Joel's Journey: house building......

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

house building......

Today Daniel poured the concrete in his walls!!! Yay!! Sooooo we all went out to "help" work and cook burgers out in the woods! It never gets old doing stuff together as a family! Even my dad and Shirley were here as well as Dave, Kate, Lil' Mavie and baby Ahlgren due in Dec.! Good times with very special people! I am blessed to have all the children here and Caleb's wonderful girl, Kristen!!

they got their "own" things going on!!! Ha!!!

Mavie and Mercy!!

Happy Tuesday!!!!

4 comments:

Heather @ Finding Beauty in the Ordinary said...: love all these pics! what a beautiful family :); October 11, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Teena said...: Cindy, I know you are glad to have everyone home. Yes our mama hearts. It is strange to me too. Mandi moved into her own place... about an hr away. Dakota is off at college most days... so just the 3 youngest and us. Mike/Amber in Orlando. Just feels sorta strange at times. I do like the time with the younger three... but it is weird to me.

Listen to me ramble. I know you enjoy all of them home. You are such a special person. YOU grab hold of the moment.

Cindy, have you seen the movie Courageous? I thought about you so much in it. I will be praying for you... it is a good movie. It is filmed about 1.5 hrs from where we live. We know a couple of the extras in it. We know the lady who was in the Fireproof movie (elderly nurse). Our Alyssa is named after her. She is our former pastors wife. We see her often.

I probably should of fb you or emailed.

much love,
Teena; October 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Anna said...: Sounds exciting! I can't wait to see Kristen's version of this relationship on her blog. :); October 11, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Mandy said...: Yay for house building! It's also good to see Dave and Kate!; October 12, 2011 at 10:01 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.