Edward Cullen, Jr.

Today was our Halloween parade and carnival at school. All the kids were so excited to wear their costumes to school and play all day. I was pretty excited about my costume, too.

My team decided to be contestants in the "Sixth Grade Science Pageant". We all had fancy dresses, tiaras, jewelry, pretty hair and makeup, and sashes that said our different titles: I was "Miss Solar System" (I covered my dress in pictures of planets), Melissa was "Miss Moon" (her dress had the moon phases) and Trudy was "Miss Seasons" (her dress had leaves, flowers, suns, snowflakes, etc). We looked sooo super cute together! I have really cute pics but I left my camera at school. I'll post them asap.

Back to the kids. In my class I had a princess, a fairy, a ballerina, batgirl, two zombies, Little Red Riding Hood, a ladybug, a surgeon, two Michael Jacksons, and the other typical Halloween costumes that 12-year-olds like. But one boy took me by complete surprise when he walked through the door to my classroom...

...he was Edward Cullen.

I about died! He looked A LOT like him! I have a New Moon poster hanging in my classroom so we took a picture of him standing in front of it. He was SOO CUTE!!! It totally made my day. He said his mom made him dress up like that, but I'm pretty sure he was happy with his choice. Especially after all the little girls started chasing him around all day chanting "OMG it's Edward! Aaaaahhh!!!" Hahaha! Makes me laugh!

So it was a really fun and successful Halloween celebration. These are the moments I'm glad I'm a teacher. What an exciting, exhausting, fantastic day!

Cute New Topher Pics!

Our good friend Christy is an amazing photographer. Here are just a few of the super-cute pictures she got of Topher.

Happy Anniversary...

...to me!!!

Married 5 years today.

Amazingly I still like him most days.

I wish I had one of "those" blogs...

...the kind that people actually read and comment on.

As I check my friends' blogs, it seems as if every blog they've ever written has tons of comments.

So I wonder.... why do mine not get comments? Am I not a good blogger? Are my stories not comment-worthy? Do I not have enough friends around to read my blog? Or does anyone actually read these things at all?

Hmm. Of course this is ridiculously shallow and radiates my need for peer acceptance, but...
... let this be the test.
Go ahead, reader.
Comment.
I dare you.
I double dog dare you.