(gentle music)
♪ Standing underneath the lights ♪
- Good morning guys!
This morning, Jackson slept in till eight.
Which I don't think has ever happened.
So, we're having a lazy morning today.
And I thought we'd just vlog our day,
it's gonna be very average, typical mum day.
It's a Saturday, so I've got all the boys,
because Matt works on a Saturday.
But now we're just out in the garden.
We bought the boys this little, like, water balloon thing.
And yeah it was from Smiggle's in the sale,
and they just love playing with it.
So we've also bought a load of water balloons,
and they're just basically running around with those.
♪ Hold my hand and hear the words I say ♪
- [Emily] You've gotta kick it!
♪ Close your eyes and let this fade away ♪
- [Emily] Cheers!
(laughing)
They're so cool.
Where'd Jackson go?
Are you giving them a cuddle?
Right, so we're finally ready for the day
and I feel like it took me ages to get everyone ready
'cause it's just me with all three boys.
And Jackson was particularly needy this morning.
He's 21 months now and he just really wanted me
to play everything with him.
So it was very difficult to get myself ready.
But, now we're gonna go off out into town.
We're gonna go for lunch,
Fraser needs a haircut, we need to pickup
some last minute bits as well for our holiday.
But before we go, I have a little surprise for the boys.
I have got them some new trainers,
I wanted to show you as well.
They are from Clarks.
Don't know about you, but I just love Clarks shoes.
And especially when the boys were little,
I just trusted that they would
be the best ones for their feet.
Because in my mind, they are like, the feet experts.
They've been going for a 170 years.
I just always love their trainers.
We've actually been sent these, kindly, by Clarks.
They are the new Marvel range,
so Marvel and Clarks have teamed up
to make an exclusive collection of shoes
and they're all inspired by superheroes.
There's four different superheroes.
They're all from the Avengers latest movie.
So there is Iron Man, Captain America,
Hulk, and Black Widow as well.
And the trainers are really cool.
As a Mum, I really love them,
because they are superhero like themed,
but they don't look really bright, or garish.
They still look quite stylish.
They look really comfy, they look really cool.
There's some really nice high top ones as well.
So I have got Iron Man for Caleb, because he loves Iron Man.
And also Captain America for Fraser.
The whole range is really unisex as well,
perfect for boys and girls, and they're available now.
So I'll of course put the links
in the description down below if you want
to go ahead and check out the full range.
There are so many different styles.
But yeah, now I'm gonna show the boys.
So this is the surprise I was telling you about.
What's on the front there?
What's on the front of the box?
Can you see?
Oh, and on the back of the box,
can you see what's on the back?
Who's that?
- Iron Man.
- Iron Man!
- Oh, and I've got Captain America
- [Emily] You've got Captain America?
So what is it?
- Whoa!
[Emily] Look!
- Whoa!
- [Emily] Do you like that Captain America shoes?
- It's so cool.
- Oh my gosh, look at my shoes!
- [Emily] Do you like them?
- Yeah!
- [Emily] They're Iron Man ones,
you can see Iron Man is on the very back.
And you've got such cool gold on it!
See Iron Man on the back?
- Yeah!
- [Emily] And yours are really cool Captain America ones.
Can you tell they're Captain America?
- Well, if we go to America, we have to bring these.
- [Emily] You'll have to wear them.
(laughing)
Do you wanna try them on?
See if they fit, they're your size.
You like these ones as well?
(gasping)
They look really good, Caleb!
They're really, really cool.
- [Fraser] On the bottom.
- [Emily] Oh hey, they've got stars on the bottom.
And now, that you're wearing these shoes
you've got superpowers.
(mumbles)
- [Emily] You have, you got the superhero powers,
you got the Iron Man powers now.
(bouncy music)
- [Emily] What have you just chosen?
- Loads and loads of Sharpies.
- [Emily] Fraser's just bought loads of
Sharpies for drawing, haven't you?
Oh, and the emoji, emoji pencil case.
So we've now just come to one of our
favorite little cafes in Brentwood.
It's actually empty, we're the only ones
in here at the moment, but it's brilliant
for kids because it has this whole, big play area behind us.
So we can have lunch, but you know what toddlers are like
he can keep getting down and playing
and then come back and eating his lunch,
and Caleb still loves it as well.
Fraser's like "It's too babyish for me."
- [Fraser] Yup, too!
- But he likes the food, so it's okay.
(energetic, bubbly music)
- [Emily] The top say, Caleb?
- Smile and rolls.
- [Emily] Yeah.
Do you like this music?
- Yeah.
- [Emily] Jackson, Jackson's stolen Fraser's hat
and he's become very attached to this baby.
There's the baby.
Caleb, get your scooter out of the play area.
I keep telling you, take it out.
Are you making some food?
You got your baby?
Put it in the buggy.
Should we take it for a walk?
Is that your baby?
Awe,
so cute.
You going to your house?
- [Child] Mummy, look!
- [Emily] I'm a grandmother!
- So we're back from town now
and on the way back Jackson fell asleep,
so he's having a little snooze.
I need to clean the house up, it is such a mess
and we're having a big barbecue this evening.
Once a year Matt invites all of his staff over
for like a barbecue, so he's got two salons and they're all
coming with their partners for a barbecue tonight,
and I just haven't been very organized about it,
because it's almost been like Matt's thing.
I haven't really thought about it,
but now it's like happening tonight
and I really need to speed clean the downstairs at least.
So, maybe I'll film a little bit of my speed cleaning,
give you some motivation as well.
But while I'm doing that as I said Jackson's napping.
Caleb is so tired, he's not been sleeping very well
in this hot weather so he is watching
a little movie in the front room.
And Fraser is drawing and trying out all of his pens.
So, he got loads of sharpies and they all fit
into his little new emoji pencil case.
And what Fraser does when he's drawing
is he will set up my laptop here,
and then he will write into Google what he wants to draw,
and he'll find a picture and then he will copy that picture.
It's so cute.
So he's decided that he wants to draw a rainbow
because he has so many colors now.
So he's looked it up on Google
and this is what he's going to draw.
So he's going to do this one, with the little happy face.
And look, he's doing so well already.
But now I'm going to try and tackle the downstairs.
It's such a total mess.
I just wanted to show you what it actually looks like,
because I get so many messages like,
oh you're so organized,
oh how do you keep on top of it all,
and like, seriously, I just don't.
I just don't, I just show you what I want to show you.
My house is a total mess at the end of the day,
most days as well.
So, let's do this.
(lively music)
- [Emily] It's brilliant bubba!
Fraser's done his picture!
Wow, oh it says I love you.
- Yeah
- [Emily] Awe, I love it, it's so perfect!
Jackson's now woken up from his nap
and they all want to play football.
So, recently we got them some new football kits,
they chose the brightest possible kits
that you could ever find,
they're the Barcelona ones I think,
but they're like illuminous.
So yeah, we're just going to play football now.
At least I won't lose them if they wear these out.
So the boys were just drawing a bit more,
and then Caleb took to drawing all over his body
and doing loads of tattoos.
So then, I called my mom and now I've come
into the bathroom and look what I found.
Caleb.
He's washing off the tattoos, but in our utility sink.
What are you doing?
- Having a bath
- [Emily] Is it nice and warm?
Look who wanted to join in.
- [Caleb] He's squishing me.
- [Emily] Yeah, how do you both fit in there?
- You're squishing me, can you get out?
It is now nearly seven o'clock,
I haven't ended up vlogging loads this afternoon
because the boys and I were playing in the garden
and they were nude most of the time,
it's been really hot here.
Well I say really hot, it's been about thirty degrees,
and the last time I said that on a vlog,
so many of my American followers
were like, that's not hot, but it feels hot
in the UK when it's normally twenty-two degrees.
When it shoots up like this, it feels hot.
I've also, sorry I'm going off on a tangent here,
but I've also had loads of questions
about how we can just leave our doors open,
because we've got these big bi-fold doors
that just stay open all the time.
And it's funny 'cause I remember growing up in Canada,
we used to have to have screens on every door
because of how bad the mosquitoes got.
But in the UK, you don't really get mosquitoes,
you don't really get bugs that are
going to fly into your house.
So, that is one really nice thing about living here.
But anyway, we are now like barbecue ready.
We have ended up cleaning the house,
just prepping all the food because our guests
should be arriving in about five minutes.
So yes, we're letting Fraser stay up a bit longer,
because he's that bit older, and yeah.
I guess I'll just show you what we've got ready,
and what we're going to be eating and stuff.
So we have tomato, mozzarella, and balsamic vinegar
all ready to go, also has salt and pepper on it.
Then we have some french bread, loads of sauces,
like all the sauces we have.
And then we have some crisps, hot dog buns, and stuff.
We have all the sausages, kebabs, burgers,
cheese cut for the burgers, everything ready to go.
All of our glassware is out as well,
and then Matt, bless him, he's prepared everything
for Pimm's, so it's all ready.
So we've got strawberries, cucumber, lemon, and fresh mint.
So he'll put that into a glass obviously
with lemonade and Pimm's, so that's all set.
We have more drinks, we have a jug of Pimm's
ready to go as soon as people arrive.
We've got ice, we've got salad, we've got it all.
We've got this seating area
and then we've moved our big round table
to this part of the deck.
Normally it's around the corner at the end there,
but we thought we would move it out here
so we can all be together.
And yeah we've kind of tidied up the garden,
but there's no getting away from these plastic toys.
Who's the lucky boy?
Are you staying up?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
So I just looked at the footage
that Fraser took of my pink dress and I changed my mind.
I was like this is too dressed up for a barbecue at home.
So I've put on this trusty Zara dress,
I love it, I can't stop wearing it.
I've been wearing it every since I got it.
It's great because it's a dress,
but then it also has shorts under it,
so it's like got a long skirt,
but it's really practical as well.
So I'm gonna be much more comfortable in this now.
So daddy is just putting Caleb to bed.
We're all set up.
We're just literally waiting, aren't we Fras?
But I thought I would take this opportunity
to tell you about Matt's shops,
because I just talk about them
like everyone knows about them,
and I actually don't think I've ever said what he does.
So, he has two salons.
One is just for men, it is all male grooming,
they do barbering, shaves, like hot shaves,
waxing, massage, literally any treatment
for a man that you can think of they do.
And then they have a ladies salon next door,
which is all beauty for women.
So yeah, so he started it 11 years ago.
So when Matt and I met, we went traveling.
Before we went traveling, he used to work at Deutsche bank,
and then he had like a stint doing extra work,
extra TV work, and stuff like that,
but then when we went traveling he was like,
I don't know what I want to do when we get back,
but he was like, I know I don't want to go back to the bank.
So, he was just like, I want to start my own business,
but he didn't know what he wanted to do.
And then, Matt's sister is a beauty therapist
and she said that she was
getting more men having treatments.
And then when we got back from traveling
I worked in beauty PR and one of the accounts
that I looked after was a male grooming salon,
but in London.
And it's just really interesting,
like seeing how they did it, seeing how they worked.
And I said to Matt, I think this would work in Essex
and then he was like yeah,
because he enjoyed going to male grooming salons in London.
There was none in Essex.
So Matt set up the first ever
men's grooming salon in Essex.
And that was 11 years ago and yeah,
for the first two years of business
I remember thinking, this is really hard.
Like I would work all week and then
on a Saturday I would work in the shop,
on like reception just helping out
like sweeping up and stuff.
And then I would also do like the PR for the business.
So, I was trying to get into the press,
and yeah.
(laughing)
I'm boring him, aren't I?
But yeah anyway, and then like after
two years it sort of took off,
and now it's successful and he has loads of regulars.
Like, we can't really walk through Shenfield
without Matt saying hello to like 10 people.
He knows everyone.
And then he bought the ladies salon
four years ago from his sister.
It was his sisters and then she had a baby
and she was looking to sell.
And then Matt bought that, so now he's got the two.
And yeah, it's going really well.
And he always works a Saturday, doesn't he bubs?
- So yes, but I think he's got a good team,
that's why he's doing this like staff thing tonight.
(relaxed music)
♪ Hey ♪
♪ I just wanna hold ya ♪
♪ I just want to look into your eyes ♪
♪ And tell you that I want ya ♪
♪ You know you make me feel so alive. ♪
- It is about one AM now.
Everyone's just left,
and Caleb's just woken up saying he's thirsty.
So, we're gonna go to bed, aren't we?
Yeah.
I will see you, when I have makeup on.
Thanks so much for watching.
I will see you soon.
Bye.