EP 60 - The Memories That Changed Us: A Thanksgiving Look Back at Our Family Journey

Summary

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EP 60 – The Memories That Changed Us: A Thanksgiving Look Back at Our Family Journey

Podcast: More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle
Hosts: Adam and Danielle Busby
Date: November 27, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this heartfelt Thanksgiving episode, Adam and Danielle Busby reflect on their journey as parents to six daughters—including America's first all-female quintuplets. With their trademark humor and authenticity, the Busbys dive into the importance of cherishing family memories, the joys and challenges of parenting, and how their unique life on (and off) reality TV has shaped them. They share behind-the-scenes stories about capturing special moments, discuss the tension between documenting life and living it, and encourage listeners to practice gratitude in everyday chaos.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Thanksgiving Reflections & Gratitude

• The episode centers around gratefulness, with Adam and Danielle expressing thanks for their family, supporters from around the world, and the extraordinary experiences of their journey.
• Danielle marvels at people tuning in globally, saying, "That's pretty weird to think about—that people listen to us around the world and like...I still think that's interesting." (02:25)
• The couple jokes about their Louisiana roots, teasing each other about “white trash” stereotypes, but ultimately celebrate humble beginnings and family quirks with laughter.

2. Busby Household Holiday Traditions & Decor Debates

• Danielle has taken charge of transforming the house for Christmas, describing a new theme for decorations. (04:46)
  • Adam admits he hasn’t helped much, poking fun at himself and teasing Danielle about her evolving tastes:
    “She keeps buying, like, all these old antique pieces with, like, really dainty legs...this ain't my grandma's house.” (06:13)
  • Danielle counters, “You’re the one who married this. That’s all I’m saying.” (09:21)
• They discuss blending vintage with modern styles and the creative friction it causes—a metaphor for their teamwork in both home and parenting.

3. The Push and Pull of Capturing vs. Living the Moment

• Adam is pursuing tech upgrades to organize family memories—setting up a network-attached storage (NAS) to archive thousands of home videos and photos. He shares the emotional process of reviewing old footage:
  • “I don’t know how many times I cried in my office by myself because...you get all the feels whenever you start.” (19:09)
• Danielle wishes she could access more baby videos:
  • "My phone doesn't go back to the baby years...my smart husband didn't set my phone up right back then." (20:39, jokingly)
• Both stress the power of revisiting home videos and mementos—Danielle mentions a tub of NICU photos she wants to look through with their girls. (21:35)

4. Behind the Scenes of OutDaughtered: Filming Family Memories

• Adam explains his insistence on filming family life in addition to the TV crew:
  • “I would always argue…I'm gonna capture these moments because these are awesome moments with our kids…I'll never see [the producers’ footage] again other than the three minutes on TV, but…maybe like an all-day event.” (29:08)
• Danielle says they preserved camera-free days, making a conscious effort to "live in the moment" on family vacations and at special milestones. (32:00)
• The couple candidly discusses the tension between remembering and experiencing, with Danielle admitting, "A lot of my time is in mom mode...I was never really, really present unless the kids were not around." (32:17)

5. Technology & Memory-Making

• Adam talks about keeping up with the latest gadgets to make documenting life easier, recommending compact action cameras to avoid missing moments without intrusive setups. (38:33)
• Danielle recalls documenting Blake’s first year with daily photos using a forgotten app, illustrating how technology and motherhood expectations have changed over time. (37:39)

6. Sending Messages of Thankfulness

• Both Busbys emphasize gratitude for their upbringing, faith, community, and each other's strengths:
  • “We’re so grateful to have the support of one another, but also, you know, church family, our family and our friendships with others and just each other to encourage one another and push each other down the path…” (42:22)
• Danielle calls out to listeners to find meaning in small moments and use everyday technology—like iPhone notes and photos—for journaling “life moments.” (41:49)
• They close by expressing hope and encouragement that “God can still do miracles…don’t give up hope.” (46:41)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Danielle: “Nothing’s perfect. Like, it looks good if you got old with new. It makes the stuff look lived in…makes it have character.” (07:26)
• Adam: “I recommend it as a mom or dad to just…go back through old footage, old photos, old videos… be thankful.” (20:00)
• Adam, on OutDaughtered: “It wasn't for us. Yeah, it was for you [the show]. It wasn’t for us.” (29:50)
• Danielle, on technology and memories: “Your iPhone can be used…not just for technology to call someone…but it can be used to document life moments too, you know, simple things.” (41:46)
• Adam: “I want to be able to go back and look back and potentially like later on go back and make videos of these things also…sometimes it’s like home videos instead of just a television show.” (31:06)
• Danielle, on gratitude: “Being obedient is not always easy, but we’re so grateful to have…the support of one another…to encourage one another and… go down the path we know we need to.” (43:10)

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Important Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------| | 01:55 | Thanksgiving introduction, global listeners | | 06:11 | Decor debates and vintage vs modern style | | 13:52 | Adam’s hard drive crisis & new NAS setup | | 19:09 | Getting emotional revisiting baby videos | | 25:18 | Adam’s favorite parenting stage—toddlers | | 26:22 | “Pop on you!” – Iconic Busby family water balloons | | 28:53 | Filming for the show vs. filming for themselves | | 32:00 | Keeping some family days camera-free | | 36:23 | Project: Baby-to-kid video montage idea | | 37:39 | Danielle describes early use of daily photo apps | | 41:46 | Capturing life through photos & digital journaling | | 42:22 | Gratitude for faith, support, and each other | | 46:41 | Encouragement & Thanksgiving farewell |

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Tone & Takeaway

The conversation is warm, playful, and deeply authentic, alternating between light-hearted jabs and sincere moments of vulnerability. Adam and Danielle’s relatable banter brings laughter even in discussions about clutter and tech woes, while their introspection on memory, parenting, and gratitude invites listeners to reflect on their own family journeys. The episode is as much about cherishing the present as preserving the past—with an open acknowledgment that neither is easy, and both are worth the effort.

Final Message:
Be thankful for your memories, live in the moment, capture what you can—and never give up hope for what's next.

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Transcript

[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

I'm not girly. I'm not girly. As I'm wearing bow and jewels on today.

[Adam Busby]

I'm not girly. She's got a freaking bow on her chest.

[Danielle Busby]

I'm not girly. Lay off, I'm starving. Remember, pop on you.

[Adam Busby]

Pop on you. Hazel. So I have this. I. I sent Danielle. I don't know, I may, I may like post up some of these videos here. So for those of you that are watching on YouTube, you can actually see some of the footage that I'm talking about.

[Danielle Busby]

This is More Than Reality Podcast where we dive into all things faith, family and marriage and share that there is so much more than the reality that you see on the surface. Welcome to More Than Reality with Adam and Danielle Busby.

[Adam Busby]

Welcome. We made it to episode 60 of more than Reality Podcast. This is Adam and Danielle Busby and today is a very special episode because today, Happy Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving here in the US because people live, I mean, all over the world that listen to this. Oh, yeah, but it's American Thanksgiving. I have to say that because we have. We have a lot of fans and that reach out from all over the world.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah, I know. It's cool. So it's cool, guys. Thank you all. That's pretty weird to think about that people listen to us around the world and like, that's. I still think that's interesting. Like what little mean losing. Losing a girl.

[Adam Busby]

Just poor old white trash girl from the South.

[Danielle Busby]

I was not white trash. Now come on now. Maybe part of people I knew, but not Me? You better back off, bro.

[Adam Busby]

Or family members. I gotta have white trashy family members.

[Danielle Busby]

I mean, if you're in Louisiana, there are probably a lot of use white trash. But I personally don't like trash.

[Adam Busby]

I wasn't white trash, but okay. See, you can.

[Danielle Busby]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Adam Busby]

We can get kind of trashy sometimes, though.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, thankful.

[Adam Busby]

Everybody gets a little trashy sometimes.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Adam Busby]

No matter what color you are.

[Danielle Busby]

Geez. It was just really Louisiana ended up today. Is Theo here today or something? So today's Thanksgiving, so it's just very fitting to just talk about thankfulness and gratefulness and I just had, like, a brain fart.

[Adam Busby]

This week. We've been getting the house. Daniel has been getting the house ready.

[Danielle Busby]

Did you say that with like a.

[Adam Busby]

No, like, more so of like. Well, I actually haven't done any of it, but Danielle, ask in a grateful way. Of course. A thankful way. Oh, you better say Thanksgiving.

[Danielle Busby]

All right, so I hear that. And I'm going to receive that. Which means you can't complain about one thing about any of the decorations that are going to be going up for Christmas.

[Adam Busby]

Complain about them?

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah, because you haven't seen them yet.

[Adam Busby]

I've never complained about any.

[Danielle Busby]

You haven't seen the new ones yet?

[Adam Busby]

What do you mean?

[Danielle Busby]

I'm just saying. Avenue.

[Adam Busby]

Are they, like, obnoxious?

[Danielle Busby]

No, but I have a new theme. The front that I just did last night was, like, simple. The other tree that's in the living room, and the theme in the main space is new.

[Adam Busby]

As long as it doesn't look freaking mama.

[Danielle Busby]

Babe, you just said you were grateful that I am doing all the things. I went to storage. I hurt myself multiple times. Almost died up and down the stairs, walking across the air in the storage, sweating.

[Adam Busby]

There's no stairs.

[Danielle Busby]

I meant the ladder. I just have a new theme. And I have an amazing, talented friend named Mandy.

[Adam Busby]

Danielle's like, in this new era.

[Danielle Busby]

No, I'm not.

[Adam Busby]

I've always been gross.

[Danielle Busby]

You're gross.

[Adam Busby]

She.

[Danielle Busby]

She. And I'm thankful for my era.

[Adam Busby]

It's a. It's you. You got you. You go to where you go. Where you go.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, no. Where do I go?

[Adam Busby]

She goes. All these garage sales.

[Danielle Busby]

Nope. Never. Sniper sale.

[Adam Busby]

Sorry. That's less white trashy.

[Danielle Busby]

You just don't know design, babe, because you. You cannot walk into a house and everything be new.

[Adam Busby]

It's not just the garage. It's the everything in the house. Okay.

[Danielle Busby]

And that's a lot of vintage old.

[Adam Busby]

But she's, like, into, like, all this, like, super antiquey like, stuff. Stuff that doesn't really match anything in our houses because we don't have anything. So she keeps buying, like, all these old antique pieces with, like, really dainty legs. And, like, this ain't. This ain't my grandma's house.

[Danielle Busby]

I didn't say it was. These are things that are going to.

[Adam Busby]

Go with trying to make it my grandma's house.

[Danielle Busby]

He just doesn't get it. He sits here with a room of cameras and electronics around him, and that's what he wants to look at all day. And I have to walk around the rest of the house with blankets and clothes and towels and dirty stuff all everywhere and cups and so give me some room to make something that I like that I want to decorate. And don't forget I folded your underwear today. You folded them?

[Adam Busby]

You always make fun of me because I fold my underwear.

[Danielle Busby]

Because they were sitting there and they got it and they made me annoyed. You're thankful for that?

[Adam Busby]

Very.

[Danielle Busby]

But according to design, you're supposed to mix old with new. Because if it's all new, it just looks. It looks too perfect. And no one wants to be perfect. Nothing's perfect. Like, it looks good if you got old with new. It makes the stuff look like, lived in. Makes it have character.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, but there's just a thing about, like, different styles, though. Like, very, like, ornamental. Like, it just doesn't go.

[Danielle Busby]

You look in this house right now. What's the style? Nothing. Because it's hodgepodge of whatever. Because we don't have anything.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, because you sold it all Right. Before we moved out of our.

[Danielle Busby]

I know. So now I'm collecting.

[Adam Busby]

But the furniture pieces that we do have are more, like, ready to get rid of rustic to like, a mix of, like, rustic. Yeah, baby modern house 20 years ago. Leather, weathered wood type stuff.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. And that's fine.

[Adam Busby]

And it doesn't really go with, like, dainty little ornamental antiques.

[Danielle Busby]

So we're changing. We're changing some of that up because we're ready to get rid of that. Some of that stuff. You don't get to say in that, babe.

[Adam Busby]

Kind of do.

[Danielle Busby]

We'll see about that. So remember when you said, I can't when I put wallpaper in our bedroom, you're like, as long as it's not floral. And then what happened?

[Adam Busby]

At least, like, if you put flowers in it, it was, like, really dark. It wasn't like, it was moody pink and light pink.

[Danielle Busby]

And I'm not girly. I'm not girly as I'm wearing bow and jules on today.

[Adam Busby]

I'm not girly. She's got a freaking bow on her chest.

[Danielle Busby]

I'm not girly. Lay off.

[Adam Busby]

I'm starving as there's a freaking bow all the way across.

[Danielle Busby]

I mean, like I said, I'm not girly. Like I said, a touch of it. Just a touch here, a touch there. Okay. That's how I roll. You're the one who married this. That's all I'm saying.

[Adam Busby]

So Danielle's been doing, like, all the how not. I was about to say Halloween Christmas decorations. We barely got a how to Halloween. Haven't even made it to today's finally Thanksgiving, and we're already.

[Danielle Busby]

I didn't want to do anything Halloween or Thanksgiving. I wanted to jump straight to Christmas, and it's Thanksgiving.

[Adam Busby]

Have you noticed that, like.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh, change the subject.

[Adam Busby]

No, I feel like, especially, like, the last few years, everybody has been decorating for Christmas way sooner.

[Danielle Busby]

November 1st is the day that I want to decorate for Christmas.

[Adam Busby]

There was legit people with, like, Christmas lights well before Halloween, because people are.

[Danielle Busby]

Starting to offer discounts to put Christmas lights up. The people who put the lights up, I've heard from friends, like, they're like.

[Adam Busby]

Put them up and don't turn them.

[Danielle Busby]

On, dude, I would keep them up all year, but I love Christmas.

[Adam Busby]

She's a little white trashy.

[Danielle Busby]

I think. I love them. I love them. I'll give them a ball here.

[Adam Busby]

I do have those, like, jelly cat lights, but jelly gets a stuffed animal or whatever they're called. They're jelly something.

[Danielle Busby]

Oh.

[Adam Busby]

I could be. I could be way off, but I. I could. I could have sworn they're, like, called, like, jelly something house. Like, they're like permanent house lights you put on your eaves and you can change. They're like. You can change the color for everything.

[Danielle Busby]

Hey, since you're talking about lights, did you listen to Jeremy Roloff's thing about lighting in his house? And I texted him and I said, can you please share this with Adam?

[Adam Busby]

Because I know. And I saw y' all were talking about me because whenever. Whenever you get. Because I have access to your Instagram, and so whenever, especially you talk to someone that I know, it, like, pops up as a notification. And then I have to, because it looked like Jeremy was sending me a message. And then I, like, I long tapped on it, and it said to you. And I was like, what the heck are they freaking talking about? And sure enough, you are talking about me and my lights.

[Danielle Busby]

And I said, I need you to tell Adam this, because I Like, window light and lamps and Adam wants TV lights and podcast lighting all on all the time. It's not good for your mental state.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, I see that.

[Danielle Busby]

Thank you. Jeremy, you listen to this, and I'm gonna send you a apple pie.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, Jeremy is, like, all into. Jeremy and Audrey are just like, all into the, like, circadian rhythms and like, all the everything. Like grounding, healthy eating, all the essential oils.

[Danielle Busby]

We can start with lighting in the house. Let's do it.

[Adam Busby]

Jeremy, like, gets laser focused on something, and he, like, thankful.

[Danielle Busby]

Jeremy, hey, said that and shared that post so that Adam could see that we had the conversation and that we could work on that at home.

[Adam Busby]

Like, Jeremy researches so much, it's not even funny. Like, whenever something about light bulbs and you would never even know that you can know that much about light bulbs and incandescent LEDs and what it does to your body and circadian rhythms and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, oh, my gosh, he can go on and on about everything. Yeah, crazy. He does some crazy research.

[Danielle Busby]

So while I have been doing, going to storage and which was really only.

[Adam Busby]

Like, yesterday Christmas stuff, you went multiple times yesterday.

[Danielle Busby]

I know. Because you had so much stuff in your truck. And I couldn't use the truck, but then I ended up taking the van because I was, like, playing cool mom in the party bus. Hashtag, the buzz bus.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. So while Danielle was doing all that.

[Danielle Busby]

So Adam was like, I'm. I'm working on this new server, blah, blah, blah.

[Adam Busby]

Anybody that's followed me over the last. Well, anybody that's followed me, sees my stories and stuff like that, I had a huge mishap.

[Danielle Busby]

Is there water in that?

[Adam Busby]

A few weeks ago, Is it older vodka water? I had a huge mishap with. Actually, it was a fairly brand new hard drive that I bought as a backup drive for a specific project that I was doing. And I've been working off of this and backing up to it, and the hard drive freaking failed. It was only like, less than six months old, which is ridiculous. And. But I. I was able to, like, back up and find and restore recovery. Like, most of the information, except for one major file that kind of screws over a whole project. But at that point, I was like, I've got to do something different. I have. I have hard drives on top of hard drives on top of hard drives everywhere. I need, like, a network storage unit. And so I finally broke down. It's freaking so expensive. But I got to do it. And so I bought this network, network attached storage drive that's got six hard drives in it connected to our home network. I can view, edit, do all kind of stuff from the files from anywhere, not just at home. I don't have to be plugged into it. It's set. But I've been like, category, category categorizing and going through, like, old footage and hard drives and all this stuff to try to, like, start moving and migrating stuff over to this st stuff that I might need. And I just got. I mean, once you do that, especially with all the footage and stuff that we have, you just gotta get to.

[Danielle Busby]

Be able to see all this stuff you get.

[Adam Busby]

Like, I've been, like, texting you, like, random files and stuff every now and then.

[Danielle Busby]

I know, but can I log in to look at these old videos of our life?

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, possibly. Like, once I get it organized. Right now, it's not organized. It's just like, I'm copying over random stuff. I don't want to copy everything over right away. Like, I'm letting stuff just really old stuff just live on hard drives in the closet. But. And then, like, once I get everything squared like that I'm using right now, then I'll, like, go back and, like, start pulling some.

[Danielle Busby]

See, in 20 years.

[Adam Busby]

That's a lot.

[Danielle Busby]

Anyway, he got. He got on a whim. Realm, Wilm, Whelm, Whatever. Is it? What do you say?

[Adam Busby]

Tear bender?

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah, Bender. Of old home videos of quintuplet babies.

[Adam Busby]

And little Blake and when Blake was little.

[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

I just fall asleep easy. Especially whenever I'm wrapped up in a bubble cuddle blanket.

[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

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[Adam Busby]

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[Danielle Busby]

Thank you Cozy Earth for sponsoring our podcast. And it's very hard to get out of that and you can't start it.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, so he's like, I've been in.

[Danielle Busby]

My, I've been in my office dealing with this hard drive all day and I'm like. And then he's sending me these videos. I'm like, and you mean you're just looking at home footage and you can't stop?

[Adam Busby]

Well, I have to look at it. I have to know what I'm, I know, moving over. Plus a lot of that stuff. Like I have, I have a stack this big of like solid state drive that moves stuff really fast. But then a lot of the old footage of the quints and stuff, it's in these huge bulky regular hard drives that spin slow. They're spinning drives and it takes forever for them to transfer and so it like transfers super slow. So like, you know, I can move over an entire solid state drive in a matter of 15 minutes. But then if I try to move that same amount of storage from one of those bigger drives, it may take me 11 hours. It's crazy. And so while stuff is moving, I'm just kind of sorting through and like looking, okay, what am I going to move over next? So I've got to look through it all. But yeah, I mean it was, I don't know how many times I cried in my office by myself because, I mean, it's just you get all the, all in the fills whenever you start. I recommend it, like as a mom or a dad, just to kind of every now and then just kind of go back through old footage, old photos, old videos. I just don't have, like, like, remember.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

Be thankful.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. I don't, I don't have. I don't have like, access. Like, my phone doesn't. I can't log back on my phone. It'll go back like maybe five years. It doesn't go back to like the baby ears on my phone from. However, in whatever way it used to back up or whatever. Like, you can go on your phone and be like, oh, 2019, and pull up something. I'm like, my phone doesn't do that because it used to, like, I used to like manually back it up. Oh, yeah. No, dumb. My smart husband didn't set my phone up right back then.

[Adam Busby]

I don't know about that.

[Danielle Busby]

I know. I'm just saying. I'm just joking. But yeah, it is. It's good. It's funny. And we still have, like when we took, when we were moving, we still have that big tub of stuff. We moved out the house of all the NICU and photos and stuff. I just took it out. It's. I was trying to put it under a bed, that big flat tub. I want to sit down, link with the girls and go through all that stuff.

[Adam Busby]

All right, guys, holiday season is upon us. Holiday shopping and gift giving season is upon us.

[Danielle Busby]

And men are hard to shop for.

[Adam Busby]

I usually just shop for myself and she knows this and it bugs her.

[Danielle Busby]

Because I love shopping for men stuff because Adam is the only man boy things that I get to shop for in the Busby house. So women, if you can relate and you need to shop for your husbands because they don't like to shop. Ponchos outdoors is the product that you need to buy for them.

[Adam Busby]

It's going to be a hit every time.

[Danielle Busby]

They're going to look good and they're going to look good as they're working and looking good. Because they can wear it, but they also can work out in the field if they're farmers or cowboys or they just want to wear it because it's nice.

[Adam Busby]

I wear it to the office. Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

Because it's like a twofer.

[Adam Busby]

The thing is, like, if you look good, you feel good.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. I think that's Adam's motto.

[Adam Busby]

But also you can flip that and if you feel Good. Because I always feel good in poncho. Good.

[Danielle Busby]

That is true. Always looking good. So Adam's got the western polo on now. If you're watching this on their YouTube.

[Adam Busby]

Podcast, last week I had on the flannel.

[Danielle Busby]

Yes, I love the flannel. And it's a great season to check out their flannels. And Adam, tell us what's good about poncho because they have some great, you know, specialties about why do men need to wear poncho.

[Adam Busby]

I absolutely love poncho because you can, you can like cater your fit.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

They have standard fit, they have slim fit, they have tall fit.

[Danielle Busby]

And I think this is why men don't like shopping because they never can find the perfect fit for them. The poncho offers, guess what, you can send it back and we're going to find that perfect fit for you.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. Risk free returns to make sure that you have the perfect fit. Order something, try it on.

[Danielle Busby]

But Adam is super particular about all his collars and he loves the fit of all the collars on all of Poncho's products. The polo he has on now is like wrinkle resistance. The flannels are like they, they're like this. If you sweat in them or whatever, they like dry super, super fast. They're like. What do you call that? Like it like. Yeah. So it's perfect for like that like work. You can like work in it, but you can also like wear it on the weekend. So guys, y' all need to check out and wives poncho outdoors.com and that's p o n c h o outdoors.com.

[Adam Busby]

So we have a landing page there. Go check it out. A lot of my favorites are right there on our more than reality landing page. So go to poncho outdoors.com more than.

[Danielle Busby]

And you're going to get $10 off and free shipping. And just remember, if those fits don't fit, you don't have to cause a fit cuz you can send it back and they're going to fit you just right.

[Adam Busby]

Yep.

[Danielle Busby]

You like that? Did you hear that?

[Adam Busby]

So get your loved ones or yourself poncho this holiday season.

[Danielle Busby]

Yep. So for the man who doesn't ask for much but deserves the best, get them ponchos outdoors for this holiday season.

[Adam Busby]

Yeehaw. Yeah, I mean just going across obviously.

[Danielle Busby]

All this week since we're out of.

[Adam Busby]

School, stuff from the nicu, but then like man, like whenever your kids, you know, obviously they're the quints are 10 and Blake's 14 now. But I Mean, like back in those, like, toddler years where, you know, I. I. In my opinion, it's like, the best stage of life. Whenever they're just starting to talk, like, you have to really concentrate to, like, make out what words they're saying, but they know what they're saying, and.

[Danielle Busby]

And, like, they had their own language.

[Adam Busby]

And then, like, you'll tell them something, and then they'll repeat, like, the last word in the sentence, like, yeah, whenever. While you're trying to describe something. And all of them would do it, and it's just. But, you know, just coming across, like, video after video.

[Danielle Busby]

Bite your arm, and then I'll go arm her.

[Adam Busby]

There was this, like, whenever in the summertime, whenever we would play with water balloons. They call them pop on use. Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

And I love that I sent that video to Blake last night. I said, you remember. Pop on you.

[Adam Busby]

Pop on you.

[Danielle Busby]

Pop on you.

[Adam Busby]

Hazel. I sent Danielle. I don't know. I might. I may, like, post up some of these videos. So for those of you that are watching on YouTube, you can actually see some of the footage that I'm talking about. But. And I have to go back and find it now, but, yeah, it was just like us playing with the girls in the backyard. We're playing with those, like, bunch of balloons where it just, like, drops a bunch of water balloons at the same time. And it's just funny, like, just how impatient they are. Even though you're filling up, like, 30 water balloons at one time.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

But still, like, Daniel's like, you only.

[Danielle Busby]

Have to hold one balloon at the water faucet to turn it, and they.

[Adam Busby]

Couldn'T wait that extra 10 seconds. They're, like, screaming, trying to get a water balloon. You're like, no, don't touch them yet. Don't pull them up.

[Danielle Busby]

And.

[Adam Busby]

But then immediately, they all start yelling, pop on you. Pop on. You just chasing each other around and start crying whenever there's pops. And. Yeah, it's just funny. I don't know. It's just, like, going through, like, each stage of their life. Who wants to pet him? Who wants to pet him? I want to pet him. Oh, but not Rara. Who wants. Who's gonna touch it? I don't know. It just very much. I feel thankful. Kind of goes along with the sentiment of today, which is Thanksgiving, and just, like, being thankful for, like, these memories that we do have. Being thankful for, like, the time that we actually live in where we can actually, you know, capture those memories. Obviously, we have a very unique situation with having a television show where like other people capture stuff for us. But this was like a point of contention a lot on the TV show in the act while we were filming it with our producers and stuff. Because yes, we were filming our show and doing all these like really cool stuff and just capturing these moments and stuff with our family. I, I also, while we were filming the show, I always carried a camera also.

[Danielle Busby]

Not always, but I mean, a lot.

[Adam Busby]

Of the time, A lot of the time. And I would kind of argue every now and then with some of the producers about like, hey, can you just put, put the camera down for this moment. And I was like, because they're like, we're, we're capturing this. And I was like, yeah, but never.

[Danielle Busby]

Give that to me.

[Adam Busby]

You'll never give that to me. You're never going to give me that raw footage. So I'll never see it again other than, you know, that the three minutes of that thing that we did for on tv. But you know, it may have been like an all day event and maybe like three to five minutes of footage that's gonna go on tv. And so that's why like I would always argue and hold my ground because like, no, I'm gonna capture these moments because these are like awesome moments with our kids and cool memories of like first, you know, and all these different things that we were doing and like, you know, first time to the zoo and first time here, first time to Disney and all this stuff. And yeah, they were recording us and like capturing this footage, but it wasn't for, it wasn't for us. Yeah, it was for you. It wasn't for us.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

And so, because that's what I would always tell them back is like, okay, are you gonna give me that footage? And they're like, nah, we can't do that. Like, exactly. That's why I'm not putting this camera down and I'm gonna capture these moments whenever I can. Because we want this years from now when you're gone, you know, say this Disney cruise, it was, you know, an episode or, you know, and over the course of that there's all kind of other random stuff and like here and there. But you know, over the course of like just like these little events and small, little things that they do and they captured, it's like, you know, 30 seconds here, 32 minutes here. But I'll never see it again other than like those little small moments. And so, well, it would be like.

[Danielle Busby]

We'Re gonna film these activities and then we'll give you an hour to go swim well, those are the things that we wanted to do with our kids. We wanted to be able to capture some of that, you know.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

Like, going on the slide for the first time. Right.

[Adam Busby]

So that was like. That was like a big thing of, like, why I always, like, held my ground. I'm like, no, like, I want to capture these moments. I. I want to be able to go back and look. Look back and potentially like later on go back and make videos of these things also. Yeah, that's like. Also, it's like sometimes it's like home videos instead of just a television show.

[Danielle Busby]

But there were. There were days too. Well, when we would go on vacations. Not just us, like, where it was days where it was no cameras and it was just us going on vacation. And of course we like, we want to capture, like, do our own thing or whatever. But we always had a day, like a down day. It was like, there's no photos, there's no videos because we didn't want it always just being cameras, cameras, cameras, you know?

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

So we always had time where it was like we never. No matter if it was like a first restaurant or first this. It was like we never took photos. We never took videos or nothing. It was like, this is a camera day. This is no camera day. So.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. But I was. I mean, I want to say, like.

[Danielle Busby]

It is, it is. Even though there was glimpse of things that were captured on the show, hopefully what we can remember in what re watching the show is that we can remember what those moments were still like. I mean, I kind of don't remember some of that just because a lot of my time is in mom mode and a lot of those things, and I'm not like, I. A lot of the time, like, I was never really, really present unless the kids were not around.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

Honestly. Because I'm constantly worried about, like, them.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

Especially in public places, you know.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. So I. I mean, just going back and like looking at all these old videos and stuff and like, timeline, because, like, you know, you're. You're looking at like file structure and stuff. And. And I'm seeing like, how. How often we were like, filming stuff every single day, especially because, like, you know, in those early years, like, the quints were, you know, they're growing so fast. They're learning so fast. And it's not just like one kid that, you know, it's like, you know, if you have like one or two kids, it's like a much slower pace. But whenever it's five and like, she may have a First this day and then like a day or two later, like she may have her first at that same thing. And so like you're just constantly like wanting to capture it all and remember it all and like just take it all in. So like one day you can go back and you know, whether it's for home videos or for, you know, for their kids one day just to have that. Hey, where is Ava? That's Ava. Is that Ava Riley?

[Danielle Busby]

Yes.

[Adam Busby]

You sure?

[Danielle Busby]

How do you know?

[Adam Busby]

How do you know Ava?

[Danielle Busby]

I like a baby.

[Adam Busby]

Where is Hazel? Hazel like it. Where's Hazel?

[Danielle Busby]

Rachel?

[Adam Busby]

You're Hazel?

[Danielle Busby]

Yes.

[Adam Busby]

Stop. Every day. You're the deadposter. Where's Riley? Riley? Riley's right there. Where's Parker? Right there. Where's Parker? My dad. But I was like, I was kind of surprised like as I was like scrolling through and I'm like looking at all the dates and it was like almost every day like we had like we were filming some sort of like little event or just even if it was just like one clip that day, but it was just like there I'm like, wow. And just like seeing like the progression of how the kids were changing and growing and like their vocabulary and stuff. And like as I'm going like months and months and months down of just like all these. This catalog footage. And it was just crazy to see like the development and like how they were growing like. And almost like it just in like not real time but just like the sped up version. It was like. Well it was pretty cool just to go go back. I mean I have this one folder that's like super long before I used to do things the way I do now where I would keep everything on this huge file and like all these different events were like all together and so I could see by date and it was like over the course of probably years of just like all these little things, I'm like sitting there scrolling through and using. And then I never go to bed late. Rarely. I'm usually like quints are in bed, I'm going to bed. And like the last few nights this week I've been. I mean I don't think I've gone to bed earlier than 11pm I know it has been weird and. But because like you just get sucked in, I get sucked in and I just can't stop and because you just.

[Danielle Busby]

I know I'd love to take all those early things like you're saying and like make some something out of it, you know, where you're not have it. Like I would Love to see that progression, like in. In a video, you know, so. So can you do that for me?

[Adam Busby]

Yeah. Pretty big project, but can do that for my birthday.

[Danielle Busby]

It's in, like, 30 days.

[Adam Busby]

No, I don't think I could do that by then.

[Danielle Busby]

I'm just kidding. Maybe next year. Yeah, it's good. And so I think. I think what you're trying to say is that out of all this, given the season and, you know, as we watch our kids grow up, is that what I'm hearing is documenting. And, you know, back in the day, a lot of our. How we used to remember thing was, like, we do, like, photo albums or, like, baby books and journals and stuff like that. And I think technology makes it really easy to be able to capture something. Now I look back, I was something I was going to post, and I went back and looked at, like, my blog, and I remember the first year of Blake's. There was this app. I forget what it was called. Like, I forget what it was called.

[Adam Busby]

But I took a time warp or something.

[Danielle Busby]

No, something365 or something. But I took a picture of Blake every single day for the first year, and I can see it all together. A picture of her every single day for the first year. And I'm like, dude, how awesome would that have been if I could have done that with the quints? But, like, how would I have done that with the quits?

[Adam Busby]

You know, but it was different than Olivia part someday.

[Danielle Busby]

But I didn't have, like, it was already different by the time. Four years later when the quints are born, I had, like, I had a different type of iPhone or, like, whatever, so. Or video, and it was. Everything was different four years later.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah.

[Danielle Busby]

But, yeah, I do think that it's important to just be able to capture memories.

[Adam Busby]

I mean, it's. It's one thing to, you know, be intentional, be mindful about, like, capturing the moments, but also, like, live in the moment.

[Danielle Busby]

Right. And that's what I was getting at next.

[Adam Busby]

Like, sometimes I've been big on. And I mean, I know. I mean, this. This is my life, and this is what I do, you know, Caption, you know, so, like, I try. Have always tried to, like, stay on top of technology and like, what camera or what piece of equipment or gear is going to make it easy for me to do this to where it's not cumbersome, it's not hard. And so, you know, just, like, from different, like, smaller, like, action cameras that I can just, like, throw in my pocket and. But it shoots, like, really Great quality video. And like, like the Insta360 cameras, like the little they have, like the Go3 or the Ultra or whatever, and they're like tiny and you can just like stick them onto a magnet and stick them to anything and. But like, so I've always been like, mindful about like, just, okay, like when something new comes out, like, is that going to make it easier for me to like, capture this or whatever and make it like less cumbersome to where I can actually be more in the moment? And so I just think about stuff like that. Yeah, but I would definitely recommend living in the moment over capturing the moment. But. But sometimes it's really hard and not capture the moment.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. But I remember I was listening to a video someone posted the other day. It was really sweet about this girl going through years and years of infertility and then her story ended up leading God let her down this path of walking life with a friend who ended up getting pregnant. And long story short, she ended up the girl who went through infertility, ended up adopting her friend's baby. I don't know the story of all that. Anyways, she remembered being like connected into this church and everything. And I guess through baptism, all this stuff. Like, she remembered being overwhelmed by like, all this started with being involved in this church. And she remember leaving one day and being kind of overwhelmed and like walked back in the church and just was like holding her child and just kind of walked in there and asked someone, she said, can you just please take a picture of me and my son right here? I want to be able to remember this moment, this moment when like, I remembered where all this came together. Like, the moment I'm holding my son, the moment where like all this happened. Like that, something like that. Like, don't pass up that moment where you're like, I. I need to capture this, you know, a simple photo of like, even if you just see something outside that, like, what does that remember? What is, what is even, even. Even if it's something like, meaningful, like you saw a flower of something, like, and you can look back at that and being like, I know what that meant to me that day. That's powerful. And like, I, I do that at times. I will take a. I will take a picture of something in the sky and like, I can put it in my notes on like just an, like, open my notes, my phone and put in there and like, put it like a little note next to it. And I will come up to something years later and be like, oh, my Gosh, that is so. I totally remember that. Yeah.

[Adam Busby]

Because things like that help so much with, like, perspective.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. And you look back years later, it's like. It's like a. It's like a journal everywhere you go. Like, your iPhone can be used as so many different things, not just for technology to call someone, but. Or social media or to texting, but it can be used to document life moments, too, you know, simple things, too. So definitely, they're very thankful for one, the life God has given us, but also the way God has blessed us with the things in the people around us to be able to. Gosh. And just like, the protection around us that he has put around us to be able to have this life and to survive this life, you know, but also just the skills and the ability and the blessings of just the things that we are not capable of. He has gone before us and stepped ahead of us and, like, carved the way and, like. Like, just pushed us and just gone before us. And, you know, being obedient is not always easy, but we're so grateful to have the support of one another, but also, you know, church, family, or our family and our friendships with others and just each other to encourage one another and, like, push each other down the path that, you know, we know is right, but may not be the one we want to go down, but we know we need to. And so just. And. And, you know, we, too, are different. Different mindsets and different. But I'm so very thankful for Adam's skills and technology and, you know, the. The visions that he has and the. The mindset and the skills, because I don't see things like he does, but.

[Adam Busby]

She just gets mad at me when I bust her.

[Danielle Busby]

Yeah. Like hashtag an hour before we started this podcast. And so it's. They're. They're all good things. Just sometimes things cause friction because they're not done at the right time or at the right conversation or the right moment or whatever. But they're all in friction, meant for good. And they. I do see them as blessings, especially as we are talking and looking back at man 10 years ago, five years ago, like, look at where we are today. And would we envision being here? Absolutely not. In our garage sale, white trash, whatever you want to call me.

[Adam Busby]

Former life. But, yeah, I was. I was honestly hoping that entire time that I've been working on that, like, you were not going to come in my office because I knew if you come in here, we're never going to leave.

[Danielle Busby]

I'll never get anything done.

[Adam Busby]

I know, it was just like one of those things. Well, honestly, the second can't stop.

[Danielle Busby]

Well, the second you started sending me videos, I was like, that's why I text you. I said, that's what you're really doing up there. And I thought, if I go up.

[Adam Busby]

There, you won't get anything done the rest of the night.

[Danielle Busby]

And I was like. I was like, I. There's other. Like, the kids are here. They're home from school. There's now friends over. There's stuff everywhere. Christmas things, like, trying to entertain them. And at this point, even last night, it's like nine o' clock and, like, we're eating ice cream. I'm like, I got stuff on the porch. They're playing outside with me eating ice cream as I'm like, doing, like, stuff on the porch, like, putting lights up and, like, stuff, whatever. And, like, we're all laughing, like, having fun. So I'm like, I can't. I can't even, like, step into that. I gotta be, like, visible down here, you know? So you go have your. Your, you time. And you're not up at this time of the day. So whatever. Whatever time.

[Adam Busby]

This time I was on bonus time.

[Danielle Busby]

This was your. This was your bathtub alone time.

[Adam Busby]

Yeah, I'm not normally up at after 9pm yeah. So anything I'm doing in my office, it's like free time. Bonus time.

[Danielle Busby]

See, it was your time. That's my. Don't. Don't talk to me. Leave me alone. I'm doing whatever I want. It's my bathtub, like, talk to me time. So anyways, we guys, we hope you all have a great. Have had a great Thanksgiving. And, you know, be thankful for what God has blessed you with. And don't give up on what's next for your life and what God's got in store for you and what you're praying for. Because God can still do miracles. And don't give up hope.

[Adam Busby]

Yep. All right. We love you guys.

[Danielle Busby]

Thanks for listening.