Joel's Journey: Andrew Rides Again!!!!!!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Andrew Rides Again!!!!!!

Remember how I told you about Andrew's steer ride last Friday, well they went back on Saturday and Andrew rode again. This was his best ride, he stayed on top of the steer and scored 80 points, and won FIRST place again!! In the video, Micah rides first and then Andrew after. Jeremiah rode a calf and had a qualified ride and scored 71 points and placed 3rd! I thought you would get a kick out of seeing them. That was actually the last monthly rodeo of the season, but they will have a final end of the year one but I think we have a goat show, we'll see. Enjoy!!!!

Cindy

3 comments:

LJR said...: Congrats to Andrew, looked like a great ride! And Jeremiah getting
3rd is awesome too. Guess them Morris boys know what they are doin! :-) Looks like lots of fun.; August 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM
The Cole Family said...: Oh, my soul!! I would've been so scared watching my boys doing that! That was amazing! It gave me chills!

Cindy; August 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Anonymous said...: That's great!!! (: Looks like so much fun! Not that I'd do it personally... but it sure is exciting to see someone you know do it!!! : ) Elijah sure looked pleased when he gave Andrew that big high-five! It's such a delight to see the love and joy that your family has in each other! Your family is living proof of a lot of the Truths in Scripture but espically the fact that children are a blessing.....
May the Lord continue to bless you as you honor and seek Him!; September 1, 2008 at 7:23 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.