Carrie: 0:09

Hey, it's Carrie and it's Christine, and we are best friends. Welcome to Two Babes Podcast. We are the owners of Lavender and Lace Boutique, an online boutique based out of Sherwood Park,

Kristine: 0:20

Alberta. We started a podcast so we can tell you all of our stories about owning a business and our friendship. and it's time that we share it with the world. So let's go, Can't wait. So how was your weekend? Okay. It was really good. I, I wrote notes. I have notes. I love that. So Friday I did. I didn't really do too much to be honest. Like I, I ran my first time, um, running in over two weeks. And how was that? Um, it was really good to be back. It was hard. Yeah. Like I was, it was an easy run, but it was still a, like, I only ran 30 minutes, but it was hard on my body. Mm-hmm. Especially just getting back into it. Um, but I was happy I was back, so I worked a little bit at home. I had a chiro appointment, which was really nice, getting myself some orthotics. So hopefully that, that'll help my, my ailments because I'm old now. Um, and I did a little grocery shop prepared for the weekend. Um, And that was my Friday wasn't crazy. Yeah.

Carrie: 1:15

I did a lot of reading. That's so nice. Isn't it amazing that as soon as you turn 35 it's just like

Kristine: 1:19

everything goes

Carrie: 1:20

downhill? Yeah. Literal. Literally,

Kristine: 1:22

literally like I wake up and I'm like, oh, oh, here's another ailment. My hips hurt now schedule my replacement. Like, it's just a lot. It's wild. 35 and trying to stay alive, you know? Yeah. Um, Saturday I ran again. I did a longer run. I ran nine, just over nine kilometers, which was nice, but I feel it. Yeah. Um, feel it hard, but that's okay. It's i's gonna take a little while to get used to like, two weeks isn't that long, but when you take that time off, yes. It sucks

Carrie: 1:53

getting back. It's the, it's the same when I go to the gym. Yeah. Like lifting weights. It sucks. You take a break and you go back and your muscles are just, Infinitely more sore. Yeah,

Kristine: 2:01

it's wild. But I'm happy. I'm back. It was good Saturday, um, was, well, you know, Karen, it was a, a little bit of a crap shoot. Like it was just, yeah, it was the most amazing day. There was a lot that happened. It was our jossen days. Um, we love our

Carrie: 2:14

jossen days. It's our favorite. It's so much fun.

Kristine: 2:16

It kicks off with a parade. Um, and the parade was so year, it was amazing

Carrie: 2:22

this year who, I don't know if you listen, if you helped organize it, but honestly it was the best we've seen. Yeah. It was so long. Yeah. The kids loved it and I loved it. I was thoroughly entertained the whole time, dude. I cried.

Kristine: 2:33

I know multiple times, but more specifically at the llamas. Alpacas, yes. But they're

Carrie: 2:38

still, I think they're the same freaking thing. I don't dunno. Honestly, what's the, if you're listening and you know the difference, just send us the message. Cuz honestly, Christina and I grew up in Mill Woods. We didn't have alpacas out

Kristine: 2:47

there. No, we didn't, we're not really seasoned with the, uh, the farm animals. No. We don't really know what's up. Mm. But they're so cute and fluffy and I just, they were groomed so beautifully. Oh my God. They were, they were, they were like, show ponies, but like APACS or Lamas. They were so cute. Yeah. Um, so yeah, we had the, the parade and then, um, our Charleston days also has like everything at the grounds there. Uh, so like Yeah. The kids loved it. Yeah. The had the bounce castles and the ponies and, um, it's just, Well, it was amazing. It was so much fun.

Carrie: 3:25

It was a great day. And then we went back for, uh, the beer gardens, uh, in the evening. Yeah. My brother's band played. Um, they were the final band play, so they kind of went on at nine till 11. Yeah. And we went and watched that and had some beverage Ginos. Yep.

Kristine: 3:41

Um, my notes included Parade llamas drank so much Yeti in Bush.

Carrie: 3:48

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Kristine: 3:48

I love that. Yeah. I, uh, forgot that I had my colster, um, with my drink in it when we were headed back to the grounds in the evening. So we, I needed a place to stash it so we hid it in a bush, took photos of where we hid it. Yeah. Because it's like a, how much are those things? Like 40 bucks, maybe more. More than, yeah. Maybe 60 bucks. I don't know. They're expensive. So expensive that you don't wanna lose it. No. So we Hi it in a bush. Took photo evidence of where we hit it and then, uh, mosey on over to the grounds. Yeah. Drink. And

Carrie: 4:19

then you had that for after. Yes. Cause you still had a drink in it. It did, yeah. Kept

Kristine: 4:23

it cold all night. Genius. Mm-hmm. Honestly, I might have been dumb in that moment and bringing it there, but I was smart on the way back. Yeah. It was nice. It felt good. And uh, then Sunday we can talk more about the parade once we get to your, cuz I mean the, our jossen days, cuz I feel like there was just so much when we, when we do your, we recap. Yeah. And then, uh, Sunday, uh, was Father's Day. I didn't, we honestly didn't do too much. I, we woke up, made Jay's breakfast, made waffles, um, and uh, yeah it was nice. It was a really nice relaxing day. Honestly. I needed it. Yeah. Cause I was very slow moving. Everybody was, to be honest. Um, we watched our show. I read pretty much all day long. I napped for two hours. We had sushi for supper as we do on Sundays. Um, it was just a really nice. Relaxing day. I only thought I was gonna throw up twice. So that was was really nice. Perfect.

Carrie: 5:20

Yeah. Yeah. I never, that was awesome. I never had the, I wasn't that hungover, but I didn't feel

Kristine: 5:25

great. I just had like the queasy. Yeah. Like it kind of hit me and then it would leave and it only happened twice. So that I'm honestly, I'm calling that a win. That is a win. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was great. And what about you? How was your weekend?

Carrie: 5:37

Friday was really good. Yeah. I mean, I got all my house stuff done so I didn't have to do it on Sunday. Yeah. Cause I knew Sunday was gonna be a write off between Father's Day, and I knew we were so. Getting down at the Joon days. So like I knew I needed to get everything done so that yesterday all I had to do was prep my meals for the week and that was it. And go on my walk, which yeah. But, um, yeah, I did laundry, you know, good Saturday or, I mean, Friday is my day to do things. Mm-hmm. So I changed the bedding on all the beds. I washed the sheets, I wash the towels, I switch them all out. Mm-hmm. I always do two loads of laundry every Friday, and that seems to like carry me through the week. And, uh, yeah, that was my Friday. Okay. It wasn't anything crazy. No. Saturday we just talked about, but we went to, uh, we went to our Dawson days, like the beer gardens at the end of the night. And it was, it was fun. It was fun. We always have so

Kristine: 6:29

much fun. Fun. Yeah. We're, we just hang out with like the other neighborhood people and mm-hmm. We just chat and sometimes we don't get to see them often. Uh, so it's just nice to catch up. Yeah. And like have a few And it's bes and

Carrie: 6:41

it's always the same people. Yes. I mean, the party animals are the party animals and it's always the same people. Yeah. Which is

Kristine: 6:47

nice. It's awesome. It's, it's really nice out. Yeah. If I don't get to see them for the year, I know that I'll see them at our jossen days and That's great. Yeah. Like I'm happy camper. Yeah. We know when it's

Carrie: 6:58

awesome cuz the party animals are coming out. Yep. Yeah. I mean, and we, we went to bed at 1230, which was a little bit later than obviously our normal, but it was, it was okay.

Kristine: 7:07

Yeah. It wasn't bad. I texted my babysitter at 1239. I'm like, on my way. Mm-hmm. Like that poor girl. I'm

Carrie: 7:12

pretty sure I was asleep within 18 seconds. Yeah. Like, oh yeah, I was asleep. Like I'll put that in quotations. That was so much fun. It was a lot of fun. And then Sunday was father's day, so I got up, I felt like a big pile of just ass. Yeah. Like I just felt terrible. Yeah. And I don't normally drink like that anymore. Mm-hmm. So

Kristine: 7:32

it was rough. Not as heavy

Carrie: 7:33

as I was before. No, that's for sure. And I wasn't even planning on drinking that much. I paced myself all evening and then someone bought the last of all the booze and put it on our table. Well, So we were just like, Ooh, gotta

Kristine: 7:45

drink it. Yeah. It was good. Yeah.

Carrie: 7:48

It was so much fun. And then Sunday we just kind of did Father's Day stuff, um, with my dad and then Nick's dad. So I had to kind of be somewhat on my A game and I, I still had to do my walk because yesterday was day 22. Yeah. Like you can't give that up. No. No

Kristine: 8:03

you cannot. Not once you have a streak that long.

Carrie: 8:06

Nope. I'm seeing how long I can go. Good. Like, can I do a hundred days? I don't know. I think you

Kristine: 8:10

can. Vegas is in there,

Carrie: 8:13

so

Kristine: 8:13

we'll see. Yeah, that's true. But if you wanna go for a walk in Vegas, I will go for a walk in Vegas with you. Yeah, yeah. You go

Carrie: 8:20

for a little 5k morning stroll. Yeah. I'll be fucking wasted,

Kristine: 8:23

but I'll, I'll be walking. Yeah. I didn't say we, we don't have to be sober, do we? No, no, no, no. Perfect. No, no. Count me in.

Carrie: 8:31

Okay, perfect. Yeah. Um, yeah, Christine and myself and our husbands are going to Vegas, which kind of ties really nicely into this episode, so we'll talk about that in a bit. But yeah, we're very excited about that.

Kristine: 8:42

We do an annual trip, um, the four of us around Carrie and Jason's birthday, cuz they're birthdays are five days apart. Mm-hmm. And it just works out perfectly, the timing of it all. So we always do Vegas and uh, I'm really excited for this year. Yeah, me

Carrie: 8:59

too. Really excited. Last year we went on Jace's birthday this year. We're going on my birthday. Yes. Mm-hmm. Like

Kristine: 9:04

traveled on Jace's birthday and we were traveling all on your birthday. Yeah. And

Carrie: 9:08

we weren't supposed to travel on my birthday, but when we went to book it, Beyonce is in Vegas on the Saturday night and our hotel, no word of life for one room was$4,000.

Kristine: 9:18

It's a no for me dog. That, that was a

Carrie: 9:20

hard pass for me. Yeah. So we're going a day earlier, which is my birthday, and we'll be home Saturday. So we don't need to pay for the Saturday

Kristine: 9:27

night. Yeah. No, it's a no for me. And then we'll have Sunday to To recover at home. Home recoup. Yeah. Recoup. So nice. All about that. Yeah, me too. Maybe, maybe we'll party with Beyonce Friday. Could you imagine?

Carrie: 9:41

Just Austen, Jay-Z. She probably like flies in that morning and then flies out to see as the show's over. Yeah. Like she's, she doesn't want, she's in and out. She's on her private jet. She's, she doesn't

Kristine: 9:49

wanna be there. She's hanging out with Jay-Z. She doesn't want hang out. Yeah. Caring Christine. Yeah. No.

Carrie: 9:53

I mean, maybe,

Kristine: 9:54

maybe she does. We're pretty cool. Yeah, we're all right. 10 outta 10. Mm-hmm. But probably not up to her standards. No. Whatever. Anyway, so yeah. So, uh, what do you, what do you got on the go with the reading and the, okay,

Carrie: 10:07

so I finished the book, I talked about last week, the mile high. And it was really good. Really enjoyed it up until the very end. I like, I loved the whole thing. There was nothing I didn't like about it. And now I'm on the second. So the first one was about a hockey player. The second one's about a basketball player. So in the first story, in the first book story, The girl's name was Stevie. And so the second book is about her brother Ryan. And he is like the star of the basketball team. And, Stevie's friend needed a place to stay so she moved in with, Ryan. Yeah. Cuz she, like her boyfriend broke up with her, so she needed somewhere to stay and it's like a fake dating vibe. Okay. Which I love fake dating stories. Yeah, me too. I really do. I just, I always love it. So they're roommates and they're fake dating. Good. So I'm really excited. It's been good so far. Good. I'm not, I'm not very far in it. I just, I know him well cuz he was like a pretty big, like a decently big character in the first book, so, yeah. Sounds good. Yeah. And then I'm doing, I'm listening to my audiobook, which I know we talked about, but I'm listening to Don't Let Her Stay by Nicole Sanders. And I'm, I know I'm going to love it because I've read all the reviews on it, and they're amazing. Like every single review is like, this psychological thriller is one of the best. The twist was amazing. So many five star reviews for it, but I'm 33% in, and I'm still like, let's go. Like I'm waiting for the, I'm holding strong, but I'm waiting for the, it's a, I needed to rip me. The, so the synopsis, what it says on the back is, someone in your house wants you dead, but no one believes you. That's what the book's about. Duh duh,

Kristine: 11:45

duh. So where's the creepy button? Oh, do we

Carrie: 11:47

think we have one? I thought we did. Oh, nope. Not that one. That's spooky. Spooky. What else we got? Um, try one more. Okay. I'll try one more.

Kristine: 11:57

Oh. Oh

Carrie: 12:00

wow. That I liked that one. Yeah, I liked that one too. Um, so it's good. It's about a woman and her husband. They have a newborn baby and they live in like this really big mansion out, out of the major city, like outside London suburb type thing. Yeah. Yeah. And his daughter, Chloe comes and starts living with them and they were kind of estranged before that. And that's, that's the premise. But not much else has happened yet. Again, 33% in like, I'm waiting for. So who thinks,

Kristine: 12:30

who, no, no one yet. No one thinks that they're gonna die. No,

Carrie: 12:35

I'm still,

Kristine: 12:36

oh, man. So, no, they're, they don't allude to anything. No, no. What are they talking

Carrie: 12:43

about? Well, you got to know her. You got to know him. The daughter moves in. I hate the husband. Oh yeah. Like I wanna throw some, I told, I texted you about that. Yeah. I just wanna throw something at him.

Kristine: 12:52

He's a dick. Yeah. Not

Carrie: 12:54

cool, bro. No. And he stands up for his daughter all the time, which is amazing. Unless your daughter's a little snob and then it's not. Yeah. Interesting. So I'm struggling, like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna finish it and I have a feeling I'm gonna love it. I just, when you're, when you, I only listen to it when I walk. Right, right. So it's, yeah. It's taking some time to

Kristine: 13:13

get in. I'm a very impatient person when it comes to like watching a show and I like, or listening to a book or reading a book, like I need to just do it right then and there. Like, yeah. I hate watching an episode and then watching another episode a week later. Yeah. I. Uh, like Jace can just shut it off at the end of the night. Yeah. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. We don't know what's gonna happen. We need, we need to go at least one more. That's fair. Fair. At least one more. So that's hard for me to like mm-hmm. You know,

Carrie: 13:39

cause I only listen to it when I'm walking. Yeah.

Kristine: 13:41

It's like my treat. Yeah. That Well cuz I mean, it keeps me motivated. I would just not come home. I keep

Carrie: 13:46

walking. That was me the other day when I was with my last book. I'm like, well I gotta finish this. Yeah. I keep on walking, burning a hole in your shoes. But yeah, so that's kind of what I have on the go right now. Nothing crazy cuz I'm not, nothing's happening in the audio book. And I just started the other book. Nice. Called The Right Move, by the way, by, um, Liz Tom Ford. It's the second book in the Windy City series. That's what I'm

Kristine: 14:06

reading. Nice. Yeah. Cool.

Carrie: 14:08

How about you? You're still reading the I

Kristine: 14:10

Am Pucking around reading Pucking around. Carrie brought this one up. Uh, Two, three episodes ago, something like that. Yeah. You talked about it last week. Yeah. And so I'm still on that. I'm about 80% done and I freaking love it. It's so good. It is filthy. And I love it. Mm-hmm. There is a lot happening. When they get it on it. Like, it just, yeah. I, I feel like I'm part of it. Like, it's just, they're very descriptive. So descriptive and I like that she's a great author. Great. Yeah. So it's, um, pucking around, uh, written by Emily Rath and she does such a good job. Mm-hmm. I just, I Who's your, cuz you've read it before, obviously we've talked about this. Who's your favorite character? Um, I. So to be clear, so there's um, a female, um, and then there's three males in the story that are like the, because there's Jake, there's Caleb, and then there's um, I Omar. So Mars. Yeah, Mars. And then there's um, Rachel. Yeah. So

Carrie: 15:12

who's your baby baby? It's really hard for me cuz I really like Mars. Yeah. Cause I do, but I also really like the other, it's a struggle for me. I don't know if I had a favorite. You really like Caleb still? I really like Caleb. Yeah. He's great.

Kristine: 15:25

But

Carrie: 15:25

Caleb and Mars. But that makes sense to me. Yeah. Because Caleb is exactly who I would

Kristine: 15:30

picture for me. Yeah. Yeah. Caleb and Mars. I love Mars. He is like, they, she describes him as this like, Really like beast of a man. Mm-hmm. Like a bear. Um, he's got long hair and he's, I found that one

Carrie: 15:44

picture I showed you and it's

Kristine: 15:45

spot on, wears a man bun and I have a big thing for man buns. Um, he's finished, so he has like a really like hard accent and just, and he's got a full back tattoo. Mm-hmm. And he's like this. Big athletic goal. He, yeah,

Carrie: 15:59

he's, he's kind of everything. Yeah. He's everything. If I was to describe, you know, yeah. My perfect specimen of a man, he is, is what I would describe. So it makes sense.

Kristine: 16:10

Bigger the better. Yeah. Oof. And then Caleb is like this tall mm-hmm. Um, athletic body who dabbled in, in some piercings. Yeah. And, uh, like this

Carrie: 16:23

just, yeah. I knew, I knew he was gonna be your favorite. It doesn't surprise me. Yeah. He's good. But I also really like Jake, so. Yeah. Cuz I loved him in the first book. Yeah.

Kristine: 16:32

He's great. Yeah. Such a good book. Yeah. Um, if you read it, keep an open mind. It's my forewarning very open mind. Yeah. So, yeah, that's my, oh, and then I finished, um, manifest. Oh right. I told you, uh, this morning if you have not had a chance to watch manifest, I think there's four seasons now. Two parter and season four. It is so, so good. Um, 10 outta 10 for me. It is good. Yeah. Only brought that up cause I knew I brought it up. Last episode. Pulling at my notes. Yeah. Good.

Carrie: 16:58

Okay. Okay. So we're gonna jump right into this episode. This is the one that I didn't think we'd get so many questions on, and we have been, yes.

Kristine: 17:08

Um, I would say this is the, about 90% of the questions that we've had, we are always asking to, uh, for you guys to send in your questions via Instagram or email. Uh, we've thrown up the question boxes on Instagram, and this is, this is the big one. Mm-hmm. So today's episode we're doing, uh, we're gonna talk all about our family and family dynamic and how that works. Mm-hmm. So, go ahead, Carrie.

Carrie: 17:34

Kick it off. Okay. So we did have a lot of questions about our kids. Mm-hmm. And so I do wanna say, I'm gonna preface this whole thing, that everyone's really different with how they parent, and we're totally respecting that, um, what works for you might not work for us. Christine and I, like, we also parent different. Mm-hmm. Like, everyone's different, and we're not judging what your choices are or what you choose to do. So I hope no one takes this episode as this is what's right. What you're doing is wrong. Because that's not, it's not, that's not the case. That's not it. No, no. We're just here to discuss what works for us. Yeah. And what we've found to work for us, especially as we've grown, um, our business and grown our, our personal social media profiles too. It, it changes how things happen within. Your

Kristine: 18:18

life, I think. Exactly. I agree with that a hundred percent. Mm-hmm. Very well said. Yeah. Thank you. You've been practicing.

Carrie: 18:24

I can feel it. Yeah, I did. Yeah. In the mirror. I have in the mirror last night. Yeah. Yeah. Like three hours of practicing, so I can tell.

Kristine: 18:31

Yeah. Yeah. Very reverse. I figured. okay. Well that's a really good place to start. Mm-hmm. So why don't we talk about our social media and, uh, yeah. Our children and, uh, what, what that's

Carrie: 18:41

like. Yeah. So we got a lot of comments about, you know, it was so nice to hear that. And again, if you ask these questions or you made these comments, we're not offended we're we, don't, we just want, we like to clarify. Yeah. We, you ask away, you let us know your things, but a lot of things like, oh, it's so nice to hear that you get to spend so much time with your kids. Okay. I have never in my daughter's entire life put pictures of her on social media. Um, it was a hard boundary for my husband and I from the get-go, and as my social media platform has grown. I've kept that pretty consistent. Mm-hmm. I mean, if you see a glimpse of Brooke, it's like in a story and it's gone. Yeah. Like it's, she's quick and it's usually the back or the side of her face. That's just my comfort level. Um, I, I do wholeheartedly believe it's her decision if she wants to be on social media. I have 2,500 followers on Instagram and it's just, that's my comfort level. Mm-hmm. So, you know, I know it might look like we're never with her. Mm-hmm. But she's always there. Yes. It's just, if I'm gonna show a story or if I'm gonna take a photo, it's, it's usually excluding her on purpose. Yeah. It, it that, that's how it works for us. Yeah. So, you know, you might have seen stories of us in Canmore or see story of us as stories of us in the pool and it's just Christine and I or it's just the four of us, the adults. It's, that's, that's on purpose. Yes. It's not cuz the kids aren't there. Yes.

Kristine: 20:09

The kids are well loved. Um, they are around and they are having. Such a good life. Mm-hmm. And, um, they get to do so many cool things and we include them in most of our out, like our activities. Mm-hmm. It's just, we don't share them. So I, we started, Jason and I shared a lot of our daughter on social media, um, in the beginning. And then within just six to eight months we've really slowed that down. And then, um, I just shut it off completely. I actually went through my Instagram and deleted every photo of her mm-hmm. Off of it. Just cuz I, because our social media has grown. Um, same, I just, the internet is, sometimes can be a little creepy. And I just wanted to protect her as much as I can for my, for our personal preference. Um, a lot of you, if you've been following l b for a while, you know that s Scarlett was in a lot of our, our photos, like on our website. Mm-hmm. She's no longer in them. I mean, she's. If there's anything older on the website still, sure those fi photos might be there, but otherwise I just have chosen to cut that off. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I'm happy to do so. If there's stock photos from let's say ampersand, I will happy to use those rather than use Scarlet. A hundred percent. It just, I'm happy to be recognized outside of the public. I don't want my child to be

Carrie: 21:29

recognized out in the public. I know, you know, and Brooke came home one day, and this is fine also, please don't think that you're creeping me out or creeping out my child or anything. But Brooke said, Hey mom. Um, one of my friends was talking about how, you know her mom knows who you are. And I'm like, and how, like, how did that make you feel? And she's like, I actually think it's really cool. And I'm like, perfect. But I never want her to feel uncomfortable. Yeah. I never, you know, so I'm very careful with what I show. I, um, about six months ago, maybe more, six months ago, I think, um, someone actually duplicated my Instagram profile. Yeah. I think it was, yeah, maybe last year, may a year ago probably. And they took photos and I have one photo of our daughters on my whole Instagram feed. It's gone now. Um, and it's not even the main photo. And this person took it and put it on and made it a photo within the grid. And it made me like, that creeped me out. Mm-hmm. Not only are you using me and the fact that I have an Instagram following to like profit mm-hmm. But you just took a photo of my child and that's, that yuckies me out. Yeah. I don't like that. And we know a lot of boutique owners in the US where they have a pretty big, um, following and, you know, like knockoff sites. We'll take the photos of their kids and use them to advertise clothing. Mm-hmm. We'll, It's

Kristine: 22:53

gross. I just don't like that it's yucky. I just don't like it. No. So it's, it's been a lot less, or not at all, and that's why, but our kids are around. They're always there happy and Yeah. They're always with us. Um mm-hmm. If they're not with us, they're probably with a grandparent. Yeah. Like they're always with us.

Carrie: 23:13

Yeah. When we go to Vegas, for example. Yeah. Like, we're just about to go to Vegas in August and our kids will, will, I know that my daughter for sure is gonna be with her grandparents.

Kristine: 23:21

Yeah. Same as Carl. She's gonna be with her grandparents. Mm-hmm. Which is so nice. So it is nice for them. They're, they're happy, they're loved. They're just not on the

Carrie: 23:29

social media. No, no. You won't catch them there. So, and if, you know, if you, you do the opposite and you put your kids on your social media. I'm not judging you. Like that's, that's your decision. It's just for my comfort level and for what worked for us and for the fact that we're continuing to build, you know, um, Our business and our podcast. And so of course our social media gets more attention than mm-hmm.

Kristine: 23:55

You know, different strokes for different folks. Yep. And that's cool. Yeah, you do. You

Carrie: 23:59

will do us. Yeah. And you know, cuz my, my Instagram page, my personal isn't focused around family. Right. You know, that's not, that's not what my page is around. Yeah. So it makes sense.

Kristine: 24:10

There you go. Yeah. Makes sense to me. Thanks. I do the same. I do the same, but you know. Yeah. Makes sense. It's just, it is what it, we're happy with how we do it. Um, okay. So, There's one question we've got Oh, quite a few times. Yeah. Why do we have one child? And, and it's funny that we both have one child. It's funny. So how, what's your reason for having one child? Okay. So I

Carrie: 24:36

always knew I only wanted one. Yeah. This, this was, it's not like I made the decision later. Um, I always knew one was kind of gonna be my thing. Um, I do have siblings. They are my half siblings, and my sister is the one that I'm closest in age with, but she's still seven years older than me. So I grew up. As an only child in my household. Essentially it was just my mom, my dad, and me. Mm-hmm. Like, that's how we grew up. And so I, I really enjoyed being an only child. I know some people don't. I really do enjoy it. And, you know, you hear a lot Oh. When, you know, when you're, when you're older and your parents, you know, your parents pass away, who are you gonna have? Well, I still have a support system in my life and It's, I, I have other family. I have my husband, I have my daughter. I have you like You know, it's not, I don't, I don't like that argument because I don't. I don't

Kristine: 25:28

think it's a hundred percent accurate. Family is not what you're born with. It's what you make of it. No.

Carrie: 25:31

Yeah. So for me, that wasn't really an argument that I ever, ever believed in, and I just, I knew that I wanted to travel a lot. Which we do. And I knew it would be most feasible with one child. And I just only wanted one. Yeah. Like, I, I'm not, you know, growing up or when I was a young adult, I ne I'm not one of those people. And I was never one of those people that wanted tons of kids. I, you know, some people just like know they wanna be a mom. I like, I knew I wanted a child, but it was never like, oh my God, I must be a mom. I just, I didn't have that. Yeah. So I was happy to only have one. My husband, he was, the funniest thing is Nick didn't even know if he wanted kids, but he's like the best dad. Yeah. So that's funny for me. But he was happy with whatever I had decided. And then after we had brick and. I lived the first six months of her life, I knew Yeah. Like I knew mm-hmm. That I was never, ever risking having a colicky baby again. Because when I tell you that, it traumatized me, I am not making that up. You know, like borderline PTSD on that one. Yeah. I, that was a hard time.

Kristine: 26:43

So, no, I totally understand that. That was me. And I mean, I was, I was there, I saw it, I saw, I saw the aftermath, did lots of bopping. Yes. I held Brooke and bopped her, just like held her and like patted her bum. Mm-hmm. Uh, but she, it worked for her like really

Carrie: 26:58

well. It did really well. Mm-hmm. It worked, right? Mm-hmm. She had a couple things that would work mm-hmm. For like 10 minutes. Yeah. And during those whole 10 minutes, I remember always being like, oh God, when are you gonna start crying again? Yeah.

Kristine: 27:08

It's terrifying. Um, so for myself, and for my husband, we, I personally wanted four kids, so I, A litter. Yeah. I have two sisters. Um, And growing up was, it was interesting. It was fun. Like, I mean, I have, they're two very different people for myself. So like, it wasn't always an experience and there was always somebody around. So like, I kind of knew that I wanted to have more. Um, but then, um, I, we had a very hard time getting pregnant. It was just a whole, we do a whole episode on stuff like that or mm-hmm. Bring that up into other, on another episode. Um, but, so I had a whole whack of troubles getting pregnant. Um, Then, um, when we finally had Scarlet, she wouldn't sleep. She wouldn't sleep and it was really hard. Um, my husband only wanted one to two. So because like me, he's an only child. Yes. He is an only child and he's very happy with being an only child. He thinks it's great. He has half, he has half siblings as well, but he was raised as an only child. Um, two weeks after Scarlet was born, he was like, so can I get snipped? And I'm like, hold up sir. Let's give it a hot minute. Mm-hmm. Let's chill. Uh, and we'll make a decision a little bit down the road. Um, So after I think the first year I was like, no. Like, this one is good. I'm very happy. I'm very, very lucky that I was actually able to have her in the first place.

Carrie: 28:41

And it's not a cheap, it wasn't a cheap

Kristine: 28:42

experience. No. And it was like I had to go through surgeries. Mm-hmm. And like, it was not, it was not good. So I was very content with having one. Um, also like Carrie, um, I, we love to travel and I just can't, can't imagine having mm-hmm. More little scarlets running around cuz sometimes it's hard to tr even travel with one. I just, I hope this doesn't come off as wrong, but I really like our life in mm-hmm. With one and our lifestyle with having one. So it just, for us, it seemed right to keep just having one. So we're very happy and like, you know, we, we did things for precautionary if we ever lost our minds and we ended up wanting another one. Mm-hmm. Then we had those options for down the road. But we are very happy and very content and. We ask Scarlet all the time, like, did you want, do you want a sibling? And she's like, no, Brooke.

Carrie: 29:34

Brooke. I thinks

Kristine: 29:34

like God no. And they, the two of them together? Mm-hmm. Like they've got sibling energy. Oh yeah. Hard. Yeah. So like, we're

Carrie: 29:41

good. They're fine. Yeah. And they're fine.

Kristine: 29:44

Yeah. Jay Jayce, he's very content with one. Mm-hmm. And he's so happy and I'm happy.

Carrie: 29:50

Do you remember when you, uh, thought you were having another

Kristine: 29:54

who That was awful. Yeah. No, not awful. Like, but scary because we were very content with having one and I took a pregnancy test. You guys, this is, this story is, this is Wild. So I took a pregnancy test and it. It showed there was a second line. Oh yeah. There was a hard,

Carrie: 30:12

absolute second. It was faint line, but it was a definite second line. Yep.

Kristine: 30:16

It was, I showed Jace and he immediately got, grabbed his computer and started looking for new houses because we only had one room upstairs. It was Scarlet's room upstairs with us. Right. Yeah. So like we didn't have the space for a second child. We, um, I was panicking. I was sending Carrie photos of the pregnancy test. Uh, she was sending it off to her other friends that are like across the world. Mm-hmm. Like, can you confirm if this is right? Yeah. And I can't remember. I went for blood work a couple days later and it, nothing. The H

Carrie: 30:53

C G and you took a, you took another test the next day too, and it was negative. Negative. Like you had a, but j bought you like half the

Kristine: 30:58

pharmacy, I think. Yeah. And yeah, my blood work showed like the H C G wasn't getting any bigger, like there was just

Carrie: 31:04

no, it was just

Kristine: 31:04

negative. I had a. False positive, which are rare. So rare, but of course naturally ithappened to, of, of course, happen to. But like, I, I've never seen Jays grab his computer so fast. Like he's like, we have to get a new house. Like, where are we gonna put this kid? And I'm like, okay, let's, let's take a minute here. Take a pause. It was, that was terrifying. But I, if we would, if it would've been positive, like an actual positive Yeah, of course. We would've been so happy But we weren't there yet. No. But of course you

Carrie: 31:33

guys spent like years and years trying to have a baby, couldn't, and then you didn't want one and one would've happened. Yeah. Yeah. Which again, would've been fine, but. Yeah, exactly. Just you, just, that's not your were content. Yes, I was. Yeah,

Kristine: 31:46

I was, it was, it was a be a surprise. Yeah. And if you, like, like we said at the very beginning of this episode, you guys, if you have multiple children or you like mm-hmm. You know, we're not saying that's not a good thing and a great thing. It is. It's a awesome thing. It's just we, our personal lives or our personal feelings, it's just one is we're good with one, so please don't take any of this. Um, no. As like right or wrong or anything like that. No. It's just how we feel with having Yeah. And our families, our fa every family is different, so, and we

Carrie: 32:15

spend a lot of time together. Yes. You know, we travel together, we spend weekends together, so our kids get that sibling experience. Yeah. They're fine.

Kristine: 32:27

They just get to go to different houses at night. Mm-hmm. It's great. It is. It's awesome. Its good for everybody. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's, uh, that's our one, our reason for one. I'm checking things off. Good,

Carrie: 32:40

good. Um, we did get a question on, do you guys have nannies?

Kristine: 32:44

Yep. That was my next one. Oh, yeah, right on the list there. Yeah. So we do not have nannies. No. our husbands are, they stay home. I use this lightly. Mm-hmm. Like they do other things on the sides, but they, um, stay home and they raise our children mm-hmm. With us. Um, they just were very, very fortunate enough that they are the ones who drive them to school and pick them up mm-hmm. And drive them to their, um, activities, um, et cetera, et cetera. So we do not have carrie's knocking and down the place. We don't have nannies, we have mannies, we

Carrie: 33:17

do have mannies. We do. And if my husband would've continued working as much as he did before, um, he quote unquote, Retired, I don't know how you want to call it, because Yeah. Before he stopped working, he was working, 13, 14 hour days we would have gone that route. Yeah. Just because there's no way we could have made it work properly otherwise. And not even a nanny to, raise Brook, but someone to do everything else. Yes. So that we could spend as much time with Brooke as possible. Exactly. But this, this has worked so much better because I feel like our kids get that full parent experience still. Yeah. You know?

Kristine: 33:56

Yeah. And our, both of our husbands still do work. Um, they just, it's a lot slower and Um, my husband still does photography here, um, at L L B, but it's just not a full-time gig. And Carrie's husband, same does, he doesn't have a full-time gig. Mm-hmm. Except for. Right now he's doing a little bit more work. He's building our house. Yeah. So I mean, he's very busy with that. But no nannies. No nannies, no. And I agree with you. If Jace was still working, with his old employer, um, working in the oil field, then, then yeah, we, we would have to go the nanny route as well. Mm-hmm. Because he was gone for a week at a time and we worked a here, so it's just, there would've been no, no time to do things and mm-hmm. I want to do the things with my, with my family and Yeah. Be with them as much as possible. So, because

Carrie: 34:46

family time is really important to both of us. Yeah. We do, you know, yes. We spend a lot of time together, but don't be deceived either. We do have a ton of time just at home mm-hmm. With our separate families. Yeah. Um, so for us, my daughter has activities after school, a couple days a week, three actually right now, but we always make sure we sit down to dinner together. That's important. Um, except for one night a week, Brooke gets to. Have dinner and watch TV in her room. That's like, that's so cool. She loves that. Yeah. But otherwise, we always do dinner together. That's something we definitely focus on. Um, and then after dinner, Brooke has time, like screen time or whatever, but we always come together at the end of the evening and spend a good chunk together. Or whether we watch a movie for an hour or, I know I mentioned this before, we'll play Uno or go if it's nice, we'll go outside. It always varies depending on season, but we do spend a lot of time together during the week as well. Yeah, same. And same with Sundays. Yes. It's Sundays is a family day. Always. Unless it's 30 degrees outside, that's a little

Kristine: 35:47

different, but yeah. Yeah. Same with us. Um, Scarlet has her activities after school and so Jason and I split those. Um, well, it's not split evenly. Jace does, um, two nights out of the three, I do the third is what I'm trying to say. Um, I take Scarlet to her activities or. We'll go together if, um mm-hmm. If it works out that way. Um, just to be able to watch as a family and, um mm-hmm. And same with, same with Carrie. We kind of do that same thing where we always make sure we have that end of the night is always our, our time. And we also, morning is a big one for us. Um, Scarlet wakes up just a little bit earlier, like, I don't wanna say earlier, earlier, but she get, we have a decent amount of time that I sit with my coffee and I sit on the couch with Scarlet and we hang out and Jace does, he's not doing anything else either. He just sits and hangs out with us. Yeah. That's really nice. For 20 minutes, 30 minutes, depending on mm-hmm. What time we all get up and are ready And, um, we do that before we even start getting ready. We just hang out and that's one of our favorite things to do. And um, yeah, we're always making sure we focus on having that family time. It's the best. And it is nice. We do dinners too, like we sit down. That's very important. No iPads a lot at the, at the table? No, no, no tv. We just sit down. No problems. No tv.

Carrie: 37:06

Just, yeah. Yeah. We usually, usually just have music on and then we're eating. Yeah.

Kristine: 37:10

I I love doing that. Me too. It's one of my favorites. Me too. Especially in the summer when we can go sit on the deck, like that's the best. It really is. There are some music on and just chill. Love it. Hang out. Yeah. So yeah, we, uh, we absolutely make sure we have our family time. it almost looks like we, we don't have less Yeah. Family time because of just social media. Like it's the big highlight reel, but like you guys don't see that. I make sure that I'm sitting there with my coffee mm-hmm. In the morning for half an hour, um, enjoying my, morning time. And

Carrie: 37:42

we, we also, also do something else really big. We go to Maui for five to six weeks of the year. Mm-hmm. Every year in December. we've been doing this for probably Brook's whole life, but, you guys started coming as well the last couple years, but we go to Maui for five weeks of the year. Mm-hmm. So we spend five weeks consistently with our kids. Like consecutively. Yeah. We are, we are with them for five weeks. Solid. Yes. 24

Kristine: 38:06

7. And like we, we work, like we'll do, obviously we have to work a little bit while we're there, but we'll do like three hours a day, not even. Mm-hmm. Um, just because we have to, we do have to have to get that time. But, uh, we are literally spending all day together, like with our family and all night and in Maui, because we were talking about our separate family time. We also have those family separate times in Maui too. Yeah. Which is really good. And everybody loves that. And I mean, it's like, Probably five days of the week that we're together. But we'll have those days. Yeah. Where we'll go to the pool or Yeah. Or even we are at the beach together and you would walk past us thinking we're too separate families. Cause we're just hanging out. Hanging out. Yeah. So yeah, it'ss important, but we make it, we make it work and we make it a priority. Absolutely.

Carrie: 38:58

Yeah. And um, You know, on the flip side, we also make a lot of time and priority for just date nights with our husbands. Yes. Um, whether it's the four of us going out together or, you know, just us separate, separate families. Yeah, exactly. Um, my husband and I have always done date nights. That's always been something that's been very important since Brooke was little. Little. Mm-hmm. We would even just do like an hour together when she was really young cuz I was breastfeeding, so I couldn't leave for very long. Um, but yeah, we, we've always done date nights and they've always been super important to us. Um, sometimes we'll just do like staycations downtown. Mm-hmm. We'll just. Go for dinner and stay downtown. You love those us? Me too. So nice. We really nice do too. We actually are planning one right now. Um, so that's, that's important to us. So that's also very important to family too, I think is like making sure you get those date nights even if it's at home. Yeah, we do those often. I was just gonna say, I was thinking about you guys.

Kristine: 39:57

So Jason and I love our at home date nights, so we'll get scrolled to bed. Um, we'll, Jason, we really like to make couch beds. Mm-hmm. So we, in our living room, we push our two couches together, make a big couch bed, uh, watch a movie. Um, and it is like one of our favorite things. We'll get sushi and we'll just watch a movie and hang out, And I don't know why making a couch bed makes it so special, but it does, and it's fun and it's super, super comfortable. Um, and then it's like super cheap too. Yeah. I mean, sushi can be fricking expensive. Yeah. But it's not,

Carrie: 40:32

it's not a must, but No, but it's, you added

Kristine: 40:34

it. It happens. Um, yeah. I love those names. And we just, we always get a movie or watch a show. Like, we love to, I love to binge watch shows. I have to push Jason A. Little bit more to binge watch, but we'll watch our, our show, whatever that we've got going on. And it's one of my, our

Carrie: 40:51

fave things to do. Yeah. Just time. Just the two of you. Yep. Because when life is so busy, it's so easy to fall out of

Kristine: 40:57

those. But Jason and I will also play games at night. Mm-hmm. It's usually Monopoly or Ysy. Nick and I like playing crib. Yeah. That's fun. Mm-hmm. I've actually never played it, so I played it so I can't even say it's fun, but I hear your good things. Um, I think played it once and like I never went back. Yeah. Fair. I'm more of a ysi and monopoly kind of gal. That's fair. Yeah. You can teach me one day if you want.

Carrie: 41:21

I could. I always wonder like, how do you teach people how to play Crip? Cause my grandpa, yeah. He taught me how to play. Yeah. When I was really young. But yeah, Nick and I play, we play with my parents sometimes too. Like when we're in M Fun,

Kristine: 41:32

we, the four of us to play crib.

Carrie: 41:34

I mean, it's fun. I think it's fun. Yeah.

Kristine: 41:35

Well, I hear Sony, everybody posts about it on Instagram. Oh my God. Everybody, my story is like, oh, playing kryptonite. And I'm like, what's happening? What do you doing? What do you do there? What is this? Yeah. So that's what we do. Yeah. That's what we

Carrie: 41:47

do.

Kristine: 41:47

Yeah. It's, it's great. Yeah. Happy lives. Okay. So I have another question for you.

Carrie: 41:54

So we have

Kristine: 41:55

had, so when we tell people that we are happy to answer questions, I wanna say that there's no limit to your question. Mm-hmm. They might not be, As, uh, you know, plain Jane question. Okay. We're happy to answer them always as long as we feel comfortable to answer them. Mm-hmm. So this is quite the lead up. The question that we have had over and over and over again mm-hmm. Is Carrie. Mm-hmm. Do we share

Carrie: 42:26

our husbands? Do we? No, we do not.

Kristine: 42:31

So it, we spend a lot of time together. We

Carrie: 42:35

do. And we,

Kristine: 42:37

and we're all very close. Very close. So, But we actually do not share our husbands. We don't, A lot of people ask us if we swing. Mm-hmm. Or like, if we are involved in something, we're, we're not. Um, we're, we are not. We think it's fucking hilarious. Yeah. Um, sometimes on our Instagram stories, we'll just like throw an upside down pineapple on it. Cuz we think it's, that's me.

Carrie: 43:00

I'm a shit disturber.

Kristine: 43:01

Yeah. It's funny. Yeah. Um, but we actually don't, um, I very much consider Nick to be like my brother figure. Yeah. Uh, I don't have a brother, but if I were to have one, I feel like it would be a relationship just like the one between Nick and I remotely. Um, we piss each other off. We like fight, fight. Yeah. Physically and like verbally. Um, but yeah, we are just very

Carrie: 43:29

close. And you guys have known each other for a

Kristine: 43:31

very long time. Long, long time. Mm-hmm. I think I was 15 when I met him. So 20.

Carrie: 43:38

I was 19, so 17.

Kristine: 43:39

Okay. Yeah. So 20 years, give or take. Mm-hmm. Like 18 years. Uh, so I've known him a long time. A long time. Uh, so that might mm-hmm. Feel like on the outside, like something might be different with us, but No. Um, and uh, Carrie is very close with Jace and Yeah. Jace and Nick are very close. Yeah. So like Carrie and Jace go on date nights and that doesn't bother. No. Like, it's just No, they're friends and so

Carrie: 44:07

Yeah. Like, it's not, it's not a sexual thing. Yeah. We're just, we're friends and I know that a lot of couples have different rules of what works for them and their different dynamics, but for us, we're all just really good friends. Mm-hmm. And so, you know, just as much as Christine and I would go to a concert together, Jason and I would go to a concert together. Exactly. Right. Like we're just friends and there was a concert, it was, um, Chris Stapleton and no one wanted You mean Mark? Yeah. Mark Stapleton. And no one wanted to go to meet with me, but Jace really did. And I was like, okay, let's go. Yeah. And I guess to the, you know, for some friends that just might not work. Mm-hmm. And that might be out of your comfort zone, but

Kristine: 44:46

I don't wanna go. So like, who'll make me go. So Jason, take somebody who wants to go with you. Yeah. So we went for dinner.

Carrie: 44:52

Yeah. We went for drinks. Yeah. We went to a concert and we went for more drinks after.

Kristine: 44:55

Yeah. It's perfect. Yeah. Nick. Nick and I always plan concerts, but they always get freaking canceled. They do like every single time. Like Foo Fighters, we were supposed to go to Smashing Pumpkins, we were supposed to go to canceled. Yeah. Something else. I don't know. But what a bummer. It was such

Carrie: 45:10

a bummer. And, and when we went to Victoria two summers ago Yeah. You and Nick went on a romantic flying trip. We

Kristine: 45:18

uh, we uh, went on a sea plane cuz we both wanted to go so bad and like, we both really like. Not, I wouldn't call it like extreme things, but we like to do those. Like we wanna go skydiving and the two of us will go, but Jason, Carrie will not. No. So we'll, we'll just blend those things together. Screw you guys. Bye.

Carrie: 45:38

Bye. Jason. And I had lots of fun. Okay. Yeah. We went and got drunk on the, on a patio. Yeah.

Kristine: 45:43

And that's awesome. Like, so I, I just can't, for us, I can't imagine saying like, I wanna do this. Will you go with me, Carrie? And you say, no, I don't want to. And then like, my, my options are nav low. Like I either, you know, go by myself or like Jace goes with me, but he's dis he doesn't wanna be there. Mm-hmm. So like, I'll take that guy who actually wants to go. Yeah. Yeah. And it works really well for us. It really does. So I, I

Carrie: 46:10

understand. I can, I, and cuz I've asked this to people that know us really well and I'm like, I. Do you see why people think that? And they're like, oh, absolutely. Yeah. And I'm like, well, yeah, I guess me too. Totally. But that's not, that's not how it, that's not how it goes down.

Kristine: 46:23

No, no. Like we might make jokes, but we're literally just joking. Yeah. Because like I said, Nick is like my brother. Yeah. And it's just, that's not gonna work out for me.

Carrie: 46:37

It's a no for me dog. I know. Yeah. Yeah. We're just, we're just good friends. Like we're just a really good group of friends. Yeah. That like, just have a really good, uh, in my opinion, like a really cool dynamic.

Kristine: 46:49

Yeah. We want to spend our time together and we know, and we understand our boundary of when we need time apart. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I think that That is a very rare, rare thing to find In a friendship. In a friendship, and especially in a friendship group. Group. Mm-hmm. Like the call club, there's a lot, there's a lot of like personality, there's a lot going on. Mm-hmm. There's six people involved. Like that's a lot of people. Mm-hmm. So like to have those, like pretty much unspoken boundaries. Mm-hmm. That's a huge Yeah. Thing for us. It helps that

Carrie: 47:22

the boys are both such like chill personalities. Yeah. So they're like,

Kristine: 47:27

Hmm, yeah. Agree. Whatever, whatever. Yeah. It's very helpful. Yeah. But yeah, so now we do not share, I'm sorry to disappoint those who were really rooting for it. Ugh. I know. Cause I know

Carrie: 47:38

there were. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. But sorry you guys, there's no swinging happening here. No. And if you do swing cool. That's great. Like, like love that have so many questions. Send us some stories cause we love it, but it's not. It's not

Kristine: 47:56

all cup of like, is the garage door open? Open like four inches? Is that true?

Carrie: 48:00

I think, yeah. I think that's the

Kristine: 48:01

thing. Like you're ready to partay. Yeah. I always check my neighbors.

Carrie: 48:05

We have our garage door open sometimes in the morning to air it out.

Kristine: 48:07

Yeah, we do too. Oh, hey. Yeah. Check out the names. That was short for neighbors. Mm-hmm. If you, I mean, you knew, but Yeah, I think so. I feel like we answered most or all of the family dynamic type questions we did

Carrie: 48:29

because a lot of them were like very repeating

Kristine: 48:32

and Yeah. If we missed anything or if there's something that maybe sparked a new question, like we've said time and time and again, just please message us. Um, and we're happy to answer them because we're

Carrie: 48:42

always happy to answer questions. Mm-hmm. And we don't, it takes a lot to offend me. Oh yeah. I'm not offended. I don't anything. There's really nothing that. Could offend me. Yeah. Unless you insult my child. I think that would be my boundary. Yeah. But otherwise me, I don't really care.

Kristine: 48:58

Child. Child. And my best friend, I'll come for you. But otherwise, that's

Carrie: 49:03

it. I was just seeing what time we

Kristine: 49:06

start at this and how do we do,

Carrie: 49:09

we're about 45 minutes. Nice. So we good. I mean, I'm assuming you're gonna cut all this junk out right now. Well, this part's not too bad. I, I texted Nick and I'm like, I was like, just so you know, we're starting the podcast. Cuz sometimes he'll answer me. Yeah. And he's like, oh, what's the topic? And I said, family. He's like, oh. And how we swap.

Kristine: 49:28

See this? Not adding it out. That's perfect. That's comedy gold too Funny. Um, okay. Well speaking of questions, do we wanna do listener questions or do you wanna do, um, fuck Mary Kay. First let's do

Carrie: 49:40

listener questions. Sure. We're on

Kristine: 49:41

the same path here. Mm-hmm. Okay. So,

Carrie: 49:44

um, I had one last week too that we didn't ask. Oh, perfect.

Kristine: 49:47

Yeah. Okay. Why don't you ask that one first then if you can

Carrie: 49:50

find it. Okay. It kind of has to do with fa family, sort of, um, someone asked how your sister feels about the fact that you and I are best friends now. Oh. Like, did she ever get mad or offended? She

Kristine: 50:02

doesn't give a flying. Fuck. Yeah, she doesn't care. She's busy. She's got two kids. She runs a day home. She's got a fiance. Like she doesn't, she's got. Two and a half dogs or something. I don't know. There she

Carrie: 50:13

doesn't care. And it wasn't like, it wasn't like as if I stopped like ghosted her. Yeah. Like her and I

Kristine: 50:19

naturally just, it's just, you guys just faded apart. Like it was just a, the end of

Carrie: 50:23

high school, we were just, as you do with people you were in high school with, she was,

Kristine: 50:27

she was busy doing her stuff. You were busy doing your stuff. You and I had more in common than you and her ever did. And you just, it just was a natural process. Uh, and it just happened. And nobody was upset. Nobody was mad. Amanda doesn't care now. She doesn't, there's no awkward No, never

Carrie: 50:44

nothing. Never. She's happy as a clown. No, it wasn't like it was a bad breakup or something and you kind of swooped in and took me. Yeah, I do that. I do. Yeah. You do. I do. I swoop. But you didn't in this scenario. No, because when I was done high school, I went off to university, so my whole life changed. Right. Yeah. Like you. You start, not that you only talk to people that you go to school with, but like you're, you shift mm-hmm. Things shift. Yep. And that it was just a natural progression of life. Yeah. But she does not

Kristine: 51:13

care. She doesn't give a flying. She is No, she doesn't give lifeline. She's happy that you're happy. She's happy that I'm happy. So she's happy. She doesn't care. We're happy. Everyone's happy. So happy. I'm happy. Um, okay. Another question here, um, I know you both like Disneyland. Mm-hmm. What are your favorite rides?

Carrie: 51:30

Love, answer that. I would love to answer that. Go for it. Okay. So my favorite ride in Disneyland Yes. Is Indiana Jones. Yes. And last time I was there it was down for maintenance. And they really get ya They did get me with that one. Devastating. Mm-hmm. And then my favorite ride at California Adventure. This one's tricky. For me. Yeah. So I love Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah. Obviously, but like the in increta coaster really holds my heart. Mm-hmm. Because I love a good coaster. Mm-hmm. And I just love that one. Yeah. Because it used to be California screaming. Yep. And I loved it then. And I think that's my favorite in California adventure. Yeah. Good. And I took Jace on it for his first time ever, this last trip.

Kristine: 52:22

Uh, wife swapped, you know,

Carrie: 52:25

because we, like I mentioned earlier, we traveled together, we ended up going, cuz last year we went to Disneyland together. Christine didn't know, but we, we showed up last year. Your

Kristine: 52:34

birthday? Yeah. Last, not this past trip, but the last year. No, last year. Yeah. Yeah. That was an incredible trip. Truly, if you don't know the story, um, Jace Scarlet and I were in Disneyland. Um, we were going for my birthday and it just ha happened to be over my birthday. And, um, it was awesome. Like we were having a good time. And, um, I was, you know, texting Carrie all the time as I do. Um, and she was just answering my questions, answering my text messages normal. And then, um, it was my birthday morning and we were chatting and we always do like a birthday sale. And I texted her, I was like, you know what? Thank you so much for putting this birthday sale together. Like, that's always one of the biggest gifts for me. Like, it's just something that I don't have to be involved in. And it's done and it's fun and, uh, And then that bitch didn't reply and she didn't say Happy birthday. Like, not

Carrie: 53:27

at all. Like, and I'm always the first, always the

Kristine: 53:29

first, like usually by like 12:35 AM I have a message. And this time there was no message. And I was like, Jace, what the fuck? Like, is she mad at me? Is something going on? And he's like, she can't be, she's not, she's probably not mad at you. Like, did you do anything? And I'm like, no. And he's like, well, then calm down. She's not mad. Like, okay, well we're walking to. To go to one of the parks. California. California adventure. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, Jace is looking around and I'm like, what do you see? Like, what's happening? And I'm like, is there a celebrity? And he's like, no, no, I'm just looking. Whatever he said. And I'm like, okay. And then like, who, minutes later, Carrie, Nick and Brooke pop up from behind me and they are in Disneyland with us and surprised me, all my birthday, all wearing matching shirts, all six of us, which was like the coolest thing. Mm-hmm. Um, and it's surprised the bananas on

Carrie: 54:26

me. Uh, and the, I love more than anything in this world that I genuinely surprised you. I, because How many genuine surprises do you have in your life

Kristine: 54:35

anymore? Well, first of all, nobody, nobody spends that much to travel to another country to surprise their best friend. Nobody does that. I do. Yeah, you do. I know, like after that I was like, holy shit, what am I gonna do for her birthday? Like it was a rough one. Uh, yeah. That was, that was really cool. And like s Scarlet didn't know, so like, she was genuinely surprised too. Mm-hmm. And it was such a

Carrie: 54:59

good day. Yeah. It was so much fun. It was good. I, I can't even, like the days leading up to it, I had so many like butterflies cause I was so excited. Cuz I honestly, like, I love giving gifts and I love surprising people with things, but like I said, there are not many like true, genuine surprises in life anymore. Yeah. And I was like, I didn't want you to find out. Mm-hmm. I was trying to, you know, so I was like plotting.

Kristine: 55:26

She was so good at with Okay you guys, she posted like on Instagram, uh, like her in photos of like the pajamas that we were po or like launching that day or something. And she's like, oh, cozy day at home. But like, she was actually in Disneyland. She was in California. I took

Carrie: 55:40

photos to plant on my Instagram.

Kristine: 55:42

Yeah. And I like, liked it and I was like, oh, those are cute. Ha ha. she, so there was something that happened at the Warehouse. We had

Carrie: 55:50

a, we had a fandule with, uh, a sweater

Kristine: 55:53

photo. Yeah. So Sarah actually came to the warehouse to figure it out, but used Carrie's code on the alarm system. So I got a notification on my phone saying that Carrie was in the warehouse and Carrie was like telling me this whole story while she was like, well, Sarah was at the warehouse, or whatever it was. Mm-hmm. She was texting me, she's like, yeah, there's this, and here are the two colors. I'm taking a photo right now. Here you go. But really, the photos came from Sarah sent to Carrie and then Carrie sent them to me. So I truly thought she was in the, in the warehouse, but I wasn't,

Carrie: 56:25

I was in Disneyland the whole time. The whole time they

Kristine: 56:28

were dodging us, like using my, um, like find my thing, whatever location. Yeah. And and, and Jace was keeping us posted. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, and then they showed up and Well, I'll be, I'll be, I was never, uh, no, that was wild. And that was like such a fun day. Mm-hmm. That was our first time being in Disneyland ever together. Mm-hmm. So that was really cool. We went on all the rides. We had lots of drinks probably too. Me, I threw up that night. Yes, you did.

Carrie: 56:59

Yeah. Yeah. We went on Indie. You and I. Yeah. And

Kristine: 57:01

we got back to the hotel and I was baring. It was, it must have been the rides. The rides was

Carrie: 57:09

absolutely the rides. Yeah. But yeah, we went, you and I went on indie together. It was so cool. And we wrote Impre Coaster on your birthday together. Yeah. So, so then this, this year, this past, um, February, March we went together. So I went with my family for the first three days. Yeah. We did three days together, two days overlapped, and then we went home and you guys stayed and did three days just that. You, you guys Yeah. It was, it was such a good trip. It was a nice way to do it together and still have family time.

Kristine: 57:34

Yes. Ties in with the whole

Carrie: 57:35

shebang. Yeah. And, you know, and then, so Jace had never been on the Inre coaster before and so I, I took him,

Kristine: 57:42

it was so fun. Mm-hmm. He loved it. Oh. Such a regret. Now he loves it. He was really worried that he was gonna get a little brain rattled and motion sick. Yeah. He had, uh, an injury when he was younger. Uh, when he was 13, he, um, hit his head on a trampoline and he was in a coma for four days. Mm-hmm. So he has always had, like, he would just get rattled really easily mm-hmm. And get really bad nausea. And I would get, I get that. Yeah. And like, so he couldn't do most things for a really long time. Mm-hmm. Well, apparently he can do the inre coaster. He can, yeah. Okay. So what are your favorite rides? Okay, so, um, This one's a little bit tricky for me cuz I love, like, everything in Disneyland. I know. Um, but Disneyland rides specifically, I think I'm gonna go with Peter Pam because of the, it's just original. and I just love it so much. but I'm also gonna say indie for sure. Um, and then California Venture, that one's also really tricky, but I have to go top three. I'm gonna do, uh, guardians of the Galaxy in Credit Coaster and then Grizzly Rapids. It's like, I love Grizzly. I love it so much. Mm-hmm. And yeah, it's, it's, it's tricky to go on because like, you get so, so wet. So, and like, Usually the lines are insane long. So when it's cooler is when you wanna go, but then you're wet. It's awful. So

Carrie: 59:04

it's tricky. It

Kristine: 59:05

really is tricky, but it's one of my favorites. So that's, that's what I'm very,

Carrie: 59:07

I like where we stay. Yeah. Because if we go, we can just like go up and change.

Kristine: 59:11

Yeah. It's right there, right there. It's easy. Yeah. Um, oh, I also really love the new Spider-Man ride. Oh. It's so, I'm so good

Carrie: 59:18

at it. It is. You are really good. And I don't, I

Kristine: 59:21

don't Thank you. I, I don't know what it is, but yeah. I'm pretty good at the game. I love that. Whatever. do wanna do one more question or do you wanna shut her down?

Carrie: 59:30

I'll do one more. One more. We just won't be as long as this one.

Kristine: 59:33

Okay. Yeah. That was a long one. Three things you can't leave the house without. Oh,

Carrie: 59:39

okay. My phone,

Kristine: 59:40

yeah. Easy. My phone. Um

Carrie: 59:46

hmm. I'd say my purse, but like, yeah. Sometimes I forget that. Mm-hmm. Um, you, you give me some. Okay. Tell me yours. It's hard, right?

Kristine: 59:55

Yeah, it is hard. Um, okay. So definitely my phone. Mm-hmm. Um, my keys, because I usually drive. Um, so that's one. And I usually try to leave the house without my keys and then I have to go back. Yeah. It's the worst. Um, and, uh,

Carrie: 1:00:11

I guess my water, I, I always have water with me. Mm-hmm. Cause I'm a thirsty, thirsty girl. I don't often drink it, but I like still with

Kristine: 1:00:20

me. Yeah. Yeah. I would say like 90, 90% of the time I usually have my water bottle with me. Yeah. Yeah. I would say those boring answers. Yeah.

Carrie: 1:00:28

I'm sorry you guys we're not that cool. Yeah. Okay. Well, my phone, my water, and my purse and like lip stuff.

Kristine: 1:00:37

Fair enough. Aquaphor. Yeah. You know,

Carrie: 1:00:39

I, it's my fve.

Kristine: 1:00:42

That's hard. Mm-hmm. That's our question. It is good one though.

Carrie: 1:00:45

Yeah. Very good. Okay. So, uh, we do a little thing every episode at the end and, uh, it's a little thing we like to call Fuck Mary Kill. It's my favorite part of the whole episode. It is mine too. Um, according to my in-laws, it's theirs as well. So, um, no question. So funny. Oh yeah. What a conversation. Um, so you can go first. I went first last week. Okay.

Kristine: 1:01:08

Yeah. Okay. This is, uh, so we're gonna give a little shout out to Jace here, cuz uh, oh. This was two, two of them. Okay. We're from Jace. Okay. Um, David Bois. Oh, wow. Yeah. Chris Hemsworth. Yeah. Bradley Cooper. Okay. Like, these make

Carrie: 1:01:27

me squeamish. Like, I'm just like, Woohoo. Oh man. I love David Moranis. I know you do.

Kristine: 1:01:34

Chase knows too, knows Chase,

Carrie: 1:01:35

apparently. Oh, and Chris Hemsworth. Woo.

Kristine: 1:01:39

Yeah. Delicious. Yes. Okay. Who are you fucking, are you killing?

Carrie: 1:01:49

Are you I think that I am fucking Hemsworth. I, why

Kristine: 1:01:53

am I writing that down? I don't, I don't know.

Carrie: 1:01:56

Uh, I, yeah. I'm fucking Chris Hemsworth. Good for you. Yeah.

Kristine: 1:01:59

Oh, this actually like gives me the heebie-jeebies in a

Carrie: 1:02:04

good way. Yeah. Wow. And I think I would marry David Bo's probably, because he is one of my OG crushes. So you're killing Bradley Cooper? I am. Okay. But I have to tell you why. Cuz I do love Bradley Cooper. Don't get me wrong, but David BOA's, like Buffy was one of my first, you know, like Angel was one of my first crushes. Mm-hmm. You know, like he, and get it and in like if you watched Sealed like that man aged so well. Mm-hmm. Like so well, and like he's only getting better. Mm-hmm. So like, you know, and then I guess I have to kill Brad. Like, this is hard though. Like, I want you to know that there's no good answer here and there's no right way to answer this because Bradley Cooper is like, he's a fox. It's fucking Fox. But only because David Bo's was like, yeah. Angel was like, you know, he's my first, he's my first love. I get that if we're getting real and like Chris Hemsworth like Yeah. You know? Mm-hmm. So I guess I have to kill Bradley Cooper. R I p I'm sorry. I know it's hard. That was hard though. That, yeah. No, I feel you. That was hard. Okay, so I'm ready to give you mine. Oh, you locked in though? I am. Oh, I'm locked in. Okay. Oh, yes. Okay. David, BOS and I were, we're going for the long haul here. Um, okay. So I wanna preface this by saying that we're talking about the actors, not the roles they play because, you know, okay. Okay. Okay. So, Steven McQueen, Jeremy from Vampire Diaries. Okay. Michael Trevino. Tyler from Vampire Diaries, and Taylor Kinney. Mason Lockwood from Vampire Diaries.

Kristine: 1:03:52

Okay. Sorry. We're going characters over actors or actors over a character. It's, I mean, it doesn't matter. It's hard because

Carrie: 1:03:57

like, you'd have to go late, Jeremy. Okay. Because when it starts, he's in high school, but he's, he's your age. I looked it up. He was born in 1988.

Kristine: 1:04:04

Yeah. We're meant to be. Yeah. Okay. So we have. We have, we just call them Jeremy. Okay. We'll call, we have Jeremy, Tyler, Tyler and Mason. And, and Uncle Mason. Mason. Okay. That's hard. Okay. Mason is so beautiful. I think I have to kill him. Yeah. See this

Carrie: 1:04:24

is like the Bradley Cooper report. Yeah. You know, it's like, it's not that he's bad.

Kristine: 1:04:28

No. He's gorgeous. Mm-hmm. With his eyes and his arms. Mm. I Okay. Oh fuck. Um, I think I'm gonna go with shit. I'm gonna, I'm gonna fuck Tyler. Yeah. Yeah. I really, it's just bum. I'm gonna bite it. Yep. Sorry to my family who's listening. Um, and, uh, I guess I'm marrying Jeremy, which I am Absolutely. Am bored with. Yeah, that's a, I'm sweating like I am. Yeah. Very happy. Yeah. Yeah. They are so good. Yeah. Okay. Locked in. I'm gonna marry Jeremy. I'm fucking Tyler.

Carrie: 1:05:09

You kill an Uncle Mason. I mean, if you've watched the show, you know, anyways. Yeah. You know, you know I'm

Kristine: 1:05:15

Tyler baby. Mm-hmm. He's like mm-hmm.

Carrie: 1:05:18

Delicious. Mm-hmm. That's, you know, and that's Chris Hemsworth for me. Yeah. He's like, like I've said, the bigger the better. He, like, I'm looking at him right now. I had to look it up. I just like when he plays Thor. Yeah.

Kristine: 1:05:37

Like, yeah. We,

Carrie: 1:05:40

yeah. In my theater room, we have a big, um, yeah. The Avengers poster. Yes. And like, I, my only criteria was that Thor was quite significant on said picture. And

Kristine: 1:05:53

he is. He is. Yeah. Wow. Dels

Carrie: 1:05:57

like, wow. You know.

Kristine: 1:06:01

Yeah. Climb that like a tree.

Carrie: 1:06:04

Yeah. So that's why I picked the way I did. And David Boas is just, he was my first love.

Kristine: 1:06:08

I get it. I get it. These were, sorry, Bradley Cooper, cuz like I know

Carrie: 1:06:13

he does do a lot for me as well, but

Kristine: 1:06:15

that's, this is a, these are hard, they were hard. we're getting really thoughtful into these now. Yeah. So it's like, I feel like an emotional connection to them, but That's fine. It's fine. But yeah. Okay. So that is our, that's our episode today.

Carrie: 1:06:29

Yeah. So next week's episode is actually gonna be really cool. What is it? Um, so our, IM campaign starts July 1st. Oh, yes, yes. Good. Um, so the episode right before that is gonna be just us talking about confidence and our, about our IM campaign and why it's so important to us, so, mm-hmm. Listen to that for next Thursday.

Kristine: 1:06:48

All right. thanks for listening Thank you. Okay. Bye. Bye.