Joel's Journey: lots of stuff!!

Friday, November 12, 2010

lots of stuff!!

Elijah

Caleb

Daniel

Caleb's house

Caleb's slab

Daniel's slab

We have satellite hook up.....but guess what its raining and very cloudy today and its does not work......soooooo I am at the library but Anna was was so thoughtful to help me with some pictures!!! Alot to catch up on.....The slab/foundation party went great!!! Caleb and Daniel got each of them laid down and Daniel was so pumped he slept out on his Monday night!!! Last night they were out there with lights hooked up starting on the walls. Those guys are too much!!

As far as the jobs are going....super busy is all I can say!!! The Lord has made it possible to have two full crews going, one in Ada an da crew also in OKC!! Its nice to have Caleb and Daniel working in OKC, they get to come home at night!

As you can see Elijah got a dirt bike.......he keeps buying wheels, like you know his truck, his tractor and now this bike!!! I asked him when he was going to get serious and buy some land, he is interested in doing that but "things" keep coming up that he thinks he needs!!! HaHa!!

Play off football game tonight but I do not know bout it with all this rain, I think Terry wants to go, but I don't think I am going to be a faithful fan with this weather! Some are also playing vb, so we will be spread out!!

Tuesday, I did our Christmas decorating!! When we did the add on, I thought it would be so neat to get a huge tree!! I found a 12 foot on Craigslist for only $100 so I got it!!!! It has been fun decorating it. I have 2300 lights on it, but I am still in the process of decorating it. I got some giant balls for it, like the size of Mercy's head!! LOL! So these are unfinished pictures of the big tree but you can get the idea.

The first phase of the kitchen cabinets are suppose to be installed before Thanksgiving....I am so excited!!! I can hardly wait to have our first bon fire with our old cabinets that we will take out first!!! hehheh!!!

Josiah's toe is coming along, the toenail has come off and it looks alot better but still has a huge scab on the end. I am going to get him some tenny shoes after we leave here because he can not wear his cow boots! So thankful he is getting the look of his toe back!

Well, need to go, but hopefully next week will be filled with some sunny days and I can have access to the internet at home.

Have a great weekend!!!

8 comments:

Marie said...: Glad to see you back online. I am not sure what the rain has to do with not having internet though. It should still work. You might have to call and complain a little.
Great pictures!! It's so nice to see the Christmas tree up. I don't put mine up until after my b'day in December. Lots of people decorate early though.

Hugs
Marie; November 12, 2010 at 4:37 PM
The Mayo Family said...: Wow! How nice to "see yall"!
Seems so...um different when one can not see yall!
Thanks for the great "up-date"!
Your trees are beautiful Cindy!
Now you have many in the mood to get out the "boxes"!
Have a great weekend.
Blessings~
~lori; November 12, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Mandy said...: Love the hat on top of the tree! Cute! And can't wait to see the guys' finished houses!; November 12, 2010 at 5:01 PM
The Ahlgren Family said...: We're so excited for Caleb and Daniel!!! And there's some "selfish" excitement too in that it's all just one step closer to having some wonderful neighbors! Woohoo!
Can't wait to see the cabinets! God is so gracious to provide all that we need and often WAY more too! :)
The Christmas lights look lovely! I've often thought of implementing lights into decoration all year round; they're so pretty and warm!
We'll keep praying for Siah's toe to heal up quickly and that he(and everyone else) won't smash, kick, or step on it in the process!
Hope you have a cozy weekend! :D; November 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Rosalie said...: Oh, don't burn your cabinets!! Here's some links for recycled uses for cabinet doors, and if your boys get creative, they could cut the cabinets down, paint them and make a play kitchen for the little kids!! :-)

http://joyisathome.blogspot.com/2010/10/cabinet-door-photo.html

http://christinasadventures2010.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-boy-project.html

http://twicelovely.blogspot.com/2010/09/hickory-dickory-dock.html

http://www.remodelaholic.com/2010/09/diy-serving-tray-from-old-cabinet-door.html

http://ana-white.com/category/plans/plancollections/graces-playhouse-kitchen; November 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Teena said...: wow... love the trees!

love the update...

looked at fb... and Caleb pics of the foundation party...

how awesome.

:)

hugs,
Teena; November 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Awesome guys!

Nice hat Billy! Very Oklahomaish. :D

Sarah; November 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Paige said...: wow ya'll believe in BIG christmas trees last year we had a house and my mom bought this tiny little tree and now we live in a RV and cant have a big tree; November 19, 2010 at 9:39 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.