Surprise Family Trip [Video]

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so listen so last year when we were
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going away from your recital i had a
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conversation with you guys in a car and
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i said that you guys have to learn how
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to swim
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and anaya was very upset she said she
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did not want to learn how to swim isn’t
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that right
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but you did learn how to swim
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and i said
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if you learn how to swim
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then you all get to go to
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hawaii hawaii
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so on thursday we are going to hawaii
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[Music]
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to keep it real it starts where your
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family
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[Music]
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welcome black my name is belief and
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you’re watching belief in fatherhood
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where we equip fathers gives hope to
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mothers and inspired children
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today i have a beautiful story
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about my intention last year we took a
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trip to hawaii just my wife and i went
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to the beautiful island maui and we
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experienced
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an amazing place and it was great
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because we got to experience the culture
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and we got to have time with friends and
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just do a lot of fun stuff
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and i wanted to bring the kids to maui
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this year this episode is just part one
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of like our three-part series about what
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it’s like traveling as a family of six i
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think a lot of people glorify traveling
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as a family
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and they make it look so easy and it was
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not that way for us
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uh and so here’s part one but make sure
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you stick around for the rest of the
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series there is a couple lessons to
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learn here
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and i want to make sure you stick around
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for all three videos but anyway welcome
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black all right so right now it’s about
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4 30 a.m
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we are about to wake the kids up and get
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them ready to go and
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drive to the airport
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hop on the airplane
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go to hawaii
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i’m off for two hours of sleep i think
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he bet had three hours of sleep
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yeah here we go
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we’ve been preparing for this for a
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while yvette has everybody packed and
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we’re pretty much good to go our
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intention is to have the greatest family
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moments ever but this is a story about
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expectation versus reality
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[Music]
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lily come on let’s go outside
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traveling as a family of six is all
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about endurance it’s about picking your
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battles and letting things slide and
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also keeping everyone safe
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sometimes you run short on patience
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but just imagine how the kids feel
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i mean ryan said it best here
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it is
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not cool that i have to wake up this
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early
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this
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overall our kids are pretty amazing
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they’re patient they understand how to
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communicate their feelings and they’re
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pretty much good to each other we don’t
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travel often but when we do travel it’s
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pretty extensive it’s either a long road
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trip or a flight to a different coast
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i didn’t even feel like i had enough
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sleep
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what did she shoot
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okay
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the kids usually adjust well once we get
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to where we’re going but it’s the little
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things that make the big difference
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like normal fast food restaurants will
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eat
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there’s no in and out in hawaii and i
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suspect the children are gonna want that
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the kids have small preferences like
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type of oatmeal or kind of chips they
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like
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when we were kids we didn’t really
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travel that much and if we did we just
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ate what was available we can’t go
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without anaya’s
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favorite chips
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so but because we know the little things
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make the big difference yvette packs all
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their favorite snacks so that we don’t
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have to have that type of conversation
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when we ask them to do something major
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mario
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let me see if it should be done now
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so here’s
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mrs steele’s you don’t know you have a
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mario kart game
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all right and ryan you have the uh
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avenger game on there
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so you don’t have to wait for your
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brother to play
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just from the label yeah and you’re
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right you have the avengers
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that card anymore you’re right dad
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i’m usually in charge of entertainment i
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make sure to download all the movies on
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the ipads
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make sure that their battery packs are
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charged and making sure they have video
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games some people are anti-screen but
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for the older ones i say go ahead and
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screen them out and the reason why is
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because i have to save my energy for the
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younger ones when we went on this trip
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we still had the mass mandate so i know
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that the kids are going to be a little
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irritated with having their mask on for
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the entire flight also with the youngest
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one he’s more of a wild card so we don’t
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know what he’s going to do or what he’s
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going to be thinking while on the flight
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do i need
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you know what guys everybody’s gonna
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brush their teeth i already did oh and i
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didn’t
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know
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[Music]
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right
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i’m still missing
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i have a jacket lily’s like where are we
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going
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we aren’t going anywhere you’re staying
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here
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i’ll stop ringing please
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sit
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stay
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[Music]
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here we go
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are you ready
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my bag is not in here is it
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somewhere apart
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so far
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i think
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wait that was raya
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why didn’t you care as much about
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spreading your farts around as you did
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about the smell earlier yeah
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because i’ve been waiting
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for it
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to fart for like one hour
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can you grab us some masks
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travel all the destination i bring my
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shade to the point like exclamation you
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see my wife and kids and i’m adjacent i
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told y’all family is foundation although
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it’s true i know i need a lot of
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patience i pay attention turned off my
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notifications i used last year’s trip as
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motivation i thought i was going to get
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some meditation i needed to feel like
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medication i learned the hard way this
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is not a vacation but still i gave
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myself permission while i try optimistic
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we are a fam on the
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[Music]
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family
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[Music]
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yo we just made it to maui
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um
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not as good not as
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you know it’s different from last time
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you know we got the kids with us they’re
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here
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everybody was up at 4 00 a.m
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everybody’s grumble actually
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everybody’s around 4 30. um just made it
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here though
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the wind is blowing like usual we’re
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about to go grab some food
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and uh yeah
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they don’t have it they ain’t got in and
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out of maui baby
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[Music]
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yeah
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hallelujah
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ready to get your world rock rocked we
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are not in california no more
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[Music]
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all right welcome to maui
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[Music]
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you

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