Yes. Without the way they raised her, Lacey would be just another pretty face. She and I were raised with most of the same beliefs; in short, she knows she has been blessed in many ways and doesn't let it go to her head. She is (near as I can tell) the closest any woman has come to my ideal of perfection. She couldn't get better if she had a twin. And a person doesn't get that way without their parents making them that way.
Her parents are great role models - they love each other and kids pick up on that. They support their children's dreams. They are what she aspires to be.
I've had a lot of role-models in my life, most of them able to provide only a few good examples of what kind of man I think I should be, and a few able to be more than that. Julie and Tony are among the latter group; I hope that when I get to be in their shoes, I can be as good for my kids as they've been for theirs.
It would be as much an honor to meet them as to meet Lacey. It would almost be the same thing to me.
The tagline in my .sig isn't there just for cutesies. Though I don't yet have a website for her (I'm sure she's WAY too modest for such a thing, and I only know of two pictures with her in them, but if I could get a few good pics, and a hearty "Go ahead, I don't care", I'd probably set one up), I have been thinking a lot about setting up a small shrine. (Wouldn't hurt for me to get a raise to finance it
.)
So yes, I'd really like to meet Lacey's parents. I'd probably even be a little less nervous meeting them, but only a little.