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By Phil Scoville, February 8, 2009 12:35 am

Scoville Family Newsletter 2008

This year has been an eventful one on many fronts for our family, and although there have been trials, the greatest of which was the loss of Phil’s dad in May, we’ve been wonderfully blessed.

We started the New Year with the birth of Henry Rodger in February. Oscar gave shouts of joy when he was born, while Lily asked, “Where’s my girl baby?” Though we may have gotten off to a rough start, Henry is a favorite with all of us. As we go to press, Henry has begun crawling and talking, sort of. (“Was that ‘doggie’? I think he’s saying ‘doggie!’”)

Lily is three and what we fondly call sweet and sour. She enjoys playing with friends, attending preschool and her BYU dance class, and all things pink and princess. She hates doing all the work, as in, “Mom, why do I have to do all the work?”

Oscar(5) started kindergarten this year, and though it was hard switching schools, has acclimated very well, and is very proud of all the new things he’s learning, like how penguins live at the South Pole, but Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. Oscar loves coloring and anything Star Wars.

For the past two years, Phil has been completing his PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Brigham Young University. A perk that came with finishing his course work last April was his internship, employment with Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, a wilderness therapy program for troubled youth. The job suits Phil because he gets to be out of doors, which he loves, but mostly because he’s just an overgrown teenager himself. Phil also enjoys a part-time job doing therapy with foster kids.

Marlene tries to take time to breathe between shuttling kids everywhere they need to go, trying out new recipes, blogging, reading, writing and cleaning three bathrooms.

Because we felt a new baby and a new job weren’t enough changes for one year, we decided to also buy our first home. Though leaving our close-knit neighborhood in Provo was difficult, there are so many things we love about our new home and neighborhood in Orem, maybe most of which is a much bigger house and yard, complete with fruit trees and a large garden.

And what would a new house be without a dog? Maisie, a 6-year-old miniature schnauzer, joined our family right before Christmas.

We hope that this letter finds you happy and well. We love the Lord and are grateful for the Savior’s love and guidance for us in our lives.

With love,

Phil, Marlene, Oscar, Lily, and Henry Scoville

Scoville Christmas Newsletter 2008

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By Phil Scoville, November 8, 2008 1:28 pm

When the film played in Washougal and I was there watching it; I wasn’t sure how interested people were in the film. We had a 10 pm showing after a long drive from Utah to Portland through Roseburg to say hello to Marlene and the kids. Yes, we ran out of gas and thatb made it that much longer. But when we got to the local high school in Washougal and there was a big crowd watching fairly lame bang, bang, shoot em and knife em up flick, I was hopeful that many audience members would stick around. Well no only a few stayed and a few new audience members came. I liked the film and reviewed it earlier on this blog in August.

However it did receive the audience choice award for the festival and that is awesome and I was proud of my good friend Brandon Cahoon, the writer and director of this film about our lives in small town Utah.

I received a phone message last night from Brandon saying to check out the Torino Film Festival website on a few days at the of November schedule.

I then received a more official announcement via email from Brandon about its official acceptance into the Torino Film Festival.

Check it out for yourself at
Torino Film Festival.

Parade will be playing on three dates at the Italian Film Festival: November 22nd, 26th & 27th.

Congrats, Brandon. A much bigger Festival and one that has attracted the Academy Award winning Director, Oliver Stone. He will be showing his new film ‘W’ about George W. Bush. Not that I agree with his political leaning; but this is a huge festival and our little production is playing there. I know I say we but really this is a Brandon and Dayna production. I feel a part since I am a part of the original story.

Now we can hope that the great film will make it to DVD and maybe some extras will be created.

Also the awesome Movie Soundtrack might be a reality. If you haven’t seen the film or heard from Brandon about the music. Keep pushing for soundtrack to come out.

BTW – I like the new home page for the website. Parade – paradethemovie.com. Check it out.

This would be an amazing flight to go over to Europe to see the film at this huge festival. The distance, price, time, and the fact that my passport I think expired last year doesn’t help.

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By Phil Scoville, October 31, 2008 9:36 pm

I am saying hello from the blues and rock’n'roll city of Memphis. I’d like to go to the Civil Rights Museum sometime while I’m here. I’d also like to go to the Music Museum here. Graceland is in the area which would be a lot of fun to go see. Maybe tomorrow.
Thus far while I’ve been here we’ve had a good time enjoying the AAMFT Conference. I presented my poster presentation this morning. I came away with a list of people that were interested in receiving more information about my research on anxiety disorders and their associated costs. I guess a lot depends on the people that are interested in the research.

Maybe even though one researcher or journal might not be interested in my research; maybe another would be. Even if Family Relations didn’t accept the article on anxiety disorders; maybe I’ll submit it to Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy and see what they suggest.
With that said, I would like to say that of the presentations I’ve been to so far I have enjoyed a couple of them very much. One by my colleague and friend, Jeff Jackson and Carlo, a Maryland student, was on ethical decision making using a systems-oriented approach was excellent. Jeff, you’re thorough and excellent. It reminded me just how much ethical issues are not easy to figure out and how to handle and address them in an agency setting, such as I am doing in my clinical work at Outback right now.

Another presentation was pleasant on “Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: The Joys of Working with Teens.” I felt the presenters were good on their topics and were talking more specifically toward an older generation but it was ok to be there.

Yesterday, I went to the presentation on treating Cybersex problems with the family. The presentation was given by Dr. Stephanie Carnes, the daughter of Patrick Carnes, an author of Don’t Call it Love and Out of the Shadows. She was sharp and thorough in her review of the literature and information that she provided and also I was especially struck by the amount she uses Art Therapy and how to use it to provide insight and metaphors into the feelings and situations of many sex addicts lives. I also felt that it could apply to many in the chemical / drug dependency work that I do and also with other addictions.

Happy Halloween. I received a great message from Oscar and Lily wishing me a happy Halloween. They were very excited to be Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia.

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By Phil Scoville, October 31, 2008 9:17 pm

We’ll need to put up some photos up because we haven’t yet. But we are pretty happy with the home. We are starting to get more comfortable in the home. We have our internet, cable, and phone set up. We have been canning the pears, apples (sauce and juice), and concord grape juice. Marlene is quite the homemaker and keeper of the land.
I’ve been mowing the lawn, trimming trees and rosebushes. The lawn looks okay but not fantastic. We are getting more comfortable in the ward and enjoying some of the friendships with our new neighbors. Oscar seems to be liking his new school and is making friends with a few friends in the neighborhood (Madison and Chase). Oscar and Lily were playing last Saturday with Madison and her sisters running between our house and yard and theirs while I mowed and trimmed the yard.

We’ll get some new photos of the house soon.

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By Phil Scoville, September 20, 2008 11:09 pm

Brand’s movie about our adolescent years received one of the audience awards from the Washougal Film Festival. My vote counted that I handed in on its opening night of play. It meant something. Also Parade was again shown on Saturday and Sunday of the festival. That is cool.

Here is a link to the Official 2008 Festival Winners (PDF file).