Nolan Family

Hi, my name is Jean Luc.   13 years ago I was adopted into the Nolan family and became Laura and Dave’s first child.   Life was great for the first 3 years.   Then one day they brought home a baby.   I punished my mom for 6 months and would not sit with her.   Unfortunately, it did not work and the baby stayed, so I gave up and went back to sitting on my mom’s shoulder.    So we all settled into life. Three years later they showed up with another baby.   By this time I had learned how to ignore these little people and it really did not bother me.   They did their thing and I did my thing.   Turns out that only worked so well.   I guess boys want dogs and my being cranky was not working for them. Ryan kept begging for a dog.   My parents almost gave in last fall, but when they took me to meet the dog at the humane society, I acted scared and my mommy felt bad for me.   But then this weekend happened.   Nana and Papa took mommy and the boys to a pet expo, next thing I know is

Ryan, Andrew, Felicity, Josh, Grace, Julie, and Leah! As many of you are aware, we are city folk.   Our food comes from the grocery store (or our country friends when they have pity on us) and we don’t have a good understanding of where thing come from.   So when the opportunity to see how maple syrup is made came up, we jumped at it.   Our friends Hannah and Royce decided to tap some maple trees this year and boil their own syrup.   Together with the Krenek family we headed out to the country.   We arrived just in time for a snowball fight.   Then everyone got back to work gathering the sap.   It was fun to try the sap directly from the trees.   It tasted like sweet water.   Then the syrup was added to the sap already collected and boiled down outside in the special wood burning oven that Royce built. Ryan tries the sap! Dave tries to get Josh to try the sap.  "No way" says Josh! Ryan calls Daisy Daisy and Ryan The sap l

As a family, we have discovered that we enjoy watching arena football.   On Saturday, March 23 rd we went to the Green Bay Blizzard Game.   We sat at the end zone this time.   While we were at a great location to potentially catch a football. The only problem was it was a very low scoring game with very few kick offs.   So while it was disappointing that the Blizzard lost, we had a great time with the Jahnke family!