Joel's Journey: getting ready for the weekend !!!!!

Friday, July 9, 2010

getting ready for the weekend !!!!!

I knew it would get crazy as the weekend drew near!!!!! The guys went to work but returned. We have had so much rain the last few days......in July! Their job sites are muck! Upon them returning from work is where it revolved into "high speed!" Kate had already arrived on the scene this morning because Dave had a meeting, so her and Mavie are keeping us in the straight and narrow!! After lunch the peoples started departing. Caleb had to go pick up a shirt for the wedding, Elijah and a few had to go to Stillwater, then the girls had to run a few errands and that is when I got to keep Lilian!! She is so sweet! Me and Mercy and Lilian played in the sandbox and then we came in and rocked and she is out!! Now they have arrived back at the house and are leaving to go play baseball at a field in town, then later we are suppose to go to a rodeo, all the while Terry is getting stuff ready for Farmers Market and I am trying to get clothes ready for the wedding and for the ones that have to go the the rehearsal and then spend the night. The wedding is Sunday morning and it will take us about 2 1/2 hours to travel there :( Worth it of course but you know I can not stand to travel!!!!! And tomorrow afternoon we have to go pick up Anna's friend that is staying with us for a week!!!! I use a lot of exclamations, don"t I????? I guess that's what my life feels like!!!!!!!

Oh, the big news is....remember the "monster truck" Daniel bought about 6 weeks ago????? Well, he sold it today!!!! A fun "toy" for a while and then the gas was eating his billfold!!! So thankful it sold so quick!!!!! I think a "normal" size truck is on the agenda now!! At least he can say he owned one of those big machines!!!!

We got the tongue and groove wood for the ceiling, enough to finish it out, the work is plenty but the laborers are few.....they hit the road! Hope to get it up soon, I guess I will have to bribe them with dessert.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!!

6 comments:

no one said...: Aww such cute pictures!!

Hope the weekend goes smoothly! (and the van doesn't break down?!)

Sarah G.; July 9, 2010 at 8:51 PM
The Ahlgren Family said...: Oh! I love the pic of you and Mavie! :D Thanks for letting me and Mavie hang out with ya'll all day and us all night and for baby sitting for a few hours!!! You'll be a wonderful grandma someday(soon I pray!)! (You're a wonderful "god-grandma" to Mavie, I think that's what they call it...) Your family is such a delight and we are SO SO SO blessed to have you as such close friends! We love ya'll like family! <3; July 10, 2010 at 1:34 AM
j said...: I love the pics. Especially you and little Mavie!!! :) How fun for you and I am excited to see you become a grandma someday soon. I just know it is soon! Sounds busy there, I can see how your life is one big explanation!!!! :) What a blessing. Hope your heart is full of peace as I know you still weep over sweet Joel. God is faithful.

Jessica; July 10, 2010 at 8:22 PM
Rachel Wissmann said...: Your blog is an encouragement! It'd be wonderful to meet you all someday!; July 10, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Anonymous said...: I know I alreafy commented but figured you would't mind!!
Despite every thing Billy told us about y'all ... We still think y'all are pretty cool!!!! :

Picking berries with Billy!! Bye!

Sarah G.; July 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Abigail said...: Hey Morris Family! It's been SO much fun having our brother back, even if it's for only a few days. (Check out our blog soon for what we did while he was here.) It's been fun "getting to know you all" through Billy. We went to your blog last night and he said, "Oh, my family!"

Anyway, love the pictures on this post - especially the one of Mercy and Dan. It's so cute!

Hope you all have a great week!

~Abigail~; July 12, 2010 at 6:49 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.