Bella’s Baldies 2010 Team Roster has been set! We have another incredible group that will together, getting their heads shaved, and we need your support! Why? They are going under the clippers at a St. Baldrick's event to raise money for childhood cancer research – going bald in solidarity with kids battling this terrible disease.

For a cause that is so truly near and dear to me...
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Are you brave enough to bare it all in the name of Childhood Cancer Research?

Sign up now…don’t wait! There are only 24 hr left to register for Bella's Baldies 2010 Team roster!!

Bella’s Baldies had an amazing year as a team last year!!! As a mother whose family was deeply affected by Childhood Cancer, my goals each year to not only raise money for Childhood Cancer Research but to also spread the word. This is an amazing event to participate in as thousands of brave volunteers shave their heads in solidarity with children who have cancer and typically lose their hair during cancer treatment. It is because of the money raised for Childhood Cancer Research that in the past 20 years Leukemia cure rates have gone from 20 to 80%...still too low!

How much can we raise, to help give every child a healthy future? This year will be an incredible year for my family. My daughter, Taylor officially went off chemotherapy December 22, 2009! But the fight is not over...

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So…my sweet Telly Belly had her first official fever post-treatment. I have to admit….I thought I would be a little more okay with it then I was. So….in celebration of the long holiday weekend, my parents and I took the 3 girls up to the farm for some wintertime fun and visit with the family this past weekend. My dad grew up on a dairy farm 60 miles north of Green Bay, WI in a small town of 600 people. That was our destination. We arrived late Friday night/ early Saturday morning. Saturday the girls enjoyed hanging around visiting with everyone, playing with cousin Mark, feeding the deer with Uncle Paul and Uncle Dan, playing with and loving all over the barn cats, and enjoying Aunt Darlene’s activities with her. Because I am in class and had lots of homework to do over the weekend, I decided it would be a good idea to stay up late Saturday night to finish my homework…so I would meet my Sunday night 5:00pm deadline and would not miss out on visiting with everyone during the day. So at 2:00 AM, I fell asleep hoping the girls would sleep in a little bit for me, however, at least I went to sleep knowing all my homework had been submitted.

To my alarm, Taylor woke up screaming at 5:45 AM Sunday morning because her arm wouldn’t move….
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Hello to all of you lovely Taylor supporters out there! Sorry I have been neglecting you so! I actually feel really guilty for not writing more. I will try to do it more frequently moving forward.

Here is a little recap of how Taylor is doing....
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So everything has been crazy-busy here with us. We have been enjoying the last several days of warmer weather! We have been able to enjoy the outdoors a lot over the last week! The girls have been busy playing in the backyard, getting our veggie garden ready, playing ponies on the swing, chalk, building sandcastles in the sand that spilled out of the basketball hoop that fell down in a windstorm, and riding there bikes up and down the sidewalk in our backyard!

As far as Taylor is concerned....
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