Joel's Journey: Bethany is 21 today!!!!!!!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Bethany is 21 today!!!!!!!

Bethany is 21 years old today!!!!!!! Our first born daughter!!! What a blessing she has been over these 21 years! There is many wonderful things to say about Bethany. She is beautiful on the inside and out! One thing for sure is 100% "farm girl." She has always loved animals and outdoorsey stuff, climbing trees, following along right beside her big brothers in their adventures! I am so grateful/proud of her in her accomplishments with being the manager of all the goats and how she has learned and gained much knowledge in this field. She is very dedicated! She has worked so hard to get her goat herd where it is today and Lord willing she has visions to continue the climb. I enjoy seeing Bethany with her siblings, she has a great devotion to them and her family! I am so grateful for her heart towards the Lord and her desire to please Him! Another thing about Bethany is she is very simple and is content with little. She is like her dad and not like me in this area, I am more "high maintenance!!!" LOL!!! She is a precious jewel and I pray the Lord will continue to polish her and make her a pillar for His palace and one day she will be a crown to her husband according to His will!!! OH, also she is a"perfect bread maker," she makes our bread most everyday!!!!

Happy Birthday my dear daughter of 21 years!!!!

Her and Anna have gone to get a spa pedicure so they will be ready for her BD dinner (with Dave and Kate coming over) of home grown T-bone steaks, garden roasted potatoes, garden corn on the cob, sauted garden green beans and to top it off with a cheesecake by her lovely sister Anna!!!! and coffee of course!!!! And we'll get some VB in too!!!!!

3 comments:

LJR said...: Happy Birthday to Bethany! She seems like a wonderful young woman, so devoted to her family and her animals and most importantly devoted to our Lord. Dinner sounds so yummy, I am drooling just reading about it. I hope you all have a wonderful time tonight.; June 24, 2010 at 3:55 PM
Mountain Mama said...: Happy Birthday Bethany!

I think we will be joining you for dinner. :-) Sounds yummy!

Have a great dinner.
blessings,
ashley; June 24, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Hannah B. said...: Happy birthday to my dear friend, Besh!!!! I love you SO much, girl! <3; June 24, 2010 at 11:40 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.