My first celebrity crush was Jordan Knight. All you 90’s girls should know exactly who I’m talking about. I saw the New Kids on the Block in concert twice (thanks to my older brother – who drove me to the concert and endured the screaming pre-adolescent girls, just so I could see my crush …from the top row of a very large stadium…through binoculars). I had posters hanging on my wall and I listened to the NKOTB all the time. It was true love. I even had this crazy daydream that one day his tour bus would be driving by my home (because famous singers frequently got lost in my tiny neighborhood) and he would see me out the window…husking corn for dinner (you know how sexy a girl can be when she husks corn). And he would decide that he had to pull over and meet this beautiful and talented corn-husking girl of his dreams. Pre-teen celebrity crushes are the best, but most of us outgrow them, laugh at our silliness, and move on with life. That’s what I did…until Edward Cullen came along.
I first “met” Edward on an average Friday night a few months ago, when Steve and I rented the movie Twilight. I was definitely intrigued…not by his good looks as much as his charm and his strength and his devoted love for Bella. I think I’m kind of like Bella. I’m definitely clutzy (did I tell you that I fell down the steps at the girls’ daycare last month…while wearing a skirt…and red underwear. Nice, huh?). I was intrigued enough by Edward that I started reading the first book in the Twilight Saga. And one week later, I had read all four books, plus the excerpts of “Midnight Sun” online. I was depressed when it was all over, longing to know more about this cool and charming vampire. By the end of the saga, I had fallen in love with my second crush.
Steve seems cool with this. He even bought me the movie and agrees to watch it with me occasionally. He laughed when I told him that his Aunt and his cousin are also in love with
my Edward. He has agreed to take me to see “New Moon” the minute it opens, enduring crowds of crazy teenagers just so I (a thirty-three-year-old, normal, happily married mother of two) can indulge in my crush.
What’s more intriguing than Edward Cullen is the woman who wrote the saga (Stephenie Meyer). Did you know that she had a dream about Edward and Bella and then she woke up and wrote one chapter from Twilight? She majored in English but was a stay-at-home mom. She wasn’t a writer (prior to that dream), but her dream was so vivid that she just started writing. I think that within a few months she had finished Twilight and had a $750,000 contract to publish it plus three more. As an aspiring writer, I’m definitely envious. Her character development is amazing and her writing is addictive. Millions of girls (and thirty-something women) have fallen in love with Edward, a “man” who existed only in this one woman’s dreams. How cool is that? I wonder if I have an Edward or a Bella hanging out in my mind, just waiting to be shared with the world? I’m still hoping for my big dream to happen…waiting to wake up and start writing a novel that will be loved around the world, turned into a major motion picture, and land me on Oprah.
While I wait, I guess I’ll keep husking corn and looking for lost tour buses. I wonder how Edward Cullen feels about corn-husking women?
Aren't these girls the cutest things ever? They were born just 5 weeks apart and they have so much fun together!
The girls road this ride at least four times!
Kate did this ride near the end of the day. Poor little thing...she reminded me of the Little Engine that Could! She was so tired, but she tried so hard! 
So I decided to help her out a little!
Family portrait...not bad - 50% of the kids are looking at the camera!
Maddie and I couldn't stop laughing during the bumper cars...it was my first bumper car experience and it was definitely my favorite ride!
These girls kept bumping into us!
The girls got to "milk" a cow. This poor cow actually lost a teet during the experience!
I'm sure Kate is saying, "Dude...crank up the radio!"
The Turtle Tilt-a-wheel started out calm...
but this is the face of a very dizzy and sick man!
Aren't they so cute? I hope they will always be good friends!
It was a long, exhausting weekend for everyone. Ellie was one tired little girl, but she and Kate were troopers. We are blessed to have had such a fun, safe, memorable trip!
Ellie and Jimmy
Great Uncle Dick, Aunt Penny, Kim, Maddy
Holly, Kate, Steve, Ellie, Jimmy, Kim
Steve's Aunt Penny (and my fellow Twilight fan)
Maddy...another Edward Cullen fan!
Steve's brother Jim and his Great Uncle Dick
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