Tomorrow is the last day for us up here in the mountains.  After having a final meeting with the team of specialists we will begin our trip back down to a much lower elevation. 

Though our bodies will be further away from the heavens our hearts and souls will remain high up in the clouds.

Our family is so very thankful to our good friends who introduced us to Adam's Camp over seven years ago.  It is amazing how one simple conversation can cause such a positive impact.

I am grateful for the men and women who have donated their hearts and expertise to help these autistic children that made their pilgrimage up here to Snowy Mountain Ranch. 

I also want to thank people for the many messages of support that my family and I received while up here.  For those of you who are interested in finding out more about Adams Camp please visit:

Adams Camp Website

If you know family who is caring for a child living with autism I cannot recommend this experience enough.  It has changed the course of our lives forever.

I know that people sometimes get tired of me going on and on about Autism.  I get it.  I am frankly sometimes tired of doing it.  The sad truth is Autism is not going away.  It is going to become a major part of our national discussion over the next ten years.  The scores of young people who are diagnosed today are growing up and are going to have a pretty strong voice that will be demanded to be heard.  Plus the rates of those diagnosed keeps skyrocketing year after year.  Not because this is some sort of neurological fad...but because there is something going on. 

1 in evert 110 children is being hit with Autism.  That is a 600 % increase over the past twenty years.

Sigh...maybe that will be something that will become as newsworthy as Lindsay Lohan missing her court date. 

Oh well.

This week has been an amazing one for us.  I am aware enough to understand that the trials that will come our way over the next year will try to erode these memories from our minds.  I will try not to let the hope and fire that I renewed over the past five days fade away.  At the very least these past five wondrous days has given me a reason to still believe.

I still believe that we are doing the right things for our son.

I still believe....



 been in a cave
For forty days
Only a spark
To light my way
I wanna give out
I wanna give in
This is our crime
This is our sin

But I still believe
I still believe
Through the pain
And the grief
Through the lives
Through the storms
Through the cries
And through the wars
Oh, I still believe

Flat on my back
Out at sea
Hopin' these waves
Don't cover me
I'm turned and tossed
Upon the waves
When the darkness comes
I feel the grave

But I still believe
I still believe
Through the cold
And through heat
Through the rain
And through the tears
Through the crowds
And through the cheers
Oh, I still believe

I'll march this road
I'll climb this hill
Upon on my knees if I have to
I'll take my place
Up on this stage
I'll wait 'til the end of time
for you like everybody else

I'm out on my own
Walkin' the streets
Look at the faces
That I meet
I feel like I Like I want to go home
What do I feel
What do I know

But I still believe
I still believe
Through the shame
And through the grief
Through the heartache
Through the tears
Through the waiting
Through the years

For people like us
In places like this
We need all the hope
That we can get
Oh, I still believe