Joel's Journey: 24 years!!!!

Monday, November 8, 2010

24 years!!!!

Today, November 8th, is our 24th wedding anniversary!!!! I am so blessed to have such a godly husband and father to our children!! We are going out to dinner this evening and celebrate!!!

Today we are having a "slab" party!!! We are all out at the guys land and they are pouring their slabs to each of their houses!!!! Lotsa folks and food!!!!

Have a great day!!!!!

9 comments:

j said...: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Jessica; November 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Abigail said...: Happy Anniversary to Mr. & Mrs. Morris! May God bless you with many more years together. And I hope I get to meet you both someday!

~Abigail~; November 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM
-stephanie- said...: Happy 24th Anniversary! God bless both of you.

Quite the day for anniversaries. My sister and her husband married 41 years today, and my good friend and her husband 30 years today.; November 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Sharon said...: Happy, Happy Day Terry and Cindy! May God give you another 40 or so beautiful years together.; November 8, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Laura said...: Happy Anniversary, and Congratulations on 24 years!!! What a blessing marriage is, and then to be gifted by our Lord with such wonderful children. What a testimony of faith, love, and hope your family is to others. Ya'll are being used as a mighty vessel for our Lord. Hope your day was filled with much joy and wonderful memories!
Laura; November 8, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Jessica Shae said...: Happy Happy Anniversary to you both! Your anniversary is the same day as my mom's birthday! :) Hope you had a wonderful day!; November 9, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy 24th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Morris!!! Hope ya'll had a fun day yesterday!!

Blessings!
Sarah; November 9, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Margaret (maggie) Kelley said...: happy anniversary!! my husband and i had ours november 1,2010. we have been married 14 years. congratulations to both of you!!many many more years to come!!; November 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Beth said...: Congratulations! You don't look old enough to have been married for 24 years!; November 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM

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.