Join Brynlee’s Battle

10/29/2026

💙🎗️ SAM’S FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT! 🎗️💙

If there’s one thing our family knows, it’s how important love, support, and having people in your corner can be. ❤️ After everything we’ve been through, we know firsthand just how much it means to have people standing beside you during the hardest battles.

Now, someone very special to us is facing a battle of his own. Sam was recently diagnosed with ALS, and our family wants to surround him with as much love and support as possible.

We’re selling these special T-shirts to show Sam that he is NOT fighting this battle alone! Every shirt is a little reminder that he has an army of people behind him cheering him on. 💪🏼💙

If you’d like to support him, we would be so grateful if you purchased a shirt, shared this post, or kept him in your prayers. Every single bit of love means more than you know!

Thank you for loving our family through the hard days and the good ones. We truly have the best village! 🫶🏼

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10/29/2026

Did somebody say Halloween?? 🎃 👻

10/27/2026

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a YEAR since our world was turned upside down by Brynlee’s diagnosis. One year since we were thrown into a world no parent ever wants to know, filled with big medical words, endless appointments, therapies, scans, worries, and so many unknowns. A year since our lives changed forever in ways we never could have imagined.

When I look back at how far this sweet girl has come, I honestly can’t put it into words. Bryn, you have shown us a kind of strength that most adults will never have to find within themselves. You have faced things no child should ever have to face, and yet you continue to amaze us every single day. You have taught us so much about strength, courage, love, and what it truly means to keep going, even when life feels impossibly hard.

Are there still hard days? Absolutely. Do we still have therapy, appointments, and the constant worry that comes with everything she has been through? Yes. And those scans will always bring a kind of fear that is hard to explain unless you’ve lived it. We still have scan days, waiting days, and days when our minds can’t help but wander to all the what-ifs. That part of our lives hasn’t disappeared.

But somewhere in the middle of all the hard stuff, we’ve learned how to live, too. ❤️

Between the scans, the appointments, and all the things we have to do to keep fighting, we are making the MOST out of every single day. We are making memories, laughing until we can’t anymore, celebrating the little things, soaking up the good moments, and finding happiness in places we may have overlooked before.

And if you know Bryn, you know she is one of the silliest, happiest little girls around! 🥰💕 Her personality shines so bright, her silliness is contagious, and she reminds us every day that there is still so much joy to be found, even in the middle of the hardest battles. Cancer may be part of her story, but it does NOT get to define who she is. She is so much more than her diagnosis. She is laughter, sunshine, sass, sweetness, silly faces, and a whole lot of LOVE packed into one incredible little girl.

Sometimes I look at her and wonder how someone so little can carry so much strength. She doesn’t know just how brave she is. She doesn’t know how many hearts she has touched or how many people are cheering her on. She doesn’t know how much she has changed our lives simply by being herself. But one day, I hope she looks back and sees what we see: a little girl who has faced the unimaginable and still finds a reason to smile.

Bryn girl, I hope you always know how unbelievably PROUD we are of you. Proud of every milestone, every little victory, every therapy session, every appointment you get through, and every smile you give us on the days that feel heavy. Proud of the way you continue to grow, learn, laugh, and show the world that your light cannot be dimmed. You don’t have to be strong every second of every day, baby girl. You just have to be YOU, and that will always be more than enough. ❤️

A year ago, we had no idea what this journey would look like. We still don’t know everything that lies ahead, and we wish more than anything that we could take every hard thing away from you. If love alone could heal you, you would never have to fight another day. But until we can put all of this behind us, we will keep showing up, keep fighting, keep praying, keep loving you through every high and every low, and keep celebrating every beautiful moment we get with you.

We will keep living in between the scans. We will keep choosing joy in between the hard days. We will keep making memories while we wait for answers. And we will keep reminding you that you are so much more than what you are fighting.

One year down, and we are still taking this journey one day at a time. One appointment, one scan, one milestone, one laugh, and one precious memory at a time.

To everyone who has loved on our girl, prayed for her, checked on her, supported us, and followed along on this journey, THANK YOU. You have no idea how much it means to our family. Every prayer, every kind word, and every bit of support carries us further than you know. We are so grateful to have people standing beside us as we continue navigating this life we never asked for.

Here’s to more silly moments, more belly laughs, more memories, more milestones, and so many more beautiful days in between the hard ones.

Your story is still being written, and we will be right here beside you through every single chapter. ☀️

10/25/2026

the silliest girl 👻🩷

10/16/2026

🎗️ BRYNLEE’S SCAN UPDATE 🎗️

Our sweet Brynlee had her latest scans, and we finally have an update to share!

Brynlee’s brain MRI showed stable changes from her previous surgery, with no new or suspicious lesions. Her spine MRI showed that the spots they’ve been watching are unchanged, and no new suspicious spots were found. 🙏😭

We are so thankful for this encouraging news! While the doctors will continue to keep a close eye on the existing spots, we are holding on tightly to the positives in these results and praying that they continue to stay stable or get even better.

Brynlee is now three months off treatment, and that is something we will never take for granted. After everything her little body has been through, we pray every single day for healing, protection, and a future filled with so many beautiful things. 💛

AT/RT is a battle no child should ever have to face, and watching our girl fight it has shown us a strength that words could never fully explain. She is so loved, so brave, and surrounded by people who continue to fight alongside her through every prayer, every message, and every bit of support.

Thank you for continuing to love our girl, pray for her, and follow along on her journey. Please keep those prayers coming as we take this one scan, one day, and one milestone at a time.

Bryn, keep shining, sweet girl.
Your story is still being written. 🍀

10/15/2026

a year ago to this very date, our lives changed in a way I never could have imagined. 🥺
This was the day Brynlee had her very first MRI… the MRI that would forever change our world. A week later, my sweet girl was undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor, and we were given a diagnosis that no parent should ever have to hear — ATRT, a rare and aggressive grade 4 brain cancer.

I can still remember the fear, the confusion, the endless questions, and the feeling of my entire world crashing down around me. One minute, I was just a mama worrying about her baby, and the next, I was trying to understand words I had never wanted to know, making decisions no parent should ever have to make, and watching my little girl fight a battle that no 19-month-old should ever have to face. 💔

From that moment on, our lives changed forever. Hospital rooms became our home. Doctors, nurses, medications, chemotherapy, blood transfusions, stem cell transplants, radiation, and countless procedures became our new normal. We learned to celebrate the smallest victories, pray harder than we ever had before, and find strength on the days when we felt like we had absolutely nothing left to give.

We watched our baby endure more pain and hardship in her little life than most people will ever experience. We watched her lose her hair, struggle to eat, fight through treatments, and face things that no child should ever have to face. And through it all, she continued to show us what true strength, courage, and faith look like. My girl has fought battles bigger than her tiny body, and she has reminded me every single day just how powerful a little warrior can be. 🎗️

We have spent months fighting this ugly disease. We have cried tears that could fill oceans, prayed prayers with trembling hands, and begged God to protect our baby girl. There have been days when fear has tried to swallow us whole, days when the uncertainty has been unbearable, and days when all we could do was take the next breath and trust that God was carrying us through.

And now, here we are… a year later, and today is another MRI day.

You would think after everything we have been through, these appointments might get easier, but they don’t. If anything, the closer we get to these scans, the more nerve-racking they become. Today, we walk back into a world that brings back so many memories, and we wait for answers that mean absolutely everything to us.

There is a different kind of fear that comes with childhood cancer. Even when your baby is smiling, laughing, playing, and finally getting to enjoy being a little girl again, there is always that little voice in the back of your mind asking, What if? You try so hard to stay positive, to enjoy the good days, and to believe that the worst is behind you, but scan days bring every single one of those fears right back to the surface.

As her mama, I wish more than anything that I could take every bit of this fear away from her. I wish I could guarantee her a lifetime of health, happiness, and carefree childhood memories. I wish I could promise that we will never have to hear the words cancer or tumor again. But all I can do is hold her close, keep praying, keep fighting, and trust that God has a plan for my sweet girl.

Today, I am asking for all the prayers, positive thoughts, and good vibes you can send our way. Please pray for clear scans, good news, and a healthy little girl who gets to keep growing, learning, laughing, and living the life she deserves. Pray for her doctors, for the people caring for her, and for this mama’s heart as we face another day that brings so many emotions.

Brynlee, you may never fully understand just how much you have changed our lives, but you have taught us more about love, faith, courage, and strength than you will ever know. You are so much more than your diagnosis. You are our happy, silly, beautiful, stubborn, strong little girl. You are our sunshine after the darkest storm, and you are living proof that even in the hardest seasons, there is still so much beauty to be found.

a year ago, we walked into that MRI not knowing that our entire world was about to change. Today, we walk in carrying memories of everything we have survived, fear of everything we cannot control, and hope for all the beautiful days still waiting for us.

God’s got her. We believe in miracles. And we will keep fighting for our girl every single day. 🎗️💗

Please keep our sweet Brynlee in your prayers today. We need all the good news, all the positive thoughts, and all the love we can get.

09/27/2026

❤️ 🖤

09/25/2026

on another note, my daughters page is about my daughter.
We’re ready for Halloween 👻 🎃

09/23/2026

She’s the cherry on top of every single day 🍒❤️

09/21/2026

Apparently, some people have decided they know enough about my daughter’s cancer to make accusations about her, our family, and the donations jars around Crooksville that have been sat out months ago to help us.

So let me clear something up.

I have no problem whatsoever with anyone wanting to remove a donation jar. If a business, or organization no longer wants one sitting out, that is completely their choice. Honestly, I had even forgotten that some of them were still out there.

What is incredibly hurtful and completely wrong, however, is telling people to remove them because “Brynlee is cancer-free” and then allowing that statement to turn into accusations that we are somehow lying about our daughter.

Let me be very clear

We are not lying about our daughter.
We are not lying about her diagnosis.
We are not lying about her treatment.
We are not lying about what she has been through.
And we certainly are not going to make up something as horrific as cancer for attention, money, or anything else.

I wish with every single part of my heart that the people saying these things were right.

I wish I could say, “Yes, Brynlee is cancer-free. She beat cancer. It’s over.”

I WISH I COULD.

But that is not the reality we have been given.

Brynlee has ATRT atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor a rare, aggressive, grade 4 brain cancer. It is a cancer that primarily affects very young children, and it is incredibly serious. ATRT is a fast growing and treatment can involve surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell transplant which she has all had.

And because apparently people need to be educated before they speak about a child they don’t live with, cancer is not as simple as “she had cancer, she got treatment, so now she’s cancer-free.”

Remission and cure are not interchangeable terms. A person can have no detectable signs of cancer and still require continued monitoring because cancer can return. Some doctors may use the word “cured” after five years of complete remission, but even then, cancer can sometimes return later and ATRT is not some ordinary childhood illness that we can just check off a list and move on from.

ATRT is rare. It is aggressive. It is a grade 4 cancer. It requires continued monitoring and treatment decisions based on Brynlee’s individual disease, response, scans, and medical team. There are children who survive ATRT, and there are children who unfortunately do not. Research has shown how serious this disease is, while also showing that some children can have long-term survival with intensive treatment.

So when someone casually says “She’s cancer-free” as if they know more than her parents, her doctors, her scans, her treatment history, or her medical records, please understand how unbelievably painful that is.

You don’t see the appointments.

You don’t see the scans.

You don’t see the fear that comes every time a scan is scheduled.

You don’t see the medications.

You don’t see the treatments.

You don’t see the hospital rooms.

You don’t see the nights we lay awake wondering what the next scan will show.

You don’t see everything this little girl has already endured.

You don’t see what her diagnosis has done to our family.

You don’t see the things we don’t post because sometimes we simply don’t have the strength to put them into words.

You see a picture of a smiling little girl.

And believe me, I am grateful for every single smile.

But a smile does not erase cancer.

A birthday party does not erase cancer.

A good day does not erase cancer.

A day spent at home does not erase cancer.

And a scan showing no growth of disease at a particular moment does not give strangers permission to rewrite her diagnosis or tell the world that her battle is over.

We pray every single day that someday we can say that.

I would give anything to be able to say, “Our daughter beat cancer and never has to worry about it again.”

But I cannot promise something that nobody can promise us.

And I refuse to lie about something this serious just to make other people more comfortable.

If you want to remove a donation jar, remove it.

If you don’t want to donate, don’t donate.

If you don’t agree with us, that’s okay.

But do not accuse us of lying about our child.

Do not take something you don’t understand and turn it into gossip.

Do not tell people that we are exploiting our daughter’s cancer.

Do not make assumptions about where we are in her journey.

And please don’t make a child with a life-threatening illness the subject of conversations that are based on rumors rather than facts.

There is already more than enough heartbreak in our lives without having to defend the existence of our daughter’s cancer to people who have never sat in the rooms we’ve sat in.

We didn’t choose this.

Brynlee didn’t choose this.

We didn’t ask for donations because this was some easy way to make money.

We accepted help because our daughter has cancer, and cancer changes everything, emotionally, physically, financially, and mentally.

Every person who has ever donated, prayed, shared her story, sent her something, supported us, or simply asked how she is doing has meant more to our family than they will ever know.

And to those people, thank you.

Thank you for believing us.

Thank you for believing in Brynlee.

Thank you for seeing the little girl behind the diagnosis.

Thank you for understanding that this isn’t something we can just switch off because someone decided she’s “cancer-free.”

I also want to say something to the people who have been talking

I genuinely hope that one day you are right.

I hope one day I can come back here and tell every single person that Brynlee is truly done with cancer.

I hope one day cancer is nothing more than a chapter in her childhood that she survived.

I hope one day I don’t have to explain ATRT to anybody.

I hope one day the words “brain cancer” don’t immediately make my stomach drop.

I hope one day scans don’t scare me.

I hope one day I can look at my daughter and only think about her being a little girl not her diagnosis.

I hope you are right.

But right now, you aren’t.

And I would appreciate it if people stopped pretending they know more about my daughter’s condition than the people who live it every single day.

You don’t have to donate.

You don’t have to share.

You don’t have to understand every part of our journey.

But you do need to understand that Brynlee’s cancer is real.

Her fight is real.

Her diagnosis is real.

The fear is real.

And so is the love we have for this little girl.

If you’re going to talk about her, at least take the time to learn what you’re talking about before you make accusations.

Because behind every rumor is a real family.

And behind ours is a little girl who has already had to fight far harder than any child ever should.

Brynlee is not a rumor.
Her cancer is not a rumor.
Her story is not a lie.

So I’m going to say this once, and I’m going to make it very clear before you “think” you know what is going on with Brynlee, before you repeat something you heard, before you make an accusation, and before you decide you know more about my daughter’s cancer than her own family does, educate yourself.

Ask questions instead of assuming. Learn the difference between remission, no evidence of disease, and being cured. Learn about ATRT. Learn what this diagnosis actually means. Learn what families like ours live with long after the hospital bracelets come off.

And most importantly, remember that you are talking about a real little girl.

You do not get to create your own version of our daughter’s medical journey and then accuse us of lying based on it for your own entertainment.

If you don’t know the facts, don’t speak as though you do.

Because we live this every single day.

We know her diagnosis.
We know her scans.
We know her treatments.
We know her doctors.
We know what we’ve been told.
And we know what our daughter has endured.

So before you “think” you know, make sure you actually know.

And if you don’t, the respectful thing to do is simply stop talking about something you don’t understand.

Brynlee deserves better than that.