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- Tonight we decided to bring the kids to the fair.
Not fair. It's like more like a carnival.
It comes to a little local church here right where we live,
they put on like a little thing.
There's baby spit up on me.
They put up on the whole carnival that they
donate proceeds to St. Jude's.
Hey guys, we're on our first ride.
- Yep.
- Wish us luck!
Turn this way!
- Hi!
- [Mindy] Let's see if Rylan can win a fish.
I kinda hope she doesn't.
- No, I want one.
- [Mindy] What do you think, Dax?
Is he gonna get it?
- [Shaun] Show the camera!
- Cute!
- [Shaun] What is it? A sloth?
- Uh, huh.
- [Shaun] Nice.
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(children screaming)
- [Shaun] How was it?
- I'm walking just a little crooked right now.
- [Shaun] Are you?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [Shaun] How'd you do?
- I shouldn't have ate that corn dog.
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- I can't stand straight.
- [Shaun] You can't stand up straight?
Daxton, how was it?
- I wasn't on that one.
- [Shaun] Oh, I thought you went on it.
You went on that one, that's right, okay.
That's next, that one's next.
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- [Shaun] How was that one?
- I almost vomited.
- My equilibrium's a little off.
- [Shaun] Is it?
- Wooh.
- This is a little
- [Shaun] Dax, how did you feel about it?
- I liked it.
- [Shaun] You liked it?
- [Dax] Can we go again?
- [Shaun] Rylan?
- No!
- So Brooklyn is only having
one wedding shower. Bridal shower.
Just a series of flukes.
It's ended up at my house, which is fine.
Though I'm co-hosting it with two
of my really good friends, Jenny and Lindsay.
And we have been working on it for quite a bit.
Make sure that it's just as nice
as Bailey's was cause it was so beautiful.
And her colors obviously
you guys know are green, green, green, white.
The theme of the shower is kind of like
bringing outdoors indoors.
So we're, she's doing her wedding ceremony outside
under the trees.
And so we wanted to try to create,
recreate that feel
aesthetically inside my house.
And I know people are gonna wonder why we didn't just do it
in the backyard because there's not really any level places
for tables for eating.
And also there's just
it's been a really bad super dry hot summer,
and so there's just a million mosquitoes
and bugs, and the grass is really dead
cause we haven't been able to water.
I'm gonna show you some of the things we've been working on.
So we are flying to LA in the morning for the ITK party.
This next like six days, like really the next couple weeks
are gonna be just like, well the really,
the next six days are gonna be just kind of a giant blur
because we leave tomorrow to go to ITK.
We're only in LA for one day, then we fly home.
Sean's going to Idaho for like four or five days.
I'm coming home.
We have finishing home decor,
things happening in the kitchen in prep
for Brooklyn's shower,
photographing the house the day we get home from the trip.
Have to pick up a puppy we've been fostering
who is being re-fostered today when we come back
and I'm sure she'll be adopted by the time,
like probably over the weekend.
We have packages arriving for the shower
like these cute little raton lights,
a whole box of them came in today,
and it just emails back and forth
back and forth all day long of like ordering silverware
and making sure we have enough plates
and flatware and all the things.
You can see I have kind of started a stack in here.
These are little lanterns for the tree.
These are some of the chargers we'll be using.
All the things because
on Monday, all the tables and chairs are arriving.
All the setup begins with all
of the florals and cafe lights we're stringing.
Yes to mayhem.
And Tuesday is the bridal shower.
So it's crazy.
It's literally crazy.
Today, Sean had a guy here hanging these mirrors.
I don't know, the house is kind of
like half done with furniture, so it's a little strange.
But we're getting there.
So the launch party is about to be in in a couple hours.
We just got here and we're gonna have to all quickly change
and get ready for the party.
We're all supposed to wear greens
and they're supposed to be coordinating.
So yeah, Pays, Pays has like a dark green.
I have kind of a purplely green.
John has a green shimmery shirt.
Dax has a green shimmery shirt.
It's gonna be lots of green.
We just got done with dinner.
- Yep.
- Hanging out with all the people I don't like.
- [Shaun] She loves them.
- [Mindy] Especially That one.
- [Shaun] Oh, she loves her.
- That one.
- [Shaun] Oh, she pointed to you.
- [Mindy] Rylan and Logan doing
the mum garter thing.
Let's see the mum, Logan.
It looks good.
- [Rylan] It looks so good. I love it.
- [Mindy] Rylan made the garter.
Lindsay made the mum.
- Oh. Oh, I was trying to do a YouTube thumbnail.
- [Mindy] Thanks Logan. That was perfect.
- [Mindy] Rylan's getting picked up.
- Yep.
- [Mindy] We're gonna head over and do fancy pictures
in a minute.
- And then we have dinner.
- [Mindy] And then what?
- Dance.
- [Mindy] And?
- An after party.
- [Mindy] Fun!
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- So tonight, while Dakota and Asa,
Brooklyn and Bailey were over
we took all the furniture out of the family room.
You can see it's pretty much bare
and tomorrow is when everything
starts coming for the shower.
So I'll show you where we put it.
It's a big storage unit in the living room right now.
We're just gonna put up a curtain so you won't see it.
So there will be a curtain here in this entry.
But yeah, right now we have like two
and a half rooms of furniture in one room.
So that's gonna be what nobody sees.
Then we're gonna deck all of this
out in prettiness and the front door
and all the tables in there.
I think it will look amazing.
I'm just glad it's almost here cause
it's been a lot of work.
I ordered these cuties off of Etsy
to hang.
You can obviously put a light bulb in there.
We're gonna hang them from the cafe strings.
Not really gonna plug them like in, wire 'em.
We're just going to use wire, remote controlled light bulbs.
We might just hang them for the aesthetic.
I haven't decided yet, but they're very cute.
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So the tables and chairs got delivered but we're missing,
we're missing a table.
The, they brought the wrong legs.
We were short a cushion, which is fine
cause they can bring 'em back later tonight.
So the good news is we had it delivered a day early
so we're not in panic mode over that
but this is the update currently.
We're in the process of just wiping down tables,
tying cushions onto chairs,
putting the little felt pads
on the chairs so they don't scratch my floors,
and starting to do all the decor.
This is
goblets, plates, dishware.
So starting process.
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well we're at a stop point for the night.
We finally got the other table and chairs,
still have some sashes to tie and missing a few chargers
but this is where we're at right now, guys.
I'll show you from this side too. It looks so good.
So when you come in, that's what you see.
And now my kids have totally decided we need to
leave the cafe lights up, just so you know.
But this, as good as it looks, is just the beginning.
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Here's the next step.
All the greeneries,
all the flowers.
We have more down here for the tables.
Look at what's happening in the entryway.
We have completely covered banisters.
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Okay, it's almost time.
We're just lighting everything.
Let me show you the finished results.
So when you enter, you see this
at the front door,
you come through here,
and you're treated to the secret garden.
This little plant is called smilax, apparently.
We had little moss, votive candles.
They created this entire tree
out of various branches of other plants.
And we added the fairy lights,
these little orbies.
You come around this way and then you see
this,
which will get prettier as it gets darker.
We have these plants,
and here these big florals,
pictures of them together,
the tablescapes,
there's anemone moss, real moss,
little hurricane terrariums,
candles, wood, mushrooms,
even little pieces of amethyst.
So I think we basically have had the rundown.
We put, you can see hurricane lights all over out there.
So when it gets dark,
you'll be able to see little flickering lights.
Let me show you the cafe lights at the top,
and hope that she's so excited.
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- No way. No freaking way.
It's so cute.
You guys.
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- Party is done.
Makeup is off.
I'm in bed, my feet are throbbing.
I'm glad it's over.
Sean's glad it's over.
- Yes, I have my wife back.
I have my life back.
I have my puppy back.
I have my house back.
- Temporarily, there's still a lot of stuff in,
that needs to be picked up tomorrow
by the florist and the party rental place and everything
but it was huge success.
It looked amazing and I'm so happy for Brooklyn
that we got to have one successful event done
and now just onto the wedding,
so that's a wrap for tonight guys.
- Hey everybody, I just got back from Shelley, Idaho.
That's where I'm originally from.
It is the capital of potato production in the United States.
Small town called Shelley.
And here's proof,
there's my high school yearbook for my senior year.
We were the Russets, the russet is a potato.
Anyway, I just got back from a weekend
at my parents' place and I had my thirty year reunion.
Got to see a lot of great people who I really love
and miss and see them again.
And then also celebrate Spud Day, which is the day
in the year at the end of the spud harvest where
everybody gets together and celebrates all things potato.
And I know that kind of sounds funny but I did that.
The day started off at a parade.
I was with my mom, and my uncle, and my aunt.
We were sitting there watching a lot of the floats
and you know, it's kind of your typical small town parade
with kids on bikes and trailers with tractors pulling them
and cheer squads and dance teams and everything.
But it was a lot of fun to go back
and see that what they do right after those
pretty interesting where they give
away I think like five or 10,000 baked potatoes
and it's all free.
So you go stand in line, they give you a potato and they
you can put sour cream and butter and whatever cheese
and all the fixings that you want on the baked potato.
And that's just part of the celebration after
which would just go through the park
and there will be booths with food and activities.
What I thought was really fun though is
that they were throwing out not just candy and a lot
of candy to kids, but they were also throwing out beef jerky
like big packages of beef jerky.
They didn't do that when I was a kid.
I remember way back
in the day used to be an airplane that would fly
over Main Street in Shelley and drop ping pong balls
and the local businesses would have prizes on 'em.
So if you were able to get one of those
you'd go in the business and they would give you some sort
of a product or prize or a treat.
So at the end of the activities, kind of a crowning moment
of Spud day is what they call the Spud Tug
which is a cement truck comes in, it is full
of potato flakes like you would buy in a grocery store.
And they put a like tons of it in there
with water and they mix it into basically mashed potatoes
and then it comes out the garbage truck into a pit.
And what they'll do is they'll have teens submitted
through the community to do a tug
of war over these mashed potatoes.
And Miss Russett, who is one
of the high school girls,
that's a pageant we have every year,
the girl who's elected or voted
or wins the contest for Miss Russett,
goes out and sprinkles salt and pepper and puts butter
in the middle right before the tug of war starts.
Now what you will find interesting is
that I took Mindy and her roommates shortly
after I first met them to Idaho for Spud day.
My dad had a firetruck in the parade
and we rode on the parade and later
on that day they did the Spud Tug, it's one
of the first years that they did it.
And Mindy and her roommates
and myself were the first ones to be in the tug.
And I just have to, I gotta tell you this
that's when Mindy fell in love with me
was basically over a bit of mashed potatoes at Spud Day.
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