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Arizona Garden Stu in the heat let me take you Dancing let me get you on your feet Arizona garden with my little cactus flower let the day slip away in the golden Power we’ve got nothing but time in Music and a sweet cool drink and heat oh I’ll be beside you every step away hello guys welcome back to the Vlog Vlog happy New Year this is literally the first time that I’m picking up the camera since Christmas day there have been days where I have just vegged out

On the couch which have been wonderful I read like three books during this last like two weeks and it was marvelous but also because I rested so much which I think my body really needed it after so much work and then after just like a rough

Start to my pregnancy and stuff I am feeling so like Restless uh so this week I was like okay we’re getting back into it I did a lot of planning on my break like just mentally like jotting things down and notes and things Romeo and I have been taking walks in our

Neighborhood just like trying to move my body again because I felt just like I wasn’t feeling great you know like I was just feeling like restless and like I wasn’t moving and walking around and stuff today when I’m filming this I am 18 weeks pregnant a little bit of a bump if

You wanted a bump update a little bit just a little one what started off as a rough first trimester now that I’m fully in my second trimester and I’m 18 weeks I feel so normal which I’m very grateful for if I didn’t have a bump and I could

Couldn’t go and hear the baby’s heartbeat I would be convinced I wasn’t pregnant that’s how normal I feel I definitely am not as tired I feel more like just like awake and aware not so like ooo the fatigue was really intense the first Tri so I have a lot of updates

I have a lot of things that I need to fill you guys in on we have projects that I want to work on just things but first Romeo and I are going to go to this um Cafe and get some like grilled cheese and tomato soup I’m craving it

It’s um I don’t really and speaking of Cravings I say Cravings lightly because I always I mean I think it’s a very normal a normal thing to like crave foods like what are you hungry for and you’re like I’m craving this that’s very much much how it’s been I don’t crave

Anything like a desperate need to have it I don’t think it’s any different than like a normal normal you know so I’m like I think I really want like grilled cheese and it’s cold outside it’s been like super windy and cold we have projects I want to work on upstairs

We’re going to be starting the baby nursery like very soon so we’re like in the early stages of that and I’m so happy to be back cuz I really missed you guys and just like picking up a camera I was actually kind of nervous to pick up

The camera which is weird that’s happens every year when I’m down from it for a little bit it’s like I overthink what I’m about to say and that’s not normally how this goes so welcome Back so we made it back and we just ran to the grocery store we just needed a few things uh so I want to talk to you guys about my plan or the ideas kind of for plans for videos that I have for this year so you kind of know what I’m

Thinking although I know that it’s crazy to think that I’m going to have it all planned out even though like I’m going to progressively get more and more pregnant and I’m going to progressively go through changes and things uh that are all new to me 2024 is

Going to be played by Year we’re just going to go with how I’m feeling what I’m capable of found my keys they were in the washer they were on top of the washer why I don’t know how my stuff gets to these places man he’s always losing

Something on top of the washer I don’t even know how it got there I don’t know either like my wallet my keys my phone are all in three different places you know we have an entryway table that has a bowl that all your stuff is supposed to go in you know

That that that thing is full of your stuff no it’s your stuff no I don’t know about that so I thought a lot about content for this year and kind of like how I can make each um outlet for my videos and outlet for Content like really special and separate from one

Another because I feel like that’s something that I’ve struggled a lot with in the past specifically when like quote unquote short form content came to be more of um a thing well now we’re entering a new phase of my life where there are facets of things happening not

Only do I have my projects like my DIY projects and my home makeovers and my passion right we also have this new Venture of me being pregnant and becoming a mom and then other things like starting my business and and having a product based business and making it

Um successful and and seamless and and working and my main YouTube channel the YouTube channel that I started 6 years ago where I share my projects and my home decor my DIYs things like that uh will always stay that way uh it will be focused solely on my projects and

Renovations and projects that we’re going to be doing at this house probably more than likely with more help any help that we’re going to be getting at the cottage and working on those projects again and and then here the channel that you’re currently watching is a completely separate channel from that

It’s called exom Vlogs as you guys know so it’s kind of a Podge podge of everything in my life because it’s behind the scenes of my projects it’s more about life U my life with Romeo and Kinsley and now with the baby coming and stuff but regardless I still don’t want

It to become like Romeo asked me he’s like are you going to become like a is this going to be like a family type blog now like and I was like no uh we’re not going to do that um but I would be remiss to say that it

Wouldn’t be a huge part of my life so there are going to be some things 100% % that are shared here that are more um pregnancy and Mom related but it’s not going to take over the whole content over on Instagram it’ll kind of still be

The same that it always has been and obviously stories and things like I was posting my stories while I was um kind of on break so you’ll always see like kind of like in the moment kind of like things on Instagram then when it comes

To Tik Tok I don’t know how many of you guys are on Tik Tok please let me know if you are but I’ve never really put a lot of effort into it I think that it was the one platform that I always really struggled with because it was

Kind of the same as reals but now that we’re entering this new phase of life I’m 18 weeks pregnant I really do want Tik Tok to be more um about my life as a mom and um have a place to share those things that I don’t really feel

Fit in other ways um on my other platforms as so if you want to know anything about my pregnancy or gearing up and like me working through the having our first baby and I’m going be sharing a lot more of that on Tik Tok so other big one is my podcast and where

That is going to go and really the first year of my podcast was really just experimentation of what am I going to like to record balance to what is going to work and what people want to listen to it’s all like a balance game we are

It is going to go on hiatus um I’m not going to bring it back right away um but I want to start like use the next couple of months to just kind of like really understand understand what I want to do with it and what worked and what didn’t

Or what I felt really comfortable with versus what I didn’t like and really learn from the first season to understand what I want to do for the second season while I’m feeling good and while I’m feeling like my energy is really high and I’m not super big so I

Can still move around like like I’m feeling really great right now and I’d like to tackle as much of the nesting stage as possible and the first on the list is very much do the nurse and really figure out what I what I want uh for the design and stuff and so I’m

Going to show you where the nursery is going to go in the guest bedroom um and what all the things that we need to do in order for that to kind of happen so I think Romeo wants some some ag1 to give him some energy so I’m going to make him

That and then we’ll head upstairs and I’ll show you the space so a habit that we are definitely bringing with us into 2024 from 2023 is drinking ag1 a big thank you to ag1 for sponsoring today’s video uh I’ve been drinking it over for over a year now but I don’t think that

Romeo think it took him like 6 months to like really be interested in what I was drinking ag1 I’m talking about you all of us think a lot about like our health in the New Year either bringing habits good habits with us or starting new ones and like really paying attention to our

Health and how we feel and starting off the New Year Strong so you haven’t tried it out yet now it’s definitely a good time to um you know try it out for yourself ag1 is empowering people to would take ownership of their health through more of a universal approach to

Supplementation for your whole body you just put one scoop of ag1 into a glass and fill it with 8 to 12 O of water and mix it and I first started drinking ag1 because I really wasn’t feeling my best I wasn’t feeling like my body was getting getting everything that it

Really needed from food every day the immediate first thing I noticed was this like boost of energy without having to drink caffeine cuz I was resorting to coffee every day you just drink it because you know it’s good for you you don’t actually know what’s in mhm there’s like 75 vitamins and

Minerals and things in there that are good for you that I know that grilled cheese and tomato basil soup did not give us it’s good it’s it’s actually a taste that I started to get addicted to it’s like you like it but he just chugs

It I enjoy it like I just like drink it yeah but we obviously love it and bringing it into the new year you like to drink it before you go uh run right like before you play ball MH it takes like 20 seconds to make and then he just

Chugs it and he’s like ready for the day and it helps with so much more than just your energy like gut and immune support stress and mood you feel like actually really good well that’s good it’s like yeah feels clean it feels really clean yeah so definitely try it out for

The new year if you haven’t wow okay definitely try it out if you haven’t already you guys can save $20 when you subscribe at drink a1.com SLX McKenna Vlogs and like always ag1 is going to give you a free onee supply of their D3 and K2 vitamin and five free travel

Packs these are perfect to like on the go if you’re going to be traveling anytime soon we were almost going to go on a cruise for our baby moon yeah just sold out as you were I was literally on the thing figuring out all the details

Right the flight and where we were going to go to Caribbean and stuff and I was really down a rabbit hole in planning this trip yeah like St Thomas and St Martin and a whole bunch of places and on this really nice Cruise Ship Norwegian or

Something it all fell apart but if I was going to do that I would have brought the packs with me so a big thank you to H1 for sponsoring today’s video do you feel pumped to build some Cabinetry yes yes okay so during the break Romeo and I

Thought a lot about like how we were going to have enough storage closets are on the smaller side and I have really put a lot a lot in our guest bedroom it’s kind of become like my storage where Romeo has his office in his room because he had obviously a lot more

Stuff when it pertained to his business so for me the guest bedroom worked so this closet you can see how kind of small you can see the closet size it has a window which is odd both closets have Windows it’s packed with stuff and also it works for like wardrobe but

That’s actually not what we would use it for so we have you know it has all of the like hanging spots but I needed it for frames and decor and things like that so this looks a hot mess because I actually shoved everything in here when we were about to have Christmas anything

That was out like my work stuff like all of my camera equipment like I have all of my camera equipment here and like my stuff it’s super organize I’m actually kind of embarrassed now that I’m showing you this not going to lie it’s kind of bad I’ve got

Pillows like bags and pillows and lots and lots of art this was one thing that we needed to figure out like what am I going to do with all of this stuff because this closet will become the baby’s closet baby needs closet the baby needs

You know like we can hang things and and stuff like that so that would be a great closet for the baby and then when it comes to the guest bedroom in general here it is like this is a king bed and then also I have not taken this down yet

Cuz we really haven’t we haven’t gone up here uh since we had Christmas but uh I still have the queen size air mattress inflated and it fits this room fits two beds with the addition of this whole wardrobe so my plan is to keep this a guest bedroom but also you see that

Whole area back there that whole kind of like jut out that goes back it’s a pretty substantial space and I want that to be the nursery now am I a fool that thinks a baby won’t take over multiple spaces if not the whole house no I do

Know that but do I think that we’re going to use the nursery a ton in the beginning of the baby’s life no I really don’t this is this is a decent space now when it comes to like the baby becoming a toddler and playing I don’t think that

The baby’s going to play up here I don’t know we’re we’re going to take life in stages you know what I mean like you don’t really know how much room you really need until you’re in it and you’re like okay this isn’t working let’s pivot let’s change and whatever so this whole room

Could eventually become the baby’s room and then the guest bedroom could become Romeo’s room he would just have to give up some space but that also is a guest bedroom we have a foldout couch in there so that means that not only does everything in that closet need to have a new

Home everything in that wardrobe and those drawers also need a new home so I was like oh okay kley we got to break this down we do not need this anymore see how it’s really not like I’m taking up the whole thing it’s just I have like some Decor

Pieces and one thing’s my mom’s and some books and things like I need like Decor space so we actually did a lot of work in the garage as well we ordered two big cabinets like um shelving units for in there heavy duty ones and reorganized

And we have a lot more space in there now so some things I’m going to be moving outside some things we’re going to be reorganizing into a different room and this side it’s just like things you know like it’s I just feel like it’s not I didn’t really

Organize just like kept putting stuff up here as I went along but like nothing’s like major like there’s not like I have a lot of candles in here but you know like it’s it’s not crazy so because this is becoming the nursery that wardrobe is coming out I feel like

It’s super inefficient for one it’s like it’s just the Wardrobe there and you can’t put anything in front of it because then you can’t open the doors or the drawers so you can have like a seating area uh if that’s something that you wanted which is something I want

With the nursery but it does offer more storage so the only thing it get I think it’s a lot of dead space space in between here that’s why a queen bed fits there I think I have ideas to make that better so we’re going to be taking out

That wardrobe and just having the blank space so that we can turn it into Nursery which is going to work for us but that means we need storage somewhere else so I mentioned the garage and also we need storage in Romeo’s room he also lacks storage but he has a decent size

Office up here always been something we wanted to design and work on and we we totally will it’s just been kind of on the list to do has this whole wall uh where he has his TV and a shelf ju I just feel like it could be a whole wall

Of storage actually so during my break I did go down the rabbit hole of deciding whether I was going to make this Cabinetry from scratch like I have done before with wood um or that might be a lot of uh undertaking for some someone that’s pregnant

So I went the easier route I went on Ikea and I designed a Pax wardrobe system and I picked the pieces that would fit the space perfectly and we’re going to build it but we’re going to make it a little moreour me and we’re going to get some vintage hardware and

We’re going to eventually build it out to fit the room like I want to put crown on the top basically any Ikea Hack video that you’ve seen where they use the packs wardrobe and make it better or make it like more designed that’s what we’re going to do eventually today I

Want to just get the cabinets built step one you know and just get them in place where they’re going to go and um then go from there it’s all here it’s all on the patio we’re going to start building it and we’re going to see what it looks like and go from There [Applause] Now Oh It’s the next day we built four of them I got seven let me explain so we built four of them and I stopped and stepped back from it and I was like this feels heavy you know because we went with the deeper versions of these because we wanted the most storage that

We could and originally what I wanted to do was do four here one on the other side of the TV and then kind of build around the TV kind of making like an entertainment wall you know so the TV would be in the center there would be

Another tall one on the other side and then one on the bottom and one on the top then we kept coming across small issues right so one issue was I quickly abandoned the top one the doing it along the top and I was going to have to

Manipulate this I was going to have to like use the boards but cut them and make them fit exactly how I wanted them to which is totally fine I was just going to use the material instead of putting the boxes together but one issue that we came across the only air vent

Access to this room is right here so we would if we put a top one here it would have blocked the air conditioning in the heat so that was quickly out that was quickly a no-o right so I was like okay would it be weird not having a Topper

Maybe I could maybe I could lower it not put it all the way up and then we could have like a double layer or something I don’t know I was thinking about that then because we have baseboards in this room it makes the cabinet sit about 2 in

Further into the space so I lost 2 in and now it’s like too cramped for the TV the size TV that we have this is an old TV that we had at our apartment um that we didn’t need in our bedroom so Romeo has it up here and we would have

To get like a smaller TV for this all the work we’re not doing I felt like since it felt heavy already adding more units to this wall would be even heavier I’m thinking we don’t need it these three cabinets here will have doors and this last one I was actually going to do

One of the bigger cabinets but they’re like sold out everywhere so I was like okay I have to do the skinnier versions so these three will have doors this one is going to be open and then the other three were going to be open so they were

Going to be more decorative anyways more of Romeo to put like his stuff that’s more on display so it’s like since they’re just going to be decorative and they’re not going to serve our storage purpose really we decided not to do it so we’ve got four I actually I also went

They have like three colors that you can go with they have like black and white right and then they have this beige color it’s really pretty and I got the doors um for the three of these but we need to I need what I need do is I need

To attach them all together and then secure these to the wall I don’t want to do it super permanent I just want to secure it for like falling and movement and you know stuff like that because I may want to manipulate them a little more more permanently when we do the

Makeover I’m thinking so I read in the instructions how to like put them together so that’s what we’re going to do okay I grabbed some clamps from the garage for my stash you have to clamp them together I think Ikea actually wants you to attach these individually

To the wall first and then put them together I think that’s totally backwards I don’t know why I that’s backwards I feel like you should put them together first so that they’re one unit and then attach the whole unit to the wall making sure they stay

Together me telling IA what to do you know we have to clamp them together and then actually use a drill to go through the holes so that we can attach them the the whole thing together so I’m going get them right perfect this clamer and then drill into the fifth hole up so

Easy went right through to the other hole okay and then they have like these special little screws honestly guys even though this is just an Ikea cabinet you don’t know how much satisfaction it gives me to build something I feel like when I’m away from using tools and using my hands to create

Something it makes me sad like it’s my therapy it makes me like you know excited to see what I can create and what can become whatever I’m working on and then when I got pregnant I think part of me thought like you know obviously my life is going to

Drastically change but at the same time I thought and if I listen to some extremist over others that I wasn’t going to be able to do anything barely walk um which is insane and I can still do projects that um aren’t going to hurt me and keep me safe and just wear

Protective gear and stuff like that it’s like that’s why I’m really just listening to my body and like um what I’m used to because this is what I’m used to I’m used to like building and I’m used to picking things up and and I have upper body strength to do those

Things and I don’t know just this makes me happy even though it’s just an Ikea cabinet beautiful that’s so easy to put them together look at that that’s brilliant okay I always wondered how they got them together like what they used now I have to do that one two three five more times

Five more times no big Deal Okay it’s a lot more secure with them all together and then when Romeo gets back I’ll have him uh help me like level and make sure that they’re attached to the the wall right and then we can start putting the shelves and the drawer I got drawers shelves and then like some

Basket bottoms cuz I don’t think it worked I I’ll put in the picture so we have to put all of those things in there and then we’re ready to start organizing all of the stuff that’s in the nursery and guest bedroom into here it’s like all these things that we need to do

Leading up to just like tackling the nursery um but it’s good because this is something that we’ve needed to do for a while just to add more storage so really excited so I hope you guys enjoyed this first video back of the New Year I’m so

Excited to get back into it and just start working on projects again and um I don’t know just this year is going to be quite literally lifechanging and I’m so excited it’s just something that Romeo and I have looked forward to for so many years and I just we just couldn’t be

More happy huh Kinsley oh by the way if you wanted to know I’m sitting on it if you wanted to know what that thing was that I got Romeo for Christmas at the flea market that I couldn’t show you that was really big and heavy this is it it’s a

Hand my mom was like that’s so weird but it’s it’s crazy there’s a couple of vendors at the flea market that has these like more plastic acrylic versions of hands like this and they charge like so much for them like these oversized items Romeo’s very into oversized art

Like oversized like pencils and things and paper clips and things that just aren’t normally that size uh so he really wanted to incorporate some of those like more artistic pieces of art into the design of his room eventually so when I was at the flea market he

Really loves those plastic ones but I just like I couldn’t bring myself to do I’m like it’s a plastic I’m like it just it doesn’t have the value it’s just priced that high because of the kind of like hype around them right now and then I passed this vendor that had this

Wooden carved one it’s from Bali and it’s literally carved like if you look at the body botom I don’t know if I’ll be able to show you but it underneath if you can see underneath it’s like you can see the inside of the tree trunk and I thought it was so much

More unique than the other ones and it’s a little on the smaller side but I thought it was so cool now would I want it anywhere else in the house no but does it work for the design eventually of this room and Romeo 100% like it’s

Just like a cool thing you know I will see you guys again on Thursday for another Vlog again on Sunday uh for the start of my main Channel videos coming back in I don’t know if I mentioned this um when I was talking about you know like the new schedule and things that

I’m going to be working on this year um but I am going to reduce the amount of videos on my other channel my DIY channel to two videos a month so every other Sunday it had already kind of become that because from the days of me

Just doing smaller DIY projects to now I do much larger projects that need more time for me to be proud of them to share them and so it already kind of started going that direction or three times a month I would have to skip one because I

Just wasn’t finished and now when you add the layer of the fact that I’m pregnant into it I know I’m going to be much slower at the projects just kind of kind of where where we’re at so every other Sunday over on my main channel so

This will be the first one and then in two weeks there’ll be another one we’re going to start the nursery obviously uh so yeah I’ll see you guys really soon bye guys guys like are you ready to start organizing we have to wait for your dad you’re so

Cute you’re so cute you can’t wait for the baby so you can have a friend to play with out besides Mom and Daddy Yeah