We hope this letter finds your family happy and in good
holiday cheer!
The Pearce Family has had
a very exciting year from being employed, to moving, and enjoying some family
vacations.
Greg spent the beginning of the year taking care of Emmett
as the stay at home dad and applying to jobs.
In May he was offered a full time position as a mechanical design
engineer with AMET. The company makes
automated welding systems and Greg spends his time designing the machines and
testing them in the shop. He is our
handyman around the house and will soon be the proud owner and musician of a 19th
century pipe organ.
I finished my last semester of graduate school and
successfully defended my thesis in May.
Over the summer I finished up my final edits, published my thesis and
(finally) graduated in September. I was
offered a part time position as a hydrogeologist for the Tucson branch of
Golder Associates. The company is an
environmental consulting company and I do groundwater modeling for them. It is the perfect job and I am enjoying being
a stay at home mom and trying to be the perfect 50s house wife.
Emmett is our happy, goofy guy. He turned two in October. He learns new things every day and keeps us
all on our toes. He loves going to the
library for story/craft time and to see the fish tank. He has fun at play groups with our friends
and is learning how to share. His
favorite things to do at home are to color, paint, and anything with music. I
believe we have a future musician in the family so we found a fun music class
that he will start in January. Emmett is
also obsessed with Spongebob thanks to his Grandma Koontz and Aunt Gemma.
Cyris is our fluffy, lovable pooch. He just loves to be with us and finally
understands that Emmett can be fun to play with. He and Emmett play chase and tug of war and
Cyris is so nice to let Emmett climb all over him.
Greg’s job moved our family to Rexburg, Idaho in May. We love the Idaho Falls area and being close
to Yellowstone and the Tetons. We have
spent two Pearce Family weekends in Island Park and to Yellowstone already as
well as a whirlwind fourteen hour day with our friends to Yellowstone, the
Tetons and home through Jackson Hole. We
also enjoyed a ten day Koontz Family vacation to Pennsylvania and Washington
DC. In PA we had fun visiting the Koontz
relatives, eating my Grandmas amazing food, and learning our family
history. DC was awesome! Emmett loved riding the metro and watching
them come and go at the station. We were
able to go to a few of the Smithsonian museums and see the sights of the
Capital. We need to plan a second
vacation there as we barely scratched the surface of things to do in DC. To top off our exciting year we found out we
are adding a new little monster to the bunch at the end of July. We could not be more excited!
We hope as we celebrate the holiday season we can remember
our Savior and all he has done for each of us.
In return I hope we can all be a little kinder and selflessly serve
those around us. Happy holidays and merry
end of the world. If the world happens
not to end may 2013 be a wonderful year for your family!
