Joel's Journey: busy!!!

Friday, June 11, 2010

busy!!!

aren't they cute!!!!!

Busy is all I can say!!!! Danielle left on Tuesday, Wednesday the girls ironed, Thursday our dear friends the Burnett family came over for dinner and volley ball, and now its Friday, a truck load went with Terry to his 30 year class reunion in Houston, they here at 5pm, tomorrow is Farmers Market, we picked a wheel barrow full of green beans, two bushel baskets of red potatoes, a large basket of onions tonight ready to take in the morning. I guess Bethany and I will be going and Billy is going to help us get set up. Hope we sell alot of the green beans, I don't have things ready to can but looks like I might be forced to :( I need to get motivated!

Billy has been here a week and its going great! (Terry's extra construction worker)

Soooooo with just a few of us here tonight, we got us some Blue Bell ice cream and a movie and gonna settle in and enjoy our Friday night!!!!

Hope you all have a great weekend!!!!!

4 comments:

The Ahlgren Family said...: Sounds like a busy week and weekend!!! And yes Dannie and Besh are very cute! :) I like that picture!
So glad to hear that the garden is producing so well! Praise God! Have fun with your ice cream and movie!!!
P.S. I've got a little surprise for you... ;P; June 12, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Squeal! I love that picture!! Bethany has gotten a hair cut!! Cute!! It looks like Mrs. Cindy's do!!

Glad it's going good w/Billy. :) Glad he's getting in on the garden up there... he's missing it down here!! Hehe!

What movie?! BLUEBELL!!!!! We got us some after the Jubilee here... we are sacked! Sold 60 gallons of berries... 48 muffins 20 1/2 pints of BB jam and 12 quarts of homemade vanilla icecream! :)

Good times. :)

Sarah; June 12, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Abigail said...: Yay for the farmer's market! We used to go every Saturday during the summer. I sorta miss it. Glad Billy's helping out.

Love the picture!

~Abigail~; June 12, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Sit A Spell said...: They are WAY cute...love her hair cute...mine was similar to that when it was longer.; June 18, 2010 at 1:18 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.