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Oh, hey.
Party's here.
For the first, like, 45 minutes of the party,
we were all conjugated in the kitchen.
Yeah.
This got kind of big, kind of fast.
Like, we were more thinking, like, just
a couple people to hang out and like, I don't know.
We have this nice, new-- we bought
this house because it was bigger,
more space, spread out--
And everyone sat in the kitchen.
And then everybody sat in the kitchen for probably
the first 45 to an hour--
Yeah. Yep.
--which was kind of interesting.
True story.
It was my mom's birthday, so I had gotten a cake for her,
and I left it in my car while I was setting things up.
And apparently, Murphy jumped into my car
with all of the cakes and we almost had
a major party foul with that.
But--
But we didn't.
TORI: But we didn't.
I think Murphy did good with the babies.
I think there was so many people here that it kind of
calmed him down a little bit.
He was a little overwhelmed.
He does his initial, like, smell of everybody,
but then it was like a little overwhelming.
TORI: Yeah.
And so it was like, he was calm.
Well, also, we had--
we had one girl who's five, Elana,
and Elana kind of, like--
that was her buddy.
And so I think that kind of help him, too, because she was like,
Murphy, come here. - Yeah.
I think she wore Murphy out because she was,
like, follow me everywhere.
Play with me.
Yeah, Murphy had a friend.
And he knows-- like, Murphy just knows.
There's something about dogs and babies.
They know when they're fragile, and he just-- he knows.
Yeah Murphy's-- there's been close calls, for sure.
But the amount of babies that we've had around Murphy,
we've had no accidents.
There's times when he's running--
He'll bump them every once in a while.
And there's times when he's running past them--
Or you'll get a tail in the face.
Yeah.
Whoa.
That's a dog.
Whoa.
But there's no-- we haven't had any--
Major collisions.
And he'll let them all just crawl on him,
and he'll just, like--
TORI: He loves it.
Whenever we discipline Jackson, or talk to him very
sternly, Murphy will get up.
He'll jump up and get in between us and Jackson--
Yeah.
--like he does not want us to discipline Jackson.
Or when he's crying, Murph's very, like--
Murphy gets--
- Jackson's crying. - Yeah.
Like, what are you gonna do about it, you know?
If a stranger's in the house, like--
you know, now the crew's a little bit familiar.
But like, if there's strangers in the house
and Jackson's in the house and Murphy's outside,
he's not about that. - Oh, yeah.
He'll wreck-- - 'Cause he's like--
--that back door.
Oh, yeah, 'cause he's like, where's Jackson?
Where are the strangers?
Why is this happening?
Yeah.
He was protective.
So--
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Everyone, real quick, real quick.
We're gonna do a little tour of the house.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
This is awesome.
Wow.
Yeah, this one's a little--
This one's probably my favorite room
in the entire house.
I decorated a lot, like, right away,
like even before we went to Michigan, before
the house party, all of that.
That's just kind of me.
Like, it wasn't just for the party.
It was more just I can't, like, not leave something finished.
And so I think, like, the first week
or two that we were in this house,
every day I was doing something.
I was hanging something or like I did all the calligraphy.
A lot of the pictures are mine, or like family photos
that we've taken with friends.
But yeah, there's a lot of personal touches here.
All of our friends love how Tori decorates
our house because she--
Thanks, babe.
--has all the pictures of all the family,
or our family, and then she rotates them out like six,
seven months. - Yeah.
And so now all of our friends are like,
we need more pictures of our family in our own house.
Yeah.
I'm a little obsessive with pictures.
There's more stairs?
More stairs.
Oh, geez-a.
What were you thinking?
The thing I hear most about our house
is that it's, like, unique.
The layout is unique.
And it's--
Yeah.
--got, like, four levels.
Yeah there's, like three or four levels.
Like, it's not a four-level house, but it's all like,
there's a level that way, and there's a level this way, and--
There's not a bathroom on this middle main level--
Which is kind of annoying.
But then-- and there's four or five steps
to get up into the house, and then
there's a step down into this--
There's a lot of steps, yeah.
--living room area.
Yeah.
It's just unique, like there's just a unique layout that I've
never seen in a house before.
Like, I think there was like a whole--
I think this whole side of the house
was added on later, so I think that's kind of--
I would say, yeah, there's a compromise of like,
it's not your typical open floor plan.
I think we compromised.
We didn't get wood floors down in Murphy's area
because I felt like that was gonna be Murphy's area,
so why are we gonna spend another $1,200.
Yeah, which was the best move we made on this house.
I made it.
I will give you that.
Yes.
Putting tacks, I just don't care what happens down there.
And if we did put wood floors down,
we would care about what happened down there.
I would care.
But so and that's just gonna be, like, the kid area.
So we saved a couple hundred dollars there,
which for me, I'm always trying to minimize costs.
And that is where we compromised and find a solution.