Bad News About Our New House…

Alright friends, we are heading out. Our contractor actually wants to meet with us, so I don't think this is a good sign.

Wait, I was kind of excited about it.

Is he nervous?

He's saying he's gotta update us on the wall, so I'm thinking it's probably gonna be harder and more money than they thought.

Because he wants to do it in person?

Yeah. That's not a good sign. I know.

Don't make me nervous. We better go. Alright, Layla's taking the day off. Another day closer to Christmas. ♪ Sweet bells ringing, diamonds blinging ♪

♪ Carols singing, famous seasons ♪

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Grandpa!

What did grandpa teach you?

He teach me ladies first.

He teaches us ladies go first.

Yep.

Uh huh.

Dada, lady's sofa. That's right buddy. Not you's sofa.

That's right.

Lady's sofa.

That's right buddy.

You're such a sweetie. You're such a gentleman.

From the structural engineer, he's recommending that you add another column in here.

Okay.

On each end where it's going to be open. That's going to be where you transfer your load from these triple beams that are carrying your upper floor. Okay. So obviously to remove this we're gonna have to put a steel beam in from here to your opening over there. Right. Once that goes in then we'll have to go down below at our concrete piers down in here so you get load transferring to the two corners, right? So you can eliminate that

Um by column, are you meaning it will stick out further?

Is that something we put further in the wall what they what the what the structural engineer recommends is either a three and a half Inch steel column here. That's one of those adjustable ones. Okay, or you can use seven two by fours Okay, so it's going to have to stick out either seven two by fours where you have to put that

Well you get into this here

Theoretically if we open this up you could probably get that steel column right in here What if she she might be changing these countertops anyway So that's the case then yeah This can be this can get pushed back if you want to keep this then obviously That's exactly right you can you can push this back in there It'll just change where this load point goes back into the wall a little further. Which is not really that big a deal. Over here you'll have to have the same thing.

But here's what that guy was telling me. He said because of this being subfloor.

So we're not gonna fit that much, are we,

without moving these anymore?

Well, that's the problem. You've got all these water lines.

So we're probably gonna have to have Kelton move all this again. but probably realistically you're not you're not gonna have enough room in here with all your plumbing well not just that but also the foundation guy was telling me yeah I think I think that's right so he was saying he's worried we might have to go So far back in the wall with the column that it lands on that beam

They put but I don't know if we build our own call if you build your own column down in the basement

Then you don't have to

So it's probably better to do that then go back into wherever that I'm

Which is gonna be a bigger mess, I mean you've already got this open anyway

Jack or do we need to put a beam across all of this underneath if it's not a floor? No, it's gonna start like sinking theoretically. No it should I'm scared As long as like from underneath once you get the columns underneath then you put

It's basically a six by6, 8x8 to come

up directly under the ceiling. So most of that weight will be on the columns probably instead?

All of that transfers to this point. So you basically have, it has to be solid structure from here all the way to the concrete

foundation.

Okay. So the main thing is two columns and then a beam. But you're saying we may have to do things through here this wall over to that he wants another two So this whole ceiling is gonna have to get open up enough where we can cut out the floor

About that no worries on opening this ceiling because while we already have so much open the lights

I mean look Look if you're looking from here. It really does look like Swiss cheese, and that's no one's fault That's just because of all the remodels and stuff that took place.

Well, they had this probably because they put

all the cabinets here.

Right.

Which I understand.

But, you don't need this.

I'm also gonna eliminate those, I don't need those.

Right.

I don't care about that one. I'm gonna eliminate a lot of these random and then I'll also have you cut in for the new island.

Well, if you're cutting on your new island, you're gonna want better lighting.

You're gonna want a lot of lighting shining down on the island.

So you're gonna want a good four to six lights over your island.

So we're gonna cut this ceiling out anyways.

So that gives you lots, I mean if we're having to cut it open anyway, then that's your time to redo. But how hard is that beam stuff does that mess up any of these beams is it going this way or this way?

Okay

Looks like there's a little bit of a gap there, so it might be dropping just a little bit You can either keep these beams or we can replace them. Yes, they're just foam. They're not real beams.

They're not doing anything special.

There's no structure to them. They're just there for decoration.

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Okay, that was taking a bit longer than we thought it would. There was some other things that are kind of going on

that we were trying to well

I went to the car with kids We're not buckling them up But he was trying to figure out which breakers and stuff got flipped when they were doing Construction because some of this stuff wasn't turning on in the house and then the gate which they got that breaker figured out But we might have to have someone else come out and check some things Oh wrapping this up, decisions, decisions.

This stuff just makes me so nervous. Like I'm going to do the wrong thing. You know, it just, it's-

I'll tell you what, decisions even in an older house, stress me out. I don't think we could build right now. Oh my word.

Even the tiny decisions that we're making right now. We did get the wall stuff sorted out. We're gonna price out like still beam versus doing like seven post or whatever. And make sure structurally everything works with that. I told Evan that I'm so excited when we pulled up when we actually are not going between two houses and we're just like here and it's home.

Yes. All right, Carlin restocking the fridge. I know I'm gonna hear it. Energy drinks, they say they're probably not great for you, but during 25 days of Christmas editing I got stuck up Just here and there I've got us I'm staying up till like 2 every night

Well, so it's 25 days of a super Christmas, you know I'm saying editing late I gotta stay awake somehow. We did get a Walmart order, so let's cook something tonight. Oh, that'd be great. I think I'll invite my mom to cook. Invite her over to cook!

Or Zach.

Invite Zach over to cook.

Who invites Zach? Alright, who are you starting with? Whitney. The thing about my family is you can go down the list, there's a lot of them.

I'll be cleaning bake while I do that.

Bring you over here, come join us at the table. I don't think Whitney's gonna answer.

Whitney's out.

Mom, M-O-M.

What does she cook that you want her to cook?

I don't know, what am I craving?

Like a childhood dinner?

Potato soup?

I was wondering if you were gonna answer.

I'm sorry, I'm answering. I'm answering. What are you doing? I'm trying to desperately clean and get ready for this party tomorrow night. The party.

Well, that's not gonna work out for my plans. I was gonna be like, hey, you wanna come over and let's do, I don't know, make a childhood dinner,

go see Christmas lights.

I said this party would get ready but the problem is Callie's out of town, Addie's out of town, and Ellie's been babysitting.

So what is there to get ready? And Judd and Jeb

went with Warden so I'm a little bit on the

What is there to get ready at this party?

Oh let me just show you. Hang on. Let me hold up my phone.

Please show me. Is that from the last party that we invited ourselves over to? No, I cleaned that one out. This is new.

From who? Who's been over? This is just us. Oh. Just us living.

That didn't go to Carla's plans.

That didn't go over my plan very well.

Oh, it's your plan.

I have a plan. I wanted you to come cook for her.

Well, that was kind of my plan.

Don't tell her all of my secrets, Evan, until I say it.

Well, then you won't cook. I don't know what I'm craving.

All right, well, I love you.

You think about it and let me know when you think about it.

I'll see if I can accommodate.

All right, sounds like a plan.

Love you.

All right, I's got to go up and do thumbnail finish up today's vlog and stuff like that Carlin and the kids are both helping out so much the kids have actually been such a big help lately cleaning emptying the dishwasher Layla goes around and fills up all the bathrooms with toilet paper They've got these little chores and they've actually been so good at it. So they're helping Carlin down here. Take care of dishwasher cleaning Working out that is big cup. It's about as big as you Good job, buddy

All right, so anyways, thank you to the family, Carlin and the kids, for straightening up downstairs. I'm going to work upstairs.

Love you, mwah mwah mwah.

Love you.

Daddy, can I kiss you?

Yeah.

Kiss all the way. Mwah, mwah, mwah.

Mwah, love you.

Love you.

Love you, Zade. We're about to go for a nap. Kids are actually about to head for naps after they help Carlin straighten up, so that's honestly when me and Carlin get most of the work done.

The house looks like a billion times better.

It's way better.

It's way better.

It opened up this whole space. You told me to do it.

I begged you to do it. So it's better in the cozy fireplace with it and the Christmas tree. Also, you know what's weird? The thing is, it doesn't block your window.

This is way prettier.

I'm obsessed.

Is this a real fireplace?

Yeah.

Yeah, a Brackstar fireplace.

Wow.

I've never seen it.

Oh, for what?

Did you do this last year?

What?

Yeah.

I don't remember even using it last year. We're still dismissing the photo. You know what? Three years too. Three years we're rinsing the photo.

Shout out to Zach and Whitney for having us over. Old Bates Kitchen. Hey, Harlan was calling people today seeing who would come cook dinner for us and here we are. Just come to Zach's house

and let him cook.

Come up here and we'll cook for you here. That's right. We don't travel unless it's Florida for swimming. Casey made this for our whole family. Oh my word, that is so sweet.

Merry Christmas.

Jayden did too?

Jay Jay!

Oh my word, that's so good.

These are such gorgeous colors.

So the plan, this is where we ended up. The old Bates kitchen right here. Dax in the background cooking us up some delicious dinner, which I'm actually very excited about.

You know I'm a sucker for good food.

This is not a good food.

I haven't made this in a long time.

Honestly, I think one of the last times I cooked this,

I cooked it for you.

Really?

Well, I can't wait to.

I love that Zach and Whitney are always up for us

to just barge in on the house.

They're so good. I also haven't seen their house with Christmas decorations or they like we did their whole dining room area and Like it's so much prettier if you would have seen them But our kids get along so well that that's why it's so nice because they kind of entertain each other Layla gotten her princess dress before she came and was like knew exactly what she was wearing. She was so excited about it. Anyways BFFs Half a cup of sugar. Evan's in the back making his famous cookies. They are one-of-a-kind delicious

Famous off of Google

I don't know And then Zach got a whole bunch of stuff going. We got broccoli, potatoes

I can't wait for the cookies

The cookies! Zach what are you making exactly? You never told me.

I was stuffing a lot of chicken breasts. I ordered six chicken breasts to stuff. And somehow the Walmart guy thought, well that's a big family, they don't need six packs. How's two packs? How's two little measly chicken breasts?

So I've got six chicken breasts full of stuff to pack into two measly chicken breasts.

I'm confused. Does it just push? Stuff and pack into two meats with chicken breasts

Wait can we see your bump Whitney?

Almost 20 weeks pregnant. You look amazing

And you guys saw it is a girl

Number baby number

She's tricked me a couple times here's the thing in this family. I just never know No, we really don't. Can you tell when the cousins get together, they get some type of extra energy boost and they kind of go a little crazy. The cousins are trying to teach Layla how to roller blade. Is this your first time on roller blades? Yeah. Wow, they're both holding her up. All right, let's see your move. I

Don't know how Chloe standing still in her blades trying to teach her. I'm dead. Evan, how's the cookies coming?

Oh, the Navy girl's waking up. We gotta get Navy out. I tried to tell you you don't speak chef

What does that mean? Chef's kiss. I know but they're good.

Oh they're good?

Oh my word. If I could cook like this I swear I would be in the kitchen every single day of my life.

Yeah I know. It's so good. It really is amazing. It's called stuffed chicken. There's stuff inside of it. It's like a surprise. It's kind of like a Christmas present. If you want the recipe.

Well that is what it is. To us it's a surprise. It's kind of like a Christmas present. If you want the recipe. Don't call it a surprise. Well, that is what it is.

To us, it's a surprise.

The chicken, see, if I could speak for a moment, the chicken is the wrapping paper. The stuffing is the present, but together it just makes the perfect Christmas combination.

You know what I mean, Scott?

Where is he, where he was going with that? Oh, the lemon. See, the lemon, that's the bow. I just gotta taste the lemon. The lemon's the bow.

That's why it bakes on top.

It just bakes into the crust.

It's like a hint, it's just barely hint. That's so good. You guys, there's a recipe actually for this. Maybe I'll try my hand at it on his YouTube channel. Video number three, maybe?

Video number three Wow throwing it back

The hint of lemon yeah the hint of

Okay, okay, okay and let's work it, work it. and left a little ghost first, leaves his face in front of you, and then just dies. Is that another language or what? The crazy thing is, he's gonna remember what he read, and I don't even remember what he read.

Oh, these are good.

That's just telling you his story.

Okay, so, you're in the bank.

Thank you, thank you.

You collect individual assets.

That's so good, by the way.

Thank you. Oh, Zach wants to steal that? Um... Hmm... You are welcome to take it.

The whole stack?

He fought so hard last round for that.

I've got to do really hard to get it back.

Wait, it looks like me and Carlin are the only two that even have a little stacky stack.

So, we...

Don't speak too soon this game.

I know.

We've done like two rounds.

They're getting excited. I'm gonna have to knock them down a peg, you know what I'm saying?

Okay, but for real, I was just talking to Whitney and here's the thing, I never really thought of this. It makes sense now that I'm saying it out loud, like maybe people think this without thinking it. They just know it, does that make sense? But let me say, when we're old, you know, mom and pop, our kids are growing up. They're gonna be hanging out with their own families. They're married And yeah, we're gonna see him at the holidays. You know who's gonna be hanging out Us the siblings we're gonna grow old together playing card games. That's crazy I already love it. I was thinking about so it's kind of

I've got gray hair lots of them. I. Evan was seeing gray hair up here and top now.

Here's the thing, so essentially you grow up with siblings and then once your kids are out, you kind of grow up with siblings.

That's the greatest thing. The greatest invention of all time.

I've never really thought about it like that.

I'm not even satisfied with being part of our family.

You can grow up with our family.

You can join our family. You can grow up with our family. You join our family.

Well that was fun, so now let me win this game and then we'll talk to you guys later. Whoa, that's actually a lot. Carlin might have beat me.

Wait, can you count mine?

Oh, if I can count yours then I think I'll win.

I don't think that's so fair.

50. No, I wouldn't 100 125 450 470 did I do that right what'd you have 470 80 90 or did you have 490 did we tie what did you have again did you add other people's together with yours that's how Carlin had so many wives throughout the game you put them in your hand or in your step oh that's hilarious so I won even if she cheated.

Or didn't.

Thank you bro.

Thank you for dinner my man. Chicken was amazing.

I'm glad y'all enjoyed it.

Those were the best nods ever. I'll see you tomorrow.

Alright well that was an amazing night. Alright well that was an amazing night. Thanks for watching. We love you guys.