Joel's Journey: hi!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

hi!

*****Elijah will be going out with his volunteer fire dept tomorrow to help with the search/recovery of little Ryan. Please keep praying for this sweet family, a stay at home mommy!!!

I've got it, I've got it!!!!!! I figured put how to get pics from my phone to here.
they made some sand stuff today, thought it was so neat!!!! Lots of hours spent at this sandbox!!!

We survived the tornadoes that came to our area yesterday.The West side of our town had some damage but thankfully the path of the tornado was out more on country side instead of the town itself. I did hear there was maybe one or two fatalities in our county. We did go down in the storm cellar, thankful we have it. We got it after the May 3rd tornado in OKC. I want to be "under" ground!!!

One story really tugged at my heart. A little 3 yo boy is missing in the Piedmont area from the tornado. The Hammil family. The mother injured, 5 yo daughter in hospital, their 15 month old died, and now the 3 yro boy is missing. Pray for this family.

Big night for Hosanna and Mercy!! Terry is taking them out to eat, like a little "date" night and then HE wants to go to a Red Hawks baseball game!! I don't know if they will last the whole game! So I have to figure out a restaurant for them. They were suppose to go last night but not a good idea with the storms, so tonight is it!!

Terry has been working on getting the stone back splash up on the just installed cabinet area. The cabinet guy is comming out Sat. to measure for the double oven space and do some trim around some specific areas. This will be the last of the cabinets in the kitchen area. I will have him do maybe a few small cabinets in the laundry room when we get it done. Daniel framed up the area we are re-doing for the laundry room. I am still using our old oven so we can not take that small cabinet area out quite yet. Progress is progress!!

Bethany had a dairy show this past weekend and did well!! Several first, seconds, several Reserved grands and one she was especially happy about a Grand Champion with a little 7 week old doe that she AI'd.

I do talk to Caleb waaayyyyy u in MD occasionally!!!! The work project on the basement is going good he says but a bit slow. But the "fun" things in the evenings he and Kristen are doing is rated "SUPER!!!" I told him since he is an "outsider" now, to know what we are up to, he would have to read the blog!!! :)

Big plans for Memorial Day????? This year my dear friend Natalie is brave enough to host a shindig and brave enough to ask our family over. Hope she knows what she is gettn into. So yep, our plans is lotsa food, volley ball and fun times with great people and a special guest from way up in Wisconsin!!! :) After Memorial day our calender is packed full!! Weddings to attend and play at, vacation bible school, camps, mini vacations, trips to see friends, farmers market, and hopefully we'll be home long enough to do laundry!! haha!!

Thought I would say "hi!"

1 comment:

The Ahlgren Family said...: Your camera phone works pretty well, and it's easy to upload from! :D
What a fun night for Hosie and Mercy! I remember my Dad taking me on "dates" and they are some special memories!; May 25, 2011 at 4:15 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.