"With great power comes great responsibility."

So I have a confession to make….I love superheroes!!! It all started when I got my wisdom teeth out my senior year I spent all my holiday vacation with my Mom and she tried so hard to keep me from being BORED! My Mom asked if I wanted to watch “Spiderman”…me the girly girls of all girls…I wasn’t thrilled but said "ok" ….it was then that I fell in LOVE with Peter Parker a.k.a Spiderman! I also married a superhero lover! We enjoy going to the opening night or opening day of all of these movies…So since 2004 Spiderman was top the superhero..no argument about it…then we watched Ironman…They tied for first until this weekend Rodg took me to see “Thor” and I LOVED IT!!! Me and 7 computer nerds (Rodg's friends) I can’t wait to go see it again…I don’t know what it is about superheroes but I love them! It may be that there is always a love story twisted into it -or all the action that takes place, conquering good over evil but I love them all of them- When Rodger and I first met I thought he was a big nerd (not my type) but slowly we developed a relationship that was like none other and after being married to him for a year I am beginning to realize that everyone has a bit of nerd in them…even me!

My new Number ONE!!!

Happy Mothers Day

I have beautiful women in my life that have been amazing examples of Mothers and many other important things to me- This Mothers day has been very emotional for me…as I have been preparing to become a mother and feel very inadequate in what the Lord is trusting me with, I look to my Mom she is the most amazing women I know! She has always been there for me when I think of my Mom I think of the definition of charity, “The pure love of Christ; unconditional love, compassion, service, sympathy, and concern for others.” My Mom has taught me all of these things and so many more just by her every day actions- I so often have people I don’t know come up to me and tell me what a wonderful mother I have and I always think to myself “I know!” My mom is very selfless person in everything she does she never thinks about her I found a quote that fits my mom perfect….“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” I feel so blessed to call her mom.

Natalie is another example of a wonderful mother and person, my sister is the most forgiving, giving person I think I know her love for people and concern for others is amazing and her love for her children is indescribable! She has been through many ups and downs in life but her faith in her Father in Heaven always helps carry her through those hard times whenever I have a hard time I just think of her and all the things she has been through and I know I can do hard things because of the faith she has shown to me- I love these two women and I hope that as I enter into motherhood I am just a twinkle of what they are and have been in my life!

Caribbean Cruise

My brother Jesse asked me and Rodger to go on this cruise, we had been trying to get pregnant and weren’t sure if I would be pregnant or not or how far along I would be but we decided this would be the last big trip just the two of us before we started having kids. So we decided to go and to make it even better my Parents were going! I love spending time with my Mom and Dad I think because I am the youngest and I spent so much of my time with them we have always been the best of friends and I am so grateful for them they are amazing. So we headed off on the cruise and it just so happened to be our one year anniversary and valentine’s day all in the same week! We had so much fun and will always remember the trip! I was in my second trimester and wasn’t sick anymore it was the perfect time for us to go and to spend some time together before the baby comes.

Grand Turks...one of my Favorite Islands
You can see my dad....swimming in the ocean (we finally got him out of his box!)

Jess, Jessica, Me, Rodg (they were so fun to travel with)

Me, Mom, and Dad getting ready to swim in the Ocean

Jess, Me

Staircase on the ship (Ruby Princess)

LOVE THE BEACH!!

St. Martin

Mom and Dad

St. Thomas

Just before we left port (Fort Lauderdale)

Big Screen on the ship so fun to sit in the sun and watch movies

My Amazing Husband:)

Kolby Ray

I love being pregnant! I love to feel him move and I get scared when I don’t feel him move and it is like a tender mercy when he starts to hiccup or kick me and I know that he is safe…it brings a smile to my face when this little boy wiggles and kicks he makes me so happy! I can’t imagine the joy he is going to bring to me when he has arrived safely here on earth. Overwhelming yes but I am so excited to meet this little boy and love him with all my heart! Some things I already know about this little boy

*He is a early riser like his mom
*Loves to hear his dads voice
*Loves meat and cheese….that’s the Mickelsen in him
*Loves music especially Hymns
I am so excited to be a mom and am so grateful for the wonderful examples of Mothers I have had in my life

Sunday Will Come

I haven’t been able to go to church because I was put on bed rest and I missed it so much today being Easter I decided I could go and sit for an hour in Sacrament I am so grateful I did my spiritual basket was getting low and Satan is working hard on me. We had a great speaker she talked about how when the Savior was crucified on a Friday it was the darkest day that has ever been on this earth...as my mind began to wonder I thought of dark days in my life and in those that I love and then I thought of the Saviors dark day and how utterly alone he was hanging on that cross he felt every pain, sorrow, EVERYTHING we have ever felt and so much more and he did it for us.

The speaker told us about a utube video from Elder Worthlin http://youtu.be/xlc5RvmWN4s its amazing and gives you hope that even in the darkest of days and that “We will all have our Fridays….but Sunday will come” I am so grateful my Savior and his love to each of us

Road Trip...

Rodg and I have been on the go almost all summer I think we finally took our last road trip for a while--- it was so fun we went to Las Vegas so i could go to a Crossfit Seminar and take my level 1 training test for Crossfit- it was a rough two days but I learned alot and had the best husband ever there to support me and I PASSED :)- We stayed away from the strip and I enjoyed Las Vegas more then I ever had before we spent most of our time in Henderson they had great places to eat and shop!! I spent way to much money at the Nike outlet mall.....and of course we had to go to PF Changs Rodg and I love this place:) We played in the pool and enjoyed the sunny days- it was a great little get away that ended way to soon:)

This is the group from Las Vegas that Certfied with me

Into the Wilderness

Jani, Nick , Nathan, Max, and Charlie
Transferring lakes....we went from string leg to Leigh Lake

I am most likely the worst blogger EVER:) I love to look at everyones blog and see all the fun picture but for some reason I have a hard time finding the time to do my own- We have had such a fun summer almost every weekend has been full of activities- This weekend Rodger and I had the chance to go to Leigh Lake with my two brothers, and my brother inlaw and 6 of there kids- so off we went on our adventure....three canoes so two adults per canoe and two kids with all of our gear across this giant lake it took us about an hour and half to get to our camp site where we set up camp and got dinner all set- we then had some visitors...two deer- they had huge ears i had never seen deer that close...and they were close and the kids loved seeing them- then as we purfied our water and got ready for bed we could hear Elk bugling...first time for me then we got into our tiny little tent..not sure how me and Rodger both fit but we did and went to sleep I had been afraid of bears the whole time- people kept telling me how dangerous and hungry there were this time of year...but i woke up and we were all still alive:)

Maddy, Kynzee and me not really sure what we are about to get ourselves into:)

Rodger and Me and String Lake so Pretty

But then it gets scary we were all out on the canoes fishing the next morning and I had just told Rodger how glad i was we didnt get attacked by bears....when he yells.....BEAR i looked up and right at Nathans camp was a baby brown bear.....it took off running so we decided that we really needed to get camp cleaned up and leave before we rean into its mama bear....Rodger was helping me out of the canoe when i yelled Rodger beard...he said no that a deer and just then the bear lifted it head...and it was a small Grizzly bear..(Maybe one to two years old) I lost it i started screaming for Rodger to get in the boat and Jani and Jaden where screaming so Nick and Rodger decided to go clean up camp....so guess what Aunt Katies ends up doing taking...all 6 kids in the canoe with me in the middle of the camp while they clean up and look out for bears....it was hilarious the kids were so worried that we were going to get attacked by bears....it was the most fun i have had in along time- Thanks to my two crazy brothers and all those amazing nieces and nephews:)