St. Jude Dream Home raffle helps give children a second chance at life | News from WDRB [Video]

LA GRANGE, Ky. (WDRB) – With giant scissors in hand and a red bow tied across the front of the newest St. Jude Dream home in La Grange, Hayli Nobles attempted to cut the ribbon. It didn’t work on the first try, but with cheers and smiles a second attempt proved successful.

As with this ribbon cutting, and in life, not everything goes according to plan.

That was the case for Hayli Nobles at the very start of her life.

“She just started walking and we noticed when she stopped walking that she was in pain. We just really didn’t know what was going on,” said Hayli’s dad Mike Nobles.

“I was 11 months when I got diagnosed with AML which is acute myeloid leukemia,” Hayli recalled.

She went to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis for treatment. Then when she was two-years-old, she relapsed. So back to St. …