This is how we roll:

 This is how we roll......in the grocery store.
I roll in the big shopping cart....Blake and Alani roll in the little carts. (see ol' blue jeans, AKA Blake rollin' in his cart)

 CALIFORNIA GROWN baby....my mama is sick, so that's why we were making a special trip to Trader Joe's (it's a grocery store)...to buy her some food and sicky-stuff....

 and I thought flowers might make her feel a bit cheery.

 These are cold essentials....Throat Coat tea and coconut water.

 Alani picked out her awesomely colorful outfit...and Blake was coloring a great picture while I was at the checkout.

 And for dinner I made yummy meatballs, au gratin butternut squash and spinach, crescent rolls stuffed with cheese, and a salad.

 Alani made lovely name, "place cards" for everyone and set the table...I especially love that mine has a heart on it.
DINNER TRADITION: we ask each person what their favorite part of their day was. Jordan has made is strict rule....we DO NOT ask, or talk about the WORST part of our day... because we only want to talk about the good and positive! (i like his insistence on this...hee hee)

 Ellie looks questionably at her dinner......."hmmmmm, what is this stuff?!?" ha ha ha ha Even the Hello Kitty plate didn't help!

 We had a peppermint chocolate cookie cake...it kind of looked like a giant cake oreo for dessert.

And after dinner, Blake took many photos with my phone like this:

 this is an angry bird that he drew himself....it's an angry bird theme if you didn't guess it yet! ha ha

we even played a round of throwing a sticky angry bird and his Lightining McQueen cars on his wall...even Jordan came to play (Jordan is my oldest son, if ya didn't know)....we were all laughing so hard!

Cozy in jammies, we then read a Max & Ruby book, one of my favorite books as a kid, Jamberry...and we prayed for good, happy, wonderful dreams....gave kisses on cheeks and foreheads...swapped "i love you's"....and everyone went to sleep except me, who layed in bed, very tired and my brain wouldn't not let me go to sleep...ha ha ha ha

And my workout for the day...walking Alani out to the bus stop and back....I've really got start working out again...I do not feel physically fit at all anymore...and I used to run 5 miles a day...what happened?!? ha ha ha ha

Does it count that I put my workout clothes on to go to the store? bwaaa ha ha ha

hugs...KANDEE

Sunday Smackdown...

Ellie riding high in a biggest shopping cart Target has to offer. I don't know why but it just looks so funny to me!

My weekends go by tooooooooo fast. I need them to be 4 days long.

It's usually a blur of errands, grocery shopping, and well, on Saturday all I did was try, the key word is TRY, to film a couple videos.

Ellie woke up from her nap in the middle of my video, so she makes an appearance half way through! ha ha ha

Me: taking a very classy, bathroom picture in BEST BUY...I was going to instagram it, because I thought that'd be funny, #BESTBUYBATHROOM, but I didn't do it.

 

 Who need ruby red slippers when you can have, hot pink glitter shoes...these were on the clearance aisle at Target, as some lil' lady fell in love.

 Me eating a English Toffee bar at Whole Foods after I was healthy and got avocado/cucumber sushi (totally all non-fish) and some brocolli-crunch salad.....then I ate the non-healthy toffee bar! ha ha

STORES WE  WEEKENED WARRIOR-ed: we hit up the, skate shop AT&T store, Best Buy (2 actually, because the first one didn't have what I was lookin' for),  I had to go look for a dress to wear to my friend's wedding- no luck, then the 2nd BEST BUY, Target, and lastly Whole Foods.

I dont' know why, but my least favorite part is when you bring all the groceries home and need to put them away. ha ha ha

And I'm off to go upload a new video....brightening up Mondays anyway I can,
10,000 monday hugs, your kandee

This might be my strangest (but awesome) post ever!

Ok, this might be incredibly weird to you or incredibly awesome...it is for sure probably the "weirdest" blog topic I have written about, but it's kind of amazing I just wanted to share.

Did you know you can be turned into a diamond once you die?!?

But I just found a site , where you can turn your loved ones ashes into diamonds! I saw a fact that said: "Did you know you when someone dies, you can turn their ashes into a diamond!?!"...I doubted it and googled away and lo and behold, I found all kinds of sites that do it!

Before you think this is totally weird....I read the testimonials of wives and husbands who had lost their spouse, and they turn their ashes into a diamond and wear it in a setting in their wedding ring...well it just made me want to cry.

I think it's awesome because: how precious is that loved one in your heart, and how precious, beautiful and sparkling is a diamond...
that you can take the ashes of your loved one and turn ashes into a diamond is, pretty, well just amazing.

It might also seem weird, just because well it's ashes, but how much more awesome is  that instead of just having a bunch of ashes in an urn!?!

If you think this is weird, yeah I hear ya, but if you've lost someone you love, it might not seem so weird.

If you think this is awesome OR want to know how they do it...here is the website: LifeGem

I just think it's pretty amazing, that once our souls have gone onto heaven, our bodies can be turned into diamonds....yes, weird, but kinda awesome!

I want to be a sparkling diamond when I die, ha ha ha your Kandee

My littliest and biggest loves....

 awwww.....they are like my opposites...
My littlest baby and my biggest baby.
Little Ellie being held my my biggest baby, Jordan...(this is them in their jammies, although I'm sure Jordan would not prefer me to call them "jammies")
If you spin them around, this is the other view:

 She loves "d'jo-jo" as she calls him. And the feeling is pretty mutual...

my favorite is when she says: "luh you D'jo-jo" . There is just something about seeing your big baby, that you used to hold like a baby, holding your little baby, that is just amazing. He is so good with her, it's just adorable.         

My favorite breakfast and my furry bear:

 this was Ellie already to go out in the chilly air for some Mexican food!
(her  faux furry jacket is from Baby Gap, and I can't remember where we got her hat!)

 She loves, loves, loves this jacket.

And many hours and a meal or 2 earlier.....I made breakfast.

One of my favorite breakfast......CREPES! (yeah, I made my regular smoothie for breakfast yesterday, but since all the kids are out of school, I just want to make these delicious, yummy breakfasts to celebrate the "no-school-ness"!

 If you want to make these too...you can click this for my Crepe Recipe Post. It's dangerously delicious and very easy to make...that makes it extra dangerous! ha ha ha

awwwww don't you just want to hug this lil bear!?

Happy 1-3-13! Kinda a cool date! That just felt so weird to type "13'" for the year!
computer hugs, kandee

the cutest sleep face:

Sleeping babies have to be one of the most adorable, peaceful, and precious things to see.

This was right after miss Ellie Belle (not her real name, her real name is much shorter, Elyse, but we wanted a nickname that took longer to say...ha ha ha), after she had her bath...

 I had dried her off, wrapped her in her warm towel, and I set her in her Nap Nanny (which is like a baby version of a lazy-boy chair- ha ha)...and when I turned around to grab her lotion, I looked back and she had already fallen asleep! In virtually seconds! She's never fallen asleep that fast!

She likes to sit in it while I get ready sometimes. But Nap Nanny is out of biz, some stores recalled them after some parents used them the wrong way or still used the recalled versions, instead of the new ones...either way, they went out of biz...and I wish they had made them in my size! I have the latest version that wasn't recalled,but some parents kept using them the wrong way, you not supposed to put them in cribs or on tables. I just put mine on the floor and they kids like watching tv in it too!

It's like looking at lil' angels when you watch babies and kids sleep...


 I could just stare at these pictures of my lil' sleeping angel....

off to go chase her, very awake-self...ha ha ha

hugs, kandee

How we spent the last day of 2012!

 Yay! Our first official Kandeeland post of the year!
This is how we celebrated the last hours and minutes of 2012...
Ellie, above...all cuddly in her panda jacket and yes, Crocs boots! She loves them.

after everyone came in from playing in the frosty air, I made a batch of my favorite, homemade (no packets here- ha ha ha) yummy hot chocolate. (I even filmed a video for how to make it the other day, just need to edit it!)

I also filmed my yearly NEW YEARS VIDEO and edited it and uploaded it.

If you didn't see it- CLICK HERE.

THEN WE HAD A TRUE HOUSE PARTY:

we put our jammies on

we picked out our movie of the night: ELF

 Alani all cuddly in her robe and "cozy couch bed".

 

And you can still see her "menus" (which are actually books) from when her and Ellie played restaurant.

And we just might have started a new tradition:

I made late night french toast for a yummy New Years Treat!

It was delish!

And as new year's rolled around....
I was sitting in a rocking chair, rocking a sleeping Ellie...

It was one of the best New Years' I've ever had. I didn't dress up, my face didn't have a trace of make-up, and I had my most favorite "party" people with me....they know how to have a good time! A really good time!

Happy first day of the year everyone.....I love ya more than French Toast, and that's saying a LOT!
new year hugs, kandee