Closer By The Mile!

2007 marks the 3rd year of the PMC for our family. I'm here to tell you, it was another great year! :-)

Last night Lindsay stood outside the Best Western in Sturbridge with a huge "THANK YOU!" sign. It went over great! Lots of riders passed and honked and waved. They were surprised to see someone out cheering for them on Friday night!

Last night, Marlaine, Bob and Bill Volunteered in Sturbridge. Marlaine and Bob at the Rider Registration and Bill at the Food.

For Eric and Lindsay, it started off at 3:15 this morning. They headed off to the Sturbridge Host for their Volunteer duties. Lindsay at Volunteer Registration and Eric at Luggage - although he ended up at Transportation.
At around 6, Lindsay, Marlaine, Bob, Derek, Josh and Emma headed out on the road to cheer on the riders.

This year they had a sign that said "Because of you my brother is LIVING PROOF" and got a lot of comments from riders (Living Proof is the slogan or whatever for people who have survived cancer within the PMC). It was nice to thank them for helping Tommy.

The Cheer Train stopped once in Charlton and then headed to Northbridge. Both places were great as were the people cheering in between.

The kids had a blast blowing their horns and high fiving everyone.
They had horns, the twirly noise makers people use on New Year's, hand clappers and Lindsay's personal favorite - COW BELLS!!! They had more than one rider yell "MORE COW BELL!" at them (Saturday Night Live fans will get this reference).

They saw LB (Lyndon Byers - formerly of the Bruins and now the WAAF morning show) twice.

The PMC is really important to our family and we all get pretty excited when the time closes in. We're already looking forward to next year!


Here are the pictures from the morning.

Lindsay's PMC Interview in Local Paper

The PMC is coming next weekend. Lindsay's brother Tom will be riding in his 3rd PMC and Lindsay, Eric, Marlaine and Bob will be volunteering at the Sturbridge location once again.

Last weekend, Lindsay received an email from The Spencer New Leader asking if they could interview her for the article they were writing. She was thrilled! The PMC is such an important event to the family and she was excited to share her story with the locals.

Well, the article is out today! Click here and scroll on down to page A3.

Here are some picture from the ride that Lindsay took last year.

What's New?

A lot has happened in the last 2 months since our first blog post.

Lindsay started at Becker College in March as many of you know. She finished her first class on May 22nd and she got an "A"! She's very excited to continue on this journey. She'll be skipping the 2nd class since they were on vacation when it started, but the 3rd class starts up in mid July and she'll be there! We'll keep you all updated on her progress.

Eric and Lindsay got back yesterday from a week long vacation in Vermont. So much fun! They went to all the touristy things they could: Ben & Jerry's, Magic Hat and Long Trail breweries, Cabot Cheese factory, Vermont Teddy Bear factory, Rock of Ages granite quarry, Quechee Gorge and much more! The food was also fantastic everywhere they ate! They visited a few locations run by the New England Culinary Institute and they were both wonderful!

Eric's favorite thing was visiting a local glass blower. He made a water pitcher while E&L were visiting and both were amazed by his work. Lindsay's favorite was the Rock of Ages tour. Such a huge amount of granite and the workmanship is amazing! They also took a trip to the local Hope Cemetery where Rock of Ages has done some amazing head stones.
Here's a link for their pictures. It's a lot of pictures, but they're worth checking out.

Eric's still plugging away at Barnes & Noble and is looking at possibly starting school in the Spring. It's a big step since they'll hopefully be in a new house and expecting their first baby (no - they're not currently expecting), but he's anxious to finish up a degree he started at UMASS all those years ago.

May 29th marked their 2 year wedding anniversary. Can you believe it's already been 2 years already?? They're really digging married life and are looking forward to next year and the next 2 big steps: house and baby.

Welcome!

Hi! We're Eric and Lindsay. We're married and in looooooooove.

We figured we should have a place to keep people updated on our lives since we'll be starting a family and buying a house soon *keep your fingers crossed!*.

So check back from time to time to see what's new in our lives!

E&L