Joel's Journey: a "smurfin" good day!!!!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

a "smurfin" good day!!!!

Happy

"Smurfday"

Melissa!!!!

she kinda likes Smurfs!!!!

Well, guess I better tell ya about Melissa!!! She is a very special, wonderful, godly young lady and she is Elijah's very "special" young lady!! Soooooo, this morning after her workout at Langston University, near us, she came by and we had a Smurf Doughnut Party for her!! Melissa is a softball recruit at Langston University which is abut 20 min from us.....yeah about that!!!! We have fallen in love with her and her fun family!! So Happy Birthday to Melissa!!!!

Notice anything different about the blog?????? hahaha!!!! Like the GIANT pictures!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!! I had a friend help walk me through how to do it, because I am computer "dumb!!" Hope you like it too!! I am still changing a few other things, but still working on it, so maybe tomorrow it will look a bit different
too!!

Cindy

5 comments:

j said...: :) Hehe. Wow. Your boys are catchin' em quick!! :) I know your boys will be good providers and husbands, I see that in Terry. What a season. Would love to hear one day how they all met these gals!!! I love the big pics!; August 24, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Anonymous said...: How cool!!! I am very happy for Lije. =); August 24, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Teena said...: I love it!!! Looks amazing.

I also love the smurf! Where did you find it?

They look so happy.

Cindy, please tell Jessica (and chad) I miss reading and seeing the pics of their beautiful kids! I do not know how to get hold of her.

Much love,
Teena; August 25, 2011 at 7:05 AM
sarahdodson said...: I like the new look! And the family pic in your banner is really neat :o); August 25, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Marie said...: Such a cute birthday party ! Happy Birthday Melissa !!!
I have to second what Teena said about Chad and Jessica's blog. If Jessica wouldn't mind me becoming an invited reader I would greatly appreciate it. My e-mail is millcreekmama@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Marie; August 26, 2011 at 4:54 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.