(written by Aaron)
Julie was born while her parents were still in
school. Her father was getting his doctorate degree
in Botany. She is the third of four children. She has an older brother
and sister and one younger brother. She had a wonderful childhood, full of fun
and laughter that bonded her to her siblings and made them close friends. She
grew up in a quiet suburb of a great neighborhood. She had good friends and loved to run up and
down the street to their homes all year long.
Her family spent summers camping and fishing, playing games in the yard,
making blanket forts, and drinking Kool-Aid.
She has wonderful parents who taught their children to love learning by
reading to them and taking them to explore the things and places they learned
about in school.
They also taught their children to work hard. The children were responsible for helping
with housework, working in the yard and garden, and working part-time jobs to
pay for their extracurricular activities.
Julie continues to have a great relationship with her parents and
siblings. They have been a great support
to us through our hard times in life as well as all the celebrations!
We are lucky to live close enough to her sister to get together often with her family.
Her brothers both live across the country but we talk with them
regularly and every other year we get together with them and their families,
her parents and sister and her family to have a week-long family reunion. We love to be together and our children love
their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins!
Julie graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in
Family Science with an emphasis in Human Development. She had an opportunity to go and get a
masters degree and was accepted to a program in Idaho. She gave it all up so that she could start a
family and become a mother.
Julie is an incredible wife and
mother. She is selfless. She thinks about others before she thinks
about herself. I have seen her work tirelessly
to clean the house, watch the kids, run the kids to events, make breakfast,
lunch and dinner cook a meal for someone else who is sick in the neighborhood,
help the kids with homework, take care of crying kids, do laundry, run errands,
go shopping, help one of our kids ride a bike and a million other things, and not
do one thing for herself. She
volunteers at the school to help in our children's classes.
I was so impressed with Julie when our children were
born. She is so caring and loving to
them. She wants to make sure that they
have a great childhood. She is a stay
at home mom and does fun things for our
kids all the time. I was also so
impressed with her attitude and the strength that she had when our daughter with Down
syndrome was born. She kept a positive attitude when Big Sister was in the
hospital with her heart surgeries and doctor appointments. She has been the
greatest example to our children. She
does all these things because she loves the kids and me unconditionally. She
does it because she loves doing things for us.
She works hard to make sure that we are happy. She is an amazing
person. She is incredibly supportive of
me in all that I do. She has been a great inspiration to me in my life and
makes me want to be a better person. I
am extremely grateful that she chose to be with me. I am grateful for her and for the wonderful
mother that she is to our children.
