2002 Christmas Letter

The Pace family sends their love and best wishes to all of you. May your homes be filled with, peace, love and joy during this holiday season and the year 2003.

This year has kept us busy as usual. We finished fencing our pastures and put new pole fences in front of our house. Bill had surgery on his hand in early November and just finished having physical therapy on it. Kaye was busy teaching third grade at Prospect School last year. It was only a one year contract and she misses teaching this year. She is still Relief Society President for her church and that is a very busy job. Kaye fell and broke her wrist in the fall. It is better now. For a while Bill and Kaye had two bad left arms. It is surprising the things that you can't do without your left hand. Jimmy is a junior at Prospect High School this year. He played varsity football this fall and is playing basketball right now. He has done downhill mountain bike racing at the ski runs this year. They take the ski lifts up and race down the ski trails. His dad introduced him to that. He also loves to ride and race his quad. Alicia is a freshman at Prospect High School this year. She made the varsity volleyball team and won a plaque as the rookie of the year. She loves to shop in Medford and spend the night with her friends. Our only trips this year were to California. We went to Bill's brother, Grant's funeral in February and Ashley's high school and Adam's middle school graduation in June.

Cathy and Marvin moved from their apartment to a house. She has it decorated very beautifully. Ian and Dustin are living with them while they finish up high school. Dustin delivers pizza and Ian works at Burger King. Ryan and Angel are separated and they take turns tending their son, Jared, while the other works. Mike and Amy just had a beautiful baby girl on December 15th. She has dark hair and is beautiful. They named her Kaya Noelle Masloski. Their son, Dylan, is two now. Lisa and Greg Mapel had their second son, Corbin Alan Mapel, on September 16th. He has beautiful red hair and is so cute. Gavin, his older brother is in first grade this year. Two weeks ago Greg Mapel was baptized into our church. it is great to have their sweet family in our ward now.

Cindie and Rob are in the middle of remodeling their house. They spent Thanksgiving with us. Cindie is still flying. Amber is doing her student teaching at BYU Hawaii. She will graduate in April. She is engaged to a darling boy named Matt. They are getting married in Hawaii on Valentine's Day. After her graduation day they will have their wedding reception at Grandma Cowley's house in Layton, Utah. It is now a wedding reception place. Austin is in his second year of his mission in the Philippines. It is scary to have him there right now. Ashley is loving her freshman year at BYU Idaho. Adam is a freshman in high school and helps Rob hold down the fort at home while Cindie is flying.

Greg is still working as an engineer at Lockheed. He moved into a house in Soquel which he is sharing with a friend named Den Williams that he grew up with. He spend every weekend with his daughter, Megan. She loves to ride bikes and motorcycles with her dad. She is seven and is in first grade. Greg loves to downhill race on the ski slopes and ride his motorcycle. He and Megan will spend Christmas with us.