Joel's Journey: garden twenty-ten

Monday, April 5, 2010

garden twenty-ten

Jeremiah

Elijah

Andrew

Siah

plantin' crew

sugar snap peas

asparagus
I ate it right then and there!!

strawberries

broccoli

baby spinach.....so yummy!

Terry had a lot pf helpers!!!! We got 12, 75 foot rows of corn in. Six rows of greenbeans about 50ft in and in a week we will do 6-8 more rows of beans. We do not want it to all be ready a the same time, so we will have plenty to take to farmers market starting first of June. The garden is getting closer and closer to the house :)

Another one of Mercy's prayers or "shouts" was answered. We had a big blessing at church yesterday. Remember the van croaked, the transmission went out. The Lord literally dropped cash into Terry's bible!!! We are just a few hundred dollars short of the amount!! I guess it will be resurrected one more time. I really like the ole' thing! We are grateful once again for answered prayer, we truly are utter dependent upon His provision!!!

Gotta go fix dinner and volley ball at a gym tonight!!!!

3 comments:

j said...: Hi Cindy, that is great for them to learn along side their dad. What a blessing for him too! :) Oh and how special you saw 2 tullips at Joels grave. God is so faithful and what a blessing.

Jessica; April 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Sit A Spell said...: Just read down through Josh's drawing, which were great by the way! Looks like he had a fun party! My little man would have loved that one!
So neat that two tulips were there.
Love that pic of the planting crew! Adorable. Great garden helpers they are. Awesome shots of them working. I remember doing that very thing when I was a kid!
Her photo story was awesome, truly it was. Indeed HE is Risen!

Oh, very excited that your van might get fixed!; April 6, 2010 at 12:24 AM
The Ahlgren Family said...: Broccoli! Wow! Everything's looking grrreat! :) I like that picture of Siah hammering in the row marker!; April 6, 2010 at 11:02 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.