Team Nelson

11/30/2024

Our family is helping raise money for Make A Wish! We will forever be grateful for everyone who helped make our wish come true and now want to help others make theirs come true! We are 51% to our goal and have only TODAY left! Please click the link below to make a contribution to our efforts! Thank You! 🙏🏼💛🎗️

Bessie Spencer Chris Spencer

Wish Heroes celebrates the importance of wish-granting and Make-A-Wish supporters. Each Wish Hero helps make future wishes possible through personal fundraising. Now more than ever, the world needs the hope of a wish come true.

11/05/2024

Friends and family! 3 years ago you all joined us the most unexpected journey of our life when our son Nelson, was diagnosed with leukemia. Without all of you we couldn’t have done it. One of the greatest opportunities we received during our battle was when Make a Wish granted Nelson’s wish to visit Disney World. Absolutely amazing. Now we want to help other families experiencing their own trials and tribulations to have the same opportunity. We are working with Make a Wish again to help raise money so those wishes can be granted. Please go to our page and make a contribution to our fundraising for them. Even the smallest amount can make a difference. Click the link below to help make a wish come true and inspire hope🙏🏼🎗️

https://secure2.wish.org/site/TR/WishYourWay/Make-A-WishTraining?px=10638624&pg=personal&fr_id=6353

Team Nelson Bessie Spencer

Wish Heroes celebrates the importance of wish-granting and Make-A-Wish supporters. Each Wish Hero helps make future wishes possible through personal fundraising. Now more than ever, the world needs the hope of a wish come true.

10/01/2022

Thank you to everyone who helped bring Nelson’s Make A Wish proclamation to life yesterday! We are so lucky and grateful to have everyone behind him. Big shout outs to Make-A-Wish America Woodward Park City and Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital for all participating and supporting our family during this time of our lives.

Nelson is going to Disney World!

09/27/2022

Hello Family and Friends! What a journey it has been. Nelson is doing great and just being a kid despite the battle we are in. Thanks to all your support and love through this time we have made it this far. This is a long read but please, see it to the end, I promise it is worth it.

First off, I wanted to let everyone know Nelson’s Make a Wish was granted and we’ll be going to Disney World. We are beyond grateful for this opportunity and a chance to cement more memories as a family because you never know how quick things can change. Part of the experience is the Make a Wish foundation likes to do a proclamation to announce the wish to the child. We are going to do this proclamation Woodward Park City on Friday (9/30/22) @ 4:30PM, because this is one of Nelson’s favorite places to be and the support from the action sports community has been overwhelming. WE WOULD LOVE FOR ANYONE WHO CAN ATTEND PLEASE DO! Woodward Park City is a place like no other, my favorite question I get asked in any interview I do is, “Why do you work at Woodward?” It’s an easy answer, when our world came crashing down the Woodward and POWDR family had our back. The love and support from our friends, family, coworkers, and even pro athletes I grew up idolizing was overwhelming. It is why we love snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, and any other action sport, the community and people involved in it.

As many of you may know September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and unfortunately it is the reality for too many families these days. Over the course of a year and half, we have spent lots of time at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake. It started with a 30+ day stay, and lucky for us it is down to once-a-month visits now. I can say with 100% confidence the people there from the front desk to renowned doctors are heroes in a war many do not want to be a part of. It is the one place in the world that continuously breaks my heart when we visit as it really puts the magnitude of childhood cancer into perspective, but I also see the day to day battle that staff puts their hearts and souls into.

We decided it was time to act. When we decided to do Nelson’s Make a Wish Proclamation Woodward Park City, we wanted it to be something special for not just us but for the community. I’m extremely proud to announce, Woodward Park City will be donating $10 of every ticket bought on 9/30 to the Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. The staff there are doing the work to improve healthcare, lives, and our understanding of childhood cancer. It is time for action sports to act against this reality.

Long story short, please join us at Woodward Park City on Friday, 9/30/22 at 4:30PM to be a part of Nelson’s wish announcement and help support the real warriors on the frontline of Childhood Cancer. If you want to help the cause please go buy a ticket for 9/30/22 by going to woodwardparkcity.com If you don’t want to buy a ticket but still want to contribute shoot an email to info@woodwardparkcity.com with the title Nelson’s Wish and my team will follow up with you to make that happen.

Shhh Nelson doesn't know! See ya Friday 9/30/22 @4:30PM!

08/18/2022

What a difference a year makes! Nelson started 1st grade today putting the cap stone on an epic summer and now we roll back into school, soccer, and football. He’s crushing his maintenance cycle and all signs are moving in the right direction. We still have lots ahead of us, but luckily we have all of you behind us. Forever grateful to our friends, family, Woodward, and the whole community in general. 🙏🏼🧡

05/27/2022

Nelson has been eyeing this roll in since he was 3! Last year through a wrench, but he’s on the comeback against cancer and every week we see him getting stronger and finding even more confidence everyday. I wish we could find the words for how proud we are of him!

Shred on Nelson!

05/03/2022

In the spirit of celebrating 1 year of kicking cancer’s butt, we got him the jersey he’s been asking for. Perfect timing for Sports Day at school.

Seems fitting #1 and MVP status! 👊🏼

Phoenix Suns

04/24/2022

Yesterday was the 1 year mark of Nelson’s leukemia diagnosis. We still remember all emotions of those first few days and for the time being April 23 will always be a dark cloud as it gets near. At the same time, we are extremely proud of Nelson and his resilience. He has stood strong in his battle against cancer and continues to stand defiant.

Since January 2022 he has been in maintenance and it’s going great. He conquered his fear of swallowing pills so medicine has gotten even easier. Despite the demanding treatment schedule Nelson has continued to excel in school and loves all his kindergarten friends. The best is watching him with his little brother Nolan and how much they learn and love each other. It broke our heart having them apart for so long while Nelson was in the hospital and we can’t imagine them not causing chaos together now!

There are many things even now we would approach differently but the journey has made our family stronger and more focused. We have chose to not let cancer define our family, but instead to redefine the weight and value of time spent with our family and friends.

We thank everyone for their support for Nelson and our family through this wild year. The journey is not over but we are ready to keep pushing on in life because it can change in an instant.

01/13/2022

It’s been almost a year since our world got turned upside down, but we’re still moving forward. Some days it feels like a crawl, other days it feels 100mph.

This week we started the year of the comeback, Nelson is back on a snowboard and finding his stride again! Proud to see him ripping again and just being a kid.

Tomorrow we turn on the corner on treatment and make the move into maintenance as long as we make counts today. His resilience is 2nd to none, cheers to your comeback and health little buddy.

12/09/2021

Life has its ups n downs, today was an up for the boys! Nelson, lil brother Nolan, and best buddy Liam got to meet Blippi! They chatted about his car and skateboarding, they loved it!

Our world came to screeching stop this past April and now we are half way through round 4 of treatment. All the good vibes, prayers, and thoughts have carried us this far and we are hoping to hit a huge milestone in our treatment.

The hardest climbs have the best views, and all positivity aside this has been no easy climb for anyone. We can’t express enough gratitude for everyone who has made the views happen on this journey, it wouldn’t be possible with out any of you!🙏🏼💛

11/26/2021

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!! We are so thankful for the support from everyone through this unique experience for our family! Bless everyone

11/17/2021

Wow! We can’t believe it’s been 3 months since our last post, sorry! Our family has been quite busy maintaining as much of normal as you can in our situation. Nelson has continued to demonstrate his resilience these past few months between kindergarten, soccer, skateboarding, and just being a kid. It’s amazing to watch how children continue to live in the moment.

This month we started the final push of treatment and well we’ve had to pump the brakes a bit. Basically a repeat of our time in the hospital in terms of medicine and he sure does feel it 😔. Again Nelson keeps it focused on 1 day at a time and is checking each day off as we get closer to maintenance. Mom and dad are hanging in there but mentally, the most challenging thing we’ve ever done.

Thank you to all our friends, family, and new friends that have continued to support our family through this crazy moment in life. Every interaction, post, words of encouragement, have gone such a long way in helping us push forward. 🙏🏼

Please keep your positive vibes, thoughts, and prayers coming his way as we make this big push to the end.