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A couple who began recording a New Year’s Eve message each year now rewatch their earliest videos with the kids who were only “someday” dreams in that first clip more than a decade ago. Sarah Beth Sutter (pronounced: "Sooter," like "scooter") said she has always been a documenter of experiences, journaling daily since she was 16. In 2014 the pair decided to start recording an annual New Year's Eve message, where Sarah Beth, 36, and Scott, 35, would talk about what they are thankful for and their dreams for what might lie ahead. In "a fast-paced world full of instant gratification and immediate results, this is something that cannot be accelerated in any way and encourages patience and commitment," Sarah Beth said, given that the clips were never intended to be shared beyond their family. The first clip the couple shot, in 2014, saw them talk about the hypotheticals of having kids and one day owning a farm and animals, and a decade later – now with kids and a farm – they decided to watch that first video back with their children, in 2024. Sarah Beth and Scott have continued their New Year's Eve tradition of recording new clips, but they now watch a clip from a decade ago back (like 2015's in 2025) with Ford, 10, Flynn, 8, Zion, 6, Selah, 3, and Jireh, 1.
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00:00No kids listen to the silence in 2014 Sarah Beth
00:05and Scott started a new year's tradition recording a message to their future selves
00:10Ten years later they're finally hitting play but with some
00:15extra viewers Sarah Beth has been documenting life since she was 16
00:20and the tradition stuck each year she and Scott would sit down to talk about
00:25what they were thankful for and what they hoped was coming next
00:30kids if you're watching this
00:32be quiet so you can hear what we're saying
00:34listen up
00:35all three or four of you probably by that time
00:38oh right
00:40and the goats
00:42hopefully we got goats hopefully we have farm animals
00:45so if right now we live somewhere in a city in an apartment or in a house that
00:49has no
00:50planned than the jokes on us I guess
00:53but now they've moved
00:55got five kids and the farm life they joked about is real
01:00so the family tradition has a new twist they watched the footage from exactly
01:05ten years before to see how far they've come
01:08as you can see
01:10our son Ford or your brother or you I guess
01:15our son Ford in the future
01:16yeah
01:17say hi
01:18Sarah Beth says it's the
01:20opposite of instant gratification you just keep showing up each year and
01:25some day becomes normal life
01:30so
01:31it's
01:32you
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