- [Host] What do you think about the bird poop?
(dramatic noise)
(chuckles)
- I'm not happy about the bird poop.
(laughs)
- [Host] Get used to it.
It's coming.
- Get used to it?
What do you mean?
(dramatic music)
- [Host's voiceover] Within a week, this house is going
to be completely finished!
We've had some landscaping, in-ground trampoline,
bunch of grass is coming soon, pavers, concrete,
big palm trees like we are in Hawaii.
- It has been way too long since I've done
an update on the house.
We went to Africa.
We went to San Diego.
We've been all over the place.
But the crazy thing is, this house is almost done.
Within a week this house is going to be completely finished.
I have about a billion things that I can show you
for house updates inside of the house,
but in reality, I can't show them all in one video.
It's gonna take way too long.
So, if you wanna see inside of the house,
you're gonna have to wait until the next update.
Because today we are gonna talk about what's outside
of the house, which is the landscaping,
some crazy things that are happening
on the side of the house.
I don't know what I did for the title of this video,
but it might be something like,
Why did we move here, or we picked the wrong location,
or our house got attacked.
Well, it got attacked by birds.
Let me explain.
(upbeat music)
For the first outside update, check this out.
This used to be a sidewalk right here.
As they were working on the house,
some of the sidewalk squares broke and instead of
replacing the ones that broke, we ended up paying
an extra $800, which isn't too much,
to tear out all of the sidewalk and we're gonna put in
all fresh sidewalk.
(power up sound)
So it's all the same color and we really weren't happy
with the way that the sidewalk curved.
You can kind of see where it used to be.
It used to go clear out to here.
But, where the green line is,
that's gonna be the new turn of it.
So, sidewalk.
We're gonna have a sidewalk.
And the next thing is, we have some landscaping.
(power up sound)
There's not grass here yet.
We will have grass, but you can look at all the bushes,
all of the wood chips that are here, that are a dark color.
And then look at the cute little trees!
Leslie really likes these trees.
A bunch of bushes, some boulders.
Block the sun.
This will all be grass in this area within the next week.
And if we go around the side of the house,
we're getting fence posts in here, metal fence.
We can walk along--
Oh, we got a fence! (electronic music)
(power up sound)
We got a fence!
How have I not told you that yet?
This fence is now here!
We actually have it!
It goes around the entire house.
It's like our privacy wall.
And it's one of the big reasons why we moved
to this neighborhood, 'cause most places,
or like they do in Arizona, when we used to live there,
where it's just the red brick, kind of like
our house we have now, and this is white,
beautiful, big, and now that it's in,
it really is feeling like this is our property.
Instead of this being dirt right here,
we have this finished stuff right here.
I think I've shown you this.
We built the fireplace.
(power up sound)
It's finally finished.
There's a chimney cover at the top.
It's a really beautiful metal on there.
And if you come around here,
(dance music)
Fireplace!
(laughs)
Look how fancy this is!
Big ol' fireplace!
We've got these speakers up here,
speakers up here, and then a little security camera up here.
We're watching you always.
A TV will go right there.
The next update, and I'm gonna get to the birds,
and it's crazy.
(slam)
But, for the next update, we got lots and lots of concrete.
(power up sound)
All around the swimming pool, that concretes in.
(dramatic music)
Check it out.
Concrete everywhere around here.
Big palm trees!
And yeah you can go right into the master bedroom from here.
You've got this nice walk way with the pool,
over there by our studio.
Everything connects now.
The outdoor living space will be amazing.
I am loving this yard.
I'm going to try to not vlog and drop into my pool
'cause it's very, very deep.
The next update, kind of continues with the first one.
Backyard landscaping!
This is all gonna be grass, except
(power up sound)
right here, we're gonna do pavers.
A walk way that comes across here
and connects, goes back to the pool supply room,
and connects to the front yard pavers.
Really, really good.
Another update with the landscaping!
We have a swimming--
Wait, that's not a swimming pool.
That's not a swimming pool.
We have a trampoline!
(power up sound)
We put a trampoline in the ground,
just like we had at our last house.
We did so many videos at our house
with the in-ground trampoline,
and I guess it's not a very common thing
around the world to have an in-ground trampoline.
'Cause so many people in the comments were always like,
"I can't believe your trampoline is underground!"
"That is the coolest thing!"
Well, we did it.
Our last one had a flaw, where when you'd jump on it,
the way that the pads would work,
around the pool around the springs,
the air would try to escape and it would push them up
and it would hit and it would limit how high
you can jump.
Science, physics, and all that kind of stuff.
Well this, we have a fancy kind of trampoline
that I'm excited to see.
If you look at the foam things that go around it,
they actually have holes in them.
So the air will be able to go out,
so that you can get maximum height.
Trampoline.
In-ground trampoline.
A bunch of grass is coming soon.
Pavers, concrete, big ol' trees...
Should we check out the big trees?
Let's check out the big trees.
Big palm trees.
(power up sound)
Like we are in Hawaii on vacation.
Actually, do they have these in Hawaii?
I don't even know.
Like we're in Arizona.
Three of them, right next to each other, all going up.
Pretty much centered with the hot tub that's right here
and the pool.
And by the way, for the hot tub and the pool,
the only thing they have left to do is to do some tile
around the outside.
Like a layer this big of tile that goes around.
And then they're gonna put the finishing,
it's not really concrete,
but whatever the finishing material is
that goes on the inside of it.
And the lights, set them up.
But, it'll be ready to go.
They don't have to get that one done until
about a week and a half from now.
Each one of these has water that will come out
right there, right there, and right there.
And it will spill into the pool like a waterfall
and you could jump off of these pillars into the deep end
of the pool.
The next update!
This is going to have to be a full-on video
once we finish it all.
But, the speakers.
I told you from the very beginning that we're working
with TruAudio to do speakers in our house.
That's gonna be just insane!
(power up sound)
Seriously, all throughout our house speakers,
but the outside is also insane.
I'm not gonna play it for you now,
'cause I don't even know if it's working properly yet.
But, check this out.
This is a speaker.
This is an outdoor speaker right there.
This is an outdoor subwoofer.
(fingers rubbing)
See look, TruAudio.
That's a subwoofer.
That's another speaker.
Oh look, there's another one.
There's another one.
It goes all the way around!
One, two, three... (continues counting fast speed)
And then we look on the RV garage!
Another speaker!
(voice plays fast)
And over by the house, two more speakers
and a subwoofer.
Do we have enough speakers?
Probably need a few more, I don't know.
(chuckles)
No, that's amazing.
We have so many speakers.
I'm so pumped to get those things turned on
and just to have the backyard just blasting Despacito
for all of my neighbors to hear.
It's gonna be a beautiful moment.
Next update!
It has to do with these!
These are going to be steps.
Yup, that's right.
Steps for a ladder that goes for the slide
that's gonna go right here.
The slide is gonna be coming tomorrow.
(power up sound)
This is the concrete that they laid for it.
The guys were here last night with head lamps
and putting the rebar in.
They did all this in one day.
Those concrete blocks that you saw over there
are actually gonna be part of the steps
that are built in that go up to the slide.
I can't remember how tall the slide is,
I think it's 10 or 11 feet tall.
It has water built into it, so water will go down.
And it's just gonna one slide.
It's gonna start right here, you'll be up higher,
it'll come down, around the corner, make a sharp turn,
come over, and then drop you off
into the deep end of the pool.
I've seen it on paper, but I don't really know
how awesome it's going to be in person.
But I have a feeling it's gonna be
one of my favorite things of the house.
A giant slide.
With our pool being totally symmetrical
with the view, with the trees, going straight out
from the back door, Leslie understandably wasn't
as big of a fan of getting a slide,
'cause it maybe takes away from the aesthetics
of the pool and the beauty of it.
So, it was a good compromise.
Where we start a slide around the house,
where nobody sees it, and then you just see the part where
it drops in and comes into the pool.
Good compromise!
Leslie, thank you for letting us get a slide.
I think it's gonna be fantastic.
I have two more outdoor updates.
Nah, we'll do three.
Three more outdoor updates!
The first one, is security.
(dramatic sound)
We have so many cameras.
I'm not gonna tell you how many there are,
but there are so many, I could see them on my phone.
When somebody walks, like right now,
as I'm walking on the driveway,
we have three different cameras,
(power up sound)
that are zooming in and tracking me and following me,
(alarm blares)
and recording me, at really high 4K quality,
to show where I'm going and it records it
on the cloud and and on servers, for a long time.
Of whatever's going on right now.
I don't know if it's facial recognition,
but it could see my face right now.
We love doing these house update videos,
but honestly, to be real for a minute,
it's a little scary sometimes
because we are putting ourselves out there to the world,
of where we live.
We have people that visit our house.
At our old house, we had people that visited us
in the rental home right now, that somehow they triangulate
where we live.
And with me doing drone shots
and everything that we do for these videos,
it's not that hard to find where we live.
And it's a little concerning.
It is, as a parent, sometimes it makes you wonder
why we're doing this.
As much as we love you guys,
and we love you guys watching our videos,
and seeing you out and about at restaurants
and at the airport, probably,
yeah, don't come to our house.
Just let us have that as our safety place.
'Cause I'm sure all of you guys are cool.
You're super-cool, you're super-nice,
and you just wanna say hi,
but because we have kids, it's like,
it just takes one that isn't cool.
So to compensate for that a little bit,
we went a bit overboard with the security.
So inside and outside the house we've
got some pretty awesome security,
which definitely helps with the peace of mind.
I'll show you one of them.
I'll show you one.
There you go.
Here's one right here.
Boom.
Security camera, right there.
And as I'm showing you that security camera,
do you notice our house?
Do you notice those brown spots that are on the wall?
There's some on the outside here, right there.
Oh look, up there.
On that part of the house.
Way up there!
And how about right here?
Yup.
How about by the windows?
Yup, there's a bunch right there.
Oh, over here, on this part of the house?
Yup, more brown spots!
It's so bad with the brown spots.
This is a wall.
And check out the wall.
Brown spots everywhere.
All over the wall.
All over, up and down the wall.
This is the part where it's like,
"Did we choose the right place to live?"
Because, we just got attacked.
Our house just got attacked.
And no, it wasn't by a creeper that came and found us
because we put our videos online.
It's by birds.
(dramatic music)
Destroyed!
It's everywhere!
I mean, look at this.
This is legitimate bird poop.
We thought that it was mud for the longest time!
(laughs)
We thought that someone was out here
with their truck and they stepped on it
and flipped up all this mud, but it was weird
that it wasn't really in a pattern.
And the chunks weren't very big.
Then we thought it was somebody
doing something rude to us 'cause they know we're YouTubers
and they're just like...
You know, like people go toilet papering people's houses,
maybe they mud-attacked our house.
That's what I thought!
I thought that for a while!
Then, the mystery was solved, thanks to our landscapers
and the guys that built the pool, Landworks.
They've been here so much, building the pool
and building landscaping that they saw the crime
as it was taking place, and it has everything to do
with these giant trees that are lining this street.
We really like this about the neighborhood,
that we have these tree-lined streets
that go all the way down, and that's beautiful!
Look at this!
That's why we wanted to buy this lot,
because we have this little buffer of these beautiful trees
that we don't have to maintain, but we get
the benefits of having them in front of our house.
A really nice thing.
I think we got one of the best lots in the neighborhood.
Now, I'm starting to question that a little bit,
because check this out.
On this tree, it has these little fruits.
Let me pull it off.
See these guys right here?
There they are.
They're these little fruit thingies.
What's inside of it?
That's what's inside of it.
But what happens with these little guys,
this is a true story of what happened,
is that
(laughs)
a bunch of birds, I think they were doves
or pigeons.
Pigeons?
Pigeons.
Probably pigeons.
They came by here.
It's just like this whole swarm,
I guess it wouldn't be a swarm.
A whole flock of birds came and they were all over
in these trees, just eating so many of these cherries
and these seeds.
So much so, what the landscapers said happened,
is that they kind of get drunk off of it.
So the birds got drunk off of these cherries,
they start flying around and it gives them major diarrhea.
And they said that they had to go inside the house
because they were pooping so much everywhere.
It's all over my house.
My neighbor's house.
Check this out.
I don't know if my neighbor wants me to show his house,
so I'm not going to show all of it.
There's my neighbor's house.
Poop.
This is an issue, not just with my house,
but anybody that lives near these trees
(fart noise)
Birds come and get really excited and start eating
and they're super hungry and they're happy,
and then they take off and go,
"Oh no, I got some diarrhea!
"I got a bad case of diarrhea!"
And they just let it go all over our house.
What are we gonna do to our house?
Can we get it off?
Do we have to repaint the stucco?
- No, no, we'll be able to get it with cleaners and sponges
and clean it all off.
- [Host] We're gonna hire people to come and scrub poop
off of our house.
- Magic Erasers!
- [Host] Is this something that you see at a lot
of homes that you build?
- No.
- [Host] Birds attacking?
- No.
- Never.
- So, there you go.
There's the bird poop problem.
It makes you question many, many things.
One of them is, "Was it really smart
"to build a white house?"
Maybe it should have been a brown house!
We would have never noticed the poop!
If you'd like to apply to
the bird poop cleaning job, Jonathan will have it,
at ChristensenHomes.com.
Just kidding, I don't think they even have
a website for it.
(laughs)
Somebody's going to be cleaning some poop off our house,
and it's not gonna be me.
And it's not gonna be Jonathan.
It's not gonna be Susan.
Leslie, nope!
Lincoln, maybe.
Maybe.
(fart noises)
The last update for our yard is this calcium right here.
See this build-up, the white stuff,
how it makes it look really old?
I told you in one of the videos how I was
so excited when we got these pavers,
because they were dark, they look beautiful,
and then a week later it looked like they were 30 years old
because of the calcium.
I talked to our landscapers, I talked to our builders
after I made the video and they said,
"No, we were already planning on doing a sealing coat
"over it, that will help it stay dark and look good."
Once we're done with all this construction
and everything, we will get a pressure washer
and come out and spray off all the calcium
and just clean these things really good.
(power up sound)
And then put a sealing coat on top of it,
like a stain type thing on the rocks,
and then it should look really, really good.
(electronic music)
This is the outside of the house.
So many updates.
I hope that I covered all of them in here,
because there's a lot.
I probably didn't cover them all.
But, really, really exciting, what's happening
in the yard.
If you think that's exciting,
wait 'til you see the inside.
We're gonna be filming probably five or six update videos
in the few days just to cover some of
the amazing things that are inside of it.
It's like I'm staying in one of the nicest hotels
I've ever stayed at, except it's our house.
And I don't feel worthy to be staying in it.
So, I'm super incredibly grateful.
I'm looking in...
I'll give you a sneak peek.
The laundry room.
Wanna see the laundry room?
What is that light?
That's pretty amazing!
Laundry room!
That's it!
I can't show you anymore!
We're gonna do full updates, so stay tuned!
Thank you guys for watching our house update videos.
Seriously, it's so fun to share with you,
it's so fun for us to keep it for our own memories...
Did I say the lights?
Yeah, I said lights before.
Look, birds even pooped on our light.
But, it's really fun to share our memories with you guys
and also for us to keep it on record
so, it's like our online journal of the process
of building our home and it's almost finished.
And I can't wait to show you guys.
All right, thanks of watching.
(upbeat electronic music)