Kailyn Toussaint

Last year was a tough year for eleven-year-old Audrey Soape. After losing both her father and grandfather within a few months of each other, she found herself grieving and heartbroken as the annual father-daughter dance approached at her church.

Wanting to attend the dance but unsure of who would escort her, Audrey and her mom Holly had a bold idea: inviting someone famous.🤩

Check out one of the top finalists of the Official Wildlife Photograph of the Year as chosen by the public. This Jungle Book-esque shot of an unlikely pair was taken by Jeroen Hoekendijk in Alaska. 

Popular Youtuber Meir Kay has been throwing Superbowl Sunday parties for as long as he can remember. It wasn't until 2017, however, when he realized his gatherings had the potential to change people's lives.

You're looking at Benny, a five-year-old lab with the unique talent of ice skating.

You read that right ⛸.

Gliding across the ice with ease and delighting audiences around the country, Benny has been skating for three years and loves every second.

Imagine: You're going for a nice drive through a quaint Ontario neighborhood when all of a sudden you see it: a 10-foot bear made entirely out of snow. ❄️

A new fashion co-op in Chicago is changing the way people view the industry.

Immigrant women, who are often exploited by big fashion labels, are at the forefront of Blue Tin Productions. The co-op's mission is to "flip the script in fashion supply chains" by working towards abolishing sweatshops and replacing them with empowered garment workers.

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It was a typical lunch period in the cafeteria when sixth-grader James accidentally swallowed a small piece of plastic wrapping from his lunch. The plastic lodged in his throat, obstructing his airway and quickly causing him to start choking.

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Eleven-year-old Harry Brinkworth was devastated when no one showed up to his birthday party.

• The schoolboy from the UK has autism and often struggles to make friends. When asked why his two invited guests didn't come to his party, however, his mom was shocked to hear it was the parents that didn't approve.

Shocked by the snub, Harry's mom took to Instagram, asking her followers if anyone would be willing to send her boy a simple birthday card to make him feel a little better.

Maddie Barber was only thirteen when diagnosed with brain cancer. Fighting the disease for eight months, the teen is thankfully in remission; she credits St. Jude's Children's Hospital for saving her life. Now seventeen, the animal lover has since developed a passion for raising livestock for shows.

Jonathan is officially the world's oldest tortoise- coming in at a ripe 190 years old.

• Believed to have been born around 1832, Jonathan was originally a gift for Sir William Grey-Wilson, governor of the Bahamas.

One of the biggest items on Patrick Mitchell's bucket list was always to live to 100. Devastated when he was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer last year at only seventy-two, he knew that dream may not come true.

• It never crossed Patrick's mind to give up, however. He still had time left- and he had dreams to chase 💫.

Not all plastic is made equal. With a whopping 91% of plastic not able to be recycled, it often ends up in landfills or polluting our oceans.

ByFusion is on a mission to change that.

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Ricardo Rodriguez was devastated when his three-year-old pitbull Russ ran away in August after getting spooked while camping.

• Spending multiple days searching and calling local shelters, he was even more heartbroken when forced to evacuate his California home shortly after due to the wildfires.

Four months went by without any word on Russ, and Ricardo could only hope that someone else had found him and adopted the pitbull as their own.

When was the last time you checked your pesky email spam folder?

Laura Spears of Oakland, Michigan, couldn't believe it when she went to look for a missing email last week in spam and instead found a message from the official lottery website- telling her she had won 3 millions dollars.

For weeks, residents of Fox Valley Wisconsin have been baffled on garbage days. 

• After bringing their cans to the end of the driveway in the frigid cold, somehow they always end up back in their garages by the morning. The collection company had no clue who was returning the cans. 

Upon guessing the exact number of candies in his classroom's estimation jar, this little one couldn't help but get overwhelmed with emotion. Today's pic of the day really speaks for itself!