An 11-year-old Winnipeg girl is on the road to recovery after successfully undergoing a liver transplant last month.

On June 1, Allexis Siebrecht was on an operating table at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital, finally receiving a new liver from an anonymous donor after a more than eight-month wait.

The 11-year-old suffers from biliary atresia, a rare and potentially fatal liver disease. After doctors notified Allexis’ family that she desperately needed a transplant in December, they sent out a public plea for a donor.

And last month, Allexis received a liver from a 20-year-old donor who had recently died.

It was a gift that the whole family was grateful for.

"Their loved one's life is going to live on through Allexis now," said her mother, Liz Siebrecht.

"Thank you for everything … I just want to say thank you," said Allexis.

Allexis is now back home in Winnipeg and planning out the rest of what she hopes will be a fun-filled summer.

She will still have to be closely monitored by doctors for three months and will likely be on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of her life.

But she is getting stronger and wants to get back to being a regular kid. She is hoping to spend her holidays the same way many other 11-year-olds do.

"I am going to go swimming every single day when its gets warm," Allexis said.

"I am going to be there every day to jump off the diving board and do a front flip," she added.

With a report from CTV Winnipeg