Timeline Project

  • Conceived

    It is believed that around this date, I was conceived
  • Gender formation

  • Found out that I was a boy

  • mom had health scare because my heart rate dropped

  • Today I was born in Providence Hospital in Southfield, MI

  • began following the sounds of voices and other sounds around me

  • Began to crawl

    not sure on the exact date, my parents remember I was around six months old
  • began walking

  • turned one year old

  • spoke my first word

  • began matching shapes together

  • turned two years old

  • I dressed up as a cowboy; my mom told me that I would always want to be in my cowboy outfit or my police officer outfit

  • turned three

  • turned four

  • Began to recognize letters and read

  • began preschool at Little Tots

  • Began Kindergarten at All Saints

  • I began having play dates with kids from school and making friends

  • tried for a basketball team therfore learning how to play on a team

  • I was realizing that I was doing extremely well in school and I was able to recall things that were being taught very well and performing good on tests

  • When it came to school I was catching on very quickly when we had our placement test, I scored in the top 10% or other kids my age

  • I was diagnosed with restless leg syndrome

  • I was bullied for the first time by some kids in my class because of my hair and how I was so much taller than everyone else

  • I began going through bullying almost everyday

  • I tried out for the All Saints basketball team and made the A team with all the 5th graders while I was only a 4th grader

    I tried out for All Saints basketball team and I made the A team with the 5th graders while I was still in 4th grade
  • The bullying was becoming worse and it was starting to mess with me mentally because I was not as excited to go to school as I used to be

  • When I started 5th grade, I was able to make my own lunch everyday for school and I was able to walk with the other kids to the bus stop at this age (11)

  • My grandma was diagnosed with diabetes and since she was living with us, it changed all of diets and what type of food we would have in the house

  • My family joined the swim club and I was able to make a good group of friends that belonged there. We went to the swim club almost everyday and swam, played basketball and more

  • When 6th grade started the bullying seemed to subside because the other boys were having growth spurts so I was not the odd tall kid anymore

  • I had to take a practice high school placement test before I took it the next year and I scored in the top percentile of my age group, this gave me so much more conifdence in school because I knew that it was making a difference for myself

  • My grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer and began undergoing treatment including chemo and radiation

  • I began experiencing changes in my voice when I would talk, I would realize that it was cracking and I woudl start to smell before I would even play sports

  • Graduated from All Saints and am attending Catholic Central in the fall

  • Started my freshman year at Catholic Central

  • I tried out for the CC basketball team and made the freshman team, this was my first run in with an adversity

  • When the basketball season was over, I decided to quit because the coach treated us badly, made me sit the bench the entire season and only played certain players the entire year

  • at a party for the lacrosse team, I had my first run in with alcohol and some types of drugs that were being passed around. I was made fun because I was refusing to partake in those actions

  • I asked out a girl for the first time and entered into my first real relationship, we are still dating almost 5 years later

  • when sophmore year started I made the decision to focus on my studies and then to try out for lacrosse when the winter season started instead of playing basketball again

  • I found out that I made Varsity Lacrosse for Catholic Central

  • While playing lacrosse I was severly injured when I took a shot to the neck, ultimately putting myself in the hospital for a couple days

  • I found out that I was accepted into a five year Masters/Bachelors program for Cyber Security and Intelligence Analyst at University of Detroit Mercy

  • I graduated from Catholic Central and am going to attend University of Detroit Mercy in the fall

  • I started classes at UDM and for my degree I am required to take 18 credits a semester

  • I will be walking across the stage to get my diploma for my bachelors degree and then I will just have to complete my last couple Master courses and I will graduate with that

  • I get a job working with the Department of Homeland Security

  • I am graduating with my Masters and applying for jobs in the fields that I want

  • grandma passes away, this is the first immediate family death that I experienced

  • transfer to a violent crime within the government

  • Get married

  • have my first kid, a son

  • have my second kid, a daughter

  • my wife changes jobs from the DOD to DHS and begins to travel more

  • expereince the death of my father

  • move to Washington D.C in order to pursue a further job title within the FBI or other government sector

  • involved in a shootout and sued for a wrongful death suit, which was not successful

  • have a third child, another daughter

  • transfer back to the homeland security and terrorism unit

  • my wife transfers into a sex crime unit

  • have a heart attack

  • watch my first born graduate high school

  • move our child into the dorms of the college that they choose to attend

  • retire from my job and begin to make plans to move

  • my wife retires from her job in sex crimes

  • my second child graduates from high school

  • move the second kid into their college dorm for their first year

  • my third child graduates from high school

  • my third child is struck by a drunk driver coming home from a graduation party and sadly does not make it

  • my first child gets married to their high school sweetheart and announce that they are moving to Arizona

  • my wife and I move to Hawai'i

  • my second child gets married

  • experience the death of my mother

  • we become grandparents for the first time

  • my wife decides to open a little cafe in downtown Lahaina

  • our first child and his family move down to Honolulu to be closer to us

  • our home is badly damaged in a tropical storm

  • We lose the cafe to a fire and the insurance company denies our claim for insurance over the damages, therefore we lose the cafe

  • relocate to the island of Kauai instead of Maui

  • my second child and her family move to Maui to be closer to our whole family

  • my wife is diagnosed with lung cancer

  • my wife begins an aggressive treatment against the cancer

  • my wife is declared in remission and is cancer free

  • my wife passes away in her sleep

  • I move into the home of my second child with her, her husband, and their two children

  • sadly, I die of a massive heart attack