WE DID SOMETHING CRAZY!!! | TRENT & ALLIE

[Music] we're trenton alley and i think ali and i both kind of thrive in chaos whether we're driving around the world building a cabin in the winter or exploring the mountains we are always up for an adventure but today is a day where you wake up and kind of go what have we done subscribe and enjoy as we welcome some friends i think trent had too much confidence in in two texans driving in the snow and take a leap of faith what is that what is that because yesterday we did something crazy [Music] what's up guys and good morning i'm just uh starting the morning off right with some coffee and a delicious cookie also this is my favorite mug that my father-in-law gave me it says if valerie can't fix it then we're all screwed and today is a day where you wake up and kind of go oh my gosh what have we done because yesterday we did something crazy we're on our way home from our weekend getaway to moab and we've been talking about something pretty seriously for the last few months we've only alluded to it very briefly in the videos but today we're taking a pretty serious step we're just going to look we've been talking about making an addition to the family for probably a few weeks now probably probably a few months but in the last few weeks it's been a little bit more serious and in like the last week it's been like really serious and today we've found a prospect we're going to check her out [Music] adding a puppy into our family is something we've talked about for a very long time because we take it pretty seriously i just want to make sure that if we do get a dog we're like in the right space for it we can care for it properly train it properly and the breeds that we're looking at require a lot of training and a lot of attention which i'm excited about because i think it will fit into our lifestyle but i'm nervous because i don't know i just don't want frank to feel like overshadowed i love frank we know this is just going to shake things up like a puppy right now it's going to make things crazy and and that's fine i think allie and i both kind of thrive in chaos so that's true we're uh we're well aware of what we're getting into and uh we're excited we're going to meet the puppy and the litter and both parents at a park oh my gosh hi how are you oh my goodness hello oh my gosh what a cutie she's really nervous i still remember [Music] the day that you came [Music] she's pretty big yeah what do you think 80 pounds oh that sounds like that's a big dog but i think a slender 80. yeah like a a strong slender not like a big thick right right just pretty cute faster than me [Music] so if you're worried that a chance will pass you by [Music] if you and then there's these other two black puppies that are also really cute they're all cute in different ways and we're just trying to kind of like identify their their temperaments and how they react oh there's some kisses good girl good girl basically we have a really tough decision to make [Music] so everybody meet lika she's about 10 weeks old and she's a german shepherd malinois mix she doesn't understand what it takes to film a video yet she is really sweet and really adorable and frank does not approve unfortunately you have a sister you've never had a sister what do you think um we're hoping to persuade him with time but as of right now they are arch nemesis it's actually super cute because lika totally loves frank and wants to like sniff him out and play with him and at the beginning frank was totally fine with lika and then we took lieka back home and he realized she's not going anywhere and now he's like what have you done she likes you i know a lot of you guys are going to be asking what kind of a name is lika and the way that we came up with it was that i think i actually was reading up on names and i mispronounced the name leaky as lika and i was like oh that's kind of a cool sounding name so we decided that that would be a really cool name and after the fact we found out that lika actually means wolf in ancient greek so if you're an ancient greek and you can verify that that's what google told us so we don't actually know but lika is her name today is the first day that we've been back from vacation when we went to moab if you guys caught our last video and we should be working on the house but we decided we're going to take today off as lika's first day here and help get her introduced to frank and and the trailer and just everything [Music] [Music] me [Music] frank be nice [Music] [Music] he's like this is scary so good good girl very good good girl [Music] yeah good girl very good very [Music] good job you did so good all right so actively trying to teach lika everything she needs to know in the last five minutes did not go super well but we got her to go up a couple of stairs up to the landing and she's been like sitting and laying down and she walks with us when we walk we haven't tried putting her on a leash yet kind of building more trust before we like attach her to a leash and start uh training her with the leash she's doing really well and uh she's probably a little overloaded so we're gonna take her back into the trailer let her take a little bit of a nap hopefully dean will be here in a few [Music] minutes i think dean just got here this is all you needed what is that what is that well i'm gonna have to oh my gosh i love the dead weight so we're having a minor issue with our hrv and uh that stands for uh heat recovery ventilator yes and dean the expert of all things hvac has come back to save us because i'm sure we could figure it out let's be honest i'm sure trent could figure it out himself but it'll just be a much faster more seamless procedure if dean does it this will be less trial and error i would just be like sticking wires in different slots and seeing what it does and maybe breaking it dean probably has a better idea of what the wires do and what they should do so he came to help us out [Music] [Music] it's time to do some cruising baby get a little stuck it's dean did a great job of installing this um it's a very confusing thing to have to wire up the humidifier and hrv and all these things into one thermostat and all downstairs and we think maybe something's in the wrong spot but uh i'll give them a few minutes i think they're gonna get it figured out and then i think we're gonna rewire um the connections from the thermostat to the furnace and the hrv and that should fix it cool [Music] [Applause] we did it dean did it indeed and caleb you guys thank you so much what was wrong i don't oh still don't know nobody knows the ecobee and the fan tech hrv are not friends i think dean incorrectly wired everything because he really wanted an excuse to come back and hang out with us now we're trying to solve the problem getting the hrv to turn on and off when you turn on and off the fart fans and the extraction fan above the stove and it's proving to be a little more difficult these guys are going to figure it out and they're going to come back on a different day how much you want to bet dean comes back with his own puppy yeah right but i think probably for the rest of the day ally and i are gonna just kick back and enjoy some puppy cuddles [Music] so even though i am sleep deprived and i'm probably vulnerable to getting sick right now i have a secret weapon and it is beekeepers naturals and their new bee soothed honey lozenges these things are absolutely delicious and they help with a sore throat or a tickle or anything like that beekeepers naturals is reinventing the conventional medicine cabinet with clean cutting edge remedies that actually work beekeepers naturals uses a secret ingredient and it's called propolis now propolis is literally the cornerstone of all of these products and it is amazing now more than ever we want to be proactive and stay armed with clean chemical free products that support our immune system and overall health their products are b powered and backed 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when they're running around outside and then we come inside and he sees her next to his bone and he's like that's it the coffee is almost done we're gonna pour ourselves a cup of joe sit back and relax and then brandon will be here in a few minutes we're gonna start doing some electrical stuff today and then we've got some special friends that are actually coming to visit us [Music] we've been talking about this breed or similar breeds to what week it is for a long time basically since christmas and we've done a lot of research on the intensity and the work drive that comes with these breeds so we've known from the beginning that she's going to take a lot of work besides all of the regular commands like sit lay down stay come which we're already working on and she's not mastered but she's pretty proficient at already socialization is a really big deal for this breed and we want to make sure we do it right we do it intentionally so yesterday we took her to home depot for the first time walked her around on a leash had a bunch of training treats with us and she did great as long as we continue to socialize her properly and consistently train her with a lot of positive reinforcement i have no doubt she'll turn into almost as good a dog as frank is hey buddy you're the best everybody knows you're the best oh yes [Music] good morning good morning oh new puppy say hello to mika what's up frank what do you think well i'm sure all of us would be content to just sit around and play with lika all day because puppies are just fun like that but we do have to get to work and i know a couple videos ago i said that the plumbing was done but a special part showed up and so i've got to put that part in we're going to knock that out really quick and then we're going to move on to some electrical stuff you know what i know you guys expected me to have all the parts that i needed are you kidding but there's little white rings that go on the end of the pipes and that temperature sensing valve needs two three-quarter inch rings we only have one left oh my gosh so we're gonna install that at a different time we're gonna go upstairs and start working on installing our shower mixer okay so that needs to be done i'm pretty sure for roughing and now we've actually got to do some soldering all right this is a big moment i have not wanted or i've wanted not to have to solder anything on this house because soldering is just one of those things where if it's not done like perfectly it can leak and we don't want it to leak this is this is one of the ultimate tests [Music] i would say the first one of these did not turn out so well the second one i need to redo because i've messed it up the third one was like almost perfect it looks really really good the fourth one also i think made a really nice bead and took really nicely and i think it's going to be pretty perfect as well the only problem is that like these nipples right here that go on to the ends of the shower mixer i don't have any spares we're going to redo one of them uh it was really ugly and it probably would have worked but i'll sleep better at night knowing that i'm not going to have to re-tile the roof in my bathroom because this fitting leaked [Music] it's pretty cute we've got we got lika like three days ago now so there's been 72 hours-ish of adjusting and there's a long way to go but it's unbelievable to see frank's transformation from totally indifferent to oh my gosh why is this thing still here get this out of my house to slightly tolerant and now he's like comforting her when she cries and letting her share his bed they were cuddling together in a dog bed it's pretty adorable frank has definitely got a little bit of only child syndrome so we knew this would be a big adjustment for him but if this is what changes in just 72 hours i'm very excited to see their relationship grow together you have a little sister good boy today is a three cups of coffee kind of day i forgot to mention we were up at 2 30 to take lika out to the bathroom so she slept pretty much through the night but the first night she slept like a rock until like 8 a.m and i was like this is awesome it's gonna be great last night at 2 21 she decided she wants to get up and play and do stuff and i was like what do you think you're doing even frank was like take her outside really fast i go out it's dumping snow so i'm like wonderful so i take her out there she tries to attack frank he gives her the business and you know that was that we've done this before with frank we've done this before with multiple puppies in our previous lives before we got together so we know the drill we know this is temporary and we're prepared for it but it still definitely justifies that extra cup of coffee these are turning around i've got all four fittings on here we're gonna get the shower valve mounted and then we're gonna get the pipes brand to it this is an electronic shower valve it's gonna be mounted up in the ceiling and then it's gonna go down to a rain shower head and then a regular shower head that you can take off the wall and then there's a dial that's electronic that goes on the wall where you can set the temperature you can tell alexa yo alexa start the shower at 105 degrees and she does it it's really really cool i'm really excited to use it this is what happens when you let an amateur builder build his own house he just goes so overboard with all the fun toys he can find it's like the the price difference between having the really cool technologically advanced stuff and the basic stuff is marginal compared to what you're paying to build your house like you may as well have all the cool stuff that you want you know of course that's what you tell yourself convince myself all right so i'm drilling a couple holes up here so that we can run the lines the hot and cold up to the mixing valve and then align over to the rain head and align to the regular head the detachable hand guy just got to draw one two three four five six seven seven holes and then i can put it together and i think we're done we're just a few parts short so i think we're going to wrap up the plumbing here in just a minute and maybe move on to some electrical and see what parts were short in the electrical department [Music] we have some friends that are coming up this afternoon that are in a van and it's a 4x4 van it could hypothetically make it up here when the roads are clear and they have chains with them and they wanted to give it a try without assistance we said okay go for it we gave them all the instructions on how to get up here safely and unfortunately they're still stuck so we're jumping in the truck right now we need to go on a little rescue mission now our friend henry he's in a 4x4 sprinter van and he has a buddy with him and they're actually coming up here because they're filming a documentary and they're coming up here to interview ali and i for the documentary and there's one pretty gnarly corner on the way up to our house and they're stuck at it i was like text me uh when you're on your way up like text me when you get off the exit and you start heading up the canyon and if you need help we'll come and help you and after like five minutes he said and we need help oh they're sideways oh no what's up dude i think this is more oh god you look great you want me that's nice drive it i think probably like oh well i'll try and get it around this corner if you can't get it up right here then you might not want to go all the way i wasn't expecting to be on your youtube channel so this is our good friend henry he's awesome he's another van life guy and he's actually the creator and founder of moonfab co-founder co-founder of moonfab the incredible awning that we use on the side of our van and terry and he's brought up his really cool van and trent's gonna see if he can drive it up around this corner because it's a pretty steep curve right here we'll see what happens [Music] i think trent had too much confidence in two texans driving in the snow this is definitely a situation where this is more user air than vehicle air [Music] you want to turn around and take it back to the bottom and we can just jump in the truck i mean i'm shook you you should that's how it feels it gets way worse all right we'll take it back it's super fun to have friends come up and visit us and we're really excited to have henry and richard here today but i think we kind of just get used to the roads and our baseline for what is a bad road day has changed a lot since we've moved up here so when we were talking to them we're like yeah the roads are okay today like it's totally fine come on up and then we connect with them down here where they're stuck and they're like this is terrible you guys were like you know probably is a little bit worse for people that don't do this all the time and we're just used to it by now [Music] you got everything [Music] [Applause] we got a camera here guys good work on this get out of bed like this [Laughter] what do you have for me today [Music] what do you want me to do should i just stand here this is henry he works for hbo [Laughter] he's actually one of the creators and owners of the moon shade or moon fab is the company that makes the moon shade you guys have seen us talk about it a lot and they're actually doing a documentary called on the road which is uh basically about all the people that use the moon shade and and live in the van and ali and i have been using the moonshade they make an awesome product and they were just here doing a little bit of filming of us normally we put the camera on us but they were putting the camera on us today which was a little bit out of the ordinary but we had a good time what am i supposed to do when you're talking am i how do you am i just supposed to stand here like this like how do you guys well it's not a tv show so it doesn't matter how you act you just gotta be yourself just gotta be yourself all right cool that's like the most pressure you can put on anybody is like hey yo just act normal yeah i know i'm gonna go like shoot i'm just normal if that's i'm literally just standing here being like how do i stand usually no you're doing great all right cool henry is used to filming documentaries and obviously we're just vlogging i got a mouthful of food we're walking him around our house and giving him a tour yeah let's check it out okay put the cannon lights in this room if we were to evenly space them out they like run into the rafters which is like really frustrating so i think we're gonna do like some these the ones on the outsides are gonna be like a lot wider and then these two are gonna be narrower and then the ceiling fans are going to go in the [Music] middle all right so this is 12 3 or actually this is 12 2 wire that's a 12 gauge wire with two conductors and a ground this is romex cable you have to use 12 gauge because all of the circuits in the kitchen have to be 20 amp in order to be 20 amp you have to use 12 gauge so it's a little bit more robust and a little bit more of a pain in the butt to work with than 14 gauge but this is what we're running today here's the sub stool that you needed oh is that heavy it's 100 pounds [Music] well the day kind of got away from us we were here with our friend henry and richard and they were filming this documentary that i was telling you guys about earlier and we did a little bit of filming with them we filmed a little bit with our van and then we went to dinner and we just lost track of time now we've gotten back it's late lika's probably been sleeping this entire time so she's gonna wake up in the middle of the night so tomorrow we're not gonna have any sleep i forgot how much work having a puppy is but she's super cute so it's gonna be worth it right frank was actually like the easiest puppy ever so we probably got spoiled we got spoiled but i guess uh lika just has to make up for that she's got some sass but it's nothing we can't handle i'm really excited to take on this challenge and like i said i think frank is less excited but he's getting more excited as each day goes on and i know ally's thrilled as well i am if you guys uh think it was a good idea for us to get lika go ahead and let us know in the comments also if you think it was a terrible idea we'd love to hear your opinion as well if you guys enjoyed coming along on today's adventure make sure you show us by giving us a big thumbs up on today's video consider subscribing to our channel if you haven't already thanks again to beekeepers naturals for sponsoring today's video click the link in our description to check them out and we'll see you guys on the next adios [Music] our eyes

Channel: Trent & Allie

Views: 289,573

Keywords: van life, vanlife, trent and allie, eamon and bec, trent and allie van, homesteading, red poppy ranch, tiny home, tiny house, off grid, wild wonderful off grid, tiny house tour, do it yourself, diy, life uncontained, building, building a house, framing, framing a house, cabin build, building our own home, snow in the mountains, building our own house, off grid living, mountain life, we did something crazy, crazy, we're crazy, puppy, new puppy, malinois, german shepherd, new dog

Id: yQDDKObbEaU

Length: 29min 51sec (1791 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 22 2021

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[u/unknown021]

A new puppy! Wow, she's going to be bigger than Frank in no time, Frank better make sure she knows who's boss asap. I just knew that Trent was going to be going back to the plumbing store soon :P