Family Pictures!

My sister in law took our family pics this year! She is so great and we love them! Thank you Brandilyn and Ryan for helping!

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Team Jaylie Slipper Drive

We have been talking with Jaylie for a while about what we should do for the children with cancer this Christmas and she came up with the idea to give them slippers. Jaylie loved slippers during her treatment and is so excited to be able to give some to other kids with cancer. These kids wear jammies a lot and slippers will be perfect to go with them!  The slippers will be delivered to Dell Children's hospital and the blood and cancer center in Austin (where Jaylie was treated) before Christmas. We need your help!! Please help us out by sending us brand new pairs of slippers. Boy or girl, any style and any size up to age 18.  Please get them to us by Dec. 18th so they can be delivered before Christmas! Our goal is 150 pairs of slippers! Thank you!!

You may give them to the Nielson family or send them to:

Team Jaylie Slipper Drive
10123 Lake Creek Pkwy, Bldg. 2
Austin, TX 78729

We will also take cash, checks, and gift cards that we will use to buy slippers. Email teamjaylieslipperdrive@gmail.com with any questions.

Please help put smiles on the cancer warrior's faces this Christmas!

Good Results

So the preliminary results are good, they are 90% sure that its just dysplastic bone (abnormal damaged bone most likely caused by radiation) and nothing to worry about. We will find out in 1 week the final results. Then she will have another surgery to cover up the hole in her skull bone sometime in the next couple months. Thank you for your prayers! They really work! We are so relieved and grateful!


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Biopsy Surgery

We are home from the hospital! Jaylie is doing really well. She woke up really well from the surgery and isn't in too much pain so far. We are so thankful! We will update more on Tuesday when we get the pathology results. Thank you so much for you prayers, kind words, thoughts and service. We have felt very blessed these last few days.


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MRI Results

Jaylie's MRI results were not what we were hoping for. There is a small spot in the bone in part of her skull that is questionable. They don't know what it is so they are doing a biopsy on Friday and we will get the results on Tuesday. They say it could be either radiation changes or cancer. Radiation can cause changes in the areas that were treated. It's not harmful, and we wouldn't have to do anything about it. So we are praying its just that, and not cancer.


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Halloween and visit from Grandma

Halloween was fun this year. The kids get so excited for it and it was fun to go to some parties and dress up. Kips mom visited from Utah and stayed until the day before Halloween. It was so much fun having her here. She is the best grandma to our kids and they always get so excited for her to visit. She brings snacks and little presents and always makes fun cupcakes with them :) We miss having her here! I called to try to get results on Thursday but haven't heard back yet, so we will have to wait until Tuesday. Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers!

We got these costumes in Florida when we went on Jaylie's make a wish trip. I loved the blue wigs! Fits my crazy kids great :) Lots of people got good laughs from us! At our ward party our family won best family costume :) Jaylie was beyond excited! She loves winning and loves medals and trophies, which we got.

I was taking pictures of Breklyn and she did probably 20 different poses for the camera. My girls love to pose!

Showing me her favorite candy bar she got :)

Love these with the kids and their Grandma! So sweet!!

Shelly came to visit the day after Jaylie's MRI and brought her these flowers and headband and also some stickers for her scrapbook she got her last time. She is the best :)

We went to a Halloween Fall Festival with some of our good friends, it was fun!

Jaylie rock climbed! I was soo proud of her!

The girls are obseesed with witches! They want a witch story every night at bedtime :) Kip did a good job!

MRI on Tuesday

Things are going well around here for us. We are enjoying a little bit cooler weather and fun Halloween activities. Jaylie has her MRI scheduled for Tuesday morning. I can't believe 3 months has gone by already. It seems like yesterday that I was writing a similar post about 3 months already going by (that was 3 months ago!). This will be her 9 month post treatment scan. Please keep her in your prayers that the scan will show no cancer in Jaylie's little brain and that the cancer will never come back. We are getting more and more nervous by the day, but feel at peace at the same time. Heavenly Father always gives blessings in times of need. We are scheduled for our appointment to get the results a week later. Waiting a week is torture, so I am going to try and call and get the results. I will probably update when we have the actual appointment a week later though.

Jaylie and Breklyn were in the primary program at church today. They sang songs and Jaylie gave a talk. It was so fun watching them up there, they were so cute. Jaylie did amazing on her talk and was not even nervous. There was probably 200ish people there and she got right up and gave a 2 minute talk into the microphone in front of them all. I was so nervous for her, but she seemed just fine. We were so proud of her. She talked about how Jesus Christ's example helps her to make good choices. Kip and I were crying when she was done, just thinking of all she has been through and how amazing she is to us. We are so proud of her and her sweet little spirit. She continues to love school and is so excited to go everyday.

Please pray for Jayile and the other cancer warriors, there are so many and they really need prayers. 

Here is a picture of Jaylie from a week ago, all dressed up as princess Ariel :)