Joel's Journey: Guys at Work

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Guys at Work

Thought you might like to see what the guys are "up" to!!!! remember they built the white Build Block and now they are framing this huge house!! It looks like a maze on the inside. I ran errands this morning and the van did fine, got home and Bethany and Andrew went to Stillwater and now they are stuck there, broke down :( Terry and the guys are on their way to get them.....gonna be a long evening. Fixin' fried steak, mashed tators, and fresh steamed asparagus and of course home made wheat bread by Bethany! Yuuuumeeeee!!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: AWESOME!!! Those are really cool pictures! Thanks for posting them... :D Looks like they're doing a great job too!!!
Sorry about the van... ah well, just another "Morris Adventure"!
Hope ya'll have a joyous evening! :); January 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM
The Lockwood Family ♥ said...: Hey...a "guy" question for the guys from my hubby. He was wondering are those homemade trusses cuz he said it looks like it's missing part of the truss. He said he's just curious...all the construction we do down in Mexico is with cement and rebar. :)
Cindy, you will be the first one I pray for when I get up tomorrow morning and you'll be on my heart and in my prayers throughout the day.
love,
Jaynee; January 22, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Anonymous said...: Praying for you. Thank you for sharing all your lovely pics and your thoughts, too, even though I'm sure they are hard to share sometimes.

(((HUGS)))

I am blessed by your words very often, will be praying for you all day.; January 23, 2009 at 12:52 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.