DH:
Maximilien Auguste Mercier
Straight brown hair, green eyes
Accountant
DW:
Alexia Lucienne Larue Mercier
Wavy brown hair, green eyes
Biologist
Location: Lyon,
France
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Year 1
Alexia receives a pay raise at her job once she finishes her PhD.
Max [26] and
Alexia [26]
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Year 2
Max and
Alexia adopt a cat. They name her
Axelle.
Max [27] and
Alexia [27]:
Axelle the cat [1]
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Year 3
Max and
Alexia adopt a Bichon Frise. They name him
Gauthier.
Max [28] and
Alexia [28]:
Axelle the cat [2],
Gauthier the dog [1]
--
Year 4
Max and
Alexia welcome a baby boy!
Zacharie Matthieu has straight brown hair and green eyes.
Max [29] and
Alexia [29]:
Zacharie [nb],
Axelle the cat [3],
Gauthier the dog [2]
--
Year 5
The Merciers travel to Bordeaux for a family reunion with
Max's extended family.
Max [30] and
Alexia [30]:
Zacharie [1],
Axelle the cat [4],
Gauthier the dog [3]
--
Year 6
Alexia is promoted at work, and now supervises some of the interns.
Max [31] and
Alexia [31]:
Zacharie [2],
Axelle the cat [5],
Gauthier the dog [4]
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Year 7
Alexia gets a job offer at the headquarters of her company. The only issue is that it's in Connecticut, in the US.
Max is supportive of whichever decision she makes, and ultimately, the Merciers end up moving to Connecticut. Thankfully, since they'd made the decision to speak both French and English to
Zacharie at home, he doesn't have too much trouble integrating into an American preschool. Unfortunately, they have to leave
Axelle and
Gauthier behind with
Max's parents.
Max [32] and
Alexia [32]:
Zacharie [3]
--
Year 8
Instead of continuing as an accountant,
Max gets a job as an accounting professor at a local university.
Max [33] and
Alexia [33]:
Zacharie [4]
--
Year 9
The Merciers welcome another baby boy!
Sebastien Romain has straight blond hair and green eyes.
Zacharie is overjoyed to have a baby brother, though not as overjoyed that he has to go to school and can't spend all day with baby
Bastien.
Max [34] and
Alexia [34]:
Zacharie [5],
Bastien [nb]
--
Year 10
Max is promoted to Associate Professor quite quickly.
Max [35] and
Alexia [35]:
Zacharie [6],
Bastien [1]
--
Year 11
The Merciers host a French-speaking Swiss exchange student for the school year.
Elodie Virginia Carnavale is 17 years old and immediately adores her "little brothers".
Max [36] and
Alexia [36]:
Zacharie [7],
Bastien [2]
--
Year 12
As part of a new company initiative,
Alexia now only works half days on Fridays, while still receiving the same pay.
Max [37] and
Alexia [37]:
Zacharie [8],
Bastien [3]
--
Year 13
The Mercier welcome a baby girl!
Elise Gabrielle has wavy brown hair and green eyes.
Zacharie initially did not like the idea of a girl, but he came around, and is now very protective of his baby sister.
Max [38] and
Alexia [38]:
Zacharie [9],
Bastien [4],
Elise [nb]
--
Year 14
Max and
Alexia weren't planning on getting another pet, at least until the kids were all in school, but when a young cat begins hanging around their porch,
Alexia can't help herself. She takes her to the vet to make sure her shots are all up to date, then brings her home as a surprise. The kids name her
Rosie.
Max [39] and
Alexia [39]:
Zacharie [10],
Bastien [5],
Elise [1],
Rosie the cat [2]
--
Year 15
The Merciers pack up and fly to
France for two weeks to visit family and to attend
Max's family reunion.
Zacharie somewhat remembers living there, but
Bastien and
Elise were both born in the US, and this is their first trip to
France.
Max and
Alexia are sure to take them to do touristy things, like visit the Eiffel Tower and go to Disneyland
Paris, but they also visit their friends in Lyon and family in Bordeaux.
Max [40] and
Alexia [40]:
Zacharie [11],
Bastien [6],
Elise [2],
Rosie the cat [3]
--
Year 16
When one of the girls who goes to
Bastien's school is unexpectedly orphaned, the Merciers take her in and adopt her.
Hannah Jade Yancy is eight years old. She's a born performer on figure skates, but very shy when not on the ice. She doesn't talk much when at home yet.
Max and
Alexia are taking her to a child psychologist once a week and are hoping that might help, because they aren't currently sure whether she was always like this or if she's more affected than she'd previously let on by her parents' deaths.
Max [41] and
Alexia [41]:
Zacharie [12],
Hannah Jade [8],
Bastien [7],
Elise [3],
Rosie the cat [4]
--
Year 17
The psychologist suggests a therapy dog, so suddenly they have a very well-trained, well-behaved golden doodle named
Pearl living with them.
Elise asks for skating lessons rather than the dance lessons she'd been taking so she can be "just like big sissy Hanny!"
Max [42] and
Alexia [42]:
Zacharie [13],
Hannah Jade [9],
Bastien [8],
Elise [4],
Rosie the cat [5],
Pearl the dog [3]
--
Year 18
As if two pets weren't enough,
Rosie has kittens! They give away three of the four, but keep the youngest one, naming her
Cosette.
Max [43] and
Alexia [43]:
Zacharie [14],
Hannah Jade [10],
Bastien [9],
Elise [5],
Rosie the cat [6],
Pearl the dog [4],
Cosette the cat [nb]
--
Year 19
Alexia gets a job in California. Though they feel a bit bad about moving
Zacharie during high school, the Merciers move out to Palo Alto. To their great surprise,
Hannah Jade adapts the most quickly, immediately finding a second family at the rink.
Elise has decided she doesn't have to be just like
Hannah Jade, and decides to try gymnastics instead.
Zacharie, whose friends now call him
Zach, joined the surfing club at school.
Bastien is a bit more hesitant, but does make one good friend, a neighbor of theirs.
Max [44] and
Alexia [44]:
Zach [15],
Hannah Jade [11],
Bastien [10],
Elise [6],
Rosie the cat [7],
Pearl the dog [5],
Cosette the cat [1]
--
Year 20
Zach gets his drivers license and takes a job at the snack bar at
Hannah Jade's rink. This greatly reduces
Max and
Alexia's stress, as now
Zach can drive
Hannah Jade to the rink after school, and she can stop complaining about needing to practice on crowded public sessions. ("Mom, Dad, I'm doing *triples*! It's hard to do when people who don't know how to skate are falling all over the place!") (She qualifies for the National Championships, so they suppose she was probably right.)
Max [45] and
Alexia [45]:
Zach [16],
Hannah Jade [12],
Bastien [11],
Elise [7],
Rosie the cat [8],
Pearl the dog [6],
Cosette the cat [2]
--
Year 30
Zach is a biomedical engineer, having graduated from UC Berkeley. He lives with his fiancee,
Stella Phoebe Nye, in Riverside, California. When
Hannah Jade was 18, she moved to Colorado Springs for a new coaching perspective. She made the Olympics two years later, so it must have worked. She met her boyfriend,
Travis Glenn Morin, there, though they both trained in Colorado Springs. She's currently going to school part-time while continuing to train, majoring in Communication.
Bastien is completing his degree in biochemistry at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
Max and
Alexia were hesitant about sending either
Hannah Jade or
Bastien out to Colorado, but when they realized they would be together they didn't feel as bad.
Elise has secured a gymnastics scholarship at Sacramento State University, where she plans to major in Finance.
DH: Dr.
Maximilien Auguste Mercier "
Max" [55]
DW: Dr.
Alexia Lucienne Larue Mercier [55]
DS:
Zacharie Matthieu Mercier "
Zach" [26]
-Dfiancee:
Stella Phoebe Nye [25]
DD:
Hannah Jade Yancy Mercier [22]
-Dbf:
Travis Glenn Morin [24]
DS:
Sebastien Romain Mercier "
Bastien" [21]
DD:
Elise Gabrielle Mercier [17]


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