1/31/2005
Kim just celebrated her 35th
Birthday on 1/27/2005. Happy Birthday Honey! We've been busy as
heck. Kyle is just completing BJHS Wrestling Season this week and he won
a silver medal in his first major tournament. Jacob has several weeks of
basketball left and scores at least three baskets per game. Here's the video we took of
Jake's game and Kyle's tournament. Jessica takes gymnastics but I haven't
heard of any recitals yet.
Last Friday night Jacob went to his
first Pinewood Derby. To give you a little history, Kyle and I built a
Pinewood Derby car 4 years in a row while he was in Cub Scouts and each year we
finished in the top 3 for the pack and received a trophy. This year was
Jacob's first, so we built a car using the same techniques as with Kyle, however this year we didn't even place. Jacob
was very disappointed. While I was sitting close to several of the other
parents Jacob walks up and says. "Gosh darnit Dad! Why did you make me such a sucky car! We all bust up laughing!
Anyhow, everyone is doing good. We'll be in touch...
3/19/2005
As you probably already read on my
website my buddy Mark, Ole, and I went to Daytona for Bike Week. I can
only explain it as 10 days of beer, motorcycles, and bad drivers. I must
admit I felt a little guilty leaving Kim and the kids in frozen
Anyhow I started back to work last
Tuesday (3/15) and received some great news from my boss. As it turns out
I was promoted effective last Saturday (3/12)! If that isn't the perfect
ending to a pretty darn good vacation, I don't know what is.
Kim and the kids are doing
great. Kim is busy as ever running the household and doing her
transcription work. Kyle just started track and will be Confirmed
Catholic in April. Jacob finished basketball and is getting ready for
flag football and Pony Baseball. Jessica is growing like a weed and is
almost as tall as Jake. If we could just get some warmer weather, I
wouldn't have a single complaint.
4/29/2005
It's been a busy month. I
spent another 10 days in
Kyle's been busy as well.
While maintaining honor roll grades, Kyle also finished a winning wrestling
season and track season. Kyle just spent the last week at
Jacob's still in Cub Scouts and
just earned his Tiger Cub badge. Jacob finished basketball and started
Flag Football and T-Ball. Jake is one heck of a great athlete. For
a 7 year old he's very coordinated and aggressive. He's excelled in every
sport he's participated in.
Jessica's still taking gymnastics
but her classes are during the day, so I've not seen one. She'll be
getting a hamster in a few days and she's very excited about it.
Kim's been the busiest of all of
us. I've been out of town like four of the last eight weeks and that
leaves her taking care of everything without relief.
Everyone is healthy and doing well.
6/6/2005
I don't even know where to
begin... Jacob finished football and started baseball. Kyle is
taking bass guitar lessons. Jessica is in gymnastics and Kim is watching
neighbor kids at home and dabbling in transcription. I'm busy as ever and
still loving my job. I recently ordered cable broadband and may be
hanging up DSL. Insight will be out this Thursday (6/9) to drop off the
modem and run a new cable drop. Cable broadband is currently the fastest
in town and I ordered the 6mbps/512kbps plan. I've had DSL for more than
4 years and thought it was time to try cable. I'll try both for a month
to see which is consistently faster, better, etc... then drop the other.
6/12/2005
We finally made the switch from DSL
to Cable Broadband. I must admit Verizon's DSL
service has served us very well for the past 3 or 4 years. However, the
fastest connection we could get was 1.6mbps/368kbps and with neighbors and friends
closer to the POP getting 3mbps for the same price, I was frustrated...
In addition, I'm having a problem with my Netgear
FVS318 router. Every time my WAN IP lease expired my router would get a
new IP address and Verizon changed their lease to
expire every 900 seconds. Yeah, I was having some serious connectivity
issues...
Anyhow, I now have a new D-Link Router
and as of last Thursday I'm flying high with Insight Broadband with a blazing 6mbps/512kbps
connection (for a low $75/month, yikes...). The only thing faster
would have to be FIOS, I'm waiting for you Verizon...
With our new and improved upload
speed, I'll be posting more video content on 5nolans.com in the near future. Keep in touch...
8/3/2005
This Summer
has flown by and we've been too busy to keep up the site. Here's a quick
rundown on the Nolan's this Summer.
6/25 - Celebrated Jessica and
Jacob's birthday's by renting the Holiday Pool (with 6 life guards) and
inviting 20 friends for a pool party.
6/27 - Jessica's 5th
Birthday. We celebrated with dinner at Chucky Cheese's.
7/1 - Kim and I celebrated our 17th
Wedding Anniversary. Dinner and drinks at Creole Cafe and additional
drinks at Fat Jack's.
7/11 - My 37th Birthday. Kim
and I had dinner and drinks at Fiesta Ranchero.
7/22 - Jacob's 7th Birthday.
We celebrated with dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe in Downtown Disney, Orlando.
7/7 - 7/11 - Kim and Theresa's
cruise to the
7/6 - 7/28 - Kyle, Jacob, and
Jessica fly solo to
7/15 - 7/28 - Kim and I drive down
to
7/28 - Kim, Jacob, Jessica, Rusty
and I drive back to
8/4 - Kyle and Ryan attended the
Warp Tour in
8/5 - Kyle flew back to
8/12 - Marlene (aka
Grammies) will be flying to
9/12/2005
Hello everyone, sorry I haven't
updated the site in a while. Hurricane Katrina hit on Monday, August 29th
and I was deployed to
9/2 - Fly to
9/3 - Drove from
9/4 - Fly to
9/5 - Drove from
9/6 - Worked 14 hours in
9/7 - Drove from
9/8 - Worked 14 hours in
9/9 - Worked 14 hours in
9/10 - Fly to
9/22/2005
Its been another busy week but I have to take
time to tell everyone about Kyle's last football game. We went to the RCA
Dome last Sunday (9/18) in Indy to watch the Jacksonville Jaguars vs.
Indianapolis Colts game. Immediately following the NFL game, Kyle's team
played 2 games on the pro field in the dome! I must say it was very COOL
and Kyle looked great out there under the lights. All the boys are very
motivated now. It was a very long but satisfying day even though the Jags
lost :-(...
12/31/2005
I failed to make a single update
from September through December. We were
all very busy with kid’s activities and work.
Here are a few bullets I can remember from last year.
o Kyle finished his last season with the McCLean County Cougars (JFL – Travel League). They finished the season 10 – 2 -1. Kyle will play for the Bloomington High School Raiders - 9th Grade Football team next season. Kyle also had a successful track season and wrestling season at BJHS. Kyle went pretty much undefeated most the season, however he lost two matches in Regionals which knocked him out of Sectionals and the State Championship.
o Jacob wrestled, played baseball, flag football, and basketball in 2005 and is now a Wolf Scout in Cub Scouts.
o Jessica was in ballet, gymnastics, and a Daisy – Girl Scout.
o Kim managed the household affairs and took great care of the kids and myself, as always. Kim managed to pay off the van and nearly paid off my bike through her financial management skills.
o I had another successful year at work. I was promoted back in March, which tops me out in my current role. I’d have to change jobs to go any higher but money wise there’s not much incentive to leave my current team…
We’re all doing great and busy all the time now. However, we’re all healthy, happy, and doing very well. I’ll try to at least update this site once a month…