Joel's Journey: something sweet!!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

something sweet!!

Peanut Butter Truffles (with crushed pretzels inside too)

The Christmas season is officially here!!! aaaaaaaaand the beginning of making things we ONLY make once a year! Thank goodness!!I have found a lot of new things to try on Pinterest! This was one of them, but I really just used my regular Peanut Butter Ball recipe and added the crushed pretzels like their recipe called for! Added a little crunch to the smoothy peanut buttery taste!! YUM!!! My grocery list consists of lots of ingredients for new desserts......eeek!!!! Josiah was my big helper on these rolling them out!! Really, I enjoy making it more than eating the stuff, the only thing I really love a few of is, the Mocha Truffles I make!! Anything with coffee is a must eat at least one anyways!!!

A lot of happenings this weekend for us!! Friday, our home town football team will play in the State Championships at the OSU stadium!! Its going to be a great game and its going to be freezing cold from what I hear!! Saturday morning, the cabinet guy is suppose to come, he already brought out the oven cabinet and hopefully by Spring, we can get our double ovens!! Saturday evening is the big game, OSU and OU!! whahooooo!!! Tomorrow is grocery day and Terry gets to hold the fort down while I go out!! The littles will enjoy that because he does not run as tight a ship as me!! hahah!!

If yall wanna read something to make you smile, then read Kristen's post about a merry little time Caleb is having crafting!!! haha! I love it!!! She is an awesome gal!!!!

Hope you all have a great day!!!

Cindy

3 comments:

The Ahlgren Family said...: Looks tasty!!! My mom bought all of her seasonal sweets supplies the other day and commented that she didn't know where to put it all since it's only bought once a year! All of the baking and creating is so much fun!
That's great that you're getting the oven cabinet in! Woohoo! David's finished out some things in our bathroom and bedroom recently and it's so fun to see and use the finished product!
We read Kristen's blog yesterday... that was so funny! You should read the comments on there too, she did a little "advertising" for Daniel! Haha! :D; December 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM
sarah b said...: I read Kristen's post yesterday. Adorable :) I love Caleb's sleigh and reindeer!!! so creative!! :D :D :D; December 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM
-stephanie- said...: Be still my heart...Yum!; December 1, 2011 at 9:49 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.