Joel's Journey: Random pics!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Random pics!

Hope you all had a Happy New Year! We only made it through 3 of the 8 movies I bought! Haha!! But they did make it through most of the candy!!

I tell ya,I love the little coffee shop Anna works at!! She made me a special little cup-o-coffee!! I have to use my $20 gift card up she got me for for my birthday!!

See Anna's car..... so sad!! She is shopping now for a new something!! She can't decide what she wants! Wish I had options like that!!

Our little town has so many neat places for photos! I can't help but snap, snap, snap!!

Back to the routine of school and daily stuff!! New shoes for me.... Treadmill time!! Oh and a few pictures before Daniel left last night!

Cindy

4 comments:

Unknown said...: Beautiful family. Happy New Year; January 1, 2012 at 3:07 PM
The Ahlgren Family said...: Happy New Year Morris's!
Ah, "Shenandoah" sure has some great parts, my favorite being when the youngest boy says "Picker's here, Pa." :D Hehe! It's got some awefully sad parts too though...
Hope Anna is able to find a great car for a good deal!
The family pic is good. It's hard to imagine Daniel being that far away! He'll surely have a grand time with LOTS of adventures, and may the Lord help him to use the time wisely!; January 1, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Teena said...: love it. Love looking at your pics. Happy New Year.. my dear friend. I love being able to peek in. I really feel like we KNOW you guys. I know when we meet face to face your kids will be like... "this lady is a weirdo!"

Hugs,
Teena; January 1, 2012 at 6:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Happy New Year, Morris family! Miss you all!
Shenandoah is a great movie! Did you get the chance to watch that one?

Haha! Love that pic of Miah in the glasses! =)

I hope Daniel has a FANTASTIC trip!! We'll be praying for him!; January 2, 2012 at 11:50 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.