like trying to battle them both Same time so it is It's a mission. It's a mission that we we take on every day and stuff is the commanding officer that mission It's like hey, I'll take this when you take that one lot of tag teaming this week And I've watched any more than I ever have yeah because she is so She's so high-energy. She needs attention all the time. She's got to be into something and What we didn't want to happen was you know focusing on baby been all the time, and then she gets a little jealous So I've been spending a lot of time with her. What's your favorite show on TV? Baby Tots baby Tots. What's your favorite game to play? Hide-and-seek yeah, you love hide-and-seek. What's your favorite food? Carrots I thought it was gonna be strawberries Yeah, we're mac and cheese, and do you like baby been? And that is what we call a zone out right there mid-morning zone out love it actually love to see that Oh there she goes pop back up and Chickens are back in the front yard. They're probably about to get in the garden So I'm going to go out here and distract them with some food Come on now Like a herd of raptors Coming in All right, you know what to do. We'll open the door Head on in strawberry tops Are one of their favorites? Just leave the whole leaves and everything on there, and they'll actually clean everything up See if we got anybody in here. We've got two eggs already this morning Girls are doing good work. Now this one right here is carrot She's a gold lace wine dot and she's typically the last to go in She just will not Be captured and wine dots are a little different in that they Don't have to be around the other chickens. They're sort of loners So she can just be off by herself and be fine Whereas the other chickens they like to stay in the flock. They like to know where everyone is She don't care. She is like the social outlier the loner the lone wolf If you will silver bullets gnarly right now, too absolutely gnarly I've actually been fishing one time since baby Ben was born and it was Just a few days ago to go do some product testing went to one of our favorite places. It's full of grass got a dusty road and Testing we did my goodness. See if I got any wounded soldiers I do All you fishing freaks out there probably already know what we got going on and coming out but This bait right here This is the nuke punch This is a flipping style bait also a fantastic jig trailer, you know, it's like a bandito bug But more rounded out tougher plastic It's great for flipping, you know using a straight shank flipping style hook. This is another one I'm really excited about we literally every time that we've tested these we've gone through all of the samples just catching tons of fish, but this is going to be the blazing worm and All of these colors right here were different Consistencies in plastic and we've gone through about three or four different trials of Consistencies and then tail designs and everything like that and we finally have have come to a conclusion on the consistency and The tail and everything like that and are happy with it and then we also got some other Terminal stuff that we were testing That is turned out pretty good. So We got a lot of stuff coming down the pike. It's about time to go fishing again y'all. So I've got a tournament this This coming weekend another team tournament if you guys Missed it. I did a team tournament with a few other guys in the in the Guggen squad and We filmed that whole series. We filmed the practice film the tournament and all that so down to the dirty deets So you can go watch that on the Guggen squad channel We're gonna be doing the same thing on the tournament this weekend and we've got one more in November so it's a three tournament series and You know, we're recovering it all from practice to the scales So I'm excited to get back in the game y'all. I spend I've spent a lot of time in my tackle cave Looking at tackle thinking about Fishing finally got to put my hands on some fish play around with some lures As long as I'm around Fishing stuff in general. I'm happy. I don't always have to be out on the water But I just gotta be in there just gotta be in the mix You know at least talking about tackle talking about the dangle with somebody some of you so enough about me Let's go inside and Check on the baby boy Someone hiding for me. It's her favorite game to play. She likes to hide and she likes to trick Are you a trickster? She loves to trick me. There she is How was life different from Four years ago You me and Winston peaceful days And now they're just full of remember just like a Saturday weekend We're like, what do we want to do you want to go run like five miles or go to Lake come back and have a second breakfast And then yeah nap and then from there. Let's go to the lake. Yeah naps Don't exist. Yeah, it's just not something in In her world That happens They barely exist in this world Yeah Yeah, you don't take naps anymore either Do you? About as fussy as Ben gets right here. Yeah, this is About you know an eight on the fuss level for him just little grunts Some grumbles But the main challenge that I was telling them is like just containing her with Him that's why it's a tag team. I take baby Ben. You take any I was gonna leave this weekend and I decided it might be a little premature to go down to the deer lease I need to need to be here to To uh wrangle this one up a little bit Yeah Just like rough housing But I think you can handle it. I think so this one's so easy I mean he goes down for a nap for two hours every two hours. He wakes up needs type change feeding goes back down That's basically Ben's life right now I can handle that Is it time for hide and seek? Well, I can't go hide if you're hanging on me If you're hanging on my neck Now do it Okay, all right, you count to ten close your eyes Stay right there. So So this is my Saturdays now I'm coming here bathroom curtain Oh, you were gonna do it. Well, you found me emotions, um girls versus boys Different level different level of emotions You feel better now? You gotta cry now Okay, we'll try again. We're gonna go hide then. I gotta show you guys something I gotta I gotta new deer. I need to show you guys He found me Usually go in here when I really need to get away Anna. Oh, no She wanted me to open it. Take a move. Mama found me I've maybe been smiling Are you just happy to be here with the fam? Smiling a little bud. You in a happy mood? You in a happy mood? There you are. Goodness gracious. You were tall. You were so tall Are you the tallest in your class? Yeah, you're gonna be that like awkward tall girl in high school That you know, none of the boys want to date because you're so tall and then And then later in life when you're like 40 and you can start dating around Now I'm looking forward to that, but she she is in the 90th percentile of heights. I think she's gonna be She's definitely gonna be taller stuff. She might be taller than me I am just under six foot Hold you. Okay Oh goodness. Oh goodness So when I am not uh, when I'm not in the woods and not on the water, this this is what I'm doing And it has been good, um to basically have You know a week and a half just here at the house bonding Anyway, it's been good to spend, you know over a week here with you guys just kind of Bonding we've loved having you I think this is the most we've had you home in probably the last two years I am definitely more sympathetic to you now Being with the daily emotions of of emmy, but honestly, he's been a little angel. He really has He's just going around going along with the flow. He's like, I'm just I'm just here I'm just here. It was funny before he was born. I was I was I had an intuition that he was gonna be calmer And be like the yang to the yin And it seems to be that way so far So if we would have had another emmy out of the gate, I would have I would have been like stressed out But honestly Like if you would have been our first I would have been like let's at four or five And after emmy we were like, I don't know. Maybe let's travel and see what happened. I finally got unibrow back Unibrow was the deer that uh, I ended up Getting last year. I was trying to hunt a different deer called the pond deer He's always hanging around the pond and I ended up Uh, just finding this deer like once or twice on camera. I had footage of him Just just a few times like coming through the frame never really had any good trail cam pics of him Um, but he just randomly showed up. He was all Spawned out, you know, he was uh worn out from the rut But he uh, he came out just just for a minute right at the end of the day And uh, I ended up getting the old 308 On him and man just a cool deer. Um Try to put him on this big old crack right here to cover it up He's almost so pretty. You don't even see the crack anymore But just a really unique deer. He's he's right at 140 inches low fence Central Texas deer, you know, uh hill country deer not known for being giants But he's just really cool. So he's on the wall of white dales Got old Herschel over here with the drop time Got an Oklahoma deer that uh, actually he he dropped he he experienced a full drop down the stairs He still looks okay. And uh, this guy's just super cool. Look how his brow time almost connects Fully to his other brow time. Who could that be? It's him me Oh my goodness Amy girl Okay, can you tell me which deer is your favorite? The brown one Wonder which one that is Just a dog. She's either a uh a dog or a bird Um, just kind of depends all the day your dog right now Okay, a little walkabout. We got the setup here It's been a while since so I've had to do this all of a sudden when I put baby ben in there She's like that's my stroller. Oh, she wants to get in it. She wanted to get in here So she got in the front and she was hanging onto the bar. So I was pushing 60 plus pounds Whoo, you're looking good. I'm sweaty looking good You know just Popped a baby out like 10 days ago She's been asking to go camping. I think we're all ready for We're all ready. Do you think we can go do it right now? Like I think everyone wants to see some family camping videos I think we could probably do it. Especially with the camper The only thing is with that's why we got that camper so you could have these two hours It just be you know, I have to be up every two hours anyways in the middle of the night So it's really up to you and Amy What do you think about just coming to your camp for a little while? I go hunt and then you take care of the kids Too extreme thought I'd try it You need a popsicle to cool you down. Do you think Emmy could Chill in the deer blind with you? Absolutely not Absolutely not baby Ben we could get away with Uh you Emmy do you think you could sit still for more than 30 minutes? You think so There's no way she's never stopped moving Since the day she was born. You'd be a good elk hunter always on the move But speaking of hunting and exercising I Do have an elk hunt lined up you guys that I am super excited about Um going with my buddy outlaw and mullet man. We've had it planned Uh ever since he was conceived really So I am going to go elk hunting and I I don't know how much I'm going to get to go whitetail hunting Uh, I've definitely got the bug for it right now And I mean she can tell you I talk about it every day and I have been uh, I've been training every day That is a nice thing about being home is I've gotten into a routine where I'm just uh, I'm training every day I just like to work out just enough to stay dangerous in the woods That's that's about where I'm at. You know middle-aged dad bod former athlete And uh, just enough to stay dangerous in the woods. That's what it's all about for me I've got a bunch of different packs, but this one right here. I just keep Uh stuff in it including a weighted blanket, which is uh, I think like a 20 pound weighted blanket And then other stuff in here. So this pack is Probably 25 to 30 pounds. It's about what you would do on a you know, regular four or five day Mountain hunt or elk hunt and I'll just walk with the kettlebell I'll go, you know, a mile or so and do these Different alternating exercises including the lunges I'll carry it on each arm for two minutes tricep press I'll stop. I'll do push-ups With the pack the other thing I'll do for chest and Ab exercises. I'll use my rings I got rings set up here super cheap Super cheap setup. I've got the bike over here. I'll ride the hills with it I feel like getting a lot of exercise. I'll just turn the battery portion off. So it's nothing extreme But I just found like doing Something every day. I just feel really good, you know keeps me ready keeps me edgy and when it's really hot during the day I can actually shoot my bow under here For shorter ranges And it's really comfortable and the thing that I've tried to get better at This year Is judging distances on my own, you know, what I realized after a couple seasons elk hunting is the ability to know yardages quickly And not have to Really range that much. I mean if you're going to make a long shot and you've got a lot of cover You've got the opportunity Obviously you make sure you've got Your range dialed but what I'm trying to do is get really comfortable where I just know that deer is Or right about 35 yards or you know that that deer is 30 yards. I don't even need I don't even need to range. I've got it. It's got a couple seconds You know Where I just I feel confident in taking the shot without even picking up my range finder Dead deer So one of the things I've been practicing is just going to the side here and going And then when I stop I settle in for a couple seconds And take the shot so Then I take the shot Because last year I was just moving And then that momentum kind of carried my arrow forward. I was freaking out. So Just moving and then stop Settle in anchor in I'm getting one the shoe back. Yes you are. I'm getting one That is an unlucky bucky right there Two lungs and a heart This back porch could be a country song right now Back porch mama and the two kids sitting next to the bass boat and the grill with the fan on On a hot sundry night I just made that up Anybody wants to license it from me Hit me up So this is our life now My hallowed is uh evolved Since the beginnings of of the youtube's and one of these days these little tots are going to be Both out there in the woods and on the boat with me Amy is just starting to get into fishing She's just patient enough To go do it. I only take her when she asks to go. I don't I don't like Forced her to go or anything, you know Not trying to make the next Childhood fishing youtuber I'm just very Blessed y'all to get to work for an outdoor company still make these videos for you guys And just have a great happy healthy family here. So thank you for all your support and We'll have some more videos coming soon. I'm gonna leave the nest right mom I'm gonna leave the nest Leave you with the bird little baby birds Dad's gonna go gather some food Go ahead and smash that like button if you like the home vlogs maybe I'll do some more for you and uh Haven't done them in a while. Just been so crazy around here But I figured I would just document a little bit of what's going on. So we'll be back at you soon y'all Godspeed and god bless you and the great outdoors. See you