Happy Birthday, Melissa!

In this happy picture, I am posing with one of my best friends in the whole wide world. Melissa is so fantastic and has become like a sister to me. She makes me smile and laugh, and we have great adventures together, including hunting down our favorite authors all over the Southland! She loves books as much as I do, and she is the one who introduced me to the Twilight series waaaayyy back when the books were new and Stephenie was a regular visitor to twilightmoms.com. Melissa was one of the original Twilight Moms and got to visit more than one movie set and meet Robert Pattinson and the other stars. She has been on TV in various capacities, sings at Segerstrom Hall on a regular basis, and is the queen of all that must be organized. I love her sense of humor, her capacity for understanding, and the value she puts on friendship. She is very creative -- coming up with awesome ideas for her girls, whether it's for their scrapbooks, for their parties or to reinforce a spiritual lesson. She is passionate about education and I know that she will change the world for the better. God has given her so many talents and gifts, and I am very happy that she shares those with me. Happy birthday!