(upbeat clapping)
- Welcome to our home, you guys
come on in we have a busy, action packed day.
I'm gonna show you how I mom with four kids
but I'm warning you, it's gonna be kind of crazy.
Let's go.
All right, so like I mentioned I have four kids
we have four kids, and they are all ages.
We have Matix who's 14, Marley is 12
Cash is eight and Ruby is five.
So they literally span the whole spectrum
as you can imagine with kids of all those different ages
life is really crazy.
- [Ruby] Hey guys!
- Hey guys.
- Oh, wow.
- [Ruby] This is my mom here, and me
and all the other kids
and Cash is doing his piano lessons right now.
So now we have our whole family right here
and now we're going to do a photo shoot.
- So, one of the perks about our job
is that we get to work from home.
We do travel a lot, but when we're home in Arizona
we spend more time here in our home office
than we do at our actual office.
Because it allows us time to be with the kids.
This is where you can find Chris at any point in time.
Yes this is both of our office, but Chris, come on out.
Say hi. - How did you know
where to find me?
- [Heidi] This is where he hides.
- Well, there's no hiding in here, especially from the kids.
- But, we do have a lock on this door, so we learned
there are three doors in this house
that we actually put locks on.
One is the office, because sometimes Chris needs a break.
One is our closet,
'cause I don't want them in my closet all the time.
And our bedroom, a little bit of privacy.
We've learned that as parents you need some alone time.
Especially when you work from home.
So Cash is in here finishing up his piano lesson
Cashy, oh, it's sounding pretty buddy!
We're gonna let him finish up,
we're gonna get him ready for dance really quickly
throw him in the car, after we get a snack
and then we're gonna get him to dance.
Look at him.
(playing piano scale)
Let's go get you ready for dance
go get on your black tank top
get your dance bag ready and we'll get a snack.
Cool?
All right, so as a mom any snack that I feed my kids
has to be convenient.
And Chris and I are fitness professionals
we are here to guide families on how to eat right
so of course our kids need to eat right too.
And they can't get enough of them.
So as long as I don't eat them all
I think we are good to go.
I'm going to go ahead and grab my two favorites
feed them to the kids, and we'll be on our way.
All right so Cash is in dance, just dropped him off.
I actually try to make the car ride to the kids' activities
as times I don't look at my phone, I don't make calls
I don't talk about work, I try not to think about it at all.
But then as soon as I drop them off
I go hit my mobile office and I make calls.
So, I do have a call scheduled right now.
I'm gonna go get that done
before I get back to the other kids
and then, the craziness ensues.
Here we go.
All right, so just left Cash at dance
I'm gonna go inside to see if Marley and Ruby
are ready for their dance class, I doubt it.
Then we're gonna go, I'm going to feed them
get them to dance,
bring Cash home for MMA
and the night is still young
we got a lot going on.
Let's go inside.
Hey, go buddy.
(Heavy breathing)
- [MMA Instructor] Woo!
- [Heidi] Wow. I gotta scoot back for that
your limbs are so long.
Okay, so Matix is finishing up MMA right now.
Cash just finished his lesson.
Marley and Ruby are finishing up dance.
I have to figure all this out.
They'll be home in about 30 minutes.
So I have, that means I have about 30 minutes
to get dinner made
figure out what the night's gonna look like
so then everybody can rest, because we're tired.
One of the big rules we have in our family
is that the kids have to earn their screen time.
Like, I get it
I can't pull them away from electronics
but if I can use electronics to bait them
into being active, I'm gonna do it.
And actually I found it is the most effective way
to keep our kids moving and it's been a bit of a struggle
because kids are brilliant, they are smart
and they know how to work the system
especially the older ones.
For the most part it works really, really well.
But that Matix, he's always trying to get around it
and he did that today.
Matix, you know better.
You're not, what do you have to do
before you have electronics?
What do you have to do before electronics?
- [Matix] Dog food.
- No (laughing).
- [Matix] Oh my gosh. - Now he's laughing.
Matix answer me, Matix.
Just so you know I don't care if anyone's here watching
I will treat you the same - [Matix] I know, I don't care, piano
- Do not disrespect
- [Matix] I have piano.
- But what are you going to be doing
to make up for the fact that,
- [Matix] Dog poop.
Yes, all by yourself.
What do you say?
- [Matix] Sorry.
He tried to get around the screen time
tried to come up with a reason
why he had to be on Ruby's iPad and that's not OK.
I caught him.
OK, so trying to figure out what the kids
what I'm going to make
that the kids are actually going to eat, tonight.
It is, we are pretty routine and you know what?
Oh, good!
I was a little bit worried because I had something in mind
and I thought it was gone.
Um, I pre-cook a lot of chicken a couple times a week.
I actually pre-cook chicken.
I pre-cook extra lean ground turkey.
Chris grills a lot of chicken.
And then I can add it to anything
so I'll probably just combine this
with some vegetable soup that was made.
And actually, these are things that the kids eat often.
We keep it super routine. Super easy.
'cause if it's not, they're gonna turn to junk food
and I don't want that.
All right, so the kids have all eaten
and they are busy getting ready for bed.
Getting in their pj's, brushing their teeth.
They all have their own rooms, but watch this.
Every single one of them is going to pile into my room.
Into our room, on the floor
at least two of them are going to
try to creep up into the bed with me.
It's just the way that it is.
I can't say no to them.
And it's my favorite time.
All right, we did it (whispering)
Good job babe.
I think we have like three hours
so we're gonna work, we're gonna work out
and then we're gonna (laughing)
- Snuggle (laughing)
- Let's go.