What the week has been going on!?

this week has felt like a whirlwind of "what am I doing- where am I going- where is that thing I was just looking for- and "what time do I need to be where?!?"......

late breaking news in my life and happenings:

1. we just got home from NYC and did not even unpack yet- except for my toothbrush and dirty clothes which I had to wash already

2. i came home and while I was gone my dad (and Jordan helped too) had totally cleaned, organized, and made my garage look amazing! It needs to be in a magazine called "Awesome Garages", now!

3. I'm going to the Emmy's (insert cartwheeling!)- more on that on my www.kandeej.com blog...and I ordered a cheap vintage dress on ebay to wear- and it fits totally weird.

4. Tried to find a new vintage treasure at a thrift store/re-selling place last night...Blakey kept running in and throwing the curtains in the dressing room apart, right when I only had underwear on, so the whole store got an unwanted view of myself. (i apologize to the 3 people in the store)

5. I am happy to be home if only for enough time to wash dirty clothes and re-pack everyone's suitcases- big suit cases, baby suitcases, little princess suitcases, little lightning mcqueen suitcases... lots of suitcases.

6. Happy to be home and I can blend up my smoothies again.

7. Not as happy that I returned home to an overwhelming, and when i say that...i mean pages and pages and pages and pages and pages of emails (and that's just my work email address), real mail, voice messages, too many texts to get back to, and my angry mail lady that yells at me because I "get too much mail".

8. and thanks to all the haters that tried to ruin my contest videos...I've been waiting to hear back from Youtube to fix them so we can re-post the contest videos! I am extending the contest once the videos are up, so everyone can be a part!

9. now i have a pretty big list of things to do before we pack up the car this afternoon...
changing diapers, making snack and trying to do laundry and pack everyone's suitcases...

10. and I didn't put any make-up on....(or do my hair) yesterday...so to the people that asked, "are you kandee johnson yesterday".....hope I didn't scare you without my make-up on!

your kandee

PS i loved the turquoise suitcases from a window display in NYC, somewhere on 5th Ave i think...

and sometimes...

...my couch looks like this on a friday night.
What the hay-bales is going on in this picture, you might ask?

No, don't be fooled what looks like the leftovers of a wild party...is just a typical day of little people of mine "de-perfecting" the cushions on the couch.
-a my little pony doll (her name is Starshine) that sings a really fast "starshine version" of twinkle twinkle and a star on her belly lights up- the baby loves this, but it's real owner is Alani.

-a magazine, that I thought, I would have a free minute to look at...but the only looking I've done is when I looked at the couch and saw it was opened by a misplaced couch cushion.

-my blue baby sling that seems to make everyone think SHE is a boy....I don't even correct people anymore, "yep,  he sure is big alright".

-and the zebra pillow thing is my nursing baby pillow, it's by Luna Lullaby - the Bosom Baby Nursing pillow. This thing is 596,064 times better than a Boppy...Boppy's are too firm, puffy, weird shaped -it's like balancing a baby on a semi-soft log. This zebra pillow is the bees-knees for breastfeeding moms and it makes a nice back rest or cushion for baby to sit against..aw, just check out what I mean HERE.

Bonus: at dinner while I tried to hold a bouncing baby with one arm, I managed to spill salad dressing all over my pants, shirt and who knows where else.
I ate a cupcake for dessert.
Then tore up the town, er I mean the grocery store, jump to me scooping spoonfuls of watermelon out and typing this blog...
and that's my friday night.

"she's a bad mama-jama"....is in my head, love yo... kandee

a day in the life...

 breakfast looked like this: Sambazon Frozen Acai, Cascadian Farms Frozen Blueberries, Coconut Milk, Ground Flax, "Dino" or Lacinto Kale (is soooo good for you)

 I don't have a blender, so I "food process" it into a smoothie- and it's fun because 9 out of 10 times...it sprays me and the whole kitchen with a liquidy mess...it's more exciting that way.

our finished "Super Food Smoothie"...is loved by all...even my most picky eaters.

man do I love this little cowboy's "smoothie- stache"....he cracked up when he saw this picture!

 yesterday we went to Target to get Alani a new backpack and lunch box, well now they are really like "cooler bags"...as you can see by my picture....I was rooting for the Hello Kitty ones...however my little lady was not sharing my HK love....she was debating between Tinkerbell and the owl...
THE SCORE: Owl- 1      Tinkerbell-0  (ok but she did get a Tinkerbell backpack and Barbie Thermos...I know we're all over the place...Tinkerbell, Barbie, owls!

 Alani's back to school outfit: shirt & leggings (they were $4.50!- i love F21): Forever 21 girl, her new back to school boots: Pediped Flex boots in Elizabeth-

she loves these and I kinda' wish they were in my size too!

Alani, as I tried to take a picture this morning...and she just put her hands over her eyes and said, "the sun is in my eyes!" (even though she was sort of in the shade)...

oh this lil' apple-dumplin' face just melts me every day....

and then between thought 2,398,365 and thought 2,398,366...I thought about changing my hair....maybe to this: I was 16 and had colored my hair with 2 blonde strips in the front of my face (I was so on trend for Fall 2011 with my denim back in the 90's, ha ha ha)

or maybe Ombre...but with a twist..click here to see my "Say Ombre post" on my other bloggerino

and then my in-house photographer, Blakey...took a break from playing a game on my phone, to take a picture of me...well he took tons...but this was the most in-focus one...so we chose this one...but my favorite part of our "photo-shoot" was he told me: "you yook beautiful"...
even though I'm sick and feel yucky, and my head felt like is was pounding everywhere....
my little man thought I "yooked" beautiful...
my heart felt more beautiful than all the world...my little sweet heart...

we had tacos for dinner...
I can't breathe out of my right nostril...
and dear Charmin toilet paper....you may claim to be the softest...but my nose would disagree, sincerely sore, kandee's nose

Poor choices I made today:
*not taking the roll of toilet paper out of the sink when I dropped it trying to get some to blow my nose but heard the baby wake up and ran to get her-
Blakey washed his hands without taking the toilet paper out

*Believing Blakey when he said, "Let me polish your nails, I know how. Nana, taught me."-
I ended up trying to clean orange nail polish off the couch, some of it's still there.

Best choices I made today:
dropping the toilet paper to run and get baby (toilet paper doesn't mean anything to anyone)

Letting Blakey try to polish my nails-
I will always look at the polish on the couch and think of how precious my little man was, that wanted to polish my nails

Letting Blakey ride his tricyle down the path that looked steeper than it was...at first I thought he'd never be able to peddle back up...but then he said, "see you ride up hills back and forth like a snake"...and he peddled all the way up...

tired eyes and stuffy noses...but hearts full of perfect love...your kandee