Joel's Journey: Badges and Bargains!!!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Badges and Bargains!!!

Elijah got his Volunteer Fireman's badge last night. This is right up his alley!!! The other night we were outside playing volley ball and I said "look at that smoke." It seemed it was just across the pasture a bit and then within 15 minutes Elijah's pager went off! He was off like lightening, wheels spinning and all! Sirens were heard and then as fast as Elijah left a whole boat load of them loaded in the truck and on the 4-wheeler. The fire was less than a half mile. A fellow was taking apart an old trailer house and burning it and it got out of control. The children got see Elijah in action. It all went well as far as getting it out.

This morning I headed out to do some thrift store shopping. I stopped at a few garage sales as well. Jeremiah has been making a request for a bike and we have told him to "go and pray." I found one at a garage sale for $10. Now I have 3 more to find. I found quite a bit of things at the thrift stores. Terry needed some short sleeve work shirts and he likes 100% cotton and I found three of them, name brand and very summer looking....yeah!!! It was a bargain day for sure!!

We are headed over to Dave and Kate's for those "ants on a log," and "wedding sandwiches." They always have to make everything an adventure!! I am sure we'll get in some volley ball over there too.

Last night Colton came over and ate dinner with us and played volley ball. He wanted to come over and practice music with Caleb and Daniel. It was a fun evening and I guess we broke him in pretty good, he wants to keep coming back :) The Wilson Family came over for Memorial Day and the guys decided they needed time to practice and get some music together!!

Better go........

2 comments:

Teena said...: I need to thrift shop more often. :) You got some really good deals. :)

I still LOVE your patio... how beautiful. Peaceful.

thinking of you.

HUGS; June 4, 2009 at 7:09 PM
LJR said...: Elijah sure sounds like he has found something he is good at and enjoys. I am so happy for him. Sad there had to be a fire like that, but glad he got to get his "feet wet" so to speak.

Good deal on the bike. Garage sales and thrift stores are one of my all time favorite places to shop. Luckily I live about 10 mins walking distance to the local Goodwill and they have some good deals.; June 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.