Giving Up On Our Dream...
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00:00All right
00:01All right, we're back. I don't even know what we're doing today. You know, we're filming a YouTube video
00:06See I have the camera set up. No
00:09Filming oh, yeah
00:12This is our monthly update the monthly liberate family update. You can barely see the baby
00:17I kind of lost like what we usually film on and I'm filming it on like
00:22One of these really old tripod ringing for jiggies that we've had in our closet for a long time
00:27I hope it works. So hey guys
00:30Hello, we're doing an update and there's actually a few important things that we need to discuss with them
00:34yeah, there are there are because this is some real life stuff right now and
00:39It's about to get real real quick
00:42Yeah, right, right like real real quick. Yeah
00:46all right, go ahead, so
00:52Sectomy didn't work fast enough
00:57Just kidding, uh-uh
01:01Savannah's pregnant
01:04What would people's reaction be if we came on here the last video saying Cole's getting a vasectomy and at the very next video been
01:10And they're Irish twins
01:15So just say it would be a blessing I guess we can't start off with that
01:19I did get a vasectomy. We talked to last YouTube video that I was going to get it and I did yeah
01:26And it's been as of tomorrow tomorrow will be four weeks since I've gotten it. How do you feel? I
01:33Mean you can tell that my voice is a little higher pitch
01:36So that's one thing that's changed. That's funny. I already didn't have any boys. I was so close
01:41Back a little bit. I don't think it's so close. Is it just a little bit. It's just better. Yeah, that's better
01:47So I feel like I feel like lean back to talk to you. Okay, sorry. It's just better. I like weird angle
01:52but yeah, I got I got the old snip and
01:54We're rocking yeah, we're all can supposedly it's not effective for three months. So after three months you do a
02:03Checkup to make sure it worked, but we're not there yet
02:06So we'll find out and technically we could still get pregnant in the next two months. Okay?
02:10so
02:12How my body kind of works is I don't get a period in time done breastfeeding
02:17So right now the chance of us getting pregnant would be like it's very very slow
02:22Yeah, we decided that I was gonna get it. Yeah, I like three honestly her entire pregnancy
02:27We're like, yes, like this is it and then we had the baby like yes, we're gonna do it
02:31And then I had the second we schedule kind of like a month and a half after he was born
02:35It's like yes, I'm gonna do it and then as I'm driving there in the morning and call Savannah just up
02:39No, I called you. Did you call me? Oh, I texted you. You called me. Yeah, I said I feel uneasy about
02:46Yes, yeah, I got a text on the way there at 8 a.m. I was like, okay if there's any uneasiness
02:52I'm not gonna do this. It's like we need to be like a hundred percent kind of like we've been yeah for the most part
02:57I don't think 98%
02:59I mean, yeah to be a hundred percent and it's essentially what confirmed us doing it was
03:05Whenever I got there before I did it I asked the doctor which I had already asked by just reconfirmed that a it is reversible
03:12And that maybe 27 years old the reversal rates if we were to reverse the next five years are very very high. Yeah
03:20And we know that there's a chance that it can't be reversed
03:24But yeah, but it's a very high reversal and just where we're at in the season of our life
03:28We're like, yes in the next three to five years. We definitely don't want to have another baby
03:33So that's kind of where we're at in five years
03:35Maybe we'll be like, oh we want one more or we might want to adopt
03:39So for those of you who are wondering even if the reversal doesn't work, there is a thing that's technically IVF for men
03:46Which I won't I'll spare you the details of it, but they
03:51extract the stuff from the man and they
03:54Do IVF in the woman's egg. It's like there's there's options. Yeah, not that we're like
04:00Thinking about doing those options, but we just we just like checked all the ifs and buts that could come down the road. Yeah, so
04:07But yeah, he snipped. Yeah, I don't have a lot of peace about it. Yeah, we do
04:11Like I know we're kind of talking about like for a while
04:13I would say he always had a piece and I did it and now I feel like I have a piece about it
04:17Yeah, I'm definitely very content and very happy with with these five and there's no way
04:22I'd want to have another baby in the next three years
04:26Yeah, our last four
04:27I don't think a lot of people know that super like it asked in a lot
04:30But our last four like Everly and Posey are six years apart and then the last four are all under two years apart
04:35None of them are two years or older. They're all under two years. That's just a lot
04:40Yeah, it's so much fun, but it's a lot I think it's sad for Savannah to think of like not having a tiny tiny baby
04:47anymore, yes, so that's where
04:50your sadness comes from not having a tiny tiny baby anymore, but the
04:54Confirmation comes from we got five kids. Yeah
04:57That we just gotta love well and pour everything into yeah, because at some point you can't you can't just keep having tiny babies
05:04You can't whether it's five six seven eight nine at some point. Yeah
05:07I feel like I would be that person that would be like eight nine pregnancies in a big. Oh, I still want another one
05:17So I don't think it's good for me to like be cut off a little bit
05:22Something when you cut off like soda sweet Savannah's having babies
05:29But don't I still really feel cool. I've always felt a calling for adoption. And so
05:36That was also kind of my way of being like if I want to get coal on board more for adoption
05:43Cuz I'm Tim. I'm more like 90% on board. You're more like 50% on board right now, right?
05:48We talked about yeah, but if I want to get cold more on board, then I need to be done having babies
05:53I'm not anti adoption. I'm anti any more kids in my house right now. Yeah
05:58Whether it's adoption biological. Yeah, but in a few years as things get more of a groove
06:04Yeah, I'll be more open-minded
06:07Okay, we agree on we agree on it all but I kind of want to discuss the topic of giving up on our dream
06:15Which is kind of disappointing yeah, this is like fresh it's kind of like humbling to admit and it's disappointing a little bit
06:20Yeah, yeah, but we've had like conversations like friends about this. So
06:25I'll take it away. So I
06:28I
06:29Would say number one me and Cole both have a heart for hosting
06:33for always welcoming people into our house whenever someone needs a place to do like a church event or
06:39Have a baby shower or any of those kind of things. We're always welcome
06:42Like we always want to have people in our home. So that's number one
06:47number two, we bought this land and
06:50Initially, we wanted to like be farmers and do the whole
06:54In the best way we really did like we were like
06:58Are you cows and goats and chickens at all whenever you move from?
07:02California to Tennessee and maybe you guys have seen it too. You see those reels of
07:07Frog I make fun of them every time that I see him now because you see him and you get on board
07:11But it does make it look fun. Look at the cow. Yeah, look at the highland cow
07:15But here's the reality of it short long story short
07:18We have a lot of friends who are farmers who have tons of land and yeah
07:22They're like you could do it and it's awesome and we love they're good for but it's a lot of work and you have so
07:28Many tiny kids right now like it would just be a lot of work
07:32and so they kind of humbled me to and we're not farmers which
07:36We knew that and we weren't trying to be farmers. I just now want just a chicken coop
07:43And to be fair we weren't we didn't have this vision to buy this land to be farmers
07:47Going back to number one what we were talking about hosting people
07:50We wanted to have this land to host people to have like a big
07:53Barn for like a warehouse open barn to host events and host marriage retreats and all the things and hey
07:59Maybe maybe so it's just not gonna be on this land because we're now realizing 18 acres is a lot of land and we could
08:06Probably host perfectly well on two acres, you know, yeah
08:11Yeah, the big thing also is I'll say two of the biggest reasons why we aren't going through with kind of division that we explain
08:17On this land is one the time commitment to get there. Yeah time the time commitment to build out to build a home
08:23yeah, that's kind of what initially stopped in the first place not even the fact that like
08:28It's just the time commitment that it was taking from me mainly but as well Savannah and I was the obvious having a baby with
08:35four other children it was
08:36We're already pursuing a few other really cool things, which we'll get to in a little bit
08:40But on top of trying to add building a home
08:50Magic are you kidding me magic? I wish I didn't he loves his mommy. You're so lucky. You wish you had a boobie
08:55Yeah, what do I do whenever she's crying? I mean
09:00But like I was explaining
09:02We're pursuing a few really cool opportunities
09:05That's already taking a decent amount of time out of our week and in this season of our life
09:09So many little kids if the number one priority above all priorities is focusing time there
09:14Yeah, and so focusing time to build a house a well
09:18From scratch, we're just taking a lot of time. It was a lot more than we anticipated
09:23Which everyone told us we just thought that we could probably still do it
09:28Yeah, I think sometimes you just gotta do it
09:31And realize that that wasn't for you. Yeah
09:34We had to do that because everyone was telling us that but we did almost we just need to learn
09:40Yeah, we need
09:43Yeah, you always have that what if in your head
09:44So I think sometimes like God allows you to go down routes and to go down paths for you to rise
09:48Oh, that's not for us at least now
09:50I think it was still gonna have this vision for
09:52This land that we want to do for events and for marriage conference retreats and where she might tell us stuff
09:57Something that we thought about was I don't know if we want to live on the property
10:01Yeah, we're hosting all these things up just because we're gonna have a lot of people there having so many people that
10:07We aren't familiar with coming to like where we live probably isn't the wisest thing
10:10So we should have our own house where we live and then this own separate property that is dedicated to all that stuff
10:17So I think that's probably the horse
10:20But I think that's ultimately the long-term vision is let's get house wise where we need to be settled in there
10:27and then
10:28landwise
10:30Settled in there down the road, but like there's no need to get in too much of a rush with that
10:33So we're just being prayerful about where God wants us. Ultimately. That's what we want is is where does God wants to be?
10:40And we love Tennessee. We love where we're at. So we're confident that's this area, but she's like which house which location and
10:46Yeah, that's all I'm gonna time but it was kind of tough. So I could let that go
10:49It was the land the dream. So right now our plan
10:52Especially because we had shared it with them too. I feel like it was more hard cuz I was like, oh, yeah
10:56It was gonna be like so awesome
10:58Yeah, and it's still kind of bittersweet to like let that go. But
11:03Yeah, it was just goes gonna be that that would have taken up every bit of our time. Yeah to
11:08To build the dream out and then to manage the dream. Yeah, and to just maintain the land and
11:14Like just for example on 18 acres. I got the grass cut one time for like a soil survey thing and it cost
11:20$2,000
11:22To cut the grass one time and it grew back two weeks later. So it was like either it's gonna take me
11:2712 hours
11:29every 10 days to cut the grass or
11:33Yeah, I'm gonna have to hire somebody for $2,000 and it's like
11:37That's just a lot. It's a it's a lot to have to do that here in Tennessee. So
11:42It's not for us not right now
11:44But that doesn't mean that we don't have exciting things that that we're working on which we're gonna share with you in just a second
11:48Pause it and turn back on because of the breastfeeding situation, but that leads us into kind of like the future of
11:54The LeBron family what we're working on
11:59And all things before is now it is August in Tennessee and the new school year is upon us
12:05We're starting homeschool. We love homeschool with our kids. The biggest reason being we get to just pour
12:11More into them. We just spend more time with them
12:14Obviously our kids are in various activities. So those activities already take so much time away
12:17So any parent who knows I mean I did this you're all
12:20Going to school from 8 to 3 and then your activity from 3 to 6 7 8 o'clock
12:25Yeah, you don't have much time at home. So we know they're not everybody's capable homeschool
12:30most people probably aren't but in the situation that that weren't and we are able to
12:34We love being able to do it and we would never force our kids homeschool
12:37We've talked about this that we have the conversation with Everly and all the kids every year the younger kids
12:41They don't have much of an opinion about it. But with every week before the school starts like you don't have to be homeschool
12:46Here's the reality of if you go to public such private school and then if you do dance
12:51Which is what she wants to do. You're gonna be gone most of the day
12:54And I really might want to start school in the next year or two. Yeah
12:59I feel this year so we'll see
13:00Mm-hmm
13:01and actually wants to that she's
13:02totally able to all support her and it through that and if she she loves it that she can stick with it if not that
13:07she can come back and you don't school and
13:09So it's just whatever she'll see but we're starting the new homeschool year
13:12We have kind of two really exciting projects as a family that we're pursuing this year
13:17I'll say we're kind of putting all of our efforts all of our
13:22Everything that God's given us on these social media platforms in these two baskets and we're really really excited
13:26I don't want to share too too much about them yet because they're not coming out yet
13:30But because when we post here once a month, maybe we'll post a little bit more
13:34But these products are probably like one or two months out from coming out
13:39One is a product one is a product that we're super super excited about
13:43Everybody's involved with it to some extent and then the other is
13:47I'll say more of a service. I really involved in it to a lot of extent. Yeah
13:52Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a really fun. It's like a passion project and the other is more of a service
13:58So they're kind of different things
14:01Yeah, and that's the one that we're definitely a lot
14:04Very excited about very passionate about I think that you guys are gonna be very excited about both of these
14:09Very different than anything we've ever done. I'm believing that this is
14:15What we're creating it's I think it's gonna be really big I think it's gonna be really cool
14:18I think you guys gonna be really excited for it
14:19I think it's gonna be so much bigger than just we are. Yeah, so I'm excited to see those come to life
14:24And yeah, I don't want to give too much away but just stay tuned for the next month or two
14:27I know that influencers and creators always say stay tuned blah blah blah trying to hide people up
14:31But like this is like really good. Like this is really good stuff and we haven't
14:35Intentionally created anything like this for this reason because we didn't just want to create stuff and bail on it for yourself and bail on it
14:40like this is this is it yeah, this is it and
14:44It's it's kind of like saying that we've really done. That was ours was our book
14:49Which was really like anything else? We've never done the merch. Yeah, you know, this is like our first
14:55Big big thing and there's two of them. Yeah, it's pretty cool. They're coming up around
14:58Yeah, and they're totally different. Yeah equally as well developed. Yeah, they're completely different things. Yeah
15:05So I know you're probably confused comment down below what you think they are and yeah, we'll see if he gets it, right?
15:11Yeah, and there will be something we'll get there will be some big giveaways
15:15Going alongside the launches of these like very large cash giveaways
15:20Family vacation giveaways lots of fun stuff. So if you follow us a 10
15:25Stay tuned on here stay tuned on our Instagram. We got some fun stuff coming up
15:28So we just want to update you guys. We love you guys. Thanks for following us
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15:34We're hoping to kind of cultivate a community of like-minded families and yeah people who just share very similar values
15:40I know that we've been very open about our faith and our beliefs and the things that we stand for over the years which has
15:46Kind of put us in a decent amount of heat and a lot of people don't like us for that
15:50but we know that there's a large amount of people who do share our same values you share our same beliefs and
15:55That's ultimately, you know, God has always been the most important thing in our family. We've never shied away from that
16:00Yeah, and we think that
16:03You know this community people God will God will bless as we pursue his name as as he says he will so we're confident in
16:09that
16:10So we appreciate just this community with you guys
16:12We feel like we're genuine friends at this point and we're excited to see where the future takes us right blue what he said
16:19Alright guys