Her elementary-aged son, Jay, went right to work with his $10. He picked up an X-box controller, peeked at its sticker, then looked around and wondered how he was going to spend his next $7.

The little girl inspired the event wasn't able to be there, family said. But a friend, Angie Ferre, made it a special day for the child anyway when she had a young woman, dressed as Disney's Bell princess, arrive via limousine to eat breakfast on her day off from medical treatments, her family said.

"She isn't getting any worse," Rose said. "And she has eight more treatments left. She's had about 36 so far."

The fairy tale didn't end at breakfast, though.

The princess rallied other costumed Disney royalty like Snow White and showed up at the garage sale to stun a long line of giddy young girls waiting to get their picture taken with the fair-faced beauties.

In the sale's final minutes volunteers yelled out steeper discounts with hopes of collecting even dime-size donations to relieve the Huish family's medical bills.

Items not sold will be donated to Savors thrift stores and Deseret Industries. The popularity of the event was perhaps partially due to a story aired on KSL-5 about the girl's serious condition. Since then, followers have encouraged the family through hundreds of posts on their blogsite — sadiehuish.blogspot.com — from all over of promised prayers.

"She asked if so and so was praying and others," her father, Zac Huish, wrote in his blog about a conversation he had with his daughter. "I replied that they were. She then asked if Jesus and Heavenly Father were praying for her too. I wasn't sure what to say to that, but confirmed that they were thinking of her."

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