Fargo Flood 2009

Hello to all. I have finally gotten a chance to sit down and share some pictures with everyone from the wet part of the country. But first I want to let everyone know that Tori and I are fine. On thursday night there was an evacuation that was just a few blocks from our house so we packed up our stuff just in case. By Friday morning Tori's sister and his parents were told to evacuate their homes (they are both in west moorhead)...so we all decided to get together and take over Tori's other sisters house for awhile. His sister Tami and her husband Scott live on the Eastern side of Moorhead and in a little safer area then the rest of us, so we thought it would be a good idea if we were all in one place in case anything really bad were to happen. I guess we should have thought about our sanity as well. There is no better way to get to know your future in-laws then to have 7 adults, 4 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cats, a chinchilla and a snake under one roof...with one bathroom. But we're safe and dry for now so I guess its worth it. I love everyone and miss everyone very much. When this all quiets down I will try to get back on to give a wedding planning update (presuming the park we are holding it at makes it through this)

(sorry about the order of the pictures, I'm still new to this)

Looking over the main ave bridge
We were on top of the Moorhead Center Mall Parking Ramp. The railroad tracks in this pic actually run over a street.

This looking at the Railroad tracks and the Main ave bridge

A view from inside the sidestreet. It starts to feel like a war zone when you are surrounded by a large wall of dirt. The water is directly on the other side of this wall.

This is from the front door of the sidestreet...makes work real interesting!

tori and orson lookin over the main ave bridge on Friday afternoon

view from main ave bridge

corner of main and 2nd street

National Guard outside our house directing traffic on Friday

Looking at the sidestreet over the river and the large dike that runs on 2nd street. Look at the light pole to get a real idea.

Well thats all for now...I have plenty more to show you but I don't want to take over the whole blog. Things are starting to lighten up slightly here but were not out of harms way just yet. Wish us luck and I will keep everyone updated. (Lee and Chantel I hope you are safe as well)

With love and hopeful thoughts

Traci Lynn

Latest Update

Lucille was moved to the Home (same as Corlyn, she's in a room across from him) on Monday. Joyce says she seems to be doing fine. Corlyn has a phone in his room. If anyone wants it, call or e-mail me. I didn't want to put it on the blog.

Hope everyone survived the storm and that everyone around Bismarck is on high ground.

Love
Patti

More Davis

Got a hankerin' for some fresh pics of Cassie and Nick's little guy? Head on over to Pensive? No, Just Thinking for the latest Davis photos!

--Posted by Kevin

Hello everyone, first we would like to thank everyone one for the updates and the pictures. It's always nice to know how everyone is doing and to see some pictures of the new additions. As you can see with the pictures below, Trae is a handful. We would have more action photos but by the time we get to the camera he has already completed his last stunt. He is still infatuated with animals of all kinds, but especially horses and cows. His newest word added to the vocabulary is "baby", but when asked does not like the idea of having another one around the house. Well, he hope the spring season is getting everyone a little more excited, but now we hear that Dickinson is looking at possibly 1-2 FEET of wet snow monday and tuesday. It's getting real old, but at least the end is in sight. We hope everyone is doing well and look forward to seeing some of you soon or this summer.

Todd



Beware of sharks in the water!!! This is the most dangerous of them all "The Traester"

This is what happens when we allow Trae to dress himself, I KNOW he got this from his mother?!?

Here are the 5 grandkid's on Trista's side. All boys and all looking to get the upper hand. From L to R: Trae, Carson and Tyson (Trista's brothers twins), Paxton and Rylan (Trista's sisters boys)

Trae and is BIGGER cousin Kylan, don't adjust your screens this picture is real!!

The future kicker and offensive tackle for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish... oh, and the referee that will screw them over!!!

Lucile Update

I just got off the phone with Kathy, and thought I'd better give everyone else an update. Joyce called yesterday. Lucile came through the surgery fine, but has since experienced about three mini stokes. They had hoped to take her home last week, but looks like she won't be released until early this week and then to the nursing home. This is the same one that Corlyn is at. Not sure yet how Lucile will take it, but they think once she is there, it will be alright. She probably won't have to stay longer than a couple of weeks, but this will give the staff a chance to monitor her and make sure she is able to be at home. Joyce say's Corlyn is doing fine and Karen will know more, later this week, if they have to do any chemo. Karen opted to start the re-construction process immediately, so she still has a lot ahead of her.

I'll keep you all informed if I hear more. I told Joyce that I could drive over once Lucile is situated.

PS Frank and Rick went to the North Dakota Game. They were very impressed!

Love,

Patti

Update on Lucille

I got a call from Richie this evening and he said Lucille came through the surgery well. She is at the Mitchell Hospital and her room number is 3207. Her phone number is 605-995-5607. This is the number directly to her room so I would wait if you are going to call. I had called her house last evening to wish her well and let her know we were all thinking about her and Richie answered and said she had gone in yesterday already but gave me the above information. I just figured the phone number was the hospital and so when Lucille answered I was pretty surprised. She seemed in good spirits - she had to go in yesterday for prep and some tests prior to surgery. I will let you know if I hear anything else.

Kathy

Hello Everyone!!!!

I finally made the time to try to figure this blog thing out. My mother keeps telling me to add new pictures and my friends keeping hounding me to get onto facebook. Do these people think I don't have anything else to frustrate my day with. My kids are telling me to get with it and is actually kind of fun once I figure it out. I like to go to the blog and read what everyone is up to. Thanks to my sister for posting pictures of the newest addition. Everyone looks and sounds like they are doing well. We are all adjusting well and miss you all!!!!

Posted by:lisa

Quick Update

I talked to Joyce. Sounds like Lucille gave you all the details. Kathy, I gave her your cell # so she will keep you informed on how the surgery goes. Frank and I will be out in Denver next week (Jake, I'll be calling you with the details). The kids will let me know if you call here.

Patti

Davis, Welcome to the family.

Cassie and Nick, Congratulations! Davis is quite the handsome boy. I'm afraid his eye's say it all, "I'm here, I'm cute, I intend to turn your world upside down!"

Love,
Patti

(see also March 2, 2009, "It's a Boy!")

News from Lucille and Mary

I am hoping I am getting this right- It seems like I have to re-learn every time I want to blog. I am posting however, because I got a call from aunt Lucille tonight and I knew I would not have time to call everyone.

First of all she left a message on my home phone that said "This is Lucille give me a call tonight or tomorrow whenever you have time." I had gone to Bismarck today with a client so thought it must not be an emergency - I will call her tomorrow. Then I realize I have a missed call on my cell phone from her and thought- I better call now. Lucille said she had a few pieces of information that we may want to know about

First Marleen(Kommes) Vick & Verna's daughter had had open heart surgery February 17th in Minneapolis. They had found a calcified lump in her heart. She is in re-hab in Minneapolis at the present time, but doing well. Hopes to be going home by this next week. Second- on February 26th Karen (Johnson) had a breast removed. They are very confident they got all the tumor and she does not have to have any radiation or chemo. Lucille said she had been doctoring for quite some time before they finally did the surgery. She said both Karen and Bob are doing well. Bob had been home for the surgery etc and has not been taking any long runs. She said at Christmas Karen was looking pretty bad - had lost quite a bit of weight etc, She did say she talked to Karen recently and she has gotten her appetite back ( for chocolate anyway and has gained 10 pounds) Lucille said she needed it.

Finally ( this is the Kommes in her) She has been having some stomach problems and went to her doctor in Madison for some test ( including a colonascopy(sp?)-which was her first) and they discovered several polyps. They removed quite a few and none were cancerous, however they did tell her she had a cluster of polyps on her intestines, when she asked why they didn't remove them - they said they were worried about doing damage to her intestine wall. So she is going into the hospital in Madison March 11th to have 6" of her intestine removed. ( Really this is exactly how the conversation went.) She seemed in positive spirit, although I could hear a crackling in her voice.

I asked how Corlyn was doing and she said he had said - he wanted to be the one taking her down to Madison (Richie is coming over to take her there and staying for the surgery) Joyce had asked if maybe the bus could bring Corlyn over , but Lucille said it would be too long of a day for him and she would be more worried about him than anything else. She will be in the hospital a week and Corlyns sister said she will go over every day and have lunch with him. Lucille said he is doing very well.

I also received a letter from Aunt Mary on Monday - had told Jake about it last night. Basically she was guilting me into writing a letter. She basically told me for lent she had decided she needed to write letters( I think she use to always clean her upstairs) and went on to say she had missed my "newsy" Christmas " letter but sure it had been "Lost in mail, or something. In her letter which mentioned none of the above she did say - Tom had gotten his voice back and needed to go to the Doctor again in 6 months. Not knowing what she was taking about I asked Lucille and she said Tom had had his corradid-(sp?) arteries fixed and after the surgery had no voice. The doctors wanted to go back in but he refused. Luckily his voice has returned - but Lucille said Mary said he now started smoking again.

Note: I really tried to correct all spelling & grammar errors- Patti but I could not even find some of these words in the dictionary & it is late, I am tired and I want to get this posted.

Love you all. Kathy

It's a Boy!

Cassie and Nick's baby boy, Davis Roger, was born today! Check out Pensive? No, Just Thinking for some photos!

--Posted by Kevin

Kate's Birthday Pics and an Update

Hi Everybody!

I'm trying to figure this blogging thing out for the first time so hopefully it works. Here are some pictures from Kate's 1st birthday. Somehow I got them posted in reverse order. Kate got to have two parties. We celebrated with grandpas, grandmas, aunts, and uncles on Super Bowl Sunday and then we had our own little party on Feb. 5th, her actual birthday. These pics are from Feb. 5th.

Hope you all are doing good. We are doing really well. Matthew is doing great and is entertaining us with all of the new phrases and songs he is picking up. Cody and I have realized how much we really need to watch what we say. He's so much fun. He's quite the helper too and helps with pretty much everything. Potty training is on our "to do" list but that's about as far as it has gotten. He did well for a little while but he now has decided that it's not so cool anymore to use the potty. This could get interesting...

Kate is doing really well too. I haven't been very good about keeping you all informed of how things were going with Kate like I said I would so I thought this would be a good time to give an update. We finally went to see a geneticist last week in Grand Forks. With all of the doctoring we've done with Kate in her first year of life, the one thing that most of the doctors asked us to do was see a geneticist. There is only one in North Dakota and he is in Grand Forks. He travels around the state too but is only coming to Bismarck in June so we decided it was worth making a trip to Grand Forks to see him sooner.

Anyway, we had really good news. He does not see any evidence of any syndromes. He did say he was not completely finished researching everything with her just yet but nothing looked obvious at this point. We were relieved to say the least and have just decided to not worry about that anymore unless we hear differently. There were two particular syndromes associated with hearing loss that I was really worried about but he basically said she didn't have any signs fitting the description for those so that was great news.

The other thing he told us that we didn't expect to hear was that she may not have the hemihypertrophy that some doctors were thinking she has. Hemihypertrophy is where one side of the body is larger than the other and there were definite signs of that in her legs. However, this doctor did a lot of measurements and said that parts of her body were assymetric (aren't we all??!!) but it was not consistently on one side or the other. That would be awesome news too as it would mean she may not be at such a high risk for childhood tumors and we could possibly stop doing the quarterly ultrasounds of her liver and kidneys that we are currently doing. The reason for the ultrasounds is that kids with hemihypertrophy are more at risk for a Wilm's tumor that could develop in their kidneys and another tumor (I forget the name) that could develop in the liver. We were told to continue the ultrasounds for at least a couple more years to be safe and just follow up on whether anything has changed in the growth of her body. If nothing is changing, then we could stop the ultrasounds.

Aside from that stuff, Kate is a perfectly healthy and happy little girl who is sooo close to walking but just not quite there yet. She takes a couple steps on her own so I'm thinking she'll take off any day now. She has a lot of attitude and I mean a lot! She has no problem bullying her brother around already and she pretty much runs the household. She is such a blessing!

I think that sums the latest news up. Hopefully it all makes sense. I also want to say "Thank You" to all of you for the love and support you've sent our way. It has meant so much! I'll try to be better about keeping you informed of what's going on. I miss you all. Take care.

Love,

Christy

Emily Alyx

Thought I would share a picture of Emily. Emily was born January 15th weighing 8 lbs. 13 oz. Lisa says she is a good baby and everyone is adjusting well!

All our love,
Laura

Some pics from Christmas and beyond!!!

Here are a few pictures of Trae and a few with Kylan. I'm sure Tina will be posting some soon from baptism so i left those out. Have a Great Weekend!!!!

Todd


Trae and Kylan enjoying life at Grandma's

This is my favorite picture of Kylan. As you can see, he is trying to tell us all a little something!!!

Here is our little dare devil at his finest. He fear's nothing and we fear everything!!

I'm sure everyone is well aware of the wonderful winter we have had. Trae doesnt quite think so much of it though.

Grandpa and his 2 boys enjoying the evening

Grandma and her pride and joy. She really doesnt enjoy it as much as she claims, yeah right!!!

Trae loves his new cousin, although a kiss usually turns into a lick!!

His new Tigger that he got for Christmas is becoming one of his favorites.

Don't have Todd's e-mail

Todd,

I don't have your e-mail, but thought you might enjoy this web site http://www.thecraigshow.com/
This guy is Frank, Joe and John's golf instructor.
Patti

Moberg Videos

If you ever check out Pensive? No, Just Thinking, you already know that I upload photos and videos there of the girls for far-flung relatives' enjoyment. Feel free to read about all our December adventures, but if you'd just like to see and hear the girls in action, check out these posts in particular:

• Hillary's school Christmas program excerpt here


• the girls singing Christmas carols by our fireplace here


• Sunday school Christmas program excerpts here


• piano solos and a Christmas song performance by our whole family (the three girls on the piano, Susan on the flute, and me on the trombone) here


• the girls singing for church on Christmas Eve here


• the girls performing an impromptu Christmas Day program at my dad's farm here

And remember: nobody likes a lurker! Leave comments to let me know that you have visited.

Here's looking forward to very frequent posts to Morey Family News in 2009! Keep those photos, videos, and life updates a-comin', and make this new year a happy one for all of us who read this blog!

--Posted by Kevin

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Hello All! We wanted to wish everyone a wonderful upcoming 2009. We hope you all had a very merry christmas and are settling back into your normal routines now that the new year is upon us. Please continue to post pictures of all the kiddo's and keep the blog up to date as the new little ones arrive. This family seems to be growing by leaps and bounds at the moment...it looks to be a busy 2009.

We thought we would share a few photos from our Christmas and New Years.

We love you all,

Jake & Kelli

Audrey's Christmas Card

Hi Everyone;

Audrey informed me at noon that she finally decided she wasn't going to do Christmas cards so I should go blog some pictures to everyone. I think we're getting lazy in our old age.

Mike & Lindsey had given us a gift of a free setting for photos last year for Christmas and finally got everyone together in November. The one photo shows Mathew trying to escape but it did get better after that.

We're all doing fine here. Keeping busy going to Bismarck to see the kids and then chasing the Trinity Titans around this part of the state. Take Care. We Love You All!

Audrey & Terry

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

Frank and I spent the past week at the cabin. Thought you may like to see why we like the winter as much as summer up there.

Patti

Merry Christmas

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

All our love, Laura

Mary and Lucile update!

Thought you might enjoy this. I received Aunt Mary's Christmas card today. She wrote:

"Lucile was here last Thursday. I asked her about Miracle Rub. She said "I use some on my arm but it doesn't help Corlyn." I didn't tell her what you told me. One says that's sisterly love and another would say a little rivalry in a family!"

I got my order and forwarded a tube to Jake, Pat and Terry. Since I probably can't trust you telling me the truth, if it works or not, I'll just tell Aunt Mary you all love it.

Patti

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE GANG!

Hi Everyone,

We hope everyone is going to have a safe andHappy Thansksgiving. We've enjoyed seeing the Halloween pictures on the blog. The kids never sent us any so we'll put these on that Audrey took last weekend. We went down to Bismarck and got the whole gang together for a family picture. The Photographer definetly earned her money. I'll let you know what web site to see them on when they get ready. Everyone take care and we love You.

Love, Papa Morey