Romney Event

Many of you have asked about the party we went to... here is the invitation. Ginny and L.E. Simmons hosted a party with Mitt Romney and the Beach Boys just to say thank you to all of Romney's supporters in Texas. I guess Texas raised a lot of money for Romney and we knew the Simmons had a significant part in that.
We met the Simmons family in our very first family ward after David and I were married. We lived inside the city of Houston then. Of course, we were the young married couple living in an apartment. L.E. Simmons and his brother had started an investment bank years and years ago and have been very successful. The Simmons have two incredible children: Virginia, about to turn 20 years old this summer, and William, about to turn 19 this summer. David and I's first calling in this ward was Sunday School teachers for Virginia and William's class. We loved it! The youth were awesome and the funniest part was that they called us Bro. and Sis. "Dinosaur" because they thought Pistorius sounded like a dinosaur name and couldn't remember it so well. Hilarious.
Anyway, after some months doing that, they called us into the Young Men's and Young Women's presidencies. I actually worked with Ginny Simmons in the Young Women's and Virginia was in YW of course and David became Scout Master and worked with William and the other youth on getting their Eagle. Anyway, these were some of the best times ever! We loved our callings, we loved the youth we were working with, and I really felt like we were making a difference too.
So, we left that ward of course when we moved to Utah and we kept in touch with the Simmons family over the years. We were fortunate enough to be able to pick them up from EFY when they attended two different summers at BYU, we watched General Conference with them in Houston the first year we moved back here (Virginia was up at college then but that is when I learned William wanted to attend ATM) and we have really enjoyed seeing them grow up.
These are pictures we took with them Friday night - David with William and me with Virginia. Virginia is at the Univ. of Utah studying early childhood education, has a serious boyfriend she brought to the event too! :) And William is putting in his mission papers soon and has a girlfriend, Paige, he told me he met at church (great place to meet!) that he introduced to us. The most impressive thing was that William spoke in front of all these people at the Romney event and introduced Mitt Romney too! He did a fantastic job and I had always said when I met him at like 13 that he would be president one day. He is well on his way! :)