I made the ULTIMATE gift bags for my friends 💌✨ | trader joes bags, rhode barrier butter, Stanleys

Wow! Delightful.

I'm taking this color for the baskets.

Oh, this is so good!

I officially lost my mind.

If you have not seen everybody go crazy for these Trader Joe's bags, like, that was not me, okay? I casually stumbled upon these yesterday. Like, wait, now I sound like I'm not being serious, but I really am. Like, I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's yesterday. Look at the beauties I stumbled across. Yesterday like wait now I sound like I'm not being serious, but I really am like I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's yesterday

Look at the beauties. I stumbled across They're literally perfect. They have like a minimum of or a maximum of four that you can get so I got all four I Am part of the problem, but here we are This is what I'm thinking I'm gonna use as the base for our spooky baskets or as I should say spooky bags So freaking genius. I love them. They're perfect. We're making spooky baskets for pretty much everyone in my team This is actually like really exciting. Yeah, let the shopping begin. It is currently 3 p.m

And it was a really chaotic morning of doing a bunch of things that just need to get done. This is what I did this morning

Can you guess where I am my parents house good morning, it's 8 a.m. And my mom invited us for breakfast

It's a cloudy cold day today. I'm wearing my camo jacket you guys don't freak out. Don't freak out It's actually officially fall in California. I

Know it's kind of crazy

We were just talking about literally a few videos back I'm like, let me know what your real fall morning routine looks like because we don't have it I have it now Nelly's moving her car out of the driveway so I can park Dad why are you twinning with me? I FaceTimed earlier. What a a coincidence you weren't even wearing

Something else yeah, it's a bomber jacket. It's supposed to be short

I brought Ellie with the little outfit because of course guys. It's literally full everybody brace, okay? I know for a fact you don't put this hole here. I know for a fact you to put that hole there, too Hi, mommy look at her PJs. Oh those are so cute freaking monster for my nightmares Mmm. Look at her PJs! Aww, those are so cute. Freaking monster for my nightmares. Mmm, look at how yummy.

Mom!

Mom, it's literally right under the coffee machine.

She don't have beans.

Beans.

In the past videos, we were getting my mom a coffee machine. We ended up deciding on this one, the Jura E8E something. This is my mom's little mini coffee bar here. But my one condition to buying her the coffee machine was that she wasn't gonna buy coffee out anymore and she hadn't this is the first time I've seen them with coffee

the first time since we've got a coffee machine

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Hello.

This is incredible, divine, okay, full. We're all cozied up. We are heading out to run our first errand of the day, Costco. Because on today's episode of Nat doesn't have a Costco membership, so she uses my mom's membership to get in and get milk.

She kicked me off the fricking membership plan.

So now I have to fricking come over here every time I have to go to Costco and I need milk. I'm desperate. Mama's gonna be back, okay? Come here, lay down. Good job! Dude, she's literally perfect. She's never done anything wrong in her entire life.

Look at her.

Costco also usually has a lot of like fun festival things. So hopefully, I can find something for the baskets, which would be super fun, super nice. We made it in. My mom got us in. I know we came from milk, but look at this throw blanket. It's so soft. I was gonna get me one That's actually bundled there. We go that one look at how soft it is look at my mom's outfit Happy Halloween and then mommy's in yellow swans off look at her bag next time you wonder where I get my festiveness from no It's my mom. She has been festive like my entire life chat. They officially have Romas at Costco. This is your sign. They've never had Romas at Costco, at least not at our Costco. I got Roma. My mom's got on the vine.

What a Costco success. I'm leaving the city right now. I just spent the past hour in there with the planning department, business department, just all kinds of stuff. And I finally got the documents that I needed and now we're headed over to health department, which is a little bit far from here and I'm hoping they're gonna answer the door. Opening a coffee shop 101. So many permits, so many people to speak to. And we have to go over to the shop because we have a bee problem that I have to send over to the landlords. Honestly, my dream. Let's go because I literally have my groceries, like my milk is in the trunk.

So I have to stop by the house and drop it off. But health department closes soon. Productive day. So yeah, pretty much I'm back home from all of the permitting, the health department, and all that fun stuff. So it's actually time that we get started. What I have in mind for these bags is a water bottle.

Of course, everybody needs a water bottle. These days, they're the most popular thing. Cozy clothing, I'm thinking between PJs, and I have everybody's sizes already. So I'm thinking either PJs or a fun knit sweater. And I really want to do some just like Bond accessory. And I don't even know what I'm looking for.

I'm going with one colorway for everybody, alright? For my Christmas baskets last year, I did like a custom color for everybody. Not happy. This year, everybody's getting the same color because it's just easier that way. So let's go to the mall, shall we? It's 3, so hopefully it's not too packed. We've got a lot of shopping to do, ladies and gentlemen.

Take a good look. This is the colorway we're following.

Let's go!

These are so cute. These need to better in the bags So I think i'm gonna do some of this color and then some of the teddies Perfect. All of the girls are smalls the lineup. I love that One of our team members is actually a boy and they don't have any boy pjs. They just have like pants So we'll try holster for him for the girls. These are good One thing about me is don't offer me a dollar for a tote or a tote for a dollar because I'm gonna say yes every Freaking time. I'm the worst like I'm a salesperson's best dream And now let's go over to Hollister see we could find those PJs for him. They didn't have anything at American Eagle

Gosh darn it's fail. Nat L. Nat L. Apparently the mall isn't gonna have anything So let's do a little pit stop at Target. They should have PJs for boys. There's no way they don't. And while we're already here, we can check for some O'Wallace.

Let's go see what they have.

The temptation is insane.

I won't do it.

I will let Halloween pass.

But how super cool would it be

if I got everyone an agenda? Because like, so on theme, right? This one is cute. I just don't know if they would use it because it doesn't have the spirals. Now this one they might use,

but I feel like it's so small.

The pink one is so cute too. I feel like they would literally love this. If I got an agenda, I'd be so happy. I'm gonna do two of the sage and then two of the pink. Look at the one I found. Fourth, thank you. Believe it, but no PJs, like at all. Do guys just not wear PJs and I have not been aware this entire time?

Am I missing something here? Nothing, like literally I've just gone through the men's aisle about three times.

Nothing!

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We are home alone!

Me and Ally are home alone. Me and Ally are home alone. Guess what? We're home alone! Me and Allie are home alone! Guess what? We're home alone. Me and Allie are officially on our own! Jake and Tia went to Bakersfield to go film a bunch of content out there. They're not going to be back for a few days. So we have the house to ourselves.

So good morning! It is 7am. Up bright and early because early bird gets the worm. We're conquering our baskets today on a full day scale. I don't have any other errands to run. And honestly, I'm really just starting to slowly get out of the spooky vibes already.

So that's not good.

I'm about to pull my Christmas tree out of the garage. I'm not gonna do it, but I'm really tempted to do it. On second thought, looking at these, honestly, made me realize I actually don't have as much space as we thought that I initially had. So we're gonna go buy our wallows right now, but it has to be a thin one because look at that opening.

It's not that big.

But first, breakfast.

I'm hungry.

Ah, wrong one.

That's the one. Egg avocado and chicken sausage. Yummy! Ellie is having turkey for breakfast. My mom just sent me a picture of her coffee. My mom, every morning, will like call me while she's making her morning coffee. I wish I would've filmed it this morning, but she called me. And it's literally the cutest thing ever. She's obsessed with making coffee. And it literally makes me so happy.

When she likes something, she likes it. Like, she's very on her BS of it best thing I could have literally ever gotten her Ultimate breakfast avocado chicken sausage and egg you just ate Why is that so good who wants to go on a little bike ride? Is it Ellie? Does Ellie want to go? My mom's gonna pick us up some coffee because I'm out of milk and we're gonna go to

Dick's to get all of the water bottles. First, we have to tire out my daughter. Daughter in question. Beep beep beep beep beep. I should open the door first, huh? I'm gonna crash out. There's nothing worse than wet socks, bro. I'm gonna throw that rug in the trash

That's how mad I am

Can you please go poop?

Ellie's the kind of dog that has to sniff like around a million times in order to go poop and it's so annoying Oh, she pooped. Yes. Where's the poop? Oh, ha right there. If I have to see it, you have to see it too This is your reminder to remind me to not ever be a mom I literally ran her so I wouldn't bring her but then I came

She's so cute

She gave me the eyes when I was about to leave her and it just broke my heart because how could I ever leave her alone She doesn't even have Tia to give her company right now. That's so sad. So she came with me Just stay in the car cuz I'm gonna run to the store real fast. Oh my gosh Why does my mom look so slay right now? My mom is meeting me up to go to Dick's cuz she also wants like a hydro flask. Look how slay she looks

Wow mom!

Me gusta tu outfit Thank you So nice and look at her bag

Wow mom!

My coffee! Look how cool this is. I can literally start the climate from my phone So that, hold on listen to it Climate is at full blast. My mom is trying to look for a false Stanley for herself So Dix honestly has like the best kinds of tumblers like ever whoever makes cards without cup holders I'm gonna hit you Ricky because why are we still making cards without cup holders? My mom is literally on the new season She's trying to find a red one for Christmas

My mom is here for family for my dad She wants like a smaller one cause she saw it on Giana's story Bruh, my mom's giving my dad a Yeti Oh he's madly that one I'm thinking this color for the baskets It's gonna be so cute

My only concern is the handle That's gonna take up so much space in our freaking bags, so maybe we do the non handle version which would be this one I'm gonna get the whole crew this color. Oh my gosh. I can't believe I'm actually finding them I don't love the blue on top, but it's fine. I think I love them still doing these You can literally tell when Ellie has been asleep because she has like a very particular sleepy face that run in the morning for sure Helped her get a little tired so she could tolerate this right now. She's getting her sleep in

We're going over to target number two We're looking for some web and some parchment paper to do the decor on the actual baskets. I keep saying basket It's a literal bags. My mom is also coming. She's already here here so I was like just come with us mom, come on Are these stocking stuffers already? Oh my gosh, they are It is October 10th, how is there stocking stuffers at Target? We've lost the plot ladies and gentlemen, we've lost it

The spiderweb, spiderweb complete, now I just need the tissue paper Tell me why all of the Halloween stuff, gone They've taken everything Look at my mom, she's getting coffee cups. Wow, those are cute. She wants some of her ice lattes. Look at those, they're so cute. You guys, these are actually so slay.

Look at them.

Mom's saying that these are a little bit cloudy and I do know what she's talking about because I also bought these cups. They're a little cloudy. Yeah, those are so much better. Like literally so, so much better. Oh, yeah, these are also cute. They're so full of life

Perfect I need little fillers that I can get like lip balms and just fun little things to put in the basket So we're going over to Sephora to grab some of those things and there's a Macy's right next door Which we could run into try to find those guy PJs that we're still missing so our basket can look nice and complete Let's go But I'm filming on my phone because my camera is too big for me to be carrying around time to go iPhone my mom just Left me so we're on our own now I've walked this entire Macy's and nothing. I'm giving these PJs one more shot going to a different store. I'm getting so irritated

You gonna be good I'm gonna make sure there's nothing upstairs for you to eat Look, it's not that I don't trust her but she can be a little sneak nothing in there these bananas if I leave them here They are toast by the time I get back She's asking for help right now actually We're going back out to run our last few errands at the last mall that I'm gonna be hitting that we're hoping we find some more things to stuff Oh my gosh, the car came that was so embarrassing

I'm never doing that again. Literal jackpot, but these are Christmas PJs.

These are the cutest socks ever. I'm gonna get these for the three girls, and then I'm gonna get some boy ones. I was thinking of getting the PJ pants, but I just feel like they're so Christmas vibes, so I think I'm gonna exchange it for a flannel It's not PJs but still cute

So much better

We need these

You have to do candles in a spooky basket

We're doing pumpkin, apple, and pumpkin spice

Perfect Perfect.

Jake always gets so mad at me whenever I give Ellie like Cheetos, but it's also like, have you ever seen something cuter than this?

Have you?

We're gonna be baking a homemade sweet item. I'm between pumpkin bread or pumpkin snickerdoodles, but I'm more leaning towards pumpkin bread for the spooky baskets or the spooky bags I want to add a little bit of a like homemade touch to it. I think it's gonna be so cute I am NOT cutting tomato to make pumpkin bread. By the way. I just realized I timed those two things just too close together I'm cutting tomato to make some

For lunch and you don't like tuna grow up and if you don't like tomato grow older. We f***ed up this entire pack of Roma tomatoes within like a week that is how many tomatoes we eat. I know it sounds like an exaggeration and it's really not. We put tomato on everything. Same people say they don't like tomato we'll f*** up some ketchup on a burger. I just wanna burn. Oh. This shit kinda look like cat food.

Corn.

You know what I'm gonna make?

I'm gonna make a corn latte for Nat's cafe. Think sweet corn latte. Little bit of lime, little bit of salt, little bit of pepper. This is the only mayo that you're allowed to use. It's light mayo.

And this is how much mayo you're allowed to put.

That's it. I do a little bit more.

That's it. We mix everything together. Honestly, I've made this with like just tomato before and like just onion. So you don't even need all of these veggies. And tuna is like a dollar a can.

How to make a super delicious and affordable lunch. 101 with Nat. Cookbook coming soon It's delicious and I will be eating this for like the next two days for lunch. It's literally perfect. Let's assemble I'll only know if I need more stuff if I actually put them together and then see where we're at I've got all of our baggies with all of our stuff. Let's start working with one This is what I'm thinking the tissue paper gonna make it's gonna make it a little more elevated. Our candle, straight to the bottom. Our cake mix as well.

I'm gonna use the cake mix as kind of like the base for the bottom, you see. Now it's gonna make it stand so perfectly. Journal. With the girl PJs, I feel like this is gonna give me the most trouble.

I hope I don't have to take it out of the little folder. We got their socks, their beautiful Stanley's, got all of our little toiletries here, you guys. Pumpkin spice, hand sanitizers, these are one of my favorite things. They just feel so luxurious. And then, of course, Summer Fridays lip balms. We got two iced coffees. We got a vanilla one for my guy editor. And then I got colored ones vanilla beige as well Everybody gets some road barrier butter. Oh, this is one of my favorite things to use So of course had to get it for everyone Guys I really like that. It's so cute. I'm not obsessed with this like paper. Honestly, I think it was a flop

So I probably won't add the paper to the other ones. But other than that, it looks great. I love it. I've gotten the hang of it. I got it down and I'm quick. It's all about layering them perfectly. I can't believe how freaking amazingly perfect this mix fits down there.

Corner to corner, it's perfect. I'm so excited for them to use their little planners. They're so perfect. Spice, Stanley, the little socks. The hat. I'm honestly so obsessed with how good all of the things in this basket is.

Like everything is such usable items. And then I, folding the little flap like this, I think gives it a little bit better of a look here. This one's gonna have our flannel, so it's gonna be a little bit different. Stanley. Our boy socks came out so perfect because it's green and brown and his favorite color is brown

Handle goes straight to the bottom darker color of the hats vanilla scented lip balm hand sanitizer What hand sanitizer barrier butter flip it over? My gosh, I actually slayed you guys isn't the Trader Joe's bags an amazing idea as soon as I saw him I was like The final and last one Last one. I love them! They're so freaking cute. Oh no! I just remembered. I also got them Dove bar soaps in a false scent.

So we're gonna have to squeeze those in there somewhere. This is such a good smell. She's a little tight, but it's working. You never need a bigger size. Look it, it just adds like that little bit of spice that I think the baskets really needed last year I gave them Christmas items and I thought that was really really cute and I honestly put my whole foot dusty into their Christmas boxes

This is more like simple, but I still love how beautiful these came out for them And I think they're gonna love them. Look at how slick I actually cooked it up Let's incorporate the spiderweb in some way I think you may be draping it on top would look super pretty. Kind of like this, but like in a super thin layer. Oh this is so cute! Look at that! It honestly added the perfect spice. It added like that spooky touch that it was missing.

Number two.

They're all done. They're all ready. Perfect. Beautiful. I love them. They're all done. They're all ready. Perfect. Beautiful. I love them. They look so good. Now, we just have to actually put together the event where only two of my team members

can come because the other two don't actually live here so I have to ship out their stuff. I'm baking something special and I'm having them come over. Setting these to the side. I made myself a protein shake for dinner Let's do the closing shift to go to bed. These PJs were so cute. Oh, I just cut it cuz I wasn't paying attention

They're so cute that I got myself a pair, okay, I'm gonna wear these tonight I'm not doing this. I'm not taking it out. It can wait two days. That's what I'm filming tomorrow Christmas vlog So I got this as a prop Struggling but they're still Have a feeling that picky people are gonna have a hard time watching this vlog.

Oh my god, it's perfect.

Look at that. My dream is that when I have a garden one day, I'm gonna grow so many papayas because it's one of my favorite fruits. This papaya is really close to going bad already, so I'm gonna prep the other half and then cut it up, put it in a little baggie and then toss that in the freezer. It's such a good way to preserve your fruit.

And I bought a fun fruit. Hold on. Look it. It's those apple pears. I don't know if that's what they're called, but they're like the crunchy pears. We're also gonna have this for dinner.

I also found a mango in the fridge. I could save some pieces. Oh my gosh, bro. What an ultimate jackpot. Pear, mango, and papaya, ultimate layout. Unless I get like an ultra drunk taste,

then I don't need it.

Does everybody understand what I mean by drunk taste? Like once fruit is starting to go bad, it tastes a little bit like drunk bread.

Like, I don't know.

That's so niche. A little bit of lime on top. No salt. It's gonna bloat you for no reason. My fruit with an encrustable that's half frozen Honestly, this is the most girl dinner ever. Don't judge me. I just please Water bottle with ice and by the way when me and Ellie are staying home alone these lights they're on They're not turning off and my fireplace. It also stays on just in case I like to have some light in the house. Standby.

Almost.

Yeah, that's incredible. Don't quote me on it, but I think we might have found the roaster for Nat Cafe. I've been working at trying to find a roaster for about three-ish weeks. I still have to taste one more, but this has been my absolute favorite so far I think you guys are really gonna like this. Good morning guys It's a good morning because I have coffee we have to prepare and make our homemade

Baked dessert for all my friends It's so funny because they're literally my friends But they also edit these vlogs for you guys like one of them is literally editing this right now So I really go say hi say hi back right here I have had these spooky totes just literally laying back here ever since I made them I can't ship the other ones until I make the homemade treat I'm gonna overnight them so that the cookies don't go bad

But we do need to find somewhere where we can ship the baked goods Like I'm thinking cute little cookie boxes would be really cute to put in there because I can't think of anything else where I could ship them in. Let's wrap it up and go to Hobby Lobby because Hobby Lobby has everything that a woman could ever need. This is what I'm talking about. I'm tripping over toys. I better never hear someone say like, oh, but kids make your house messy. Oh, yeah? Tia's getting an eviction notice. You guys will not be seen her in the vlogs anymore

Yeah, it doesn't matter how many times I throw it down she's gonna go back and bring them back add something else to the collection They don't have any more of these sizes they have these but I don't love these I think I'm gonna have to grab some of these.

That smells incredible. That's one good brown butter. I have pre-prepped almost all of my ingredients before I started filming for you guys. We've got flour, brown sugar, white sugar, homemade pumpkin puree, one egg yolk, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla bean paste.

This is my favorite. It's so, so good. Even in like baked goods. It's really good Of course, we made our brown butter off-camera Like I could not record myself really doing this brown butter because it takes all of the concentration possible You can burn it in a second. Now. We just gotta let it cool a little bit so it doesn't cook our eggs Preheat 350. We're making pumpkin spice snickerdoodles. So imagine a snickerdoodle a

little bit chewier and with a little bit of that pumpkin spice flavor. Incredible! It's gonna taste literally delicious. Let's whip them up. So we can take these cookies straight to the post office. I'm gonna bake them and we're going straight to ship out our boxes so they can be there nice and fresh

About half teaspoon of baking soda

Cinnamon some nutmeg as well. Oh, that is spicy. I had no idea That's what that smelled like you have to roll these in some cinnamon sugar because that's what makes them snickerdoodles of course. That's literally just a mixture of white sugar and then some cinnamon and we mix that together and this is where we're going to be dumping our little cookie balls into. Clean up time. Gotta be super careful not to over mix our batter here. Oh literally how does that even happen? She is all ready. Let's put together our cookies. They're still so hot. Wait these are so good. This is the container that I got for my

shipping box. Everyone's getting three cookies. three cookies for this big old box. Are we dead ass right now, by the way, stop That's like a sneak peek. You're not supposed to look why you guys look at my tree I just put that thing up stop don't look I took them out of the oven one minute earlier So when they put them back into the oven to reheat, they don't get like hard. You know what I mean? Like that's the worst. Nobody wants a hard cookie. Are you serious?

AHHHHH look at that that's so beautiful

I'm meeting my team at a dinner spot Which is literally what I'm rushing for because we're supposed to meet there in like 40 minutes. Also, I know this is giving Thanksgiving It's all I found. Okay, I'm set their cookies straight in here Oh, that looks like I took a bite from it, but I swear I did not I'm just gonna hand it next to the spooky toads Cuz there's literally no space to put this in the toads anymore. The toads are done. They've reached the brim We've got to put these guys in a box along with these spooky toads So let's head out so we can go to the post office and then go grab some dinner

I'm gonna try to record their reactions, but most of them is here. He's inside. Are you listening to Taylor Swift right now? Bro is not real

That is so humiliating

This is so humiliating

Hello

Hello

He's Taylor Swift's number one fan They're going in through the wrong side

Touch it Touch it He Touch it!

He's allergic to shrimp, by the way.

We brought him to a shrimp place, but he's allergic to shrimp.

Happy birthday to you!

October 28th.

Happy birthday!

We just finished dinner and I have them waiting for me over there. Let me just make sure that I give the right ones. They got all ruined in my trunk. Oh wait, they're actually closing their eyes.

Surprise!

Aww!

This is so cute!

And then hold on, there's one more thing.

This is my first family! I made you guys homemade pumpkin puree.

Homemade pumpkin puree. The key to a Lambo! The key to a Lambo!

Yeah, welcome! Yay! Now we just gotta ship the other two.