Joel's Journey: hosanna's party pictures!!!!

Monday, January 24, 2011

hosanna's party pictures!!!!

Hosanna had a "Jessie Cowgirl Party." A lot of fun for a special girl! In the movie Jessie says,' we are just the best of friends, don't ya think?" So with that thought we celebrated Joel's life with Hosanna's birthday! They were best of friends!!!

a Jessie and Woody cake, my first time to use
fondant for the cow spots!

I ordered the cupcake toppers on line, they are all
over the place

now these little guys are fun aren't they!?
and I still have a few brain cells left from making them.
they are cake balls, dipped in peanut butter almond bark,
then decorated with all the different candies!!

Jessie cowgirl hat sugar cookies!!

tons of pop for the gang!! I used the cupcake printables and made these

pretzel sticks dipped in white almond bark with sprinkles!

any party needs m&m's

smore pops! marshmellows dipped in choc. almond
bark and sprinkled with graham cracker crumbs!

We played 3 games, one pin the tail on
Bullseye!

another game was shooting the army guys in Toy Story
off a stool with the nerf gun!!! Lucas trying to use his
police eye, but Josiah was the winner
popping off 4 army men!!!!

Mercy shooting the army guys!!

Josiah, the winner!!!!

party goers!!!

Hosanna's friend, Annalee joined us for the party!!!

there's a snake in that boot!!!!

best of friends.....Joel and Hosanna

gifts for the party goers

this is my friend Natalee,(she is amazing!!!) Annalee's mom!!!

party people.....cute!!!!

birthday girl with her mom and dad!!

5 comments:

Lindsay Bertram said...: Cindy!!
You are amazing!!
That party was completely adorable.
You are so creative, and I know the children will have such great memories of these incredible parties you give them. You are an ispiration!

~Lindsay; January 24, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Anonymous said...: That is some kind of party! I love it! You always do such a fabulous job with birthday parties, Mrs. Morris!!

And I was about to complain that you hadn't posted any Lucas&Bethany pictures in a while, so keep 'em comin'! :); January 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Jessica said...: The little Mr. Potato Heads are incredible. So much creativity in all of the details. She is one blessed "Jessie"!; January 25, 2011 at 6:02 AM
The Ahlgren Family said...: Looks like a very cute party for a very cute girl! And a fun one too... the party and Hosie!
Wasn't "Woody" one of Joel's (less used) nicknames?; January 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM
erinstwo said...: Just want to say, I stopped by from Kelly's Korner and I love this party and I love your blog! Now a follower! :-); March 14, 2011 at 10:24 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.