Joel's Journey: two will do it......guess who??

Saturday, August 1, 2009

two will do it......guess who??

Not many, very few, are brave enough to invite 14 people over and the percent decreases if they fix a meal for 14 people! I guess our size scares folks away or puts to big a "dent" in their pantry :) But there are two that will take the challenge!!! Guess who???? They are the brave, adventurous, daring, courageous, gallant, they have "guts" to invite us over and fix a meal for a family of 14.......they are the ones and only "Mav and Mavette!!" So tonight we head over to the newlywed neighbors for adventure!! Sure to be a "rip roaring" time!! He bought something and is not telling us until we get there!!

We went to a Ranch Rodeo last night. Our first one to go to. They had an event that was quite interesting, "Wild Cow Milking." A team of 5 guys had to catch a mama cow, get at least one drop of milk in a bottle and then take the rope off the cow and run with it to the designated square in the arena. Fastest time won! Funny to watch!

Terry has the fall garden and ground looking nice. Amazing what tilling will do! The squash are looking really good. Tomatoes have recovered and bringing in some more fruit. He has also broadcast seeds of sorts to enrich the soil.

Its 5 pm and Mercy is still in her "nighties!" What has happened? I guess I will get her something on before we go.....

Oh, Anna won a photo contest, the picture of Mercy and Josiah in the cow tank swimming and their tongues were lapping up water. Its a rural paper, Oklahoma Living that comes out every month and all the CREC, (electricity) folks get it. Good job, Anna!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: How fun! I am sure you guys will have a blast with the Mavs.

Congratulations, Anna! That is great!; August 1, 2009 at 7:14 PM

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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.