(KMOV.com) - A teenage brother and sister are proving hard work pays off, especially when you're in it together. The Strebe siblings suffered serious brain trauma in a car accident in Salem, Missouri. It happened on October 25 when their car flipped on a country road.

They were flown to St. Louis Children's Hospital and have been there ever since. "I was probably the most horrific thing I've ever seen," said the siblings' mother, Julie Strebe.

Kirsten Strebe ,16, and her 13-year-old brother Elias were in comas with skull fractures, bleeding brains and other traumatic injuries. But they also had hope. CONTINUE