Our Year in Review 2012
January
We start off the new year at the cabin with the Field crew, complete with snowmobiling, capture the flag, all night games of Pit, and lots of movies.
Spring semester starts. Tyson is thinking about Civil Engineering as a major and takes two math classes at the same time. We take a "Building an Eternal Marriage" institute class together. Tyson is working as manager of two Cricket stores.
February
After 6 months on an imaginary waiting list, we finally get to upgrade from our tiny one-bedroom apartment to a less tiny two bedroom apartment. Tyson's parents and Andy and William come up to help us move.
March
Tyson has to work so Spring Break is spent at home. Rachel turns 21.
Tyson learns how to change the brakes on our car.
April
Easter and General Conference are spent with both families. We seran wrap Tate's room and dye the Pearce's milk purple for April Fools' Day. Tyson's mom includes a pineapple in our Easter basket because it is a sign of fertility.
May
We both survive the semester and get out with good grades.
We buy a new tent and enjoy the first camping trip of the summer with Mom and Dad Field, Kelli, Andy, William, Brady, Kai, and Alix in Logan Canyon. We tested the strength of the rain fly and got really good at lighting fires in the rain.
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| Ready to hike the wind caves |
We celebrate Baby Animal Days with Graci and Makenna and enjoy a family barbecue and baby shower for Trevor and Sherstin
Rachel gets a summer job at a call center called Opinionology.
Nephew Carter Scott Pearce is born! Congratulations Sherstin and Trevor.
June
Tyson's Grandma Rosie passes away.
We take a day trip up to Bear Lake with some of Tyson's old soccer friends and coach. We take Tate rock climbing for his first time.
July
We celebrate the 4th of July in Kaysville and then head up to Bear Lake for the annual Croxford family reunion. This year we rented a fancy cabin for the whole clan to stay in.
Rachel's Grandpa Croxford passes away shortly after Bear Lake. A bitter-sweet funeral celebrates his life and reunion with Grandma.
August
We get to attend the wedding of two great friends, Tristan and Megan Tesch.
Robert gets home from his mission in Taiwan. Tyson hadn't seen him for almost four years! We have to stop for gas and miss him getting off the plane. Luckily Kelli and Andy drove separately and made it just in time.
We have the first of what we hope will be an annual Pearce family camping trip. We camp in Logan Canyon so Tyson can drive back and forth for work.
Rachel quits her job at Opinionology.
We get hired to be Resident Assistants for USU Family Housing. This means we get to move again, making this one our third apartment in Aggie Village within a year. We are excited to work together and for the free rent.
School starts again. Tyson is working on finishing his generals and is thinking about physical therapy. Rachel will be student teaching in a 3-year-old preschool class this semester.
September
School is in full swing. Rachel drops a class to keep up with preschool. Tyson is taking calculus and chemistry.
Tyson runs his first marathon! He races in the Top of Utah Marathon with brother-in-law Josh and gets a time of 4:10 with only five weeks of training. Kelli, Andy, William, and Brady surprise him at the finish line.
Tyson turns 23. He still tells people he's 21 whenever he gets asked how old he is. His parents come up and take us out to dinner. We get to celebrate three more times later in the month with Brady, Kelli and Andy, and the Pearce's.
Nephew Truman Jace Beattie is born! Congratulations Krista and Josh and family!
Tyson quits his job at Cricket.
October
We get tickets for the first session of General Conference. This is Rachel's first time attending a session in the Conference Center. Riley and his friend Avala join us.
Tyson crashes on his bicycle on his way home from class and gets to ride in an ambulance to the emergency room. He is extremely lucky and gets out with only a broken cheekbone, torn up ear, and a concussion. He entertains the doctors and nurses by talking about how hot his wife is before Rachel can get to the hospital.
Kelli, Andy, and William joined us this year for the annual North Logan Pumpkin Walk. We dress up as motorcycle gang members for the first couple parties, then as a mad scientist and his hunchbacked minion for the third.
November
Tyson gets hired to bus tables at a Japanese restaurant called Kabuki's.
We have Thanksgiving dinner with the Pearce family on Wednesday and the Field family on Thursday.
Rachel successfully finishes her preschool student teaching.
December
We survive the end of the semester. Tyson gets 100% on his calculus final and ends up with all A's and a B in chemistry. Now he is thinking he likes the idea of Occupational Therapy more than Physical Therapy and registers for OT pre-requisites for spring semester. Rachel has easy finals and ends up with all A's.
Rachel plans the program for the Ward Christmas Party.
We inherit Grandma Rosy's Christmas tree and decorations and enjoy having a fully-decorated apartment for the month.
We enjoy a relaxing Christmas break full of family, including lots of games, a crazy nativity play, a powerful family testimony meeting, trips to the Road Home, Temple Square, and City Creek, and we actually took pictures this year!
Brady and Robert came up to Logan to celebrate New Year's Eve with us. We played games, watched TV, ate pizza, drank apple beer and sparkling cider, and counted down to midnight.
And thus it was.
Happy New Year!
August
We get to attend the wedding of two great friends, Tristan and Megan Tesch.
Robert gets home from his mission in Taiwan. Tyson hadn't seen him for almost four years! We have to stop for gas and miss him getting off the plane. Luckily Kelli and Andy drove separately and made it just in time.
We have the first of what we hope will be an annual Pearce family camping trip. We camp in Logan Canyon so Tyson can drive back and forth for work.
Rachel quits her job at Opinionology.
We get hired to be Resident Assistants for USU Family Housing. This means we get to move again, making this one our third apartment in Aggie Village within a year. We are excited to work together and for the free rent.
School starts again. Tyson is working on finishing his generals and is thinking about physical therapy. Rachel will be student teaching in a 3-year-old preschool class this semester.
September
School is in full swing. Rachel drops a class to keep up with preschool. Tyson is taking calculus and chemistry.
Tyson runs his first marathon! He races in the Top of Utah Marathon with brother-in-law Josh and gets a time of 4:10 with only five weeks of training. Kelli, Andy, William, and Brady surprise him at the finish line.
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| After! |
Nephew Truman Jace Beattie is born! Congratulations Krista and Josh and family!
Tyson quits his job at Cricket.
October
We get tickets for the first session of General Conference. This is Rachel's first time attending a session in the Conference Center. Riley and his friend Avala join us.
Tyson crashes on his bicycle on his way home from class and gets to ride in an ambulance to the emergency room. He is extremely lucky and gets out with only a broken cheekbone, torn up ear, and a concussion. He entertains the doctors and nurses by talking about how hot his wife is before Rachel can get to the hospital.
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| This was AFTER the wounds were cleaned up. |
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| A CAT Scan, couple of x-rays, and a couple dozen stitches later... |
November
Tyson gets hired to bus tables at a Japanese restaurant called Kabuki's.
We have Thanksgiving dinner with the Pearce family on Wednesday and the Field family on Thursday.
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| Ready to run the Thanksgiving relay! |
Rachel successfully finishes her preschool student teaching.
December
We survive the end of the semester. Tyson gets 100% on his calculus final and ends up with all A's and a B in chemistry. Now he is thinking he likes the idea of Occupational Therapy more than Physical Therapy and registers for OT pre-requisites for spring semester. Rachel has easy finals and ends up with all A's.
Rachel plans the program for the Ward Christmas Party.
We inherit Grandma Rosy's Christmas tree and decorations and enjoy having a fully-decorated apartment for the month.
We enjoy a relaxing Christmas break full of family, including lots of games, a crazy nativity play, a powerful family testimony meeting, trips to the Road Home, Temple Square, and City Creek, and we actually took pictures this year!
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| Pearce Family Nativity |
And thus it was.
Happy New Year!
