Joel's Journey: i am technical now!!! haha!!

Sunday, August 7, 2011

i am technical now!!! haha!!

WOW!!!!! you are not going to believe what I can do now with my new iphone????? I am soooooo not a technical person!!!! But I have downloaded free apps on my phone that will edit my pictures in these cool filters and I love it!!!! And I can put them on my blog!!!!! You just don't know how major this is for me!!! Its amazing!!!! I am so ecstatic!!!!!!! Can I do a happy dance?????? The other really neat free app I down loaded is one that makes a video call, so today I called Caleb and Kristen and got to see them "live" and talk to them, then I lost them because they were going to ride 4-wheelers and we had a bad connection!! But I got to SEE Caleb today via this phone!! Why not maximize the iphone!! haha!!

so this pic I was playing around with it
on the editing phone app, luv
what I can do with
pics now!!!

tonight after church we went to
Ihop!!! Course all the littles except
Mercy drink coffee!!

Mercy made a happy pancake
at Ihop!!!

Well I feel revolutionized!!!

Fun times!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I love that pic of Lije and Corrie. =) Corrie is so cute! =); August 8, 2011 at 11:54 AM
sarahdodson said...: Very cool! :o); August 9, 2011 at 8:30 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.