HardCore 40's

holidays

2010-01-13T15:56:00.006-05:00

I hope Everyone enjoyed the holidays, we did! We were really lazy and just enjoyed being with eachother. We Move to Ft. Campbell in 2 weeks into our new home that is almost done being built. We are really excited to have a place of our own. Mike is currently in Airborne school, next week he will be jumping out of airplanes. Im a bit nervous about it, Im sure he will be fine but it is still DANGEROUS! For all of you HGTV lovers we will be on House Hunters. We start filming in about a week so we are pretty excited about that. Other than that not much else is really going on, we are just going crazy trying to get our house in order for filming.

The girls' spread of presents

Homeade pizza for christmas eve

funny pic of Georgia

Kadee loving her art desk from santa

Kloe vacuuming in her car with her baby and her bunny

my crazy girls

This is how she sleeps

She was really quiet one day so i went off to look for her and i found her in the closet sitting up asleep!

Overload update

2009-11-19T20:50:00.008-05:00

I dont even know where to begin...

Mike graduated from Ranger school and my parents and his parents came to support him in this Huge event. We were so glad that they came! Mike is so happy to be done and has been trying to relax and get his body back in working order and get his muscles back. He will go to airborne school in the beginning of January and then as soon as he is done with that we will be moving to Clarksville Tennessee where we just bought our first house!!

We went last weekend to go house hunting and found a great family home. We are having it built so we were able to choose everything inside and out. That was fun! We are excited to get there and move into our first home where we can actually put our Mike and Jessica touch on it.

Christmas is approaching fast and the girls are really excited. Kadee wants everything she sees and Kloe wants everything sissy wants. We are hopefully getting our Christmas tree today which Kadee hasnt stopped talking about. She is really excited to decorate the tree!

Kadee is doing really well at school and is doing a little better at home. She is still crazy and has trouble listening but what 4 year old doesnt. She constantly makes us laugh and constantly makes us question our parenting. She is very very smart and has an incredible photographic memory! She just lately loves to sing, she knows all her cartoon theme songs by heart! She also loves to tell stories, we usually tell her a story at bedtime and now she can pretty much tell us the stories so it's fun, her favorite story is the one my dad made up for us as kids, the Grandma the wolf and the pie!

When we got back from our trip to Tennessee on Sunday she went to go put some new panties on and went to her drawer and this is her reaction " OH NO! somebody took all my panties, Daddy it was the panty tooker, they took my panties and I want them back, mean panty tooker!" that was something we have never heard before, gave us quite a laugh! Apparently the panty tooker takes little girls panites!

Kloe is very much in her terrible twos but not quite two. She is so sweet and loving, loves to cuddle with you on the couch and loves to give huggies and kissies but dont cross her because it's not pretty! Has has a mean streak in her, sometimes Kadee wont even do anything but look at her wrong and Kloe will flat out slap her in the face or jump her. She is meaner than Kadee most of the time. It's sort of funny to watch. Kloe loves to be just like her sister, she wants to do everything sissy does and never with any help. They girls definitely have a love-hate relationship! Kloe talks ALL the time now. She was going to speech therapy for awhile which helped a lot. She is all caught up for her age now so I stopped taking her because that was my goal, it jump started her and now she is flying with it all by herself.

Both girls are so fun and we are so blessed to have them in our lives!

Merry Christmas Everyone and happy holidays! I hope everyone enjoys time with family wherever you may be!

the turkey would survive the holidays if it blended into our family, so Kadee and i made a Ranger turkey!

Kloe and mama and monkey Joes bounce place

Kadee had a blast sliding down

Kadee got her soccer trophy

We went to Fuddruckers and Mike got the biggest Hamburger they make, I think it was a whole pound of meat and then add on cheese and veggies and french fries... He ate all of it! Gross!

Mike and I at Ranger Graduation

A typical mike and jess picture, either im making a face or he is

Mikes parents

My parents

Mike and Kyle

The coveted "Ranger Tab"

HE DID IT!

2009-11-09T11:17:00.002-05:00

I found out last night that Mike has completed and is graduating from ranger school!!!!

***************** HE PASSED *********************

The girls and I are very very excited to be with him again! He said that he is skin and bone which I dont doubt so I will have to nurse him back to health! Thanks to everyone for all the thoughts and prayers! He graduates on friday!!!! GO RANGER MIKE!

Mike update

2009-10-25T20:00:00.002-04:00

So I waited ALL DAY yesterday for a phone call from him wondering if he passed or not. I was even afraid to take a shower on the off chance I would miss the call. Finally at 7:45pm I got the call.

HE PASSED!!!!!!!

He passed the mtn phase and is very exhausted and tired. They were getting around 15 minutes of sleep every night, repelling down cliffs in pitch black at night, hallucinating due to lack of sleep, and just all around tore up. Mike has cellulitis in both knees, trench foot on both feet and his hands are cut up to the point that when he puts them in fists they all open and bleed. he is very glad to be done with the mountains and move on to Florida. He has 2 weeks left of the course and 3 weeks left overall. He needs to pass one patrol to graduate so I have high high hopes!
Keep him in your prayers! thanks

not much is going on

2009-10-22T17:36:00.005-04:00

right now we are waiting to hear from mike to see if he has passed mtn phase. He is supposed to call tomorrow and let us know, i got a letter yesterday saying things werent going well for him so im really nervous. if he recycles that will take me from only having 3 weeks left to having 7 weeks. NO!!!! Please keep him in your prayers!

The girls and I haven't done much. Kadee goes to school and kloe goes to her speech therapy and thats about it. Oh and Kadee has soccer now too. Basically we are just waiting for mike to come home and be with us. We miss him a lot, it's hard having ZERO communication with him!

Kadees class at school had a book parade today where they dress up as their favorite character from a book and walk outside to show themselves off. I had to make decorate a cereal box for her to take that they were going to put candy in. I went a little crazy with her box but i loved how it turned out, everyone else just threw some construction paper and paper plates to theirs mine was a bit different.

5 Years

2009-09-25T13:34:00.003-04:00

I just wanted to give a shout out to my main squeeze Mike! Today is our 5th anniversary! in total we have been together for 1 1/2 of them so Im kinda used to him being gone but it still sucks! I cant believe how fast 5 years has gone! I feel like we just got married. We have two wonderful little girls a dog and we have lived in a million different places. Everyday brings a new adventure some good and some bad but we always have find fun in the journey. we have been married for 5 years now which has gone by too fast but my absolute favorite part is knowing we have an endless number ahead of us! Mike is my best friend my husband my everything! He will always be my #1. I Love you babe! He has been gone at Ranger school for the last 2 weeks and i havent heard anything which is a good thing. i got a 4 sentence letter telling me that the first week was the worst week of his life, I feel so bad but this is something he has always wanted and needs to do!

09-09-09 Kadee turns 4

2009-09-10T17:20:00.005-04:00

Kadee turned four! She is obsessed with birthdays and was so excited that it was finally her birthday. She kept singing "happy birthday" to herself all day long! We had a ton to do yesterday because mike leaves for ranger school on sunday but we still tried to make it fun for her. We took her to chucke cheese and she loved it. We only usually go once a year usually on her birthday so its a real treat for her. She ran wild! I cant believe how big she is now, shes scarily smart and funny and is a good big sister most days and loves her family! We love having Kadee in our family! Happy Birthday Kadee we love you!

one day old on daddys chest

Best Beach trip EVER!

2009-09-10T14:15:00.008-04:00

So we went to the beach and had lots of fun! Mike and i are from the west coast where the water is COLD so it was so awesome to play in water that was warm! The girls loved playing at the beach and loved going fishing and seeing dolphins. It was a great family vacation!

the first time we have ever been to Florida!

The side view from our balcony

The front view of our balcony... the golf course. Mike obviously booked our hotel!

pretty sunrise

Mike yelling at me to stop taking pictures and come help him

The beach is soooo crowded

She really almost fell asleep here, she was very tired from playing so hard

Kadee of course wanted to be buried too. Im a bad mother and couldnt resist making her a bit chesty

Kloe in her cute suit

enjoying their seafood

Big boat restaurant

going out on the boat to go fishing

Cpt Don was nice and took a pic of us

Mike and his 15 pound Bonita fish

our 50+ pounds of mackrel

why Kadee why?

2009-09-03T17:56:00.002-04:00

She did it again for the millionth time. Yes that is her hair all over the place and that isnt all of it. you cant tell in the pics of her head how bad it actually is, its REALLY bad unfixable cut to the scalp. atleast she left some down at the bottom! She cut some off the sides too, so the only way to make it not completely noticable is to pull it all up but even then it all pokes out everywhere so she has about 6 clips in her hair always now!

The other day Kadee got bored and decided to Have a snow day! She dumped out the entire contents of a foot powder bottle, the poor dog was sleeping in the closet and got snowed on but didnt even wake up for it. The picture again didnt do the damage any justice, i vacuumed forever and its still all over!

Last night we think Kadee turned on the gas on the stove and left it on ALL NIGHT. I woke up so many times last night and had some crazy weird loopy dreams and everytime i woke up and smelled something weird. finally at about 3am i realized what the smell was, GAS and ran to the kitchen and saw the gas was on. our entire house was filled and it was awful, i wasnt sure if it was bad for us or not so i googled it and said we could be poisoned or something and that we needed to call the fire department because we could explode. FREAKY! Mike of course blew it off and said we were fine, and went back to sleep. Once the windows were opened it got better and i was able to breathe better. Im so grateful that I was finally able to realize what was going on, we were truly blessed that we didnt blow up last night!

IBOLC Graduation

2009-09-03T17:21:00.005-04:00

The Graduate! Mike is FINALLY finished with IOBC (Infantry Officer Basic course) Hooray! Now he is going to Ranger school, boo! Im not too thrilled with him being gone for atleast 2 months but I know he needs to do this and has been waiting to go forever now so its about time. He leaves Sept 13th and is supposed to graduate Nov 11th if all goes well, apparently a lot of it is luck, hopefully they like you so they arent jerks and recycle you just because they can. He is VERY anxious to go but is very ready to go also. After Ranger school is over he will immediately start airborne school which is 3 weeks and then we will have 5 days to clear out and move. Im so proud of you babe for putting up with a bunch of crap and getting through it! Watch out Ranger school G.I. Mike is on his way! Oh ya he made the Commandants list! go mike! i put a video of all the guys singing, i love listening to them all sing it's hilarious!

a FIRST for us all

2009-08-20T16:49:00.002-04:00

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!

So today was Kadees very first day of school ever and since she is our first child it was the very first day of school for Mike and I. Mike got back from the 10 days of being in the field yesterday so I was SO EXCITED that he got to be her for a milestone. We sat down with her last night and talked to her about what to expect at school and what she needed to do if she needed to go potty and that we dont go to school to hit or bite and that she needs to always share and listen to her teacher. I was nervous because Kadee definitely has a mind of her own and most of the time always does her own thing regardless of who is around, i mean shes really social and LOVES to be around other kids but if they are doing something she doesnt want to do she will go off and play by herself, which is a lot of the time. Ms. Rowe her teacher said she did really well, she blended well with all the other kids and had no problems. I was relieved! Kadee practically kicked us out of the classroom when we dropped her off, some of the other kids were hanging around their parents but kadee ran off and said bye. That was it and I had 3 hours to do whatever, i didnt know what to do with myself, I only had one child with me and and extremely easy child at that. I think Kloe really liked having one on one time with mommy, she loves her sister but she also loves her mommy!

Its time to PRIVATIZE

2009-08-12T12:43:00.002-04:00

So my sister sent me an article of a woman who found someone on the internet selling her son. No joke, This person stole a picture off of her blog and was trying to sell him. That hit home a little bit, I had a guy from Holland awhile back email me because he wanted to know why I had named our daughter "Kloe" and why i had spelled it that way. I asked him how he found me and said he had googled the name "family de Kloe" and got our blog. So that was weird, he was really nice and emailed me some pics of where he lived, very beautiful but again I dont think I want just anyone being able to read my blog and see my family. So it's time to make things private. Mike being in the Army also is another reason why it's smart for me to privatize ourselves, some things will be coming up in our lives that shouldnt be out in the public eye. Anyway leave a comment and give me your emails if you want to be a part of the Happenings in the Conforti World.

Sorry i havent updated in awhile, nothing is really going on other than Mike being gone for the last 3 weeks and then being gone for another 2 and then being gone for 2 months and then 3 weeks and then possibly a year. So Im trying to enjoy every second with him that i get with him. After Saturday i might have something worthy of blogging, I get to go watch mike in the field attack a town at night. Its going to be pretty cool! There is going to be air assault, and massive things exploding, mortars and grenades going off, its going to literally be a war zone, and we get to watch. im excited!

P.S. I will be private in 2 weeks, so hurry and give me your emails!

G.I. JESSICA

2009-07-02T17:05:00.005-04:00

Watch out here I come! Today was soooo fun! Today was family day in Mikes training, we were invited out to go learn to shoot machine guns!!! We had a quick briefing then a quick lesson and then we were able to shoot the guns with our husbands by our sides. It was really cool to be able to see what Mike does at work, that usually never happens! We got to shoot 2 sets of blank rounds on 2 different guns. I think one was called the b240 bravo or something like that and then we got to shoot one set of live fire rounds at targets. I had so much fun hanging out with Mike shooting these monster bad machine guns! It was really hot and I was dying, I dont know how these guys do it everyday with a million pounds of gear!

4th of July!!

2009-07-02T16:27:00.002-04:00

Most military bases have big 4th of July celebrations with lots of games and jump on thingys and food and a HUGE fireworks show. We went last saturday to ours and had lots of fun, it was REALLY hot and REALLY HUMID but still fun! The firework show lasted FOREVER, I have never been to firework show that lasted so long, it was literally atleast 30 minutes. Everytime you go you usually are left wanting more but this time it just never ended, still cool and the girls loved it!

it's about time

2009-07-02T16:03:00.003-04:00

So Kloe is 16 months now and mike and I thought it was time to make our family grow. So we've been trying and finally we were in luck we are now new parents! lots of mignight wakings for now but lots of love!

Haha NO NO NO we are not pregnant, we got ourselves a baby english bulldog. We named her Georgia. She is very sweet and very well mannered, mostly potty trained and LOVES to snuggle with anyone! we are very happy with our new addition!

Kadee-ism...... she's a pyro

2009-06-15T19:09:00.004-04:00

I just thought I would share something Kadee did yesterday, a new something we havent encountered yet and I PRAY it was a one time thing. Yesterday Kadee started her first FIRE! Yes that says FIRE! For some reason this little girl loves loves loves fire, she thinks its so cool! She figured out how to turn on the burner and put a bowl on it so it would burn, then when it didnt blow up in fire she walked away to finish her movie. Mike and I are in the living room and start to smell something funny, he runs into the kitchen and yells "FIRE!" i proceed to run after him and see the bowl engulfed with flames reaching up to the fan. Kadee heard us screaming and ran in to see her work, "thats so cool mommy!". Are you kidding me, did she just say that? Nothing was damaged luckily. What in the world am i going to do with her?

I thought everyone would enjoy this one!

Changes

2009-06-02T15:48:00.003-04:00

So some things have changed recently for us. Mike just finished BOLC II and started IOBC yesterday. He is excited for this part because he will actually be doing something. IOBC is 14 weeks long and then after that he will go to Airborne school which I think is 3 weeks and then he will go to Ranger school. Since we were supposed to be going to Hawaii he wasn't going to Airborne school due to the fact he wasn't going to be in an airborne unit. The Wonderful lovely Army LOVES to keep you guessing and ALWAYS changes things. So instead of going to Hawaii we are now supposed to report to FORT CAMPBELL, KY! Mike is way excited, he will be with the 101st Airborne he really couldn't be happier he was trying so hard to find someone to trade with and the Army just changed his orders without us even knowing. He went to check what unit he would be with in Hawaii and found this wonderful surprise, we were both in complete shock! We are supposed to be there in January.

Funny side note- When I went to look up info on the base I noticed that most of the base is actually in Tennessee not Kentucky so really I'm not sure what state we will live in.

Cutest bookcase EVER!

2009-05-18T16:13:00.003-04:00

So Im kind of excited! Ive been on the lookout for a cute childrens bookcase or some shelves for all of Kadee and kloes books. They have a lot of them a they take up a lot of space. I was looking on walmarts website and came across the most adorable bookcase, you can even personalize it, the best part is it wasnt crazy expensive! I have the one with the girly colors, they have one thats more boyish, and i was able to put it together really easily by myself in about 5 minutes. I thought i would share! I know im a dork! Kadee loves it too, this is what she said about it "Mommy, I love it, can i give it a hug, i just so so love it!" shes putting all her books in it as we speak!

Disney Fun

2009-05-13T10:40:00.016-04:00

We had a lot of fun at Disney on ice, well the girls and I loved it and Mike was a good sport. Kadees never been to disneyland so this was AWESOME to her to be so close to all her favorites!

Things here are relatively good, Mike has been gone for the past 2 weeks but atleast gets to come home on the weekends so its not too bad at all. Mike seems to be doing well with his training, this beginning stuff is basically beginner stuff so he is excited for IOBC to really start, he is most excited for Ranger school and trains extra hard so he will do really well. The girls and I are enjoying the REALLY warm weather here and I am trying to keep myself busy. So far no friends made which is a bummer, its not much fun to be here by yourself. Right now we are still going to Hawaii but are still on the lookout for someone to trade with.

Kadee is as busy as ever, nothing new there. She is very funny but also very defiant, she is definitely her own person and doesnt like anyone to help her with anything. Shes been having a bunch of meltdowns lately and i think its due to Mike being gone A LOT. The girls dont see him very much and its hard on them. I hate to say this but its something they will have to get used to, he will be gone a lot more than this so hopefully it will pass and we will learn to enjoy our time with him.

Kloe is walking EVERYWHERE and still does not talk. she points and grunts, shes very smart though she knows hoe to get across what she wants without talking, its pretty funny. You can ask her all sorts of questions and she will nod yes or no, ive tried everything to try and get her to say something. Shes my saving grace, when i have a really tough day with Kadee she always can make me smile and lighten my mood.

the front curtain

all ready for the show to start

She got pick out a souveneir and chose the tinkerbell outfit i couldve easily made for 1/4 of the price, thats what you get for going to a disney show, $$$$$$$

Kadee blew a kiss to Cinderella and Cinderella touched her heart and smiled, so cute she was so excited!

Snow Whites beautiful dress

Ariels dress

she was sooo tired

Kadee is using mikes strength shoes and showing off her "Man Muscles"

kloe is already getting into trouble!

The Gallery

2009-05-12T09:45:00.000-04:00

Mother of the Year

2009-05-07T18:13:00.001-04:00

Check it out, Im Mother of the Year!!!

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picture update

2009-04-27T18:55:00.009-04:00

Here are some long awaited pics. some of our house some of when we were on our way here and some random ones. we went to disney on ice last saturday which was lots of fun so i will get some pics of that up sometime soon. come visit us!!

the girls princess bathroom

my pantry / drying rack for my clothes

even more boring living room, we are finally getting a tv this week!!!!!!!

dining room, its kinda boring

The outside of our house, its a lot longer than the pic shows. 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms = lots of space for us yeah!

Kadees cute bum in her new panties

Im letting you know

2009-04-27T09:00:00.002-04:00

So you know at the bottom of my last post i told you I would let you know if my day could get any worse well Kadee DID indeed pull off a few more stunts i thought I would share. So after we got back from the hospital I put both girls down for a nap and got a much needed breather after the days events. After her nap the little girl across the street came over to see if Kadee could play, I reluctantly said sure and everything was fine. They left about 30 minutes later to go home and i was trying to get Kadee to go in too. She wasnt wanting to go inside so she takes off, she runs across the street behind some houses because she wanted to play at the park. I yelled at her to come back but she yells " NO WAY!" and keeps going. I have to run and put Kloe in her play pen so I can run back out and get Kadee. Once I get there of course there are tons of people so Im trying to get her as nicely as I can so we dont make a huge scene. Everytime I would go up on the jungle gym to get her she would go down and when i went down she of course went back up. Im VERY frustrated so I explain what happened and that Kadee is in LOTS of trouble to a teenage girl named Chrissy who actually just lives down the street from us and is very sweet and actually is from Brownsville Oregon of all places. She and this other teenage boy do the running so i can pretend to be nice and try and grab her, well Kadee is a little too quick even for a young teenage boy to catch her, pretty sad i know. Finally Chrissy tells her to come look at the pretty girl in her book and Kadee falls for it and Im able to grab her. She of course is kicking and screaming so i throw her over my shoulder take her in the house throw her on her bed and tell her not to come out because she is in one LONG time out. Mike comes home like 5 minutes later asking me what happened and i fill him in of my very eventful day. Kadee comes out of her room butt naked because she has to go potty so yes go potty. Mike and I sit on the couch talking and we hear a door shut and click. I run to the door yelling at Mike that Kadee is outside BUTT NAKED running down the street. By this time I want to Kill her, My bad day has turned into a nightmare! Kadee took off down the street in her birthday suit because she wanted to go back to the park.

So when I wrote on my last blog saying can things get worse I really didnt think they would. I really thought Kadee would be good but at this age most of the time that really just doesnt happen, I shouldve known something else was going to come up. I truly believe that Kadee is my personal challenge in life, I love her like crazy and always will but somedays she definitely makes it difficult.

So yesterday being Sunday we made breakfast. Mike made pancakes and eggs. We forgot to put everything away and of course little miss Kadee had some fun. She grabbed the Pam bottle and sprayed all over my counters and floor and stove in a matter of 10 seconds. Kadee loves anything things that sprays, I know this stupid stupid me! Im not sure how many of you know this but i do due to Kadee having done this multiple times, Pam is one of the HARDEST things to clean up especially off your floor. You have to literally get down on your hands and knees and wipe and rinse and wipe and rinse about 50 times till it all comes up. A big shout out to Kadee for making Sunday a clean up day. She has definitely made us rethink having more kids!

Kadee-ism

2009-04-23T14:42:00.002-04:00

well this morning was a bust! Kadee had her first ambulance ride to the hospital. I got up this morning and started changing kloes diaper and come out to find my imodium ad bottle in the hallway on the floor opened. i look inside and see there arent very many left, i ask kadee did you eat these, kadee says yes. The bottle has 20 tablets ive eaten 4 and i count and there are only 9 left so that means Kadee has eaten 7 of them. thats more than 3 times what an adult is supposed to take. CRAP!! I call my mom to see if i should call poison control, i knew i should but i still asked. So i call poison control and tell her what happened and the lady comes back on telling me i need to call 911 immediately because she can go into cardiac arrest. im FREAKING out crying calling my mom, what am i supposed to do. i just moved here dont know anyone dont have a car, this is the worst day ever. I ran to my neighbors house and asked her to call 911 for me. she was so nice she ended up taking kloe for me while i was at the hospital, we didnt even know each others names. we do now and i owe her big time! Anyway the MP's (military police) come and then the ambulance and we take a ride to the hospital. she ended up having to drink an entire cup full of charcoal and then had to stay for another 4 hours for observation. Shes now going black diarrhea, probably one of the most disgusting things ive witnessed in my life, trust me you never want to have to see it! anyway shes fine but it sure did give me a scare. Mike is at the range this week so he doesnt have his phone, he still doesnt know anything happened. I know now I have awesome neighbors! This is the 3rd time ive called poison control because of kadee. The first time she drank mikes aftershave when she was 2 and that was straight alcohol yes she did get drunk. go kadee! I sure feel like mother of the year. Oh and by the way the MP's had to question me and take a sworn statement from me, i freakin felt like a criminal, that was also awesome, can my day get any worse, i will let you know!

Hooooorayyyy!

2009-04-21T12:40:00.003-04:00

It has been an amazing 2 weeks!! Kadee is now finally potty trained! For all of you parents out there trying, you have hope!! I know a lot of you have heard the stories, it has been a long long long road with this little girl. She has been a tough cookie to figure out, I've learned the she is not one I can push or even guide in the direction I want her to take but rather I have to let her choose her path and let her learn on her own time what it is she wants. Once we got to Georgia things clicked with her and she decided that she no longer wanted to wear diapers and wanted to be a Big Girl! Thats really all it took, we had one or 2 accidents the first day and then none the next. The first night without a diaper she had an accident and came to me in the middle of the night heart broken because she has peed on her princess blanket. She was seriously so sad that she did that, since then she has not had an accident at night at all. Life is seriously AWESOME having only one in diapers! Good Job Kadee we Love you!!!

On another note, I know I havent blogged about us getting to Georgia so I guess I will update. Mike has started IOBC (Infantry Officer Basic course) and seems to be doing really well. He is gone A LOT! From 4:30 am to sometimes 9pm. The girls are having a difficult time adjusting to somedays not seeing daddy at all but this isnt forever so it will be ok. Georgia is very pretty, it's very green and warm and very humid. 90-95% humidity everyday! The base is nice and huge and we have nice neighbors with lots of parks near by for the girls. The weather here is either really nice or really stormy. About a week or so ago mike and i were watching a movie and it was really really stormy outside. It was making me nervous, Kadee was scared because the wind was so strong it was rattling her window, i ended up pulling her bed the the opposite side of the room away from the window. A few minutes later Sirens go off outside, That really made me nervous but I didnt know what they were for. We called a friend and he told us the they were TORNADO sirens. Are you kidding me, I was then freaking out! I come from a land where we dont have severe weather or crazy weird snakes or insects that can kill you just looking at them. Not only did theses sirens go off once they went off 4 times that night. The next day we found out that a tornado did touch down on base and it ripped up tons of 100 year old trees straight from the roots. CRAZY!!! Apparently we are supposed to go into our bathroom and pray that we dont die, which somehow doesnt seem like the safest thing but thats all they got for us!

So nothing really going on here other than that stuff. I got our family pics which we love and I will get them up here soon. We are going to Disney on ice this weekend as a present for Kadees accomplishment. She is soooooooo excited, I guess im excited too, we dont do stuff like this that often so it should be fun! Kloe is starting to walk now and loves it but still crawls most of the time only because its faster for her, shes a little speedster! I will get some pics up soon of where we live and what it looks like all that stuff! that all for now!

a preview

2009-04-14T00:57:00.002-04:00

while we were in utah on our way to Georgia we had camis sister Laura take our family photos, so far these are the only ones that we've seen, i cant wait to see the rest of them! If you are ever in utah have her do your photos she does the best job ever!

Just a Mix of it all

2009-03-12T15:57:00.008-04:00

Right now we are just trying to get our things together for the movers, they come on monday. We are getting excited to Move and to go see some friends and Family in Utah before we make the rest of the trek to Georgia. Cami and DJ will be our host, Thanks in advance to them for letting us stay with them, it will be lots of fun! We finally found an apt to live in so lots of stress has been lifted off my shoulders! Kadee and Kloe continue to make us laugh and smile everyday, We have two wonderful little girls!

On Monday we were driving and talking to Kadee about what she learned at church, Jesus made the plants and trees and flowers etc... She saw a billboard with pizza on it and said " Who made the pizza?......Hmmmm..... I know The animals made the pizza for Jesus!" She's a funny little girl!

Kadee loves her Daddy and loves that she put the basket on his head!

mike was thrilled to be wearing this!

Kloe LOVES oreos!

Sisters

mike had to get the spiderman masks

Shes a big girl now!

My brother Gabe (he's single almost 29 and loves kids, any takers?)

They both have s set of some Big buns! so cute!

The price you pay of being a little sister, fat lip!

Watch out!

She's 1!

2009-02-21T17:02:00.016-05:00

Well a whole year has gone by and Kloe is now 1. She can say "mama, dada, ni-night, baba" probably several more I just cant think right now. She loves her sister, she loves to be where kadee is and wants to do everything she does and Kadee pretty much hates it. Kadee likes her sometimes now and even calls Kloe her friend. Kloe LOVES to annoy Kadee, if Kloe is talking and Kadee doesnt like it she will tell her to stop which puts Kloe in full force, she gets louder and talks more all with a big grin on her face cause kadee is now yelling. She loves to outdo Kadee in screaming matches while we are in the car, which isnt much fun for mike and I's ears, its pretty funny though! She loves to give kisses and hugs, she can climb up and down the stairs, crawls everywhere, is a magnet to dog water and is all around the sweetest little girl. Her favorite activity is playing on the bed with her mama daddy and sissy, she squeals and giggles and throws her self all over the bed, she just has a ball being with her family, we all love our little Kloe.

Kloe a couple of days old......

.....Kloe one her 1st birthday

A couple days ago we went to the park and had a lot of fun, the weather was PERFECT!

Hmmmm don't know what to call this one

2009-02-11T14:46:00.004-05:00

Nothing all that exciting here. We are getting ready to move next month and still trying to find a place to live. Kloe will be turning one next week so look for those pictures. I dont know of any good photographers here so I think I might have someone in utah take our family pics and kloes one year pics while we drive through. Here is some updated pictures of the girls. also I took some video of the girls but im not sure how to upload those on here, can someone share the info so i can put those on here?

kadee making messes as usual, we had to add the hat

My grandparents , we were trying to do the 4 generations, didnt work out

Cutest picture EVER! She ran away while I was trying to change her diaper, this is how I found her

Mike and TD snowboarding

The girl loves to splash

She LOVED riding the vacuum

one of the MANY messes kadee makes throughout the day

Kloe and her FAVORITE ( my mom or meme)

Kadee and Mike

Kloe and Mike

My first attempt at homeade bread, it turned out PERFECTLY!

NOT A GOOD DAY

2009-01-29T19:06:00.004-05:00

below is the email I sent to Mike 30 minutes ago. We are trying soooo hard to potty train Kadee but she just has her own agenda and LOVES her diapers. We have good days and some not so good but we have never had a day like this. A day I NEVER want to have again! I thought of taking pictures but i thought i might crumple the camera with my rage. If only i had a picture you would see just how ALL OVER it really was!

so i havent felt good all day, im trying to rest and not do much and everything was going fine. Then kloe woke up everything started to fall apart from there. she was everywhere crazy, up the stairs, in the dog water but was cranky because she doesnt feel good either but luckily kadee was down for a nap or so i thought. I go to put kloe down cause she needed another nap and i walk into a freakin poop smeared EVERYWHERE room. Its all over her face and legs and feet and hands. Its like she took clumps of it and used it like a crayon, I'M NOT KIDDING. I just started crying, I just cant deal with this today. Kloes tired so she screaming screaming screaming, i put kadee in a cold bath( cold because i was too mad to make her comfortable and put warm water in it) and tell her to clean herself and i go back to the room and pick up the poop and try and scrub it out of the carpet and wipe it off the tv and crib and OUR BED its on the tv stand on the genie on her blankets, it was everywhere and im sure i missed a lot of it. she even peed on the carpet so i ended up stepping in that when i walked in which made me more mad and then i stepped on a tiny peice of poop but it was big enough to go inbetween my freaking toes. I just wanted to torture her. Im still so mad. I AM ABSOLUTELY DONE BEING A MOTHER TODAY! The room is a mess with poop smears all over it, kloe is screaming and i finally just got the poop out of kadees hair and out of her ear, off her face and out from underneath her nails, im tired and dont feel good but mostly i dont want to be here anymore.

I'm done having Kids! COME HOME!

Birthdays Christmas and everything else

2009-01-14T13:40:00.020-05:00

I know it's been a long time since I've posted. I lost the cord that connects my camera to the computer, we have to have that here because my parents had a dinosaur for a computer, they bought it back in like 1999. It's OLD! So Mike and I gave them our old one which is brand new for them, we hardly used it. They had 40gigs of memory on the old one and this new one has 300!! So now i don't need the cord i can put my memory card right in!!! Yeah! Anyway Nothing all that exciting in our lives we are just getting everything ready for our upcoming move to Georgia. We don't leave till the end of March but there is a strong possibility that we will leave early. Mike put his name on a list to go early if a slot opens up, all they have to give us is a one week notice, so we are trying to be ready for it. We've been searching for an apt over there which is NOT easy. How do you find a good place without being able to see it before you move in? We wont have anytime to search while we are there, we will only have a couple of days to move in till he starts training, and our number one priority is for him to have everything together and to be prepared, we will NOT have time to run around looking for an apt. They let you stay in the on base hotel for like 3 days and that's it. So I've been hunting and writing lots of emails and we just filled out an application for 3 different places to get our names on the list. Hopefully we get what we want!!

Anyway we had a wonderful Christmas. It was so nice to be with Family. We probably wont be with any family for the next couple of years unless they come to us so it was really nice! We went WAY OVERBOARD with presents for the girls, They got everything they wanted and more! I'm not kidding. We haven't had any money for the last couple of years since Mike has been going to school so I went a little bonkers. Mike and I spoiled eachother too. Lets just say that we had an awesome christmas with presents but we learned that it was a little empty, we definitely could have done a much better Job emphasizing the Christ part of christmas to us and the girls. Next year will be way different.

The pictures are in absolutely no order. First there is us and some of my parents then pics of Kadee then Kloe. I will explain as they go along.

Christmas Eve, all the presents out

Me and my girls

I turned 25! I had a great day, Mike got me a massage and the purse i really wanted. He also tried to take me paintballing.... ummm I said NO, I did not want bruises and paint in my hair at dinner. Maybe another night! I cant believe he thought I would like that, silly Mike such a guy and way too into guns. I guess thats what you get when your husband is in the ARMY.

My NERDY dad singing happy birthday, he's getting way too into it!

Gabe Garrett Mike and I got my parents a tv for christmas for their bedroom. Dont you love their gaping mouths.

Garrett my brother

playing some bball on Christmas eve

Once again my dad being NERDY sitting on santas lap

Mike and I

I was trying to take a pic of us and this is what i got

Mikes new obsession... Rockband on wii, he loves to go on tour and Drum his heart out!

My moms bday, as you can see Kadee was a little tired and wouldnt wake up to blow out candles. we just left her in the highchair

KADEE

snow on mommys birthday

getting her bag of goodies from the not so 3 wisemen, more like 2 and a holyman (bishop)

a little crack

this is Kadees wildwoman hair. Everytime i do it she takes it out so its useless to keep doing it, shes my little tomboy

Santa brought her a kitchen

Mike is weird! He thinks that stockings are way too small, so he suggested we use pillow cases and decorate them so I just wnet with it but found these huge santa sacks online for $3 and couldnt ressist, I bought 8 for us and our future kids. Mike thinks they are the perfect size. I know they are HUGE!

My little chef

I was not home when this happened. Mike was babysitting his own children but not really watching them. Kadee always does her own thing and is always up to something and it's usually TROUBLE. Scroll down two pics and you will see. I went o grab a spoon when i got home and came to find a drawer thats usually full of silverware completely EMPTY. My first thought is KADEE. I ask her where it was and she replied to me " on the ground" Im not sure what this means and i go out on the deck and look over the side to see ALL the silverware and some other things all over the place. some were even sticking straight up. I ask her why she did this, she replies " I want to go fishing mommy". This is the type of thing kade does everyday!

Kadee and Sofie

One more kadee story. I again am not home. My mom is babysitting this time, not very well. I come home to my mom looking crazed. She tells me that after i left kadee let the dogs out andthey could not find them they were gone for an hour. They finally find the dogs and have to bathe them because they are muddy. My brother garrett comes out of my parents bathroom (they have a huge tub), sees Kadee and starts yelling at my mother " mom get up here NOW!" My mother runs up to find Kadee lighting matches on her bed. Dont ask me how she knows how to do that. she got several of them lit and was having fun blowing them out, thank goodness for that. My mom sends her down for a time out while she cleans up upstairs, she comes down to find kadee dumping out a canister of oatmeal all over the floor. she said she was hungry. Kadee is a fireball with way too much energy and is too smart for her own good. She is our little computer nerd. She can manuever to whatver she wants on the computer, whether its the paint application or on the internet to her favorite games, she moves that little mouse around and can get everywhere, i know SCARY! She has lots of attitude and is very 3 but we love her and she loves to give all of us hugs and kisses! She started primary, she is now out of nursery and is a full fledged sunbeam and LOVES it! She is growing up way too fast!

KLOE

Kloe will be 1 on Feb 20th. I cant believe how fast this year has gone and how quickle shes grown up. Shes very mobile and loves it, she is our speedy crawler. her favorite thing to do is go as fast as she can to the dog water and splash, if we dont see her without fail she is at the dog water. Funny thing she hates baths, screams and cries and does everything she can to get out, but she loves to splash in dog water. She is always happy and loves to Jump in her crib. We are so grateful for our little Kloe. When I'm having a stressed day because of al the kadee things Kloe can always make me smile. Kloe LOVES her big sister Kadee but sadly the feelings arent mutual yet, Kadee still doesnt like her sister that well. We have days where they are buddies but it's rare!

Kloe and mommy

my mom and the girls

she LOVES to eat

Leslie and Kloe and the ward christmas dinner

she didnt like Santa too much

Kloe is NOT Kadee. Kadee loves to be thrown around and loves to be wild. Kloe has lots of energy like Kadee but hates everything else. she is our little girly girl. I love her face

Santa brought her a train and she loves it

yes all those are hers

i dont know what this face is but its funny looking

Mike was playing rockband and she kept messing him up so he put her in a box to play, i know BAD DADDY. She hated it but it was pretty funny. she wasnt in there for long, dont worry

LOVING her first oreo

Thanksgiving road trip

2008-12-08T16:19:00.007-05:00

We went down to Mikes parents for Thanksgiving down in southern California. Mike and I dropped the girls off and then headed to vegas for a few days. We had so much fun. We stayed at the Venetian (which is the very place we said "I love you" to each other for the first time) in a really nice suite and went indoor skydiving which was a blast! We saw Le Reve and the blue man group and we went to the vegas version of the Price is Right and I won lunch for two at the Eiffel tower! It was so nice being together and relaxing just enjoying ourselves! We came back and had a nice thanksgiving and then everyone got sick! By the time mike and I got it we were supposed to be leaving for home and we got soooo sick that there was no way we could leave. We got the 24 hr flu and everyone else threw up like one or twice and they were fine, well mike and i must have gotten it the worst cause we couldn't stop throwing up, I think Mike lost around 8 pounds. As soon as we recovered from that flu I ended up getting some kind of nasty cold that I started to get in the car ride on the way home. I'm still not over it, so I have been sick FOREVER! Thats why I am only now putting this up.

Kadee and her cousins

Roman Kadee and Audrey

Playing outside with Grandpa

Kloe sleeping with her aunt Sierra

Veterans Day festivities

2008-11-12T12:15:00.009-05:00

First of all HAPPY VETERANS DAY!! Second I wanted to post something yesterday but I was way busy trying to get everything together for the little surprise party for Mike. Mike of course had to work but was atleast credited a day of leave for working, anyway I wanted him to feel special so I did what I could. I decorated and made a fantastic dinner, New York strip steak with jumbo shrimp, potatos with salad and cupcakes. I got him some golf shoes and a golf game with some other little things. It was kinda a mini birthday with a different meaning. I just wanted him to know how proud of him I am and that I appreciate everything he has done and is currently doing. He loves his job and everything that comes with it, He loves helping people and most importantly he love his family! He would do anything to protect us and I think this is one of the best things. Thank you Mike for all you do, you are my HERO! I know that sounds kinda corny but it's true. For everyone else who serves Thank You to you too, my husband needs good people to serve with!

The handsome Hubby

The decorations are lame, I tried

The cupcakes that Kadee dug into with a spoon before I could even get a picture

Washing Kadee off

THE CHALLENGE: we challenged Mike to put the whole cupcake in his mouth.... not that hard, he has a BIG mouth!
The Before shot

Middle shot

The mouth is full shot

He made it!!

I want to try that too!!

This was on sunday... she ate all the icing, don't worry it was only half full. that's better than all the way full

She's very proud of herself

Hmmmm I wonder who took these pics

We have a hunch that it might have been the 3 year old in the pictures

Yep we are pretty sure kadee was involved!

Happy cause she just ate dinner

Kloe is trying to climb the stairs already...... Help Me!

This is what I woke up to this morning. Cute little girl YES, but look at what she is wearing. How in the world did she get this on, it's even over her shoulder. Yes that is my bra, atleast it wasn't hooked in the back I would have been scared!

Random FUN!

2008-11-10T18:50:00.004-05:00

Now that I have my camera I can update more often. Yay for cameras! This last week I made cookies with the girls, we went to papa's pizza and they have a fun playground for the kids and Kadee LOVED it! Then Mike and I got tickets to to Oregon Duck game where it was pouring down rain the entire game!!! We were soaked from head to toe and I even had a poncho on, it was still really fun though!

Kloe eating her crackers

Kadee sampling the cookie dough

This is probably one of her nicest smiles she has ever given me for a picture!! Notice her cute little apron she got from her Aunt Pissy (Chrissy). Every time I'm in the kitchen she wants to wear it so she can help me cook!

Stirring the cookie dough

One of her latest drawings. She got in BIG trouble. This is the wall right by the front door, she used an old sharpie thats why it isn't as dark as it could be. She didn't understand why she was in so much trouble because she said she was drawing a picture of mommy and daddy. I'm wondering which one is mommy and which one is daddy. Hopefully I'm not the one with the ginormous teeth!

A better pic of her black eye. It's been over a week and she still has it

Kadee in the ball pit at papa's pizza

GO DUCKS!

The drenched stadium

Me in my awesome poncho with my awesome hubby Mike

If you look closely the band people spell out OREGON on the field. I thought it was cool!

Halloween

2008-11-02T22:55:00.008-05:00

I bought a camera!!! I have been picture happy since I've had it which has been all of 2 or 3 days now. I didn't want to miss anymore funny memories with these girls cause they grow so fast. We are doing great here. Mike is working at the University of Oregon and I stay at home with the girls. We are trying to enjoy this time we have together before we are whisked off to training and whatever else is in store for the next couple of years. I know we will be pretty busy and probably won't have tons of time together so we are trying to enjoy what we have now and take advantage of our built in babysitters! We are going to go visit Mikes family in California for Thanksgiving and are excited about that. We are thinking of maybe taking her to Disneyland so she can meet all of her favorite princesses. we will see though! Anyway really nothing new here hope everyone else is doing good!

Kadee got a Shiner!

My parents were babysitting and Kadee was really bad so they hit her! No I'm kidding she was running and my mom was trying to stop her and she ran into the rocking chair. Her eye looks pretty bad, the flash lightens it up so it doesn't look that bad in the pics, it's a lot worse in person. I think it's kinda funny, it sorta fits her personality!

Kloe is crawling now and she LOVES it

Mike is trying to put cheese on me

Mike is training Kloe, she can do more push ups than I can!

all of Kadees Halloween loot!

Mikes pumpkin

My dads pumpkin... Kinda funny lookin he did this free hand thats why the cat is so skinny!

My pumpkin is throwing up!

She hated her costume!

She was supposed to be a kitty cat, you can see the face but look at the claws on this they look more like they belong to a mountain lion or a yetti. from the back she looks like an ewok!! It was a garage sale costume my mom bought. I thought it was too funny to pass up!

This is how Kloe says Hi... She waves and she does it ALL the time! it's really cute! At the end you can hear her say mama. It's the first time she's said it, I can't believe i caught it on camera!! After she said it she wouldn't stop saying it all night cause every time she said it i always came over to her! She a smarty!

Bitter SWEET!!

2008-10-11T19:15:00.002-04:00

Well we received some documents that are kinda Mikes orders through email yesterday. Mike was reading them but didn't read them and so he walks away and I sit down to look at them. It was only 3 pages so I scroll down to the bottom of the page and the very last sentence was all capitalized and in bold lettering so it caught my attention. It said something like UPON COMPLETION OF TRAINING AT FT. BENNING YOUR FIRST DUTY STATION WILL BE

HAWAII

So most people would be really excited about this but we weren't, in fact we were pretty disappointed. Mike was in the top 1% of students so he should've had his number one choice which was NOT Hawaii. We wanted Ft. Bragg, Italy, New York, Kentucky, then finally 5th we put Hawaii not even thinking we would get it. We were hoping to go somewhere that would be good for his career, not that Hawaii won't be we just really wanted Bragg or Italy because they have better training, or so we've been told. I think that most people want Hawaii so they can play and relax not so they can work their tails off because they are serious about their careers. Anyway we've had time to think about it and we are now fine with it and excited about it. It will be a fun adventure for us, Mike will most likely be deployed but it will still be fun! I'm pretty pasty white so I better start tanning now! We will most likely be done with training at Ft. Benning the end of next year sometime so we are thinking that we will have a tropical Christmas next year!! Save your money folks and come visit cause you have a place to stay!!

Little bit of EVERYTHING!!

2008-09-22T01:41:00.034-04:00

**** WARNING**** really long and contains lots of pics

ORDERS...

well we did get our orders but not all of them. First off Mike branched Infantry which is what he wanted and is really excited about it. That means we will be heading off to Fort Benning Georgia. He has training to do there for 6 months to a year and here's the real kicker we don't leave for Georgia until APRIL of 2009, thats 7 months away. Kill me now!! The second part is that since his BOLC II dates are so far away we won't find out our duty station until sometime around January. So until then Mike will be working at University of Oregon doing gold bar recruiting and working with the ROTC. Lucky for us though we have some good friends who have the exact same dates as us so we won't be there alone and Mike will have a good friend to do his training with!! See you guys there Kyle and Hayley!

Thank you to Hayley Baum for the photo I swiped off of her Blog page!!

Fun Pics...

I was trying to take a pic of Mike and I but this is what I got

Kadee and Kloe sliding down the stairs on her blow up bed last night. They both LOVED it, Kadee probably went down atleast 50 times!! It was a good way to make her tired!

Old Friends...

Saturday night Emily, Amanda, Andrea and I had a little reunion. It's been about 5 or 6 years since we have all been together in the same place, it was a lot of fun talking and catching up with everyone. Amanda has a little girl named Katie who is my Kadees age and they had a lot of fun together being silly!!

Me , Andrea, Amanda, Emily

They went crazy with these balloons

Kloe's 7 months...

Kadee turned 3!! . . .

Well Kadee is now 3!! We took her to Chucke Cheese and she had a blast and came home and had cake and ice cream and opened presents. she got princess dolls from meme and papa and got a cool Barbie bike from Mike and I and she loves to ride it really fast! Unfortunately we had a ton more pics but they got ruined which makes me really sad so these are all we have.

My goofy dad

The bike has a smaller bike on the handle bar you put a barbie on so your barbie rides her bike on your barbie bike, its pretty cute!

Mike teaching Kadee to ride the bike, it took her all of 3 seconds to learn

oops forgot the helmet

Re-siding my parents house

The siding on my parents house was pretty bad so they decided to redo it themselves. Mike worked 13 our days for the past 3 weeks finishing it, I even helped a bit my self. Kudos to Mike and my dad for getting it done, this was no easy task!!

This is me Caulking the siding

You can't tell how high mike is but he is about 4 stories high

You get a better picture here on how high he is

Helping Mike put the siding up

Unfortunately we found some dry rot and mold along the way so we had to destroy and redo the bathrooms

Garrett and I hanging out of a hole in the house

GO DUCKS!!!!

2008-08-30T20:27:00.002-04:00

I'm just really excited that football is starting again. I am a huge sports girl and I LOVE to watch college football especially my DUCKS. They play tonight against the Huskies, BOO HUSKIES! Hopefully we will have a really good year!! GO DUCKS!!!!!!

my cowgirl and half year old

2008-08-25T18:57:00.005-04:00

My Baby Kloe just turned 6 months old.... can you believe that shes half a year old already, I hate how time flies! Kloe is eating all sorts of solid food now which she loves. She is obsessed with food, everytime anyone has food she stares you down, she watches it from plate to mouth, it's almost as if shes trying to tell you she wants some. It makes me feel bad, I would love to give her a taste but I don't want to get her sick or have her become allergic. She rolls over and LOVES Kadee, she thinks everything Kadee does is funny and always giggles at her. I just know shes going to be that little sister that thinks Kadee is so cool and wants to be just like her so she copies EVERYTHING Kadee will do, I can already see Kadee complaining.

Kadee is sooooo tall for her age. She turns 3 in 2 weeks and is 41 inches tall and weighs 35 lbs. She is above the 100th percentile for her height, shes going to be a tall girl!! I've been thinking of things I can get her involved in especially since the olympics have been on, she loves the gymnastics, everytime she does a somersault she stands with her hands in the air and says"ta da". But I've been thinking maybe beach volleyball or something, I guess we will let her choose what she likes the best, I just think it would be fun to have a child in the olympics!!!

Random pics of the girls I thought were cute

4th of July at a rodeo we got Kadee a pink cowgirl hat and never wanted to take it off

This was the next day... She woke up and put on her cowgirl boots and put her hat on and was watching Dora... Thats pretty much how she looked the next couple of days

This was kloe playing at the Rodeo

Lieutenant Conforti

2008-08-16T22:18:00.005-04:00

Yes I'm going to brag my husband is the best!!! Seriously he was ranked #1 in his regiment this summer, there were 300-400 guys and gals in his regiment. So YES he did AWESOME!! He commissioned on 8-8-08 at 8am which I think is pretty cool! The ceremony was really neat, they had the band playing and had cannons shooting, it was a spectacular show!! Mike got tons of awards, he even got a saber which is a sword because he was ranked #1, and he got lots of coins from Generals. I got to pin on his bars which was really neat, I think the coolest thing was all the family we had there. My parents and my brothers were there his parents and 2 of his sisters and his Uncle and 4 kids were also there, Doug Miller a friend from our old base in Germany also showed up to show his support( it was really great to see him!). The cool thing is none of them have ever really been on a military base so seeing all the action was very very impressive. It was an emotional and long awaited day and then it was over in an instant. It's great to have Mike back home with us, we still don't know his job or duty station, we will find out in the middle of September sometime. So we've been back for over a week but we have all been so sick that I'm just barely getting this on.

Introducing 2nd Lieutenant Michael Ammon Conforti and his family

This was the awards table, that is his saber in the back and his certificate and coins are in the upper right hand corner

Little Miss Kloe

Kadee

Mike getting to see Kadee after a month and she was asleep (probably because she was boogying to the band music)

Mike up in front to receive his many awards!

Yes that is my Handsome husband in his uniform

Taking his oath

Me pinning his bars on

and finally he is a 2nd Lieutenant

One Week, Sleep walking and a baby tooth

2008-07-31T13:17:00.003-04:00

So I'm really excited I have one week left till I get to see my wonderful Husband. As much as I hate these separations from each other they sometimes are good for us. They make us realize how important we are to each other and we miss each other like crazy. I know everyone has days where your spouse just drives you CRAZY, you love them but you just need alone time. Maybe I'm the only one that feels that way but I honestly think that's normal. Don't get me wrong Mike and I are more in love than ever but when your life is so stressful sometimes you need reminders to keep you on track. I think I just made this sound like Mike and I hate each other which isn't the case at all. Mike and I are a perfect match, we get each other, we help each other be better people. Things have been rough the last year and a half for us. We were married for only a year and had a new baby when he left for Iraq. While he was away our love grew beyond measure (I know it sounds corny), but when you are married for a year, yes you love each other but several years later you look back and realize how much your love has grown so it seems like not a lot to you then. Anyway imagine being away from that person for a year and only being able to talk to them on the phone and through e-mail, you learn so much more than you would being next to that person. Mike and I learned so much from our phone conversations and the many love letters but there is only so much growing together you can do. Mike and I were still immature, we were young but we were growing up together. Our year of separation made me grow up very quickly, I had to, I had a new baby and I was over seas away from any family. I became a strong independent person who got things done, I was not that person when Mike left, not even close. I definitely think I am a better person now and grateful for the deployment because who knows how long it would have taken me to grow up. While Mike was gone he too changed a lot so when we were finally together again it was almost as if we were strangers in a way. We were both different people and we had to re-learn about each other, its been a long confusing journey but we are so much stronger today and we are doing so well! Mike and I are married for Eternity and there is NO going back for us, we had to make it work. We have improved so much with our communication and that is why we are here today standing so strong knowing we can get through ANYTHING life throws at us and being in the military I know we will have some interesting yet very challenging things flying down our path. Funny thing is I wouldn't want it any other way, I love my life, it is NEVER the same. We get to travel the world(something I never thought I would ever do) meet important people and live an over all exciting life!

So several months ago while we still lived in Utah Kadee started sleep walking. It wasn't that bad until we got to Oregon. I know sleep walking isn't supposed to be dangerous but lately it's starting to get that way. There are nights when I wake up to check on her and she is in the closet and one night I couldn't find her at all, she was underneath my bed all I saw was her feet barely sticking out. Some nights she goes downstairs, which scares me because she knows how to unlock the front door and I'm afraid for that one night that I don't hear her get up she will end up outside hit by a car or taken. Lately she's been climbing into Kloe's crib which is so dangerous, I haven't been sleeping at all because I am so paranoid that something bad is going to happen. Last night I slept on the floor in front of our door if that tells you anything. She kept getting up trying to leave, all I could do when she did that was lead her back to bed. When it first started to happen in Utah I didn't realize what was going on, every time I would talk to her when she got up she never answered me or even acknowledged I was talking to her, her eyes were glazed over and she was just strange kinda like a little zombie. I know coming to Oregon has a lot to do with her being in a different place but she keeps getting worse and I don't know what to do.

So enough with that and on to Kloe. My little baby is growing up way too fast, she got her first tooth last Friday. That stupid tooth took away her newborn innocence and now she's just a full fledged baby. She's at such a fun age right now, always smiling and giggling and loves to eat her feet. She's not interested in rolling and always wants to sit up so she can see everything.

So one more week of being a single mom and then we get to go see Mike commission. That means he becomes an Officer, it's a huge thing, something we have been working toward for a long time! The girls and I got special outfits to wear so we can look good for him. I'm so excited to be with him again! I will put up pics of the event when we come back!

Single mom AGAIN!

2008-07-14T00:59:00.003-04:00

Well Mike has been gone for a week now, so that makes me a single mom once again. It's nice having my parents around but they sometimes make things harder because the girls get spoiled way too much! So now Kadee always gets what she wants and Kloe always has to be held and rocked to sleep, thanks mom and dad. Mike has not called me in 5 days now, I haven't heard one word from him. We talked way more, like every day when he was in Iraq and it's now 5 days, I just wish I knew he was ok. He is done on Aug 8th and thats when he commissions so we will see him then but it still feels so far away. I know a month should be easy compared to a year but it's still hard having him gone, Kadee keeps asking where daddy is and doesn't understand so it's pretty sad. Anyway I guess I don't have a lot to say. Here are a few recent pics of the girls and I.

Good bye Fat, look out Skinny here I come!!

2008-06-30T01:22:00.002-04:00

Yeah! So it has been 4 months now since I've had Kloe and I am now allowed to start working out. I had to wait so long because I had a c-section, anyway I'm excited to get back into shape so I feel cute again, right now I feel homely and just so not me.

So thats good news to me! Now I am officially in Oregon and I am here for who knows how long. We could leave from October through Feb. We will find out sometime in Sept or Oct, thats one thing I very much dislike about the military, you cant really plan anything in your life everything is always unknown! Im just really excited Mike has finally graduated. Im so proud of him and his hard work!

So for all of you in Oregon, Im here and I need some friends to have fun with! Also If you have any ideas for what I can get Kadee involved in this summer I would greatly appreciate it. I want to get her in soccer or dance or really anything to get her around other kids and doing some sort of activity.

Pics!

2008-06-09T01:30:00.004-04:00

I wanted to update on the girls..........

Kadee Pearl is such a little character, she is always making us laugh. She loves to be the center of attention all the time. She loves to call us Jess and Mike, i think she does it because she knows she will get a reaction out of us. She loves to dance and LOVES to draw. Shes 2 (almost 3) and can draw perfect faces with arms and feet and hair, the whole works. Dont get me wrong you can tell a 2 year drew them but most 2 year olds cant draw like that yet. she loves to draw pictures of mike and I and even kloe sometimes. I will have to take a pic of one of her drawings. She is a crazy child with way too much energy and way too smart for her own good and my own sanity. She would rather take a shower over a bath, she can now count to 20 by herself and can count to 10 in spanish (all thanks to Dora), she can sing the abc song and can identify all the letters, she knows all her colors and animals and what they all say and remembers EVERYTHING you ever tell her. If im trying to bribe her to taker her nap, sometimes i will tell her we can watch mermaids (little mermaid) or Nemo and Mulan which is now her favorite, sometimes i will bribe her with telling her we will go to the park. The minute she wakes up shes asking for whatever i promised her. You would think a 2 year old would forget but no not Kadee, so now i have to be careful with what i promise her. My favorite part of Kadee is how loving she can be, She loves to give us kisses and hugs and loves to cuddle when shes tired. She really is a good girl and I love her!

Kloe Kloe Kloe, my little thumb sucker. She ALWAYS has her little thumb in her mouth. I always take it out but she puts it right back in, she even prefers her thumb over her binkie. I dont want her to get attached to it but I think shes already ruined. Its really cute but at the same time i know its bad for her so i try to stop her from doing it but it never works. Anyway Kloe is just the best baby ever, she rarely cries and thats even if she wants something like food. We were in the car on our way back from oregon and take in mind its middle of the day and 9 hours had gone by and she hadnt eaten and never made a peep. she was even awake. I felt like a horrible mom, you would think if you were starving she would cry or grunt or make a sound but nothing. She attacked the bottle when i gave it to her and then I burped her and that was it. Sometimes I actually worry about her not crying like a baby should, i know shes fine, just a little too quiet for me. shes always happy and smiley and shes even started to giggle a little bit.... shes just a little doll!

What a Blessing!

2008-06-09T01:26:00.003-04:00

I wanted to put a pic on here of Kloes blessing. It was so nice to be all together as a family!

Kids N trips don't mix!

2008-06-03T23:30:00.004-04:00

So this last week the nutso Jones family had a little reunion on the Oregon coast. Everyone came, all 5 kids, 2 spouses, all 8 grandkids and my parents, thats 17 people total if your counting. My parents rented a reallynice beach house located right out of newport, its actually owned by the Arnolds for those of you who know who they are. It was a great house, wonderful for large families!

Anyway Sunday when everyone finally got to my parents house we had the Bishop come over so we could bless our little Kloe. It was the coolest thing to have such an intimate family setting for a baby blessing, it is sooo much better than to have it done at church. Mike gave Kloe a beautiful blessing, she was promised so many wonderful gifts and is to have many important missions in her life. I feel so blessed to be her mother.

Monday we took family pics which sucked cause I just saw them and I look like a whale! I dont want to be reminded all the time how bad I looked after I had Kloe. After pics we headed to the coast. Things were good only just a little crazy but as the week went on the kids got crazier and kept feeding off of eachothers energy and we kept getting a little more agitated with eachother. It was fun, we definitely created some great memories but I'm sure glad 's over! We went crabing, which the kids thought was the coolest thing ever. They loved watching the crabs walk sideways, and also we caught 3 starfish. One of the starfish was a huge purple one, it was really cool looking so sara decided to take it home since Lola is learning about that stuff at school. I wasn't fond of that idea because ultimately all they would be doing is killing it which I think is sad. We stayed up late playing games and one of the nights we even played a little hold 'em with m&ms. It was kinda funny watching my dad have a poker face. We of course went down to the beach and played, we dug in the sand had frisbees and chrissy and I played chicken seeing who could go out farther in the water. That was fun but I can handle only so much sand. Our last night we built a bonfire on the beach and had smores, it was a good ending to the week. I forgot the best part..... My parents had a huge surprise for the kids. My dad dressed up as Noah and told them the story of the ark and all the animals. They made cut outs of animals for the kids to hold and after they gave each one of the kids a present which contained pajamas that had ocean themes on them, and my mom made the cutest blankets for them. Each blanket was different, one side had this ctr fabric with all different colors of kids ( since we have all the colors of the spectrum in our family it was perfect), and then on the other side my mom picked out different fleeces for each kid and then had different satin edging for each one too. They are absolutely perfect and the kids LOVED them!

So that was my week in Oregon, Im back in utah now only to pack up my house and move back to Oregon for who knows how long. Thats my update for now, nothing too interesting I know but oh well. I always forget the funny things.......... sorry!

Livin on LOVE!

2008-05-19T15:19:00.002-04:00

Every since Mike started at school things have been pretty tight with our budget. He doesnt have time to have a job and the all knowing BYU thinks they know whats best for us so they won't give us student loans through them or anyone else. Mike gets some money through the Army so we work with it. Its been stressful trying to make everything stretch as far as you can get it to stretch. Mike being gone in Iraq prepared us for these times. We appreciate the little things more, the important things like being together makes us happy and knowing that is all we need. Being a family in the same place is all we want.

So I've been thinking, yes we may not have a lot but it has been really fun trying to be creative. Not having money is a HUGE blessing, we are never thinking about going shopping to buy things we want or going to see the next big movie that has come out. We spend sooo much more time together now and it has been so fun. We find ourselves walking to go get an ice cream cone or going to the park to play, and yes even turning on some music and dancing together as a family. We like to make forts in our family room and watch movies and we love to go play with kadee in her little play house. I don't think I want to live like this forever because it is really stressful but I'm glad it is going to last a little bit longer! These are the memories I know I will remember FOREVER!

I'm Addicted!

2008-05-15T19:47:00.002-04:00

Ever since I've started blogging I've become addicted! I love seeing whats going on in my friends lives, it's like I'm finally connected again. I felt so out of touch with everything and everyone for the longest time. I guess it didn't help living in Germany for a couple of years, you lose whats even going on in the U.S. I just hope that I can keep in touch with everyone from now on.

Mike and I will probably never live in one place for more than a couple of years until he retires. It's been really hard to make friends, I think I've put up a wall. I used to be so good at making friends and now I suck at it. Ever since I got married I crawled into my shell and don't want to come out. It's just hard for me to open up and trust people when I know I wont be around them long. I know I need to change my attitude and let go of that cause I'm probably hurting myself more than anything.

I don't have any hobbies right now so I decided I need to find one, something cool and fun that I would enjoy. I hate scrapbooking thanks to good ole Nauvoo, and I like crafts but I cant really do them much cause of Kadee. I love reading but I always end up neglecting my family cause I cant ever put the book down. I NEED SUGGESTIONS!!!! If anyone has any ideas for me please let me know, I'm desperate for something to do.

My Mothers day!

2008-05-13T13:54:00.003-04:00

So I've been really stressed lately having two kids now. With Mike being gone all the time I just havent had time to have some "me" time and thats pretty much ever since Kadee was born. Anyway a couple of days ago I just started to literally have a melt down which i think stems from a bit of post partum depression, so Mike came home from school early, took the girls, made an appt for me to get a massage and told me not to come home all day. It was nice but I was really bored and the massage i got didnt feel too good I think she actually gave me bruises. I walked around the mall in a desperate attempt to find a pair of jeans, I think I went to every store that sold jeans and seriously absolutely every store I went to had those skinny jeans that dont look good on anybody and then a couple of regular pairs that were ugly. So lets just say i was pretty frustrated. So i go home and walk in the door and look around expecting to find a disaster zone but it was almost as if i saw sparkles on the walls and counter. Everywhere i turn in my house I could smile and relax, it was like a ginormous weight came off my shoulders and I was able to breathe. Mike had cleaned the house top to bottom, done all the laundry, did the dishes, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned out our closet, cleaned our laundry room and took care of the girls. To top the rest of that he gave me anothe back massage which kicked the massage girls butt! He took care of Kloe that night so I could sleep and then saturday I didnt have to do a thing. Sunday I woke up to breakfast in bed which was great and got some beautiful flowers and a cute card. He took care of everything so i didnt have to do anything. He made a great dinner, He made bbq steak and bbq chicken with baked potatos that werent so baked. they were in the oven for 2 hours and still werent done. He made a wonderful 2 layer cake with a cream cheese filling and chocolate frosting then decorated the top with the rest of the cream cheese icing. He sang Happy Mothers day to me and i got to blow out 2 candles since ive been a mom for 2 years. It was really cute! I had a great weekend which really helped me a lot. Mike was really great, I Love Him!

My Family

2008-05-12T14:41:00.007-04:00

Well here are the pics we got of the girls. I absolutely love them!

I'm not good at these!

2008-04-19T19:58:00.000-04:00

Well I decided to get on this thing so friends and family will know about the crazy Confortis. I'm not the best at writing but this will be a good way to sort of have a journal of some sorts, only everyone can read it.

Anyway things are going good right now! Mike graduates from BYU this June and then heads to ROTC camp for 6 weeks this summer. Im sooo ready for him to finally be done so we can finally get out of this place. Utah just isn't my ideal place to live at all! I will be moving to Oregon in may I am leaving the 24th with my girls. Mike has camp at Ft. Lewis in washington and we can't go with him but but but this is exciting on his last day of camp my husband will be commissioning. That just means he becomes and officer in the United States Army. It's really exciting to us because it has been one LONG road, he has worked so hard and I'm so proud of him. The girls and I aren't allowed to be with him thats why we are staying with my parents. After camp we aren't too sure where we will be headed but when I know I will update!

I feel so blessed to have my wonderful little family. Kadee will be 3 in Sept and Kloe turns 2 months on the 20th which I think is tomorrow. I actually get more done having 2 kids than I did when it was just Kadee. Kinda funny how that works. Mike and I finally got their pics done 2 days ago. Laura Dalton who is Cami's sister took them and they are amazing!! When I get them back from her I will definitely post them on here. Anyway Hi to everyone and I hope I get to hang out with my old Oregon friends this summer!!!!!!