- [Santa] Ho ho ho ho.

- Can you give him a high five?

Hi Santa Claus.

- [Santa] Ho ho.

- There we go.

(Santa laughing)

(Christmas music)

- [Kendra] There Elise vacuuming her bedroom.

(Laura screaming)

(Laura screaming)

- [Kendra] Look at that, you're totally getting it.

Good work.

- I did it.

- So I just wanted to thank you guys for all the love

this weekend over on Jeremy's new channel.

It was a lot of fun to launch that and to make that video

and to see you guys enjoying it too.

So thank you so much for that support.

We're excited for where that channel's going to go for him

and I'm just really proud of him.

It takes a lot of work to start a new channel

and it's kind of scary, you're going to put stuff out there

or is anybody going to be interested in it?

But this channel is such a great way of combining

his passions in law and video creation and entertaining

and teaching and so I'm just really proud of that guy.

- [Kendra] Cubbie what happened?

- Isaac colors with my markers on me.

- [Kendra] Isaac did that?

- I'm going to go looking in here.

It's actually weird.

- [Kendra] What's it look like?

- Well ah, Captain Hook.

- [Kendra] Captain Hook?

- Yeah. - Like a mustache.

- Oh yeah, wait until I can reach.

- Well now your brother gets to clean you off.

So we're inside playing in the play place,

and the kids are being adorable and I look for my camera

and it wasn't there.

I left you guys out in the car.

So my friend watched the kids for a minute while

I ran to get the camera, so I can show you our

Chick-fil-A fun so here it is.

Also as I'm walking in, I'm totally thinking about what

I'm going to order for lunch.

Am I going to be good and get a salad,

or am I going to get yummy chicken sandwich and fries?

That's what sounds good.

(upbeat music)

(laughing)

- [Kendra] Peek a boo.

- Hi mom. - You are such a big girl,

Hi Laura.

So huge treat today, I actually got the kids kid's meals

and I actually worked out to be I think the same price.

So this is fun.

But they come with toys, but if you turn in the toys

at the end that you don't like keep them,

then you get to have ice cream, which is awesome.

So here's your kid's meal, you excited bud?

- I'm choosing ice cream.

- [Kendra] You're choosing ice cream?

How about you?

- Ice cream.

- Good choice.

Well I decided on the salad

because I know I'll feel better about it later.

Who knows if it's actually healthier or not?

Like sometimes the calories and stuff surprises me

but I'll definitely feel eating this,

so that's what I'm going to do.

- Can I have a water please? - Yum.

- Ba ba ba ba be ba ba boo.

Ba boo.

Ba ba ba ba be ba ba boo.

- So poor Elise got totally hurt in little play place.

They were holding hands going down the slide together

and something happened to her hand, it got squished

or sat on or something.

She's hopeful that ice cream will make it feel better

so that makes me hope that it's not too serious

of an injury, but poor girl.

Whoa, look at that bite of ice cream.

Now it's Caleb's turn.

- [Laura] My turn.

- [Kendra] Those are good bites.

- And my bed.

- [Kendra] Alright well I finished painting Elise's bed.

I did three coats and I'm really happy with the color.

I think it's going to be cute.

I'm having a hard time not being critical of the mistakes

like the drips that dried, but remember this is my very

first project I've ever done.

- Elise's bed!

- [Kendra] Are you excited about it?

- Yeah!

- [Kendra] Yeah, who's bed is it?

- Elise's bed.

- Elise's bed.

So this weekend I had the chance to listen to a

Christmas devotional message.

And a speaker said, "You know we go through trials in life

"and we can choose to go through them with God,

"or we can choose to go through them

"without relying upon God."

And I was thinking about that and

how am I doing on that in my life?

Like am I really trying through my challenges,

to connect with God or am I just suffering through it?

And I really want to improve on that.

It's sometimes, it's a hard thing.

Like conceptually, to grasp how to use Christ through

the trials in my life.

But it's something I want to improve on.

- So neighbors of our were part of a group called

Operation-Give-A-Bear.

It's put on by Build-A-Bear the company

and they give bears to people who are in hospitals

or assisted living.

And they invited us to come with them

to go and deliver the bears.

- And they are the coolest neighbors ever.

So the dad dressed up as Santa Claus

and the whole family dressed up as elves,

and they called us just like last minute.

So we just are coming to participate and enjoy it with them

and I would love to do more next year with them.

(Christmas music)

♫ All is bright

♫ Round yon virgin

- Merry Christmas!

- Who we meeting?

- Hi Jay San Claus.

- Santa Claus.

- [Santa] Ho ho ho ho.

- Can you give him a high five?

Hi Santa Claus.

- [Santa] Ho ho.

- There we go.

(Santa laughing)

- [Jeremy] Those eyes, she's so excited.

She's so happy about it. (laughs)

- So we were just realizing that it's the organization

Operation-Give-A-Bear that was at Ronald McDonald House

last Christmas Eve when we were there.

And so it's just fun to see the impact of the organization.

(Christmas music)

- Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas.

(Jeremy laughing)

(Isaac yelling)

- [Jeremy] Let's clean that hair off.

Do you like that?

(Laura laughing)

(Jeremy laughing)

- I'm so excited.

So there's a Great American Light Fight neighborhood

that's in Gilbert, Arizona, and we're going to Arizona,

so we can go see this neighborhood.

- Yay. - Yeah and we go

see the lights.

- So one day a week our kids go to a home school academy.

And tomorrow they get to dress in Christmas clothes?

- Yeah, usually they wear uniforms.

- Yeah. - But tomorrow's special

they get to wear like red, you know green stuff

and Elise doesn't have a Christmas shirt and--

- Well she has green right?

- She has some green, but she doesn't have anything red

and she's really wanting something red.

And so she just came to me and she said, "Mom if it's

"possible, if you have time, could you just sew me

"a red shirt tonight?"

So that was cute.

- So are you going to sew her a red shirt?

- I, even if I tried, I wouldn't get a good one in done.

- I'll do it, I'll sew you a red shirt.

Would you want daddy's shirt?

- Well.

- [Kendra] Maybe dad's real good at sewing, I don't know.

(Elise giggles) - No.

- Maybe I could just wear white.

- [Jeremy] What's wrong with your green outfit?

- It has black in it.

- [Jeremy] Oh.

- [Kendra] We could take you the table cloth

and wrap you up in it.

- [Jeremy] Yeah.

- Yeah.

(Kendra laughs)

- Goodnight. J House out.

- Goodnight. J House out.

(Jeremy laughs)

- Wanna hear something disgusting?

Alright, I'm totally embarrassed,

I should not be vlogging this,

but um, this is real life, this is mom life guys.

I just opened up my purse, like the middle pocket,

to look for something and guess what I found in there?