Julie and Jeff

Once upon a time, when I was almost 14, my family moved to Missouri and moved into my Uncle H.D. and Aunt Carol Ann's house for the summer.  They had 10 children, and we had 5.  I think only 8 or 9 of their kids actually lived at home, but that is still a lot of kids in one house.  I stayed in Julie's room that summer and we had a lot of fun.  In fact, I really enjoyed having Julie as my friend the whole time we lived in Missouri (about 3 years).  Her and her siblings and her parents had a really positive impact on me.  I gained a lot of confidence just because they liked me, and since I thought they were some of the most beautiful, handsome, entertaining, kind people on the planet -- that meant something!  Julie is my favorite.  It is really hard not to smile a lot when she is around.

Here is Jeff and Julie.  They are really great.  I love them.
Maybe I will have to start some sort of campaign where I beg them to move closer.
Probably I just need to get their kids to move to my town and THEN they would come!

I hardly ever get to see Julie anymore.  I live in Utah.  She lives in North Carolina.  Getting to see her and Jeff was one of my favorite parts of our trip.  Julie and Jeff and Derek and I went to Preference at BYU together.  That was my 2nd date with Derek.  Jeff and I had a class together at BYU.  He did much better than me, but I enjoyed having a friend to sit by in class!

Sunday morning after the wallet was found we drove directly from our hotel to Julie and Jeff's church.  Jeff is the Bishop and it was Ward Conference and Julie had remembered that she was singing with the choir and needed to get to practice.  I ended up singing with Julie in the choir in Sacrament meeting, and Jeff spoke and did an excellent job.

After church Derek, Kayli and I followed Julie home and she fed us while we visited.  Jeff got to join us for the last little while.  Derek told Kayli that Julie was her "spirit animal" and Julie would have been happy to keep Kayli (Kayli's popular that way).  We caught up on each other's families as much as we could in 3 hours.  It was really good to be with Julie and Jeff.  We had fun and our visit made us really wish that Julie and Jeff lived closer.  Naturally, I didn't think to take pictures, but Julie and Jeff graciously sent me a selfie when I texted them on the way to the airport asking for one.

It has been nice for me to hear Derek tell our kids about Julie and Jeff and what nice people they are.  I like that some of my favorite people are some of his favorite people too.