Is this Sam?

By the way I think I saw Sam as I was driving home the other day.

So it's been a while and a whole lot of nothing has changed. Football season is into the playoffs. The BR team is as healthy as we've been in years (knock on wood). This make my job much easier as I get to watch the games from the sidelines. It was weird watching Andrew play from the stands, I've been on the sideline for so many years it's weird not being that close to the action. Again my wife is wonderful and allows me to spend a lot of time during the football season with the team, Monday night practices, early morning clinics and Friday nights. It is a lot of fun, but I know it takes a lot from her. I did get lucky.

I do get to spend a lot of time with dad during this time of year. He is my travel buddy and I can't wait until our boys get old enough to travel with us. I can just picture dad with Tyler, Ryan and (when not grounded) Sam in the stands. That might be as entertaining as the games.

We open our 8th clinic on Nov 17th in Taylor, AZ. We have a couple of new therapists coming in the next 7 months. This will be very nice and not stretch our current employees as much. Anyway just wanted to leave a quick note for those of you checking.

New pictures

Lucky in Life

Over the last 2 months I have received permission from my wife to go to Utah with my family, invest our money into a new business and leave again for a weekend camp with my parents (the older 2 kids went with me) then expand the new business before we actually have it set up and then agrees to let me hike Mount Humphrey with my partners in July. Caroline is not the most impulsive person around and a lot of times people think we plan things out some time in advance before doing much. I am truly blessed to be married to such a wonderful person and great mother. I could never have found anyone who fits me better and thought the world should know.

Spending so time with my parents/family as I have over the last couple of months has made me think about the examples I was given as I grew up. My father was always present while I was growing up. I fondly remember the kind words he had when times were tough. "Life's not fair" was so comforting when I was cut from the 7th grade basketball team. "I wasn't related to the right people" I felt and I think he may have felt it as well but he would never let that be a good excuse. Instead he told me to work hard, practice hard and I would make the team the following year. Well as always, I did exactly what he told me to do, made the team and was voted MVP by the players at the end of the year. Life is not fair but one thing that has followed me is a lucky streak. "It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned." ~Frank A. Clark


Dad likes to say "Eric's the kind of guy who can fall into a bucket of s#@! and come out smelling like a rose". The funny thing is I have never won the lotto or raffles, I have won a couple of silent bids but I out worked the other bidders. Many of things in life are truly unfair but if we sit and dwell on them instead of trying to change them the status quo will continue. My luck, I believe, comes from that advice and more I received as I grew up. Where I have truly been lucky is my parents, my wife and my kids. Of course these to are dependent on the hard work everyone is willing to put into it. Which brings me to another one of Dads sayings "Do it" but I will talk about that some other time.

I have been touched by the passing of Tim Russert and how people thought of him. Caring for the success of others as much as himself, more concerned about family and friends then work, but always being prepared for work and expecting the same from everyone else and making sure every day was filled with laughter. I think Dad has many of those same qualities and I will strive to be better with those things as well. In fact I was thinking of writing a book about dad and I've already got the title "Big Cox: Father of Seven: the name says it all"

Lloyd's Weekend

Just got back from Uncle Lloyds funeral and wanted everyone to know how much I appreciated my spouse and in-laws that allowed us all to go. In our own way it was one of the most pleasant weekends I have had. I missed my wife and kids especially after a newborn, but the time we had was very good and a lot of fun. just the way Lloyd would have wanted it. I don't say it often but I do love my parents and siblings a lot (even the cry babies). well that's all you're getting from me at this time.

the kids have been very good and Tyler has really taken to the responsible oldest. Caroline caught him taking Jared to the changing table because he had a dirty diaper.

I must admit we make cute kids, it's a good thing mom's a hottie.

Welcome Jared Leigh Cox

Vitals

7lbs 8oz

20inches

13.25 inch head circumference

born at 9:06pm on 5/9/08

Mom and baby are healthy, overall the delivery was very easy. Smallest head of all the kids probably helped a lot. Started suckling as soon as he was cleaned and handed back to Caroline. Very mellow first night, much like Lauren. They get that from Dad.

Congrats Dad

Members of the Navapache Hospital District Board present a plaque to the former CEO of Navapache Regional Medical Center Leigh Cox “in grateful appreciation for years of outstanding service.” Cox served Navapache for 17 years before retiring. The presentation was made at the April 7 meeting of the Pinetop-Lakeside Historical Society where Cox spoke on the history of the hospital. Pictured from left: Darco Ridgley, Johnnie Fae McQuillan, Leigh Cox and Don Hancock.

Not much to say

Can I be off the loser list? Might be the last post so just wanted to say "I beat Becky"