Kate's Hearing Experience

Hi Everybody!

I finally have a chance to post and fill you all in on everything. There's so much that has gone on that I'm not sure what all to share so I apologize if this gets long. As Patti mentioned Kate could hear by Wednesday afternoon. It was a very, very good appointment at Mayo! Here's a clip of her first experience hearing sounds. (Hopefully it works.) It's not the best clip as it is pretty quick, but in Cody's defense it was hard to take a video when we were both intently watching. Actually he did better than I would have. He was recording the video both with the camcorder and our digital camera, as well as trying to watch himself.

BEST NEWS IN THE WORLD!!!!!!

Christy just called. Katie can hear! Christy will post all the details and pictures when she gets back home. She wanted you all to know.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

For those of you who don't know, Christy, Cody, Matthew and Katie all left here today for their 12:30 appointment at the Mayo. They will connect Katie's hearing device. It was a very happy and excited family who left here.

Musical Moberg-ettes

If you haven't visited Pensive? No, Just Thinking for a while, you might like to check it out for some video of the girls. They performed in a music festival this past weekend, and Susan captured it on video.

There is also some video of the girls playing at home last weekend. We don't have sons, of course, but I'm guessing that the games they play are somewhat different from what I walked into when I went into the basement Easter Monday!

--posted by Kevin

THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL!

$50 First Prize to Curly Kelli - She remained in the middle of the pack and then trounced everyone with her "Duke" pick.

$25 Second Prize to rockey/jk - after discussion, it was determined that Boomer would have wanted it this way.

$25 Last Place Prize to AbisnailGM - She held her ground against her sisters and prevailed in the end.

No one had the final game score correct. (If I am wrong on this, let me know)

Congratulations to all the winners!

I'm sure we all look forward to next year and look for a 100% participation.

CONGRATULATIONS KELLI!

STANDING COMING INTO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Rank Bracket - Points - Possible Pts [Final Game Score]
1 rockey/jk -Syracuse 112 112 [92-90]
2 Pat's Perfect Picks -Kansas 108 108 [74-70]
3 FrankD -Syracuse 102 102 [100-90]
4 Curly Kelli -Duke 99 120 [86-76]
5 Shantelle's Hockey Picks-Kansas 98 98 [85-72]
6 Hutch -Kansas 96 96 [86-78]
6 Mary D's miracle -Kentucky 96 96 [96-87]
8 Oyster Stew Surprise -Kentucky 94 94 [67-60]
9 Trae's Horse Farm -Kansas 93 93 [70-67]
10 momfish -Kentucky 89 89 [62-58]
11 Brilz -Kansas 86 86 [75-68]
11 kaden ham -Syracuse 86 86 [79-71]
11 Father Polluck -Kansas 86 86 [82-74]
14 Joe -Kansas 84 84 [88-86]
14 Dale's McPicks -Kentucky 84 84 [82-78]
16 Laura Ham -Kansas 81 81 [68-63]
17 Deacon Tony Wanner -Kentucky 80 80 [69-65]
18 Baby Ham -Kansas 79 79 [72-64]
19 Mike's Amazing Bracket -Kentucky 76 76 [75-62]
20 jkopp -Villanova 72 72 [82-79]
21 MarysMoneyMaker -Vanderbilt 71 71 [65-56]
22 Bugeater -Kansas 69 69 [79-68]
22 Double Dribble Dutke -Kansas 69 69 [80-72]
22 Patti's Winning Picks -Syracuse 69 69 [83-79]
25 burrito -Kansas 68 68 [87-82]
26 The Agostini Sisters -Kentucky 67 67 [74-65]
26 Kylandigskansas -Kansas 67 67 [88-71]
28 Edgerock Hammers -Kansas 66 66 [63-59]
28 jordan ham -Kansas 66 66 [71-66]
30 Anna Rules -Kentucky 58 58 [60-54]
31 Cassie -Kentucky 55 55 [102-88]
32 Trista=$$$$ *-Kentucky 53 53 [74-68]
33 Bracket Key -Villanova 51 51 [87-84]
34 Tina's Forecast -Notre Dame 49 49 [79-75]
35 SnooznLynn -Pine Bluff 41 41 [92-86]
36 The Prof -Texas A&M 29 29 [102-97]
37 Hammie -Minnesota 27 27 [68-64]
38 SuzannaBear -Notre Dame 23 23 [63-62]
39 AbisnailGM -Minnesota 22 22 [53-25]

WELL, THIS IS IT! AND MY OBERSERVATION IS THAT THINGS IN THE COLORADO PART OF THE FAMILY ARE VERY TENSE!

Abisnail, Congratulations on winning $25!

Remember, there is a $25 prize for having picked the final score correctly. I have listed the projected scores in brackets (hopefully, I didn't make any errors.

Rocky and Kelli Good Luck to Both of you!

Roger's Surgery

Hi, everyone! I know my dad isn't good about letting people know what's going on -- he had surgery today in Bismarck. He's had a LOT of shoulder pain and it was getting worse and worse, so he finally broke down and went to the doctor (you can imagine how bad it had to get for THAT to happen). They determined he had a torn rotator cuff and set up surgery. He went to stay with Jerrett on Thursday night, braved the blizzard that happened in Bismarck/Mandan today to get to the hospital, and had outpatient surgery. The surgery itself went well, but the doctors discovered that not only was the rotator cuff torn in a couple of places, but the muscle was completely detached from the bone. While they were in there reattaching and mending, they also removed a couple of bone spurs and took care of some arthritis....I don't know the real details -- just passing on what Jerrett told me that the surgeon told him.

Jerrett called tonight to say that things had gone fine. Dad was still a bit groggy, so I didn't talk to him. He'll be staying with Jerrett for a night or two, then he's going to go to Flasher for a while. I offered to let him stay at our house -- not sure why he didn't think recovering in a house with 3 children sounded like a relaxing idea...

He'll have to take things easy for quite a while -- recovery will take well into summer, but he was very ready to get some relief from the constant pain.

If anything changes, I'll let you know. We'll just pray for quick healing -- and for a PATIENT patient! Sorry I didn't think to let everyone know sooner.

Happy Easter and Love to you all!

Susan Lynn

FINAL ROUND

Good luck to everyone still in it!

We are headed to the Cabin to get all pumps working - Fire danger is extremely high!

Happy Easter and Love to eveyone.

Patti