Streamers

Happy Monday Friends.

Mondays are for fresh starts and I am looking forward to this week. We had an amazing weekend and Ben was a little Angel Boy 😇 Seriously. Sooooooo thankful he is feeling better finally!!

Friday night,  Ben and I shared some Chocolate chip ice cream bc we felt like it was warm enough outside to eat ice cream and not feel guilty about it.

We all know where he gets his sweet tooth from.

We also ran out to Walgreens to get Dada some medicine and I recognized this woman from a Facebook post from earlier that day. It was Carrey Deweys sister Elizabeth. I introduced myself as Matt Baldwins sister. Carrey and Matt were both diagnosed with ALS around the same time here in Louisville. They are both young with close loving families and children who they will leave behind. ALS is so incredibly devastating and unless you are seeing it first than then you cannot imagine how hard and depressing it is for everyone involved. I am so glad I crossed paths with Elizabeth. We unfortunately have a very heartbreaking thing in common that connects us but I am so glad that we did. I remember the day after I found out about Matt I just texted him and the rest of my family saying.. 'I just wanted us all to live under the same roof and be together' I knew our time was limited together.. And I just could not imagine our life without Matt. (and now my dad and Nancy.) More than half of my family is gone and it's been so sad and hard for everyone left. Carreys sister, Elizabeth bought the house next door to Carrey so they could be there throughout this time in their lives and I could not be more proud of them. What an amazing family they are and I just want them to know that I think about them almost everyday and I am so amazed at the strength Carrey really does have even though she may not feel like it. By sharing her story with the world she has made awareness to the disease and let others into the reality of ALS. I pray for you and your family. Love and hugs! And sorry Elizabeth if I was socially awkward or rude  when I blurted just out in Walgreens  'how old are you' lol. But either way you look young and beautiful and I hope we can grab coffee or a cocktail and chat sometime!! 

This is Carrey Dewey. I have never met Carrey personally but all I can do is tell you that she is truly an inspiration and a such a strong, beautiful mother. 

Saturday night we hung out with our friends Jeff and Jean and got to see their new house and give Big boy Thomas his birthday gift. On the way home... We had to drive through some crazy fn floods and it was no joke. The crazy thing is we were literally only like two minutes away from our house when we approached high waters. Alan looked at me and said no way you are going through that. But there was a guy @ 11:30 pm standing out there with a flash light looking like the man in the yellow hat from curious George directing us through. He said just drive slowly. I pretty much closed my eyes and prayed to God we made it it through. And we did thank goodness. 

Me & Boone #goldenboy 

This happened this weekend!! Big boy Ben transition. Woot woot.. Bc he is climbing out of his crib!! 

We went to Chucke Cheese and Ben had a blast.. So did Alan! He took Ben's card and used it to go play Skee Ball! Lol. Ridic. And Ben rode almost everything in there you could possibly ride. Thanks Katie and Patrick for a fun Sat morning. 

Love this pic!! Haha! 

Happy 2nd Birthday Miles!!! You are so cute!! 

I also had my newborn shoot with the sweet two week old Delilah Nicole. OMG. She was such a doll baby. And I just wanted to photograph her all day!!! I learned a lot from the shoot. I am just so grateful for all of my customers and their support throughout this journey. 

OK,  now on to streaming. Sorry for the really long post but I wanted to share with everyone how and what we did to become streamers. We've been wanting to do it for awhile but finally pulled the plug a few months ago. So far we are loving it! So we cancelled our cable with Spectrum and just have the internet through them. I know I hate them as much as everyone else does but you have to have the internet to stream and there are limited options out there so Spectrum has one of the best & fastest so we kept our internet through them. We then bought a Roku Express for every. single.  TV. in our house. They are 29.99 and obviously a one time fee. There are other roku remotes that have other features on them like... You can turn up the volume with the roku remote as well and not have to use your actual TV remote. With the express you have to use your TV remote to control the volume but we were OK with that. The roku is SUPER easy to setup and get started for anyone worried about that! After you purchase your roku there are lots of options after that as well.. Such as Hulu TV, YouTube TV, sling TV, and many more. We first tried Hulu TV which was I think $40 a month and we got tons of channels including sports, news and Hulu exclusives. But we kept buffering a lot which really pissed me off during the half time of the superbowl. So we did some research and then switched over to YouTube TV. That is also the glory of streaming. You can cancel your memberships easily online and you don't have to deal with an annoying person. Once we started using YouTube TV we haven't buffered once and are completely satisfied and saving over a hundred dollars a month now on our cable bill. 

The things we like about so far is.. It has an easy interface with a cable like guide that shows live shows playing and also upcoming programs. An unlimited DVR storage. $35 month. Roughly 50 channels including the 4 local networks like ABC,CBS,NBC,FOX. We can create up to 6 accounts to tailor to their own viewing habits.

So do yourself a favor and become streamers like us. I don't think you will regret the change. It really only takes a week to get used to. Just like a new phone or something. #streamers #happymonday 

 <3 and good vibes, MB