Wedding and Health Update

Everyone -



It was a wonderful, busy, exhausting week filled with family. All of our kids converged on Saturday. Becky and Todd from MA, who stayed with Katie and John. Allison and Dave with Emma and Adam from MA, who rented a house with Kent and I. Ben is already in Eugene and his girlfriend Elin has a son Calvin who immediately became joined at the hip to Adam. Of course Katie and John are also in Eugene. On Sunday we just spent the afternoon at the house we had rented - my parents came over and we just visited and reconnected.



Monday was "Cousin's Day". We met at Detroit lake (Thank you Gaults for the use of your house). There were cousins from the Gibson side of the family and the Morley side of the family, There were 28 of us all together. We swam, played, visited and snacked all afternoon. In the evening we finished up with homemade Mexican food - I fried a LOT of tortillas that night!



On Tuesday I was exhausted so I told Kent I was staying home the whole day - I read, did crossword puzzles and napped. Others played golf, disc golf, shopped, and ran errands. In the evening we all gathered back at our house again and grilled hamburgers.



Wednesday was another errand day with a few things to get ready for the wedding. Kent and some of the family went to the river in the afternoon but I stayed home again since we were taking the grandkids out that night. That night was "Sibling Night" Our kids and John's sisters and brother in law went out to dinner while we took Adam, Emma and Calvin to pizza, miniature golf and the arcade.



Thursday we hiked in to Sweet Creek Falls - this time there were 14 of us our kids and Amanda (Whitney) Perkins. It is an easy 1 mile hike but for this out of shape recovering sickie it was plenty. I took a chair and sat and rested as the crew swam in various little falls along the way. On the hike out we did it without stopping and I was pretty shaky by the time we got to the car. We drove on over to the coast. I walked down the hill to the beach but then they decided to go a different way and by the time I had walked back up I decided to just lie down on a picnic table and rest while they went on down to the beach. Afterwards we had wonderful sea food at the fish market in Yachats.



Friday morning was Spa day for the girls (thank you to my sister Amy) and golf for the guys. Amy arrived from MA the night before and Kent's sister Nadene and her husband Don as well as his Dad arrived from CA. That night we all gathered with John's family at Katie and John's for rehearsal and pizza. It's so fun watching the blending of two families becoming one!



Saturday was a full day of running errands and getting things ready for the wedding. Allison was cooking pulled pork for 100 people at our house so the counters were covered with crock pots filled with simmering meat. We were all too tired to cook so ordered Thai food and I went to bed while the kids were still visiting outside.



Sunday we went to the park in the morning and set up for the wedding. Our friends Roy and Linda Sturtevant stayed at the park to watch over things while we went home and changed. The day was perfect. Katie wanted a dress made from a table cloth her grandmother owned and somehow her Aunt Kathy achieved it even using trim from a pillow case that was made by Katie's great great Aunt Emelia. (See attached pictures) We ate, visited and played. The ceremony was at 4 and by 7 when the band started most people had gone home so by the end of things there was pretty much just our family and a few close friends. Kent danced with his wife, sister, daughters and granddaughter - that night his legs kept us both awake half the night!



Yesterday the troops began to scatter. Becky and Todd and Amy flew back to MA. Nadene, Don and Charles left for CA. Kate and John left for their honeymoon in Yosemite and Kent and I moved to their house to watch the dog and water the plants - we will be here until Saturday. Allison and Dave and the kids fly out today.



Thank you all for praying for me - though I got very tired at times I was SO happy to be a part of things and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I have a lung scan coming up next week, and blood work the following week with a doctor appointment the first part of Sept. I am feeling a bit jittery and have gained about 10 pounds on the prednisone but other than that am doing okay. I am still adjusting to the blindness in my eye - it combined with the deafness in my ear and that fact that they are on opposite sides can make me feel a bit isolated at times especially in a group. Kent and I are looking forward to having some time on our own now that the wedding is over to process everything and make our final decisions about where we go from here. Thank you for standing with us in this process. We love you all.




Serving Him Together,

Kent and Myrna Morley
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