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— Sarah Thompson isn't a big fan of Halloween.

"He's always asked for a haunted house - for years.

When he was little, it was just too much of an undertaking," added Sarah Thompson.

"Mom and dad saw that I was kind of down in the dumps and they said, 'You know, this year, we're going to do a haunted house,’" recalled Edward.

Halloween was supposed to coincide with the end of Edward's treatment, according to Sarah Thompson.

"We said, 'Well you'll be done with chemo [and] we'll do the haunted house

"We said, 'If we do the haunted house, you know, why don't we do it for Make-A-Wish since your wish is coming up and that'll help them.' So we raised $700 the second year and then we went on our wish trip," said Sarah Thompson

They do parties every week, so they have Christmas every week [and] they have Halloween every week," said Sarah Thompson

The family uses money raised from the haunted house to donate to Make-A-Wish and Give Kids the World

Edward spends all year preparing for his haunted house

"Over the years, I just asked for Halloween decorations -- for Christmas [and] my birthday

For the past two Halloweens, the coronavirus pandemic caused the family to switch the haunted house setup to a yard drive-through

It took a lot for me to get into it, but once I started seeing things going out in the yard, I got into it," said Edward

if they're too scared of the snake, they can do the slimer," said Edward

While Sarah Thompson still isn't a big fan of Halloween, she said she's already faced much scarier moments in her life

I can handle this much better now," said Sarah Thompson

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