And the home of the CHIEFS!

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic. Alex was in China, and we were knee deep in back to school, soccer, and work schedules. Alex finally came home last Thursday night. Yay! And we had the perfect welcome home gift. A wonderful family from our church wanted to give their Kansas City Chiefs tickets away to a special needs family. We were the lucky recipients! I can't tell you how much this meant to our family. And the timing couldn't have been better!

This was not the kids first Chiefs game. We took them to a game a few years ago, but it didn't go that well. The kids were very anxious, and we didn't stay long. Nik was afraid of sitting so high up, and Noah was terrified of the fireworks. But proving that we can conquer anything is one of our favorite past-times. So we were so excited to see how well the kids would do this time around.

We had great seats near the 50 yard line.

We sat back and watched as they did the pre-game announcements. The kids stood and put their hands over hearts during the anthem!

The anxiety never came. We were slapping high fives, munching on popcorn, cheering on the Chiefs like every other family in the stadium!

Fireworks? No problem! Yeah, I said no problem! No panicking, or running for the exit. They muffled their ears and just kept having fun! 

Look at those faces! I'm not here to say that our journey is easy. No one's journey is easy. But I would not want to be on this roller coaster with anyone else but the 3 guys in the picture above. I can't look at this picture and not be thankful. 

When we started this Autism journey over 10 years ago, I had so many fears. There were the obvious ones. Will they be able to have conversations with me? Will they be able to work? I also worried about their faith.  Would they have faith? Faith in themselves, and faith in our Heavenly Father. We're so blessed to be living in this city, where there are so many opportunities for our sons. One huge blessing is our church home, where my boys will be starting confirmation classes soon! A prayer answered! Yes they will have faith! They know that they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them! Like overcome a fear of fireworks.

Have a blessed day, friends!