Joel's Journey: doin lotsa stuff!!!!

Friday, May 6, 2011

doin lotsa stuff!!!!

We have been having some good times around here!!! Wednesday we went to the OKC zoo!!! I took Jeremiah, Hosie, Siah and Mercy!! It was the perfect day!! We had so much fun! It has been awhile since we have been, so much has been added since we were there last. I have not been to many zoo's but I think OKC is one, if not the best zoo around!! :)

Tonight, (Friday) after dinner, Terry, Bethany, Andrew, Josh, Jeremiah, Hosie, Siah and myself went to OKC and went to Lake Hefner for bike riding and sunset seeing!! It was so nice and the children had a grand time riding on "concrete!!" I am going to have to teach them "city ethics" of like riding in town verses "country riding!!" I had to tell them to ride on this side of the path and not to ride on the grass!!! hahah!!! I think we'll have to have another evening of this adventure again!

......and again, ala phone pictures!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all!!! My mother has been with Jesus 18 1/2 years!
I am so blessed for the opportunity to be a
mother to
13 wonderful children!!!

Its going to be a wonderful
day just to be
together!!!

3 comments:

Mountain Mama said...: I can totally relate to the "city ethics" thing. My kiddos don't know much about them either. :-)Have a great time and Happy Mother's Day!!
blessings,
ashley; May 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM
Teena said...: yes mine do not know how to ride in the city either. hahah when we go camping and they are able to ride on pavement it is a big thing. They have paved our dirt road and they do ride on it some...

love reading here. Love your pics. Glad your guys are home.... praying for them.

My mom's been gone for almost 3 yrs... I am so thankful to be a MOM.

Happy Mother's Day to you too!

hugs,
Teena; May 7, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Janet said...: Happy Mother's Day! This was my Mum's first Christmas in heaven and I missed her so much, but was thankful to have my girls with me, and we had a wonderful day together! PS was thrilled to read about the Ahlgrens good news!; May 8, 2011 at 12:04 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.