Joel's Journey: lots of pumpkin.......

Monday, October 31, 2011

lots of pumpkin.......

Tonight we are having "pumpkin" and lots of it!! Pumpkin sheet cake, Pumpkin Crunch dessert and Golden Pumpkin Herb Rolls!!! Thats not all we are having!!! haha!!! Made a huge-e-mongus Pioneer Woman Chicken Spaghetti and a salad with much of it out of the garden!! Why???? Well, we are having some folks over for dinner!! The Naylors, all of them except Melissa!! :( She is in Wales!!! Sad for Elijah!!! But the rest of the family is coming and wow, I cant begin to tell ya the craZy times we have had together!!! But the great news is........ in 8 days Elijah and Melissa's mom are going to Wales to see her!! Wahooooo!!!! First time for Elijah to fly!!!!! Going for the bust right off the bat!!! Then when they get back it will only be about 30 days til she gets back home!!!

I'm home alone.....can you believe it??? I had to finish up gettting ready for our guests and the rest all went up to the church to help out with the outreach of our church hosting "Family Fun" night for the children in our town!! I have everything about ready!!

Oh, Bethany got her 4s iphone today.......what will become of us???? They are alot of fun!!! I enjoy all the photo apps on mine!!

Have a great evening!!!!

Cindy

4 comments:

The Cole Family said...: We missed seeing you at the fall Festival! We had a great time. Such a wonderful body of believers.

Cindy; October 31, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Marie said...: Home alone ??? Was that not kinda scary ? ....haha! Thanks for sharing all the pumpkin stuff :); November 1, 2011 at 8:07 AM
Sarah Morgan said...: Wow, we know the Naylors really well! I've been kinda stalking your blog for awhile, and Kristen's, separately! Have a lot of mutual friends. :) Love following you all. Have a great time with the Naylors!!; November 2, 2011 at 2:28 PM
Unknown said...: Yum yum yum!!! We love making pumpkin bread most of all! But pretty much anything pumpkin sounds great!
Home alone? What's that? Lolol; November 2, 2011 at 5:01 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.