It's been a loooong week and a half, but I am here now- I promise!
If you all could keep FI's family in your thoughts and prayers, that would be very wonderful. We got a phone call this past weekend that FI's grandmother (FMIL's mom) is going downhill very rapidly. She did this a while ago, and the doctors changed her meds which made an improvement, but they don't think it will work this time. The plan is to go out to see her the second weekend in March and see her (the whole family is coming together).
It really bites for FI. He doesn't have much family (both his parents have small families, and haven't kept in contact with extended family). His paternal grandfather is dead, and his paternal grandmother is in a nursing home for dementia. We were really hoping that his maternal grandparents would be able to make it out for the wedding, so he would have someone there. This has hit him really hard- we were expecting his paternal grandmother to leave us a while ago, and his maternal grandmother to make it much longer. He is really shaken up about this, but doesn't want to show it...I am hoping he opens up to me, because I can tell how devastated he is by all of this.
Anyway, thanks for the thoughts and prayers ladies. It really means alot to us!