Cookies Help Send Local Girl and Her Family on a Dream Trip

A local 5-year-old with cerebral palsy got an early Christmas gift Wednesday, made possible by chocolate chip cookies.

Allie Jones is used to taking trips to the hospital. Allie who suffers from cerebral palsy was born thirteen weeks early, leading to an intestinal disease with a 90% mortality rate. It makes it hard for her to absorb the nutrition she needs from foods so Allie has to be hooked up to an IV. Already this year she's had to go to the hospital 30 times for different procedures.

There are days I kind of want to curl up in my bed and cry, said Allie's mother Amanda Jones.

Amanda says it's taken a toll on her and the family.

It's just been one thing after another this year, she hasn't gained any weight in two years, she's five.

But Wednesday Allie found out she and her entire family would be going on an all expenses paid trip to Florida to go to Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea world, and other amusement parks. The trip is being paid for by the charity Baking Memories 4kids, which sends kids with incurable, or terminal illnesses on a week long trip to make memories with their family by baking and selling chocolate chip cookies.

I had advanced stage 3 testicular cancer seven years ago. It was so close to entering my brain where the diagnosis would have been terminal, said founder Frank Squeo.

Squeo says it was only because of the generosity of someone he met as a teenager, that he was able to get the treatment he needed.

And it's only because of that man that I'm sitting here today, that I'm able to do this.

As for Allie's mom, she was left speechless when she found out.

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Cookies Help Send Local Girl and Her Family on a Dream Trip