Nolan Family

We started planning for Josh's 16th birthday, months in advance.  Josh did not want a big party or time with his friends, he asked for a family weekend away.  So we started to discuss heading to Camp Luther and hanging out, but then we realized the lake might still be frozen.  So finally we decided to head to Chicago for the weekend.  But at last, we forgot about baseball and the baseball schedule came out.  It had Josh playing a doubleheader in Madison.  But we decided that that would still work until he was changed to a different JV team and now his game was in Green Bay.  So reservations were changed and hotels were booked for Milwaukee.  Who would have guessed that the week before April 21st we would get a blizzard and there would still be snow on the ground?  So with baseball canceled, we decided to leave a little earlier for the birthday trip. We started the day with a birthday breakfast for Josh.  He wanted pancakes and then we opened gifts.  Dave and I had decided that it