Crying from Basketball

As many of you know I am a fairly big sports fan. Megan teases me that the only time I cry is when there is some emotional moment during a sporting event; think Eric "The Eel" Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea finishing last in the 100m freestyle swim, Britain's Derek Redmond tearing his hamstring during the 400m being disqualified because his Dad helped him across the finish line, the Jamaican bobsled team carrying their sled over the finish line after the track cable broke. Needless to say I could go on with examples, these are only Olympic examples off the top of my head. However, I would like to share a couple of videos about Jason McElwain, or J Mac.

The first if from ESPN:

A similar piece aired during the NBA Finals:

J Mac also appears in this Gatorade video with the likes of Michael Jordan, Payton Manning, Mia Hamm, and other sports greats:

Based on my love of sports, in particular team sports, and my weakness for tears during emotional sports moments this obviously touched me. I see Josh's determination and it teaches me to do my best, as J Mac says "The sky is the limit, give it all the effort that you can, catch a dream, and never give up." I know I need to be my best, so that Josh will want to be his best.

Autism Speaks Rose Bowl Walk

Since Megan gave me permission to post on the site I have slacked off in writing. I will do better.

First we want to thank everyone who donated to team "We Love Josh". To say the Lindsay was successful in forming her team and raising money for Autism Speaks does not due justice to what the final result. Lindsay more than double her fund raising goal, team building and to top it all off gave Megan the best birthday present ever. Here are a couple of picture I stole from the participants blog sites.

This is Megan's Dad, Ken. Notice the button on his hat, it has a picture of Josh. Overachiever Lindsay made individual buttons for everyone that walked!

Even the Empire was out supporting Autism Speaks. I imagine there was also Han and Luke were nearby to protect the galaxy.

Here is the group, going across the back is "Elizabeth" aka Berlin, Ryan, Ken, and Brandon; along the front is team president Lindsay, Deborah, and Chelsea + child.

Once again thanks to everyone who helped Lindsay, and more importantly Autism Speaks.