Joel's Journey: the famous B's!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

the famous B's!!!!!!!!!

Introducing:

The

Burnett Family

these are the B's I talk bout.....you finally get to "meet" them
and not just "hear" bout them.........
their Famous!!!!!

Finally, finally, finally after much pleading, preaching, begging, telling, THEM!!!!!!! they got a blog!!!!! They LOVE blue tooo!!!!! For three years or about that we have tried to get them to do this but for some reason it did not happen......but NOW you are going to have the privilege to peer into their lives and find our EVERYTHING bout them!!!! :) They are our dearest friends, friends that we have known for 10 1/2 years and Terry has known Johnny the dad for over 23 years!!! I can not even begin to tell you all the fun we have had over these years!! They have been with us in our greatest trial.....Joel. Cheryl was here when Joel and Josiah were born and here with other births as well. She lets me poke her and she does me, she lets me give her gifts that are with love but are fun for the occasion, she lets me call her "shrub" and she also tells me important information of what you should wear to a wedding!!!!!! I love her dearly!!! Our children are very much the same ages, have many things in common, and love to hang out with each other!!! Their oldest son John-Clay produced Joel's Journey which we are so grateful for!!! And I like to bug John- Clay on Skype So lets hear it for the B's.................hurray and its bout time!!!!! Hope you enjoy their blog, be sure and tell them "hi" via comment!!!!!

http://burnettfamily10.blogspot.com/

5 comments:

sister~to~seven said...: EXCITING! Thanks for showing us how to 'follow' them:)

Hope you are having a superb week! Blessings to you!; July 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Mandy said...: Okay, that post was the most full of "private jokes" that I have ever read! LOL!; July 8, 2010 at 11:48 PM
The Burnett Family said...: Yeah, lots of inside jokes in that post, Mrs. M!!!! Ya'll are one-of-a-kind friends, and we love you to pieces!! =D You must have a pretty major influence too, 'cause now we have a coffee maker AND a blog!! Can you believe that?? What's next?!? :P

-Hannah B.; July 9, 2010 at 10:06 AM
j said...: I cant wait to peak in at another large family. What a blessing to have such great friends. We long for those kinds of friends in our lives and our childrens. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful family, love their colors.

Jessica; July 9, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Sharon said...: thanks for introducing us to the Burnetts.; July 9, 2010 at 11:19 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.