Blown away

I do not know what I expected out of the basketball game on Friday night, but let's just say it was so much more than anything I could have expected. When we arrived at the school, we walked in toward the gym and the first thing we noticed was a giant poster with Logan's picture:

We wanted to get his picture with it, so had him go over by it, and before we knew it students were coming up exclaiming "It's Logan!" The leadership teacher came over quickly and shielded us from many of the students, she was telling us that all the students were so excited about Logan being there. We were introduced to our student guides Nick (pictured with Logan above) and Kaela. As it turns out, Nick had the same leukemia when he was about Logan's age. It was very encouraging so see a strong healthy young man who had been through the same thing. We were all given t-shirts that are pretty cool:

We took some pictures, met a few more people including Rocky from the Denver Nuggets and went into the game. We have so many pictures from the evening that I will be posting them here for awhile just to show it all. During the first half, Logan was dancing and having fun. We had many people come up to us including Nick's mom. I have said before that it is nice to meet people who know exactly what you are going through. They know the emotions, process, etc., and it was good to see she survived with a great attitude and is willing to pay it forward by supporting others. She gave me her email and phone number, and I know I will be talking with her in the future.

At half-time of the game, they did a presentation introducing Logan including talking a little about Nick (many did not know of his leukemia before) and showed a large poster of him at Logan's age in a Superman costume. It was amazing to see the two posters together of little guys with bald heads dressed as Superman. Apparently when Nick's mom saw the picture of Logan, she went back and found one of Nick that is so similar. They then did what they call a "Miracle Minute" which is where they just have students in the aisles collecting people's spare change (they collected $1100 in that one minute!). During that time, they were lifting Logan up and having him shoot baskets. It was a little hard for Nick to lift Logan up high enough, so a former Nuggets player who was there with Rocky stepped in. He was definitely tall enough!

The whole experience was pretty amazing, and this was just a "lead up" event. The big assembly at the school and another event are next month. We are so grateful and humbled for the support and enthusiasm of the students, teachers, and staff at Cherokee Trail High School for Logan and Make A Wish. It is hard not to have a positive outlook when you are surrounded by such love. We were truly blown away.