00:00I went for one house. I came home with an entire truck and trailer full and it just spiraled.
00:08I was actually driving to a party and I took the wrong turn. On that road, there was a vintage
00:14Little Tikes house on the side of the road for free. On the way home, I went back the same
00:19way
00:19and that house was still there. So after some help from the neighbors, we did get it taken apart and
00:26shoved into my car and I brought it home. I have two toddler boys, a three-year-old and a
00:31one-year-old
00:31and any parent who has toddlers knows that sharing is a learning curve. So this was their favorite toy
00:39and they both were fighting over it constantly. So I told my husband, I'm going to look on Facebook
00:44marketplace, see if I can find any other Little Tikes houses for sale. Fast forward a couple weeks
00:50and one of my friends, he found a Little Tikes house for sale and she said, you've got to reach
00:55out to
00:55this guy because he has hundreds, if not thousands of Little Tikes houses for sale. His mother had
01:02passed away and she had been collecting all these houses. He has a gold mine of vintage Little Tikes
01:08kids' vintage toys and he's invited me over to come look through them and try to find some other
01:14treasures. We also got the cutest little mushroom cottage. We just started pulling things out of the
01:21piles and dragging them to our truck and he would just come over and say, well, would you do $40
01:26for
01:27that? Would you do $50 for that? I've recruited my dad today. We've got his truck in the trailer and
01:32we're going back to get a few last pieces. This one is absolutely massive, but I'm so excited for this.
01:39We pretty much bought every house he had, I think. We're walking over to my grandparents again and that
01:44can only mean one thing. We're going to borrow their truck to go pick up another Facebook marketplace find.
01:49I'm actually super excited though because this morning I saw a listing for a Step 2 cottage and
01:56they're originally almost $800. My grandpa said the cost of borrowing his truck tonight will be one
02:02chili dog from Dairy Queen. We're here. Everything's going great as long as Alex doesn't smash into there.
02:08This is so cute. I love this little door. It's just little chairs. Cute. I love this. Perfect addition.
02:20Just discovered the doorbell still works. Listen to this.
02:26Love that. My yard is definitely getting a little out of control. The very first video I posted
02:34sharing my idea of making a little village for my kids with all these vintage playhouses
02:39immediately went viral. And I'm just someone that like once I get an idea, I kind of just run with
02:46it and I have to see it to the end. When everyone kept giving me their creative insight, like
02:52maybe you should put them in a circle. Maybe you should make driveways, add mailboxes. My brain was
02:58just turning with ideas and it really spiraled. We only have two weeks until the landscapers come to
03:05clear this land for our Ticetown. We've got a lot of houses to get ready in between now and then.
03:10Every house was very different. Some of the houses had to be pressure washed and scrubbed.
03:15They've been left outside for decades. The mushroom cottage had been left outside for a very long time.
03:21So that one probably took the most work. Our mushroom cottage has a bunch of different 3D bugs on it.
03:27And I feel like it would just look better if they were painted. So let's paint some bugs.
03:34Bugs have been painted. I think they look so good. Our boys are always right there working with us.
03:38It's been really fun getting to hear like their ideas and what's exciting to them.
03:44I have some super exciting Ticetown updates to share with you guys. Take a look behind me. Do you notice
03:49anything different? This morning, this was a big field full of like five foot tall weeds.
03:56And the landscapers came this morning and they brush hogged the entire thing
04:00to prepare the area for Ticetown.
04:23And if the Ready jedenants came that wide open up on the two of the two of the two of
04:24the room in the room.
04:24And I'd back then come with a fewédies that worked more closely with the chairs in the room.
04:25And things that were paintedially dirty, it was very frontline.
04:25In now theuiOL grant wasn't activated and bright.
04:25Valvering to find anаже. And
04:25they tried to be so that, they didn't match movie屋 with animals than what they were supposed to do. And
04:28sometimes that it worked with the major sah было just because if they didn't align them for.
04:45Today is finally our grand opening and that means it is time to bring all the accessories
04:49out and set up each of the playhouses. I definitely had a moment of just standing in the middle of
05:13type town taking it all in during the grand opening because there were just kids running
05:19everywhere. So I just stood there and I just like took it all in, saw the parents playing with their
05:25kids, the kids running around giggling, coming up with games and it just hit me like this is the
05:30moment that we've been working towards all summer and it's finally here and it felt awesome to see
05:35everyone getting to enjoy the project that we've been working on. From the end of April to now the
05:41beginning of October, every single day we have been outside working on Tike Town. We just went
05:47outside. We just watched the boys play. We didn't have a to-do list to do. We just sat. We
05:54just
05:54reflected. We've always known that we wanted kids and we wanted to be able to give them more than
05:59either of us had growing up. So to be able to just like sit there in this little town we
06:03built in our
06:04backyard for our kids, it was just this like feeling of relief. Like we are giving them the childhood.
06:09We always dreamed of giving our future children someday. Be inspired by getting outside, putting
06:16all the other distractions of life away and to just go get outside and play with your kids
06:21because time really does go so fast and that really hits you when you become a parent and you see
06:27how
06:27fast your kids are growing up. Like these years really do just like slip through our fingers.
06:32So to be able to just put everything aside and go sit in the magic that is just childhood
06:39and just like soak it all in while your kids are young, make the most of this time.
06:43Same?
