Brooklyn is out of ICU

Brooklyn was moved out of the ICU after her MRI today. She has also been eating a few things and drinking lots of juice. Derek said she even tried eating a cupcake tonight. (She loves cupcakes!) The MRI shows that they were successful in removing the entire tumor. Hopefully we will continue to get good news like this each day until she is released. Derek guesses that if Brooke continues to make good progress tonight and tomorrow, they will be released some time this weekend. Then she will get a 1 week break at home before starting chemotherapy. Let's all hold on to the saying "third time's the charm". This was her 3rd surgery, combine that with the chemo and we'll hope for the best. Good Luck Brookie!

XOXOXO

Brooklyn and PICTURES!

Sicily at the Princess Party

Brooklyn sword fighting at the Hall Reunion

Princess Brookie at the princess party

A true pirate never sheds the outfit. Sicily has much to learn....
Brooklyn and her pirate loot.

The bike brigade (with Port in the background. He is just biding time until he can ride a bike with the girls and show them how it's really done)

Sicily loves to play the piano WITH Brooke. I'm not sure how much Brooklyn enjoys it, but she is nice and sits on the bench with the wild cousin Sis.

One of 2 family BBQ's we had over the weekend complete with Dallin's dutch oven cooking!

Brooke and Sis waiting for Uncle Dallin at the airport coming home from his mission.


My mom came home from the hospital last night. Brooklyn was still in the ICU, and they are going to be doing another MRI today to see how things are going. She is very sore. This time the Dr. went right in the back of the head so Brookie does not want to move around much at all. She did give my mom knucks so that is improvement from the day before! Brooklyn is not wanting to swallow so she has a lot of stuff in the back of her throat which they had to suck out a few times yesterday. It is unclear if the lack of swallowing is from the tube she had down her throat from surgery making her throat sore, or whether it is a negative side effect from the surgery. We are hoping it is a temporary setback. Her recovery is going a bit slower this time around, but we are hoping she will continue to progress and at least be moved out of ICU today. Thank you for all of the texts and calls. We appreciate all your love and support!