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Ryan Reynolds
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Isabel Brown
it's Easter Egg Roll day and we're freezing on the South Lawn. Well, technically the ellipse right now, heading into the White House for Isla's first Easter Egg Roll. Last year I came to this, I was nine months pregnant and I walked around for like four hours trying to get her to come out of. Okay, so as you can see, it's kind of pandemonium everywhere, as it always is with these White House events. There are supposed to be up to 40,000 people who come through the White House Easter Egg Roll today. And you come in two hour chunks. These are all the people for the 7 to 9am crew. The rumor is POTUS is supposed to be here around 10, so we'll see if they let us stay and sneak our way around. But they have a bunch of different really fun stations. There's the actual egg roll, which is not an Easter egg hunt. Two different things. You roll it with like wooden spoons across the lawn. No idea how that all started. And there's an Easter egg hu and craft station. There's a little cafe you can take pictures with. The Easter Bunny fun White House Insider. Fun fact. More often than not, the Easter Bunny costume is worn by a member of very, very, very senior staff. Sometimes it's been Dan's Covino the last few years. So you never know who's in the Easter bunny costume. But it's so fun and it's a really great way for Washington to all come together and celebrate the reason for the season.
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White House Official
Happy Easter Monday. I hope you enjoy this beautiful day. We are celebrating a very special Easter Egg Roll this year because it birthday of this beautiful nation. Enjoy it and I hope you have a wonderful day.
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Isabel Brown
Okay. This is so cute. I don't remember them having this last year, but they have fresh produce and you can take some of the produce home and you can build your own bouquet. It's the cutest thing I've ever seen. So Isla and I are going to Go pick out our favorite flowers. I, by the way, cannot get over how freaking cute Isla's outfit is. I have been looking forward to her first Easter for so long, and getting to share these really precious memories with my daughter is so much more special than I ever could have imagined. And how awesome is it that this admin is focusing so much on healthy food? Like everything on the South Lawn was all centered around eggs and meat, understanding where your produce comes from, and eating real food again. It really feels like a different era in the United States of America. You going to eat it, baby? ASMR O. Of course, we had to visit our new friend, the astronaut. As we cheer on our astronauts today as they circle the moon and go farther into space than anyone ever has before. We are huge nerds for science and space around here in the Belcher household. And then we took a trip over to the farm station with U.S. department of Agriculture. We played with the soybeans in the little sandbox. We saw the real live chicks, which Isla was actually super excited about, although she was not that jazzed about the tractor. And then we headed over to some of the other sponsor tents to see all of the fun activities that they had set up for the kids today, including this sweet setup from Meta. This was awesome. Actually, maybe the best thing of the day.
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White House Official
Look, Isla.
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Isabel Brown
People came up with some good ones. Apparently, this is make your own AI Easter egg with Meta. I have no ide idea what this means. Yeah, but it'll be cool. Yay. Okay, a corgi. It's working on it. Did it so fast. Which one do we like? I like that one. It's smiling. It's Libby. Isla. I made a Libby egg. Look how cute she is. Back to the White House South Lawn in just a second. But first, if you're watching us, chances are you're probably trying to survive college or your first job. Or just the entire woke machine that is out there in culture right now. And you're probably doing it all on about four hours of sleep on a really crappy mattress that you bought online in, like, 2017. Been there. Believe me, that was me. Constant travel, crazy lack of sleep, or just all over the place. And a bed. That absolutely was not doing it for me. I would wake up groggy and stiff and somehow even more tired than when I went to sleep in the first place. So about eight months ago, my husband and I finally upgraded our mattress to a Helix mattress. And game changer. We took their super easy sleep quiz. It only takes a couple of minutes. And found the perfect mattress for us based on our firmness preference and our sleep positions, all of it. And we noticed the difference right away. I am actually sleeping through the night, I'm staying asleep and I'm waking up feeling incredibly refreshed every morning. We even have started planning ahead to switch our daughter to a Helix mattress, which is amazing. And that too, I'm so excited for. But they're not lying when they say, don't just buy any mattress off of, you know, whatever your favor store is or any of the sketchy mattress stores that I have no idea how they stay in business. You need the real deal. Helix ships right to your front door in a box. It is super, super easy. It is ridiculously simple to set up and you get a 120 night sleep trial so that you can make sure, you know, this is the mattress that works for you and your family. Plus, they give you a limited lifetime warranty as well. It's even the most awarded mattress brand out there, reviewed by real sleep experts, not just TikTok influencers. Although we matter too. Okay, go to helixsleep.com isabel for 20% off site wide. Again, that's helixsleep.com isabelfor 20% off site wide. And make sure you enter our show name, the Isabel Brown show so that they know we sent you. After checkout, on our way over to story time with our sweet friend Caroline, we had to stop by the ring toss. We did it. You want to do one more? Third time's the charm. Ready? Oh, I was close. That's okay. Ran into my beautiful friend Christine Yergit and her sweet daughter on the south lawn. And then joined all the kiddos, mostly of admin families, in the rose Garden, to hear our press secretary, Caroline Levitt, read her favorite book to everyone in the audience. It was so, so sweet.
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White House Official
You'll grow big one day and you
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Isabel Brown
will learn to be tough. Hi, Lema. He's so confusing. You are slumber and brave and you
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White House Historian
always, as you know, just last year, it's hard to believe they didn't want me to order eggs for the Easter egg roll, the Easter egg hunt that we have here every year. They wanted me to use plastic. I said, I'm not using plastic. We'll get it solved. And within a short period of time, eggs came down. They came down 40%, 50%. And by the time we got there, we had so many eggs, we didn't know what to do with them. And today we have more than 40,000 eggs supplied by all of the great egg farmers that are with us.
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Isabel Brown
Okay, we are back from the egg roll. So fun. Last year, I was still pregnant with Isla. As a mom, I was not a mom of a baby out walking around. So this year was like, extra special fun because I finally got to share it all with my daughter, and I think she had a blast. It definitely is, like, a lot, especially for a baby. There's just so much going on. All of that to be said. I actually was asking myself while we were there, what the heck was the history of this thing? Because I've known that it has always been part of White House tradition, at least for the last several decades in modern history. But, like, why did this get started? Why is it at the White House? What's the deal? So we did a little research. Turns out people have been rolling eggs since the time of President Abraham Lincoln. Why? I don't know. I actually had a friend ask me if it's the same way that we started the tradition of, like, egg racing, where you hold an egg in a spoon and you, like, run while the egg is in the spoon because you're rolling it with a spoon. Is it the same thing? I don't know. You historians out there. Let me know. People have been rolling eggs since the time of Abraham Lincoln. Then Dolly Madison Queen was the first first lady to introduce the idea of a public egg roll to, like, have people from the public come and roll eggs in public. But it was not held at the White House. It was actually held at the Capitol building for a really long time back from like 1872 on. Does they ruin things? You guys know how I feel about Congress. Eventually they just decided too many kids were running around. Too many kids were impacting the lawn. This is not sustainable for us to, like, keep up with this. And it's too expensive to keep maintaining the lawn. Cowards. Really. I think it's because they just hate having kids around. Did you know, by the way, Bone to pick. Bone to pick with Congress. To this day, it took my friend Congresswoman Kat Kamek badgering Congress and the powers that be in order to get the very first baby changing table installed in a Congressional. Congressional bathroom. Didn't exist before that. So no wonder they hated the Easter Egg Roll. Today we are at the White House for the Easter Egg Roll because, news flash, it is still Easter, people. I will die on this hill. It is important for you to know Easter is actually an eight day season, not just a singular day of festivities. And as we continue the Easter season, there's a whole lot to know and love coming up. On the Hallow app, which you may have been following along throughout Lent with us as we did their Pray 40 prayer challenge. There's a new one coming up a week from Today, starting on April 13th. You can join Mark Wahlberg to Stay Prayed up on Hallow. You've probably seen all of Mark's weekly Stay Prayed up posts, that constant reminder to just continue centering our lives around God and showing up in faith every Sunday. Now you can go even deeper into your faith life with him every single day, not just on Sundays. Prayer isn't just something that we should be saying before dinner or before we go to sleep. It's about surrendering control and completely inviting God into every aspect of your life. And when we do that, it changes everything. In this new Hallow Challenge that I'm so excited for, Mark is helping us all to build a better routine and life around our prayer. Even in the chaos of real life, when every day feels like it's up and down and left and right in a million different directions. Together, we're going to learn how to pray with scripture, to grow a whole lot closer to hearing God's voice in our lives and to make prayer a part of the fabric of who we are and not just something to check off of a to do list every day. Because staying prayed up is not just about perfection. It's about showing up every single day with consistency, humility and heart. That's where God meets us the most. You guys know I love Hallow. I use it every single day. I have a young adults devotional that I host on the platform as well, but they've got thousands of other prayers and guided meditations and podcast episodes, even Gregorian chant music. It's lit. Don't knock it till you try it. And you can visit hallow.com isabel to get three months free on the platform and download their app again. That's hallow.com Isabel for 90 days free stay prayed up. So they actually passed a law to stop the Easter Egg Roll from happening on the lawn of in 1876, the same year Colorado became a state where I'm from, the Turf Protection Law interesting to prohibit the area from being used as a playground in future years. The event the Easter Egg Roll was rained out in 1877, but in 1878 the children were alerted by a notice in the local newspaper that egg rollers would not be allowed at the Capitol that year. Leave it to Congress to just ruin everyone's hopes and dreams. You know, I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit. So Then right after that, the Easter Egg rollers either did one of two things. There's kind of an urban legend, depending on who you ask, how this evolved to eventually become an event of the White House. Either people, like, stormed the gates of the White House and said, this is the people's House. Let us in to do the egg roll with our kids.
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White House Historian
Let me in, let me in.
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Isabel Brown
Or more likely than not, President Rutherford B. Hayes opened the gate gates of the White House to the people and said, you can come on and use the White House South Lawn instead of Capitol Hill to do your beloved egg roll in the 1800s. And the very first White House Easter Egg Roll was held in 1878. And here we are in 2026 doing exactly the same thing. I doubt 40,000 people were coming through in 1878, and there probably weren't a bunch of celebrities walking around. And it's probably not quite as high tech of an experience, but it has been really cool to know that we're participating in in the same annual traditions this year as a family that so many people of national importance and historical significance have gotten to do with their kids over the years, too. To my understanding, the autographed wooden eggs, like the ones we just got today, started in the 1980s. I think it was 1981 when they started. Before that, there really wasn't the tradition of the autographed wooden eggs. Again, I'm not a White House historian, so if anybody out there disagrees with me, fact check me, please these. But it's really fun to know that we get to be a part of it too, as a family, especially with my daughter in tow. Oh, a bunch of you asked to see what the eggs looked like. This year I have the eggs from last year. They're like beautiful pastels and a really beautiful, like Easter classic color template. This year they did something a little bit different because it is our nation's 250th birthday. They went with like Hyper Maga, a 250 USA eagle screeching in the background color vibe. And they are really cool. So let me show you. Well, first and foremost, on our way out, they had these new cool Hershey's bars. They give out the M and Ms. Boxes and the Hershey's Kisses. When you go do White House tours in the West Wing or when you just do general White House events, they usually have the candies everywhere. I first saw these boxes, similar boxes for Twizzlers during Halloween, which we have here at the house, but they also have the Hershey's Happy Easter boxes and it's the signatures of the President and First lady. So we grabbed a few of those. They gave all the kids walking out a wooden egg signed by the and first Lady. These were just for the kids. Sorry, no grown ups. No grumpy grown ups taking the Easter eggs. But how cool is that? You got a golden egg. I love collecting these and I love the idea that someday when our kids are a little bit older, we'll be able to do a huge Easter egg hunt with like tons of these wooden White House eggs all over our lawn, which will be awesome. So we got these. But then they also have these commemorative boxes which of course we had to pick one up and buy because I think they're so cool. These are for the Easter Egg Roll and they are in the coolest Americana USA template you' blue and dark blue. And they had these set up. Obviously you guys probably saw earlier in the vlog in the gigantic Easter eggs that were on the lawn as well. This on the box. So something interesting. Did you know the White House Easter Egg Roll is one of the oldest annual White House traditions? I did not know that. It dates back to 1878. Boom. History. We love when. I've already looked this up. When Rutherford B. Hayes, the President opened the grounds to the children on Easter Monday. To this day, the President first lady welcome children and their families to celebrate Easter Monday with a fun filled day of egg rolling, games, music and of story time. To visit more Visit White House history.org you guys should try to come next year. This is one of my favorite events every single year at the White House. And now we have officially checked off. This is my second year checking off Easter Egg Roll. I was preggo last year. Got to bring my sweet baby Isla this year. Did you have fun at the Egg Roll? She's gone mute. She's just smiling and waving. My loud child has gone mute. Sad. Got to go to the Easter Egg Roll for the second year in a row. I've been to fourth of July twice, which is crazy. Now we've done Halloween once. Once. The all coveted very elite hard to get invite that I was not able to secure last year but is still at the top of my White House bucket list remains the turkey. Pardon? We'll see. We'll see if we're able to meet the White House turkeys this year for our 250th birthday. I always say this with our White House videos but guys, do me a favor. Make sure I never remotely think this is normal, okay? Like this is not normal. I don't know what our life is right now. That I got to spend this morning with my husband and my daughter at the White House celebrating Easter like we do every few weeks. I started to do the tally, and I think in her first year of life, my daughter has been to the White House, like, upwards of 20 times, which is insane. Not normal, but very, very huge. And very massive. Huge. No one's ever seen anything like it. Big blessings in our lives. Thank you, God, for this opportunity to celebrate our country and bring my baby in tow. Now, we've got a new book to read that they were selling, so. Talk to you later, Sam.