I don't even know where to start. This past week has been so heart warming for my family. We want to truly thank every person who walked, donated and reached out to us in some way in support of Team Brendan. Team Brendan had 74 walkers and we raised $3,335. We were the largest independent group walking. We were also in the top 12 groups of money raised. They announced just before walk that they had 20,000 people registered to walk yesterday. It was so crazy, there were so many people there raising autism awareness. Looking and watching our group of Team Brendan shirts all walk together was a feeling that will never leave me. It made me so emotional knowing all the friends and family devoted there morning to raise awareness. Brendan of course had no idea what was going on, he even fell alseep during our 1 mile walk that took us 50 minutes to walk. I can't wait to tell and show Brendan what our first year walking for him was like. We are going to make this a yearly tradition for Team Brendan. I am already excited for what next year will bring us. We also had my amazing family and friends walk in Northern California and Utah in both freezing cold weather. Then my brother who is a fire fighter and had to work during the walk had his station support and they made a banner and also walked for Team Brendan. We finished the walk and headed over to a park and celebrated with a big lunch, candy,cupcakes and the kids made puzzle piece ornaments to remember the walk. Thank you again to everybody who gave us your support. We love you all so much!
This video is of Brendan playing with Barbies. He loves to play cars but he has also been taught by his sister on how to play barbies. The best part of this video is he is playing with them appropriately.