Hi, everyone, and welcome to Our Big, Crazy Family! I am Rocky! This is a podcast where we post daily "plogs," which are basically audio versions fo what vlogs are on YouTube. All you will hear is virtual, but our love for each other and the premise of this is to bring light to disability, since my baby and I are disabled ourselves. We are NOT making fun of anyone or any disabilities. We embrace them. We talk about our journey with our huge, wonderful family, such as special needs, autism, and much more. Thanks for listening, and enjoy!
Well, the pools are open around here now. So in this episode I take our kids to a pool trip. I recorded the ambience so I thought you guys might like it here you go hope you enjoy. As much as I do
As you know, when you cook for a big family like ours. You gotta cook a lot, come today with me as I cook our Sunday dinner and we enjoy. Hope you guys are having a wonderful day, I've been away for a week sorry about that but I have been in the area where I couldn't upload. Here you go
When you have a huge family breakfast is always crazy crazy with our family. I cook for at least 40 people per day. And this is no exception. Check it out
Sometimes, when you get a chance to have a little respite it is nice to go swimming on the lake so that is what we did today hope you enjoy this cool episode
This is an hour of our son DJ working in the kitchen learning life skills when you have a child with autism they have to learn life skills and this is where we do it there is no talking in this episode he knows he's to do chores every day, sometimes he doesn't understand so that's our way of teaching him how to do chores every day. Here you go doing life skills, will help him.
When you have a big family you shop several times a week well today was my day for that and I thought I'd share it with you here you go
I, I'm not a vegan at all. But I do like, Rich is homemade, lentil soup. Not bad at all. And he had lots of good things in it so check this out I think he enjoy 32 minutes of Rich making, lentil, soup. No talking he does this quite often in our family especially our vegan members or our family love this dish. So it's that we share with you we thought we would share it with you
This motorhome is huge and I'm talking to massive! So he has recording with us driving it and we go over some serious bumps here you go
This was supposed to be two hours but apparently it didn't work so it was supposed to and it's only half of a drive
Each week we go grocery shopping, when you have a human his family like we do shopping is essential. But it's even more fun we have a family who have different dietary needs like so of our family, our vegans. So it takes a lot to find everything you need but here's my experience in an ASMR episode. No talking when you have vegan members in your family that like vegan food. One thing you need to do when your shop is find good recipes for the things you want to cook for them. That's what part of this is about as well because I picked up a bunch of stuff that I had to have for our vegan members of our family as well as our other war carnivore members
If you have a child with special needs, chances are that you do life skills. We are no exception to that our kids do that too. In this episode you hear me drinking a lot of water in the beginning of it at different times at the very end our little rockstar DJ, learns to load soda cans in the refrigerator by himself unprompted this is a skill we have worked very hard for him to develop. Here you go
All of our kids love golf cart rides especially our new daughter Abby and our son Maverick check this out this is pretty cool. Watch as Rich takes them on a golf cart ride and then enjoy it. There's no talking in this episode
When you have a huge family and all but a few of them have special needs, it is always hard to pack everything especially when you have to pack a lot of things. So in this episode you were here 57 minutes of me trying to pack our stuff because on the 27th we leave for a week. That's all we give all kinds of clothing and things that we're going to need as well as equipment medication, and also with all my kids medical equipment. It is always crazy and hard to pack here you go
Well folks, it is Sunday and what better to do on a Sunday to make some homemade taco soup, the kids love it and so we make it sometimes and today is your lucky day because we're going to make homemade taco soup and let you hear all the noises we make making it here you go enjoy
In this recording you hear we drink a lot of water. I'm talking a liter of water in less than two minutes. Then, you hear me in the car with my mom discussing the wind blowing really really big and talking a lot of wind. Check this out hope you enjoy it it's just something to read a little together as a collage it's just something I put together as a little collage just because I was bored.
Hi everybody it's Rich here, well because Rocky does the most of packing pills for our family and she's busy this week I figured I would do it we have a trip to go to a 19 days and I figured I would try to do everything I could and fit everything in one go so, here we go autism dad trying to pack pills for our family yeah right
All Homestead‘s have good kitchens correct? They smell so good correct? Well hours of no exception. And this one you'll hear an hours worth of someone cooking making coffee oh willing the paper and moving around check it out
Well guys around my house on Saturday afternoon that it is pills Saturday I didn't get to do it till tonight because it was crazy this is my recording of that although I sneezed a couple times in the middle of it I'm sorry about that but I couldn't really help it that is infection you know good old sinus infections aren't they so fun not! Anyway enjoy the fun
Hello everyone this is an episode about why we do not block on this channel anymore while we're only showing ASMR content. The reason is well trolls and bullshit. As you will hear us discuss over stirfry in this Vlog. The very last flag we will ever do on this channel. The only content you will now hear is just answer my accountant if we even feel like doing that. I meant ASMR content. If patient screwed up sorry about that oh God I meant dictation screwed up sorry about that
We didn't know what to do today so we decided to do a montage of different sounds. First you get on the bus for a bed with a wheelchair lift that sounds interesting. Then, you get to ride the bus for a bit then I'll kinds of other things seem to happen you have supper at a group home you hear the sounds of a skill home when you're the sounds of people going to work every day here you go
A friend of mine, love jerk cord as much as I do. So one day he said to me Rocky, what can I record for you that would make your podcast cool and I said well, I know you drive a transit van could you record yourself driving it for me he said, of course I can and I will. So he did! That may be smiled because I love the sound of a transit man driving especially when they have a certain kind of blink it's really trippy. So he knew that and drove it for me he also put a wheelchair lift at the beginning of it though it's the manual it's a goody. So here you go and enjoy
Is my sweetheart just trying to take us on the drive and that would be Tyson this is his ride on the transit van hope you enjoy have a great day God bless you
Hi you guys, so there were what seems to like the ASMR stuff I'm using to put up here and do it myself I thought you'd like this and morning routine hope you enjoy this is a morning routine I did this morning.
So, because I do not blog over here anymore due to the fact that someone had to ruin that for me. I do ASMR stuff. So, here you go here is a cargo van I love the sound of a transit van I wish it was a handyman but it's not which bites but what can you do I do have one recording of a handy van in front of my gave me which I will post later on today. So, here you go and enjoy
This is the squeakiest wheelchair left I have ever heard of my entire life, but because I'm in a wheelchair a lot of the time right now because of my back, that's just the way it goes so check this out you guys this quite made me laugh this is my friend Ferdinand which is my friend‘s bus that he drives every day and I choose it Thursday when I go to school I ride with him and this is what it does I mean come on Tuesday and Thursday when I ride with him because I go to school this is what I hear every week Ferdinand the bus
Because I'm not doing blogs on here anymore. I'm just doing ASMR, I figured I would show you guys my dad‘s car. He recorded it a couple days ago for me because he knew I love cars so here you go this is my dad‘s car
This is the sound of a Keurig coffee maker I love you selling these because they have any sound to them. It's funny because I was like the sound of that coffee making yummy happy Easter God bless he is risen
Some days which takes drives this is one of those days where it just feels like a good day for a drive
Do you ever get in the mood for just taking a drive. Well I do. This is one of those nights or feels good to just take a little drive! Anyway, hope you enjoy that because this is gonna be great. So we're gonna take a little drive in my SUV! Here you go
Well beyond all control things are crazy. Folks, we're not gonna be blogging as much as we were on this channel. Because of safety issues and other things that are beyond our control we probably won't be bugging much now but you may see some live for it from me that different events and such but never as much as we were before sorry but it's just the way it is I hate that we have to do this and I hate that it's come to that but when you have situations where people are throwing other family members and causing havoc, you just can't be too careful sorry, I meant trolling.
Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls children of all ages, we are back in business. We figured out that anchor was the problem not someone hacking me although the email still is not late to the podcast we have no idea why. Weird huh? We did figure it out and we just talked about general things are going on for us and why we moved to Colorado. Remove because our boys need a better therapies and they were getting down here in California, we're in California right now for spring break, which is a blessing and a curse. What a blessing than anything. We also talked about how we're going to give Christie our house when we get older or with the heat she gets her and they get older and that way they can have this house and will have our house down the road. DAGNABIT stupid typo I meant, when her and Dave get old enough that where they want to get married, they will have this house rally do not show this to Christie. She doesn't need to know yet. It might give her the big head. Lol! Ha ha! Just joking. We also talk about doing how's your pairs and things we have to do to kip this house up. It has been a rough go but we're making it we got here Saturday and we're happy to be in California again! Woo hoo! Dad gone it feels good to be here again, shy! I meant, shy! That go again get it messed up, I meant, sigh!
We are home from Ukraine everyone and it is a one take bug today, I'm sorry I didn't get to show you as much as I'd like to show you in Ukraine but things are kind of crazy and there were kids needing a lot of attention, tonight we're kicking back in our room is I right this my Tyson is sleeping, Haley is laying next to him and Walker is not far from him too. It was a very long day but we finally made it back home and doggone does it feel good to be home. Love you guys
Well you guys I'm sorry about yesterday things did not go as planned, because the camera messed up on us or should I say the audio cam. But today things didn't go as I planned. And this is our first official day Ukraine revisited, we went to the boys and our daughter Hailey‘s Goba and picked them up and they are happy, but Hea still will not let me hug her or hold her very much, the boys are fine but Haley does not want to be held much. Anyway guys here you go live to inspire. Also, just to let you know you can email us at, rocky.puppy95@gmail.com again rockydale puppy 95@gmail.com no spaces or capitals. There you go have a great one again rocky.puppy 95@gmail.com send us your questions and we will answer them in a live Q&A. And if you ask a good question will answer live right here on the podcast.
We made it to Ukraine guys and here's our live stream that we did about that. Sorry about earlier my blogging camera decided to take a leap and a flying hike and not work correctly so I had to fix it but it's okay now. So here's our live recording from tonight. We're doing OK extremely tired and a few kids had meltdowns but we're all OK and we're all gonna be fine guys. Keep us in your prayers as we struggle and do the best we can to wrangle our kids and get our other new ones home safe and sound and happy.
Hi everybody, you can email come at two, rocky.Puppy 95@gmail.com. All right you guys we are in Ukraine right now, we made it finally it took a while but we got here OK and happy. Hope you guys are all doing well enjoy the 16 minute episode of us with our new sweet children. And more coming hopefully this week. Thank you for listening live to inspire and call me when you can thank you. I meant comment when you can sorry
Tonight, is a live night. Your questions answered tonight right here on this channel our crazy big family.
Hi everyone, we're going back to Ukraine again, yes I know people are going to think we are crazy for what we're doing, but I love go to Ukraine to help kids with special needs. And this is our calling we believe that. So here we go again on this crazy roller coaster ride called adoption. When I can I will tell you guys adoption stories of Aiden, and Narkkeez. Oh yes also, HK does not like being called HK anymore for some reason I have no idea why, he likes being called Narkkeez or a little keys. That's his real name. I don't know what to do, can someone help me? Yikes! Lived on fire I meant live to inspire. Sorry
Well guys, it has been one long long week. UMM! What are we gonna do with this family. It has been crazy I mean everything in their brother happening all at once. We're playing catch-up because I have not been working last couple days while recording, but not blogging it because I've been tired because of morning sickness yes in case you may have not known I'm pregnant virtually so anyway here we go live to inspire
Where are you guys tonight, we have a guest Vlogger. Which is Casey she's gonna be cooking us up, some bratwurst yummy! I'm sorry I have not been blogging much I've been sort of stepping back a little but I am here and I didn't forget about you guys and I will blog more later anyway here you go live to choose dreams and live to inspire
I have two blocks to give you guys today. Today was one of the days where I'm just playing catch-up. I haven't blogged in the last couple days but our boys are home and everything is OK. But this warning was not one of the mornings you just wanna well think about but they happen. So! What do you do about them? Hell I don't know. All I know is it was a bad morning all together but I turned up better
Hi everybody, well as I told you what happened today is the day, we're HK and Walker had their surgery. But something other expected happened, so, Daniel had seizures, and ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. We caught it early so he is OK, but he's very tired. Allall of us are. This is the first day and a half we were in the hospital with our boys. Robbie came along with his two boys his two special boys that we got for him, and of course they were sick too as Robbie said. We are amazed that, imaginative play is something our son with autism can do now so proud of that though. He is coming along way, with communication. So! We are so proud of our son. It makes us feel good to know that he is trying so hard to come out of his shell of autism. The doctor was amazed when he said, my boys are sick, can you help them. Big Sur is that I never expected out of my nonverbal autistic child. Wow!
Well guys this week is going to be crazy. We found out today, the walker has to have surgery as well as HK. They moved up HK‘s surgery to Wednesday. So that means we have to drive for three hours, to go and have that done. Well walker also has to have it done as well he hurt his hip and we have no idea why or how it just happened, so, here we go come along.
Where are you guys, it's happen again. This Saturday was so completely crazy. We are now in Colorado Springs. We decided to move here so the Denver because Denver is just a crazy, so we got a nice house here as you saw in the last episode well before that actually. I hope you enjoy this episode because it is quite crazy, we're trying to get out by moved in, get people moved into group homes and things of that nature, and it is crazy. All I can say about that is yikes! Live to chase your dreams and live to inspire. See you later guys PS, what I mean is, we live in Colorado Springs, but we go to Denver for most other things that we need like hospital visits doctors and such like that. But it has been 100% crazy today! I mean moving people and then go to the group problems and deal with that and deal with aggression and all that it's just been crazy. I mean when you move people into group homes and all that stuff, they have to acclimate to the environment, and it takes a while to do. Robbie had a really rough day and most of this is about him. Love you guys
Basically, on the show, we're taking a golf cart ride, and explaining basically how we're feeling about things that are going on, in our lives. We dedicate this one, to Christy Riley and keys.
Hi everyone, unfortunately for us today is a one take, PLOG. The reason being, that we're just flat out tired. It has been a crazy week, we just got back from Colorado. And we love what we saw. Yes we did get the house and yes we are moving. It is going to happen. We're still hoping to go see in Amish farm, but that will happen in time, we're not sure what's gonna happen because our Amish friend bailed at the last minute. We still see and let you know. Live to chase your dreams, and live to inspire.
Hi guys long time no blog. I'm sorry things have been just absolutely crazy. Oh yeah and we're also stuck, in Colorado. Oh yeah! Forgot to tell you also, we found our forever home we will leave anyway we're hoping. So here's the tour of it check it out.
Well, today is the day, we flew out early this morning to find our new place. It's beautiful up here in Colorado, we had a great dinner with some friends, we played in the pool, we looked around a lot. And now we're tired, we went to bed early because everybody was so exhausted, but I thought you might want to see how cool Tripoli was. I meant how cool our trip was, hope you guys are all doing well, live dreams and live to inspire.
Well guys, I knew it could happen, guess what, we gotta move again. Things are not working out as we hope they California, because the smog is so so bad. So unfortunately you have to pick up and move again, this time to Colorado and hopefully that's where we'll stay.
Boy or boy! It has been one hell of a week so far. And it's just Monday. We're not able to get any therapy for Sasha and the boys and no medical insurance is going to pay for it. Or their diapers, or quite a few other things as well. And then I want to talk about a crappy email I got, saying, why do you put your kids to bed too early? Well it's because they're tired. And they need sleep a lot of it. That's just the way it is. Live to inspire and live to chase your dreams.
Well! We are still stuck in Nashville. But we're making the best of it. Are we happy about being stuck now. But we're making the best of it we can. Today was a good day though we made it a good day. I made pasta and soup and we had a great day. Check this out, live to chase your dreams and live to inspire. Love you guys lots stay strong thanks
Well we thought we were going to Pennsylvania nope, we're stuck in snow. And Tennessee funny enough. Hope you guys are enjoying the road trip so far. We're doing pretty good, just cold cold cold cold. Hope you're doing well buddy everybody and hang in there, love to chase your dreams live transpire and have a wonderfully blessed day