Joel's Journey: instafriday!

Friday, December 16, 2011

instafriday!

Friday, Friday, Friday........coming and going faster than I can think!!! But I am glad they come, because I love instafridays!!!! Join us in posting all your phone photos of the week!!! Capture anything, everything but don't do nothing!!! Thank you for stopping by!!!!!

Bible baseball


"white elephant" gift to TAKE to a party!! hahah!!!! it was a WHOLE sleeper suit!!!

Mercy is pretending to be Kristen.....her big brothers girlfriend!!!

gift card =Chili's

a fav ornament on the ole cowboy tree

School work is just better with some lego action!!!

licks.......

school work "doodling"

way to go Jeremiah!!!!!!

white elephant gifts big kids didnt want!!!!

Christmas concert, Guthrie High school and Jr. High

building where the concert was!!

concert building in Guthrie

helped the pastors wife make her house all merry!!!!

wash me!!!! guess where we live.......country roads!!!!!

Cindy

3 comments:

The Ahlgren Family said...: Haha, love the "wash me" picture... And the schoolwork "doodleing"! If I wasn't sketching on my schoolwork it was done in color coordinating ink, alternating colors between problems!
Mercy imitating Kristen is hilarious!; December 16, 2011 at 8:06 AM
Lesli Westfall said...: my fav is Mercy dressed up as Kristen. Larry and I have laughed and looked at it many times this week. Thanks for sharing.

Much love to ya!

Lesli; December 16, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Marie said...: love every one of these...fun, fun, fun !!!; December 17, 2011 at 6:37 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.