Joel's Journey: a few desserts for elijah's 21st birthday!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

a few desserts for elijah's 21st birthday!

*** I know I posted twice in one day, (the post below) but I am going to be very busy the next few days and I wanted to share these with you soooooo, here they are!!! A few special things for a wonderful guys birthday!!! Twenty-one......hard to believe!!!! I so remember Elijah's labor/delivery, in Little Rock, Ar, it was one of the hardest labors, back labor and wow, that was painful!! What a blessing he is to me and our family!!!

fixed him these little fella's for his birthday breakfast (pinterest)

I had a lot of fun fixing some special desserts I saw on Pinterest!

Hot drink stir spoons!!!!

the little snowmen were the cutest!!! mine even breathed/made bubbles when I dunked him!!

I just fixed up a very small dessert table

these are called Peanut Butter Brownie Cups

you can look on my Pinterest board under Ho Ho Yummo Christmas for the recipe!

North Pole Coconut Cupcakes

I saw these and thought......so cute but for a 21 year old???? sure why not!!! haha!

went perfect with our grilled burgers

I think he liked them!!

ummmmm.......reindeer horns made into glasses!

Josiah and Rudolph!

my snowman about to get dunked!!!

a couple from our church came to join us, Josh and Stephanie

he is the youth pastor at our church and they are expecting

their first baby in May!!!

I made one more dessert but forgot to take a photo of it, but it was the best out of all of the desserts! They were called Dulce de Luche Cheesecake Bars. They are also on my board of "I love cheesecake." These were awesome!!!! Will keep that recipe for sure!!!

It is soooooo cold here, hope you all are staying warm!!! Blessings to you all and may you take time for others during this season!!!

Cindy

1 comment:

Tori said...: I love all of this! Looks so yummy! We are going to these ideas in mind! :-); December 6, 2011 at 11:02 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.