The video captures Lily’s 14th birthday on a family farm, blending a casual celebration with daily farm chores. The day begins with a hearty farm breakfast prepared by Lily and her family, featuring potatoes, eggs, sausage, yogurt, and blueberries. The conversation quickly shifts to farm responsibilities: managing sheep water access, fixing fences, and feeding horses. Lily discusses the personalities and needs of three horses—Shine, Luna, and Blaze—explaining their temperaments, feeding routines, and plans to sell Blaze. The family debates paddock arrangements, knot‑tying for fence repair, and the logistics of keeping the sheep contained. Throughout, there’s playful banter about gifts, including a horse‑themed ring from Grandma, a new pony, and tickets for rides. Culinary activities dominate the afternoon: making butter, caramel, grilled cheese, tomato soup, and a gluten‑free bread, with Lily’s input on menu choices. The celebration also includes a nostalgic photo slideshow of Lily’s past horse shows and favorite horses. The tone remains informal, enthusiastic, and affectionate, highlighting the blend of birthday joy with the realities of farm life.
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It's your birthday. Happy birthday. Big 14. What's the plan today? What's the dream birthday?
Uh, probably eating good food and going on a trail ride. Oh yeah.
Cousins are here all the way from Nebraska. What a special birthday. Lily made a fantastic farm breakfast. Potatoes. Eggs, sausage, yogurt, blueberry. We've landed on the inside chores. Lily's pretty much just helps with the cooking.
Yeah, all the time.
Yeah, because you're so good at it. Yeah, we tried including the boys in that rotation and it didn't work.
I got it first.
They can help, but they just can't quite do it by themselves. Yeah, so it just works out that way.
Yeah, but I don't have to cook my birthday meal.
No, definitely not. And the boys, um, rotate between dishes, living, and outside. What's the plan to get the sheep to stay in?
Um, I think the problem was that I had them access to the creek for their water. I don't think they drunk out of it, so I'll have to get them a trough.
Okay, and give them a big paddock and make sure—
I made them a big paddock already.
Okay, so we got to do that before we do horses.
Why aren't they coming?
Wow, look at that! That explains why your sheep got out. You don't know how to tie this knot, do you?
Yeah, I do.
No, where'd you learn this knot?
I learned— that's my first knot I ever learned.
This—
well, you put it through and then you put your—
this is how you mend the fence.
I know, that's how I tie all my regular knots. And then you put it through. That's how I tie my bracelet knots. Really? Delicious. You got it for breakfast, guys. We got the horse feed and now we're gonna go feed the horses. No, Shine, that's not yours.
Does Shine and Luna leave each other alone while they eat?
Yeah.
This is a better combo going forward, isn't it? Not only does Blaze have to be separated because he chases around Shine. He has to be separated all night. He's separated during feeding time too. He's a little bully. Lily is selling him on the 15th. This is a much better combo. What is these two horses? Luna and Shine. Two calm horses.
Two calm mares. Mom was afraid of getting mares. She thought they would be— I've laid with spicy mares, but yeah, he's Luna's not a spicy mess.
Well, maybe it'll help if they have each other.
She's a genie.
And hopefully they'll get on the same cycle.
She just needs to go faster.
Are they on the same cycle?
I don't know. The other day they were going through their cycle, I think, together because it was off because they were both acting a little bit—
Joey, tell me more about Shine. Tell me for your video, because your, your video was popular, so popular with him coming. They probably want to know how he's doing, what she's doing.
And this is me compared to her. I'm 5 foot on the dot. Ellie, I don't know, you're like— this is, this is Shine's itchy spot right here.
Tell me what you've noticed about Shine so far.
She's really, she's really sweet. She, she can be controlled. She's, she's kind of energetic but also calm. She used to be a ranch horse.
So talk about how she rides.
She, she's fast, but she's really sensitive in the mouth. And, and she's a greenie. She, she's green at jumping and cantering. Walk-trot is good for her, but You're trying to turn an old western horse into a spectacular show jumper.
How old is she?
That's what I'm gonna do. I think like, um, uh, 8 or 10.
She definitely has the look.
She's got it going. She has dapples and like the long socks. So pretty.
We have 3 too many horses on this farm. So I've told Lily the absolute max is 2, just supporting her dreams. At some point it goes from them supporting our dream to us supporting theirs. Hopefully some of them will catch this dream of this land. That may mean they have horses. Whose boss are these 2?
Uh, Luna.
Okay, that's Luna, that's Shine.
So he has his own paddock because he's mean to Shine. And he always— because whenever she tries to hang out with Lena, he gets jealous and he runs her into the fence, and then all the cows get out and she gets shocked. So he has to be in his own paddock so that him— he can't attack.
Another thing I want you to do for those sheep today, give them a half a hay bale since that paddock's not big enough. No, we're selling them all.
I'll buy one.
We don't need any more pork.
Oh, but they're cute. I'll take— I'll take— I want a baby pig.
All right, take them with you and then we'll ask you to take them on the plane.
And a baby goat. You'd have to take them to like the vet and give them shots.
Well, guess what? Babies turn into this.
Oh no.
Tell me how excited you are to have This lucky moment. We have two other horse lovers here, and you actually have three horses. This rare, exceptional moment.
Yeah, it's really rare.
How lucky are you?
Uh, really lucky. Like 10 out of 10.
Well, we're never gonna have three horses here, guys. Yeah, we can't get rid of them fast enough.
Yeah, she's texting me, she's like, yeah, don't expect anything. And I was like praying the other day. I was like, God, maybe, maybe just for at least one day.
And how do you have 3 saddles?
I don't know.
How did that happen?
Oh no, she does. She got 3 ponies. Yeah, but then the girth doesn't fit, so I didn't like this.
Come on now, get a taste of Lily's life. All hands on deck for this birthday lunch. We have to get crazy about our butter making, or are we just gonna have to buy butter? That means no— that means the— what does it mean? Ladled off milk. Only tomato soup. Hey, you get to take a break, but you're kind of not really the only one not working, so that's not very fun, is it? You did not. You did not. You made homemade gluten-free bread.
Good job.
Because what did you want for your birthday meal?
Um, grilled cheese and tomato soup.
What's y'all's duty?
We're making caramel.
Okay, of course they're slipping under it.
Okay, put it right there.
Pinch making butter. We couldn't let it warm up any, so it's going to take a minute. It's a big deal if we run out of butter, isn't it? It's a major crisis. So we're getting that flow going. We're gonna need— we have some, we have some boughten butter, but that's it. We need some butter for the cream cheese, or I said cream cheese, for the sandwiches. We just learned Lily's frying the potatoes in the morning in butter. We could use animal We could use lard or tallow for that, and that'll conserve the butter some. What is this? This is—
this is caramel on top of a chocolate cake with vanilla icing. I don't know what you call it. Wow.
Oh, you will step up and put candles on it.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
You didn't care, you were hungry, man. Good choice. Yeah, good choice. Caesar salad, grilled cheese, and tomato soup. We go, Big Bird! Let's get going, rapid away! This needs to be a rapid-fire present opening.
What is my favorite horse brand? I think it's a t-shirt. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, the Lemu Fern set!
You got this too?
Yes, he got everything! Oh my gosh, you're just going to get like— okay, I knew I was going to get this. Whoa, razor for Mama! I keep using hers because I lost mine. And then we have whatever this is from Gideon. I think this is a picture. Oh, it's a sign. Keep glaze— keep the gate closed no matter what the horses say. You see, you tried hard. Oh, a horse in my room. Love that. Gideon, thank you, Gideon.
Wait, he gave you a horse ring?
Yes.
Wow, is that from Grandma?
Does it fit you anywhere? No, I have a really nice horse ring from Grandma. I'm like, when she's older, she cannot have— Yeah, if it's— I hope I can get it off. If it can go on, it can go off. Next one, this envelope.
Cash money!
I told them earlier, I bet Grandma's going to get me $40. One ticket. Uh, there and back. 2 tickets there and back. 3 tickets there and back. Um, take it, take it there and back. Goodbye. Okay, you can tell Mom I read it. 1 ride to wherever you want to go. 1 ride to wherever you want to go.
Whoa, you've got 7 rides!
So I got 7 rides. I'm gonna be dealing with lots of Horseshoe. This is a surprise.
Mix tile.
What is that? Okay, I don't— I know it's not mix. I know it's not tiles. What is it? Oh, look, pictures! What? Let me see. Peaches! We got one of Peaches, my former horse. That was our first show together. Really? That was a few years ago. Wait, what? Oh, I've seen these. Is that— I love that. We have one of me and Luna and Henry and Blake. Henry, you have more? There's so many. Oh, Lily! And here one with my grandparents and me at my very first horse show. I remember that. Here you go. Smokey, my very favorite horse. Oh, who's that? Luke. And then we have my second favorite horse. Luke? Well, all my horses are my favorite. Luke. And this is at my horse show with him. Wait, you know, finally, Mom, that's what I need to do. My favorite picture ever. This looks so good. There's one more, Lily. Yeah, there's one more, Mom. Where'd you get these?
They just keep going.
Oh girl, and then we have another one of the amazing legend Luna. Wow, that's amazing. 3, 2, 1, don't burn the horse!
That caramel is Icing on the cake. Well, I can't believe my, my girl, my only girl's 14 years old. It is what it is. Happy day.
