A night out with Marlene and the baby to see Eclipse and this is what I got. Lovely. Not my favorite side effect (leak)!

After watching Toy Story 3 last night I had difficult time leaving Oscar at soccer camp. I can’t believe how old he is getting. I ran in to an old friend today at camp – Jenny Ogden (Cannon). That was nice to catch up and talk. It was also fun to have seen quite a few old acquaintances during the 4th of July Festivities in Delta.

Oscar will have fun I think. I hope. The coaches seemed pretty great. The men’s and women’s BYU soccer coaches were running the camp and many of the soccer players for both teams were the coaches.

As we are approaching the July 4th holiday weekend we had planned to go to Delta, Ut for my home town celebration an to spend time with my mom. At this point we aren’t sure if we’ll be able to go. William is still in the hospital and he may be there another day or two. He has an infection on the top of his foot that just hasn’t healed and gone away. We are hopeful that it will be today that he gets to come home. But it may not be until Saturday.

We’ll see. On a positive note, his skin seems to be doing well in the hospital.

Update since I wrote this last night: he came home this morning and seems to be doing better. His foot has healed and his temperature has decreased back to a normal 98%. We may still make it to Delta after all.

Intense!

Although I’m sad that the U.S.A. and Brasil have been eliminated from the World Cup 2010. This is a great image from the underdog match that is happening right now. It is in extra time and still 1-1. Oscar has loved watching whatever moments of the world cup that he can. Maybe I’ll have some sports fans in the family with me after all.

Some friends and I are considering starting a small private practice therapy office. Our intent is to be able to see clients in the evenings and then have therapists working with our office space during the hours we are not there. We hope to start talking about details of how it would look and run.

I think that it could be a lot of fun putting together a viable counseling center.

Over the last several years my wife has followed the blog and life of Stephanie Nielson. At times I thought she was obsessed and needed to take a break from following her blog. However a few years ago now she and her husband were in an airplane crash in which both were securely burned. Stephanie is an amazing example of resilience and perseverance despite the lasting marks of the devastating plane crash that has left her more effected than her husband whom she calls Mr. Nielson.

Video on Stephanie.

Today Show

Oprah
Video clip to her appearance on Oprah’s show.
http://www.oprah.com/relationships/Blogger-Stephanie-Nielsons-Daily-Struggles-Video

Her New Life

Her blog to read about her daily life.

http://nieniedialogues.com/

This is a pretty amazing story of young man that has faced adversity from his birth and has found his voice to be able to share with others how to cope with the difficulty of his life. He talks about 3 important issues when dealing with adversity 1) perspective 2) vision 3) choices.

The main focus of this for me isn’t the religious meaning he found in his life but that found meaning and has pursued this relentlessly so that he could find happiness and joy. I also love the book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

To read more about Nick Vujici, see his website at Life Without Limbs.

We had a great weekend at Lake Powell. Here is the first rendition of our trip. Thanks to Zac Coplan, my brother-in-law, for putting his Flip to good use and then editing the footage to make this video of the water-skiing and wake-boarding. It was tons of fun. I want to thank our wives and children for letting us leave for a few days to spend some quality time together. We also had a couple of good games of Settlers of Catan at night. The weather was fantastic. The nights were gorgeous. A little more info. I’m in the red and white shorts, Spencer is in the red shorts, Zac is in the black and white shorts, and JP in the blue shorts. Let’s keep a good tradition going. We need these fun weekends to keep us going.

Beware Graphic Images.



Here is a link to the TAC – Victoria Channel for more if you’d like.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TACVictoria

I know I’m part of this conversation but this was a real wake up call to me about how scary drunk driving, texting while driving, or doing anything but driving when driving creates such intense risk for ourselves, families, and friends. Be safe. This was an ad from Australia over 20 years ago.

Buckle Up . . . here we go!

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Seen Enough???

Oh, No . . . Your Trip Isn’t Over Yet!

Check that your seat belt is fastened one more time . . ..

No Traffic at all today!!

Spoke Too Soon..

Get Right Down into Low For This Hairpin

Ok… Back into Top Gear and Accelerate

That’s Great.. Doing Over 80 Now and Making Up Time..

It’s So Wide Here.. and Easy To Make The Pass

Hang On.. Wish I Had The Inside Lane

You Just Honk and The Guy Coming Will Move Over Huh?

I Don’t Think He Heard Your Horn???

Sorry?. We Just Lost The Curb This Morning.

Not Much Further Now..

Oh… Father..

Thanks For Coming ? You Made It This Time!

After That Ride, Tell Me Honestly?. Are You Going To Complain About Your Lousy, Traffic – Congested

Super Highways Ever Again???