So much for the binki

Or is he just trying to say, "I love you mom!!"

Hip Hip Hurray!!!

What a relief!!! I have been waiting a long time to be able to post this picture :) It is a huge relief but at the same time I am really sad to be leaving our first home.

Tooth Tooth Who Lost a Tooth?

Braiden!!!
Wednesday night Braiden lost his first tooth, He was playing basketball with the neighbor and the ball hit him in the mouth and knocked his tooth loose (it was already a little bit loose anyway.) So we ran in the house and dad wiggled it the rest of the way out!! It was quite tramatic for the little guy. The rest of the evening he whistled through his teeth just to make us laugh (even Hudson got a kick out of it!!) He was so excited about the Tooth Fairy coming that he fell asleep right away, and when he woke up the next morning and saw money in place of his tooth he proclaimed, "The Tooth Fairy IS real!!!"

Tuesday was quite the day I went Visiting Teaching and Hudson was very very fussy the whole time. I kept saying "He is not usually like this, he must be tired or something." I quickly abandoned visiting teaching and went home but he wouldn't go to sleep he just cried and cried. There was no consoling him now this is very uncharacteristict of Hudson so I decided to call the Dr and I got into the last open slot of the day. Come to find out that my sweet baby has an ear infection, but the Dr wasn't convinced so she did some blood work, only to find out that his white blood cell count was extremely high. So she sent us over to the Children's Hospital for further testing. We did a chest x-ray and some other lab work and got 2 antibiotic injections and then we were finally able to go home. So far we know that he has a virus as well as an ear infection and we haven't heard about anything else. But as soon as he got the antibiotic he started acting more like himself. Today I think he is feeling much much better and I am seeing my happy little Hudson return, Hurray!!

I think I'm finally getting the hang of this!!

With alot of help from family (thanks Kristy) and friends (thanks Jenn) I am finally starting to figure this thing out. I know there is alot more to learn but it will come. Oh I want you to know that I did this WITHOUT Nate's help (he would have gladly helped if needed though.)

We are nearing the end of our 3 year stay in Omaha. It is a little bittersweet with:
The house: SOLD
Boards: TAKEN
Last test: TAKEN
Clinic Requirements: 98% complete

It will be nice to move on to life outside of school but we have grown to love Omaha, we have made so many wonderful friends here who will be dearly missed, and I have to say that I will miss the shopping too. But we (really just Nate) have been in school our entire married life (almost 8 years)so we are ready to be done.

In January we had our third boy!! Hudson is such a sweet and good little baby, the big brothers adore him.

February- who knows what happened it was a whirlwind

March-We went to Idaho and Blessed Hudson and celebrated Braiden's 6th Birthday. When we got home we put our house on the market which is crazy and stressful and NOT fun!

And here we are in April with half the month gone already! I feel like all I've done is laundry and clean the house for showings. Nate took the clinic portion of the boards on the 10th-13th and he is glad to have that over with! Now it is smooth sailing from here on out.

Mickelsen Clan

Here is the Mickelsen Clan at the Blessing dinner/Birthday Party. We didn't get a chance to get a picture of all of the Catmulls, we love our family!!

Braiden is 6

The day Hudson was blessed was also Braiden's birthday we were so lucky to be able to celebrate this fun and special day with ALL of our family around!!!

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!