Family Letter 2012

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 19^th 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!

                                                                       

                                                                        The Pearce Family