Carly signing Letter of Intent for Monmouth University 11/12/08

Our college bound basketball scholarship girl!!

We are so proud!

Flowers and Balloons from Eatonville Family

Homecoming Dance--Carly--11/01/08

Carly looking beautiful

Carly and the boyfriend Doug

London and Paris 10/10 - 10/19/08

Moulin Rouge in Montmartre

Sacre Coeur

You know what this is

The Louvre

Notre Dame

Versailles

The view of the Champs-Elysees from our hotel room

view of our room from the Champs-Elysees

Okay, so I loved our room!

On to London~

High Tea at the British Museum

The Tower Bridge from the Tower of London

Buckingham Palace

Parliament and Big Ben

The London Eye~ Our hotel was the building to the right.

September 08

Carly and 'the boyfriend' Doug

Carly's first day of her senior year at East Lyme High School
Mike receiving the Coach of the Year Award
Mike's 58th birthday!!

Beijing Olympics 2008

Mike with the coaching staff at Opening Ceremonies in the Birds Nest..

Opening Ceremonies were spectacular..We were so lucky to be a part of it!

Tienanmen Square

This is where we bought, bartered and fought for our pearls and souveniers

Summer Palace with huge lotus leaves and flowers behind us

Carly and Eric in front of the Water Cube on the Olympic Green

Special night for the USA basketball team and their families on the Olypmic Green

Great Wall and the Thibaults
Carly giving kindergarteners in a Hutong, Olympic pins.

Nanci took a day trip to Xi'an to see the Terra Cotta Soldiers. INCREDIBLE!
Eric's "first" drinkCelebrating Eric's 21st birthday in Beijing
Celebrating the gold..USA style!!
2008 Olympic Gold Medalists!!
Celebrating our gold all night!

Carly's Junior Prom 5/08

This blog seems all about Carly~~says Eric. Carly's date to the Junior Prom was Ryan Clark, a friend. Pictures were taken with the Niantic River in the background and the prom was held at the Mystic Aquarium. We had to race home from an AAU basketball tournament in New Hampshire to make the dance. Carly looked beautiful and had a great time.

Carly's Basketball and Broken Nose

What a great season Carly's high school basketball team had this year! The East Lyme Vikings made it all the way to the Championship game~IT WAS A BLAST. Carly's nose got broken in the first round of the playoffs. She played with it broken but with a mask. She was a warrior. Carly had surgery 2 days after the Championship game, and is still wearing a mask in her AAU season. We flew Eric home from Mizzou for the game. It was all good~except we lost in the Championship.