Jude&Jojos

10/08/2026

Nearly every person who dies from breast cancer dies because it became metastatic. And somehow, that’s the part of breast cancer we probably know the least about.

It’s October, which means pink ribbons are everywhere for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. After meeting Lyn and hearing her story, I realized how little I actually knew about stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and how badly we need to be talking about it.

Lyn is 42, married to her best friend, and has two kids who she fully plans on watching grow up. Almost a year ago, she had a mammogram and was given the all-clear. A couple of months later, she felt something in her other breast. By Christmas, it had grown so much she couldn't comfortably lay on her stomach. Then came the diagnosis, followed by the news that it had already spread to her liver.

She told me it went from “I can beat this” to “How many years can I get?”

Lyn wants the years most of us just assume we're going to get. She wants to see who her kids become. She wants to see her husband with wrinkles and gray hair. And as she put it, “Hell, I want to see ME with wrinkles and gray hair.”

And right now, she has some pretty incredible news.

Lyn is in remission.

When we talked about sharing her story, though, she wanted to make sure we talked about more than the good news. Her cancer wasn't linked to a known inherited genetic mutation. She had recently had a normal mammogram, and she wants women to know that if something in your body changes, YOU make the call. She also wants more people to understand metastatic breast cancer and why research specifically for stage 4 matters so much.

So for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, her's is the story I want to share.

Her full feature is live now, along with a link to support metastatic breast cancer research.

https://metavivor.org/

https://www.judejojosphotography.com/jjpcrew/lyn

METAvivor Research and Support Inc. Susan G. Komen National Breast Cancer FoundationGeorgia Alliance for Breast Cancer

09/25/2026

Down to catch feelings? We sure hope so. 👀

09/18/2026

The JJP Crew will officially be at the DSA Atlanta Buddy Walk on October 3rd and I want to know who else is going!!

If you’re there, PLEASE come find us and say hi. So many of the faces I see online every day are going to be in one place, and I genuinely cannot wait to see everyone in real life. 🥹

It’s Saturday, October 3rd from 10AM–2PM at the KSU Marietta Campus, and if you haven’t registered yet, you can find all of the info through the Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta (https://www.dsaatl.org/buddy-walk)

Now tell me in the comments... ARE YOU GOING?! 👇🏼💙💛

And if you see the JJP shirts walking around on our three boys and us… you better come say hi. 😂

09/12/2026

Six of our crew woke up this morning to their faces in TIMES SQUARE. 😭

I don’t even know if I have the words for how special this is.
What the National Down Syndrome Society does with this presentation is so much bigger than putting beautiful faces on a giant screen. It’s giving families a moment to celebrate. It’s giving kids and adults with Down syndrome the chance to wake up and see themselves taking up space in one of the biggest places in the world. And it’s giving everyone watching a chance to see the joy, personality and LIFE that exists within this community.

And today, six of those faces were ours. Six families we’ve gotten to know, photograph and love on through JJP.

I hope every single one of you woke up today knowing just how freaking cool you are.

The JJP Crew made it to Times Square.
What a morning. What a moment. 💙💛

Thank you, NDSS , for giving so many families a reason to wake up really, really proud today.

Send a message to learn more

09/11/2026

Tomorrow morning, six of our crew are taking over TIMES SQUARE. 🥹

ARIA. BRADLEY. HYRUM. KINLIN. CARTER. NOLAN.

Six faces we’ve had the honor of putting in front of our camera will be up on the Times Square Jumbotron for the NDSS Times Square Video + NYC Buddy Walk.

And you can watch it happen LIVE!

→ NDSS Facebook: facebook.com/NDSS1979

Set your alarmS, watch for our crew, screenshot them, and tag us! lose your mind with us!!

See you in Times Square.
National Down Syndrome Society GiGi's Playhouse Atlanta Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta

09/06/2026

Our amazing JJP friends, I want to thank you for your patience and care you’ve shared. Our youngest son is hospitalized with a serious injury leaving him immobile for a temporary future and a virus to add on. Today he woke up with a fresh start and are hopeful this means home is in our sight!

Please continue to be patient with JJP and we navigate this transition and new unexpected chapter 🤍.

Looking forward to connecting with our new friends and continue honoring our Crew.

xoxo
Elizabeth, Founder

09/03/2026

We can call their stories inspiring without pretending they aren’t also incredibly hard.

I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. There’s a tendency, especially when we talk about children with disabilities, to reach for the beautiful parts first, such as the milestones, the resilience, the incredible families who somehow keep showing up through all of it.

And those things are real! I believe they deserve to be celebrated. But then I read what Ben’s mom sent me. She told me she cries when she has to hold her son down for bloodwork. She fights doctors for the equipment and care he deserves. Like every mom walking a similar path, she worries, has anxiety, gets overwhelmed. Sometimes she screams into a pillow.

And she wishes people would stop assuming she must be some extraordinary kind of strong simply because she is raising a child with disabilities.

Maybe in our attempt to make disability something the world celebrates, we’ve sometimes made it harder for families to say, this is hard. Without immediately needing to follow it with something beautiful. Without worrying that acknowledging the actual struggle somehow means they love their child any less. It doesn’t.

There can be beauty here and still be grief. Progress and exhaustion. Inspiration and really, really hard days... and honestly not even day(S) but both within one day. And through all of it, Ben’s mom has also had to fight against a world far too comfortable deciding what her son is capable of. He’s four. There is so much of him that the world hasn’t even met yet.

Maybe advocacy isn’t choosing the version of a family’s story that makes the rest of us most comfortable. Maybe it’s making room for all of it that everyone can find themselves in.

His name had to be Benedict.

Tonight, we welcome Ben to The Crew.

His full story and the words his mom trusted us with are now live at Jude&Jojos.

https://www.judejojosphotography.com/jjpcrew/benedict

And for the first time tonight, Ben’s Crew story was also introduced through our new email experience. If you’d like to meet future Crew members there first, you can join us here:

https://judejojos.myflodesk.com/subscribe

09/02/2026

HIS NAME HAD TO BE BENEDICT.
The Crew / TNGHT 8PM