- So I drove down for the weekend
of Easter to spend with his family.
We are currently at the University of Harding.
- (creepy voice) Use my body.
(laughing)
- I'm on top of my mother for this picture.
- Aw, I'm so proud they're half me, they're half me.
(upbeat rock music)
- Hey guys, and welcome back to
another episode of Behind the Braids.
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And this weeks vlog you guys are gonna see us go to prom.
Which is super exciting since
she's a freshman and we're seniors.
And you're also gonna see us take our senior pictures.
We're just so exciting it's just the end of the senior year
we're so ready to move on to college.
- I'm ready to move on to college.
- Yeah, you're already ready, you're a freshman.
Now let's get on to the video.
- Hey guys, so today I'm gonna
do something that's kind of fun.
I am surprising the kids with a yummy snack for afterschool.
Now normally afterschool snacks,
being the good mom that I am I try
to keep it a little healthier.
However, today the weather is Spring, drizzly rain.
Which means we need something warm and gooey to eat.
Don't you think?
So any guesses on what I'm going to be making the kids?
Question, question, question.
Um, I have decided to go for chocolate chip cookies.
Everyone's favorite.
So I have all of the basic ingredients for
chocolate chip cookies now I just need to find a recipe.
I thought trying something new would be fun today.
So Alexa find a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
- Okay, for chocolate chip cookies, here's a few recipes.
Best chocolate chip cookies, Outrageous chocolate chip
cookies, Mom's chocolate chip--
- Let's go with that one.
Who doesn't love Mom's chocolate chip cookies.
Okay, I think we've got everything we need
and we'll start making the cookies.
(upbeat pop music)
(whirring)
Now if you guys are like me the recipe calls for two cups
chocolate chips which means you put in a lot more than that.
Cause you want a lot of chocolate.
How many of you guys like live for the chocolate chips
and how many of you guys live for the dough?
And I am out of chocolate chips.
Alexa will you add chocolate chips to my shopping list.
- I've added chocolate chips to your shopping list.
- Perfect, thank you very much.
Mix it up.
Okay, we have it all mixed up,
look at how delicious It looks.
And we are ready to start scooping.
But first I need to try a bite
just to make sure its not poisonous.
Hmmm, and if you're like me, I do what probably all mom's do
you get a really chocolately chippity one
and you put the mom stamp on it.
And then you tell all the kids that that's your cookie
and if they eat it they're gonna be in big trouble.
(upbeat pop music)
Yum.
Alexa, set a timer to take out the cookies in ten minutes.
- Take out the chocolate chip cookies
timer ten minutes starting now.
- Oh, Alexa will you also remind me to pick up the kids
from chess in fifteen minutes.
- Okay, I'll remind you in fifteen minutes.
- Alright ya'll, I will check back in with you guys
when the cookies are done cooking and they're fresh
out of the oven, yummy deliciousness.
(jazzy music)
- Your take out the chocolate chip cookies timer is done.
- Oh, it sounds like the cookies are done.
Take it out.
Yummy, yummy, yummy. Can you see'em?
- Something smells--oooh those smell good.
- That's cause they're your favorite
and I made them for you.
Thank you for catching the door.
Which one should I eat Brooklyn?
- We have a rule in our house and the rule is that mom gets
the chocolateliest cookies when she makes them.
So I'm gonna say that one probably or that one.
One of these two.
- I would have said that one. That one looks the best.
- We also have a second rule in our house,
and it's that Brooklyn gets the doughiest cookie.
- Wait, I don't think that's a rule.
- It's a rule of my own invention
because I believe cookies are the best
when they're mostly dough. - So which one would you pick?
- Probably that one.
- This is a reminder, pick up the kids from chess.
- Oh Brooklyn that's my reminder to go get Dax.
Smiles, how bout it?
- What did mom's have teenagers for except
for drive the carpools, right?
- That's right, thank you.
- Alright, I'm going.
Bye
- Hey guys, so I drove down for the weekend of Easter
to spend with his family.
We are currently at the University of Harding
to watch the Spring Sing. - Harding
- You wanna explain what Spring Sing is?
- Awesome, Spring Sing is basically like all of the
sorority, fraternity groups they
just make up different songs and
different parodoy's and its a big production,
its a lot of fun.
- Yup, so basically that's all we're doing tonight
and I will keep you guys updated.
(upbeat pop music)
(fireworks)
(clapping)
- [Both] Hey guys
- So we're on a date right now at Hibachi
and it's about to get hot so we're gonna show you guys.
(laughing)
(upbeat pop music)
- Hey Asa, where'd all your rice go?
(laughing)
His whole entire plate was full of rice and now its gone.
Oh no
- One, two, three.
(laughing)
- So it's time to take senior pictures
and we got snowed out on our first
appointment date which is crazy in Dallas.
It wasn't technically snow, it was just like frigid.
- It was just like freezing and so we decided maybe
we shouldn't wear summer clothes
when it's 30 degrees outside.
So Yeah.
- So we rescheduled for today and we
just arrived at our first location.
Can you see all those chairs?
And the cute sign that says come sit a spell.
That's where we're going and we're going to sit and take--
we'll I'm gonna sit, they're gonna take pictures.
And they're gonna be amazing.
Cause Jordyn's taking our pictures again.
The infamous Jordyn.
Look at all these chairs.
Come sit a spell.
(upbeat music)
Chairy onboard, open dusk, read a book, take a picture,
ride a chairy totter, move chairs, picnic, donate a chair,
ride a horse, wonder why?
Look at that crusty old chandelier.
Oh my gosh look at the giant chair.
And the hammock, and the horse.
The chairy totter, that's hilarious.
If all else fails we can get a toilet picture.
(laughing)
- [Woman] You need to come get a picture in this one.
- [Mindy] With the flowers in it.
We even have chairs on the fence.
I mean we definitely have a chair going theme.
- [Woman] Cute, cute
- [Mindy] That's really cute.
- [Woman] And ya know your clothes are perfect.
- [Mindy] It should work, famous last words, it should work.
- [Woman] Oh you see gotta--
- [Mindy] You gotta let Bailey go
first cause she's in the skirt.
(laughing)
Come on Brooklyn.
- I fell on the wrong side of it.
- [Mindy] You guys made that look way harder
than it should have been.
- It's really tall and we're not tall.
- [Brooklyn] I got it.
- [Woman] Ready, go. Yes.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh, this is a weird sensation.
- [Mindy] Area number two.
(upbeat music)
- Where is Jordyn?
It's like where's Waldo.
You intentionally camo'd today, didn't you?
If you fake laugh for real it actually
looks better in pictures.
There you go Brooklyn, let's hear it.
It wouldn't be Texas if we didn't do Blue Bonnets.
While we're waiting for the sun to go down on that.
(camera click)
(upbeat music)
(camera click)
- We are taking senior pictures right now and we were just
too dang short for the picture.
So mom came up with a brilliant idea.
- (creepy voice) Use my body.
- I'm on top of my mother for this picture.
- She's like I have a great idea guys.
- She's just right there.
She volunteered herself as the seat.
- It's fine, mom's everywhere.
- She's a team player.
- She just really wants these good pictures
so sacrifice is important.
- We better hurry.
- Totally fine guys, it's totally fine.
I don't feel anything at this point I'm just numb.
(laughing)
- Guys we're pumped for prom, but you guys know that
usually it takes girls a couple hours verses the guys
who take about maybe an hour to get ready.
Hence why we're all in the bathroom like so.
(everyone talking)
- [Mindy] Everyone's arriving.
- Yes
- [Mindy] Brett's here.
- I know, we have to do our exchange.
I need to grab his flower.
- [Mindy] All the parentals are showing up.
(camera click)
We have all these people.
Hi Asa
- Hey.
- [Mindy] what's up?
- It's prom day, everyone looks beautiful.
- [Mindy] They look good.
- Yeah, they do.
- [Mindy] How long did it take you to get ready?
- Thirty minutes.
- [Mindy] That's not bad.
- [Shaun] And this is Lindsay, this is Mindy's best fried
in high school and college roommate.
Kamri, Brett, this is Lindsay's son Brett.
- We need to show that picture of us in like--
- [Shaun] You want me to slap that picture in there?
- Well we've known each other since like,
I guess since we were four, right?
- I have known you guys since you were four.
- [Shaun] Lindsay was the first one to hold the twins.
- Yeah
- But we had that picture of us like eating
at that restaurant, remember?
- [Lindsay] At McDonald's in Lee high
- [Dad] At McDonald's, when you used to come out from--
you were living in-- - [Lindsay] We were in Texas.
- [Dad] Oh, you were in Texas at the time.
Yeah so guys have known each other since you were babies.
We all look so bad in that picture.
(laughing)
- [Shaun] Brett, you remember that?
- Have you seen the picture?
- No, I haven't.
- I'll have to find it, it's really funny.
- [Lindsay] You're like scratching your nose.
- [Kamri] But it looks like you're picking your nose.
- [Lindsay] It looks almost like you're picking your nose
but you're scratching it.
He's like no.
- [Shaun] He doesn't remember that.
Aw, I'm so proud, they're half me,
they're half me, they're half me.
- Okay
(camera click)
- Okay, so tell me how did you feel--
this is such an official interview--
how did you feel about being a freshman at prom?
- Well, it was like a little bit weird at first
cause it was like a whole bunch of seniors.
But then I found like all the seniors that I actually knew.
- Well you know like a lot of seniors because of us.
- I know, I know a lot more seniors than like freshman.
- She hangs out with seniors almost more than she hangs
out with freshman cause she's like our friend, like,
I don't know its weird.
- And then there are a few other underclassmen there too
that I also knew so it was pretty fun.
- Were you excited to go--I know she was so excited
to be able to go to prom with Bailey and I
cause we graduate and so she wanted to go.
- Yeah, cause we weren't supposed to do that, like, ever.
- But we got to go.
- [Both] Yeah
And we had it at the aquarium.
My favorite fish in the aquarium were the jellyfish.
- No, the sloth, that wasn't fish
but there was a sloth there.
- Yeah, they had a sloth, they had this huge manatees too.
Some giant manatee that looked like a whale it was so big.
- I thought it was a whale at first.
I was like Brooklyn that's a whale.
- Yeah it legit looked like a whale.
I have to say my favorite fish was the jellyfish.
I just sat there like stared at them for like ten minutes.
- [Kamri] I didn't even see jellyfish.
- [Brooklyn] Yeah, You had to--it was cool,
they were so cool.
They just like glow and they're like see through
and I don't even know how they live
because you can see everything inside them.
- They don't have a brain or a heart.
Did you know that?
- What?
- I feel like that's probably a wrong fact,
but I'm pretty sure it's true.
(laughing)
- Somebody's watching and they're like that's not right.
- I'm pretty sure they don't have a brain.
- All I know is they were super cool
and prom with all of them
and we had a lot of fun.
- Guess who we have here?
Rylan, what are you doing today?
- I'm giving a talk.
- You're giving a talk in sacrament meeting, right?
Sacrament meeting is like our-- in our church,
the Mormon church it's kinda like mass.
- Yeah
- Where everybody goes and there's like a sacrament
and then there's speakers and they often call you speakers
right, and is this your first time?
- Yeah
- What's it on?
- Repentance
- You're talking about repentance.
- Yes
- You'll do a good job, remember when Kamri did hers?
The first one that was a good one.
- Yeah, on her birthday.
- On her birthday, yeah, on her birthday.
Happy birthday Kamri.
- That was fun.
- Alright, well you wrote out all your stuff, huh?
- Yes
- I read through it, it sounds really good, three pages.
- I'm gonna read it slow.
- You're gonna read it slow.
- Yeah
- Get to twenty minutes and then you'll
never have to do it again, they'll never call you again.
- I'm just gonna do like five or six maybe.
- Alright
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