Joel's Journey: a lil' party!!

Monday, November 21, 2011

a lil' party!!

How many of you all do Pinterest???? Now let me ask you how many of you 'DO" the stuff on Pinterest???? People make all these boards of recipes, places, clothes, hair, ideas for parties and on and on and on!! I have to say I love "pinning" and looking, its addicting!!! But I saw this really cute idea with 3 little buckets filled with marshmallows, candy, and coffee sticks and it gave me an idea to do a little party for the little children when we decorate our tree. (we have 3, but I only have two done so far!!!) Anyway, we had this lil party!!!! We had Bing Crosby blaring loud, yummy stuff to drink and eat and a tree to get all dressed up!!! I hope it was a memory maker! I just love the Holidays!! Well, whether you do Pinterest or not, make some memories with your family!!!

I was so happy to find the scarf at a resale store for $3!!!!!!!

grabbed some cheery cups at Target!!

eeek.......needs help!!!!

a must for Christmas time!!!

wow.....now that is a "cup o cheer!!"

i have never liked candy canes, but some LOVE them at our house!

a party is not a party w/o M&M's

the magical stuff!!!

the glitz and glamor!!

LOVE!!!!

the 3 lil' buckets-o-stuff!!!

Pinterest idea!! haha!!

starting to look a lot like Christmas!!!

I know, we still gotta get through Thanksgiving......and thats very soon and then I cant wait to get Christmas seriously underway!!! yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cindy

3 comments:

Liv said...: So cute. I love pinterest--and actually have tried several craft, hair, and recipes ideas I've found. So many ideas and so little time. =); November 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Liv said...: P.S. Would you post a link to your pinterest so that we blog readers can follow you?; November 21, 2011 at 6:44 PM
Teena said...: Haven't figured out pinterest but really want to...

For years we have made a special night of tree decorating. We make finger foods, play Christmas music and laugh a lot. We have ornaments that we have collected through the years so nothing matches. We love it though. This will be our first year that Michael/Amber will not be here.

Today we went to a bigger city (Dakota had a dental appt) and we went to the mall, Target and Hobby Lobby. I found some great things in HL. It had half off Christmas items/decorations!

sorry so long...
Teena; November 22, 2011 at 12:05 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.