Hello Everyone,
We wish we could be closer to you all during this happy time of year. We love getting caught up on everything that is going on in everybody’s life.
Things are going well in Birmingham, AL-in fact right now it’s a nice 68° here. Brett is half way through his 4th year of a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He’s enjoying researching the mutations that cause drug resistance in Hepatitis C virus by working with the genome sequences on a computer. He’s also teaching high school students in a lab at the science museum and working on getting two papers published so he can graduate within the next year and a half. He was recently moved into the primary and enjoys teaching the kids about the gospel. Other than that his time is spent having fun at home (or wherever) with his family.
Laura is enjoying staying at home with the two girls (Emmeline and Mabel) and works harder than Brett does most every day. She is in the primary presidency in our ward (no she didn’t have a part in moving Brett into the primary) and enjoys working with the other presidency members and helping the kids. She and the girls get out of the house and do something pretty much every day-whether it’s going to the science museum, the zoo, or the store. Laura’s life will become much more hectic next month since she is starting a Master’s Degree in History at UAB during the evenings.
Emmeline just turned 3 on Dec 6th and is into the “princess” stage. She gets dressed up, plays with stuffed animals, reads and loves to dance and sing-in fact she’s quite the little song encyclopedia just like her mom. She helps her mom and dad with chores, taking care of Mabel, setting the table, and taking the garbage out. She is very excited to start sunbeams in January.
Mabel is now 15 ½ months old (her birthday is Sept 6th) and she likes to: dance by bobbing her head and body, play with Emmeline, get dressed up, put on anybody’s shoes, play “kitchen”, and read. She is starting to understand what we say to her and mimics one-syllable words too.
We love you all and hope you have joy and peace during this Christmas season. We’re so grateful to our loving Heavenly Father for sending us His Son so we can be together forever one day.
Merry Christmas,
Brett, Laura, Emmeline, and Mabel Pickett
Mail:
1413 17th Way S
Birmingham, AL 35205
Email:
bpickett04@gmail.com--Brett
llpickett47@gmail.com--Laura
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