A beautiful lady / Al Saenz Lets pray for beautiful Melissa,God bless her & her family...
ALWAYS THINKING OF YOU!!! / Maura (Mom)
Melissa,
You are on my mind and in my heart every day. I miss so much the funny things you do but now you are entertaining angels. I can only imagine you beautiful as ever dancing around on the streets of gold. I miss you so very much!!!!
I love you, Mom
God Bless Your Family Always / Craig Bryant God Bless your family for the loss of your angel. She is a true Angel now.
Craig
Beautiful Memory / Hope (friend) Dear Melissa, a beautiful memory of your life has been placed in your honor. This is how we remember you. Beautiful, happy, creative, smiling, and loving. I know you are smiling on us from heaven. Dance a beautiful dance. We love and miss you. Hope
Thinking of you always / Samantha (Friend) Yesterday was Katies b-day. Can you belive she is 6!? How time is flying. We suprised her with dinner at Olive Garden and she had such a good time. I just wish you were with us, in person. I know your spirit was there, with her the whole day. Her party is saturday, you know how she is about parties! Shes so excited!! We love you, and miss you so much Mickey, and you are always in our thoughts and prayers! Love Samantha
I dont go a day without you in my thoughts ! / Mallory Glisson (a student and friend ) I miss you so much there is not a day i dont think of you ! You were one of the only people who actully had faith in me ! I will never forget the day you told me i could get my verry first pair of point shoes ! Our those two years I got to be a srudent teacher with the little girls! I will never forget any of those moments ! You were a amazing person ! And hade so much love for everyone ! You will forever be in my thought ! We love you and miss you ....Mallory
KK's Dream.. / Samatha A. (friend)
Melissa, You were in Katies dreams the other night, she was so happy about that. She came to me and told me she dreamed you and she were dancing together on a stage. She said it was so fun.. She said when she woke up she cried because she wasnt ready for the dream to end. That breaks my heart. We love and miss you so much. Im sure you know you were in her dreams. Was it fun to dance with her again. I sure have missed seeing the two of you act silly together. Rockstars! :) We love and miss you, please be in her dreams again, she really misses you... Love Sam
I wish I knew you / Jeff Simoneaux (None) You sound like a fantastic person I wish I could have known you. Easy to see your family and friends loved you very much and you live on in them. Hope you rest in peace with Jesus's Love
Jeffrey
how we all miss you! / Alisa Spivey (friend) Did you see jess last night? Wasnt she beautiful! We were so proud of her but at the same time you were on everyones mind. All my dad could say is this is not a Melissa James recital by far and how much energy and how advanced you were even back then. He said you were way before your time when it came to producing reticals! And he was right. So many people miss you. I hope justice will be served not just for you but for all of your students then and what could of been. They stole alot of children a great experance and a great teacher! I am just so glad that we got to be a part of you when we did. For every student you have taught and for the ones that will never know we miss you. See you one day my friend. Until then always Dance a Beatiful Dance ! Love alisa
missing you / Alisa Spivey (Friend) Melissa Yesterday coming home from alabama the clouds where so beautiful I was telling the kids how when you go to heaven I wonder if you can sit on the clouds how wonderful it is and I so thought of you and started missing you! Wondering if you where looking down on us.Jessicas recital is Saturday and as much as we are happy it also makes us miss you so............ much more. Be with us and watch over us this week for you will be in our thoughts . and fly on a cloud for me! Love you alisa
So hard to believe / Maura (Mom) Melissa, I still ask myself "How can I be the mother of a murdered child?" I still wish this was just a bad dream and I will wake up and hear your voice again calling me saying "hey mom what are you doing?" I ask God each day to help me get by without you. At times I feel you closer than you've ever been but the days when I feel so far away God is always there to comfort me. I know that you are at peace and are happy so that makes me happy. I just miss so much seeing your beautiful face and hearing your sweet voice.
I love you and miss you. See ya one of these days!!!
Love Mom
missing you / Alisa Spivey (friend) MElissa, Jessica's recitail is right around the corner and boy are we missing you now! We were looking at pictures the girls took and all there costumes and we could not help but talk about you and all the great recitals you did and how much we miss you! It will be a happy but sad day June 9th as Jessica will celebrate her 10th year. We just always imagined you there. but I know in our hearts and spirit you will be. Until we see each other again. Love Alisa
Remembering/ Maura (Mom) Melissa,
I know you are so proud of Kaytlyn as she performed in her first dance recital. Seeing her up there brought back so many wonderful memories of you when you first started dance. I see so much of you in Kaytlyn and I know she will be a beautiful dancer like you are. You have taught her so much through the years and I know she will always treasure those times.
I know you were dancing right along with Kaytlyn. I can only imagine how even more beautiful you are as you dance in heaven. One day I will see with my own eyes and it will be beautiful. I can't wait to see you again princess.
Melissa, Most of the time, I go on with my day, as if everything is ok, and I try not to think about things that hurt or upset me. Latley Ive been pushing pain away, holding it deep within me. I saw Kaytlyn on that stage last night.. My heart was broke and happy all at once. How beautiful she looked, how much shes grown. On the other hand I saw you in my mind gracfully danceing and twirling accross that stage.. as soon as I walked in there, I saw you.. I heard you... I could remember working the recital with you.. Everything, came flowing back as it were yesterday, and there I felt my heart aching for you to reach out and hold me and help my pain go away. I miss you more than I can explain. Somtimes I get so lost in my day, and I try not to think about things but at the end of the day there it is. I wish you were here... I wish it were you and Kaytlyn to be on that stage tommorrow. I need you. Somtimes i dont know what to do without you. I was so lost yesterday, taking her to rehursal.. Pain and joy filling my heart and I was fighting tears the whole time. I feel guilty for letting somone else teach Kaytlyn, because you always told me you were going to. You very much did teach her in a way, the time you were with her, you taught ehr so much. I rememeber the silly dances you made up.. she still does them somtimes, and its soo funny. I know your with us watching, but its hard because I cant talk to you, I cant see you. I cant call you and ask you for advice. Tommorrow is the big day, be with us, and as always watchover us.. I love you.. and I miss you!! Mickey Katie and I love you!!!!!!!! Love Samantha
Recital time / Maura (Mom)
Hi Sweetie,
It's recital time for Kaytlyn soon. I just can't wait to go to her recital and I know it will be emotional. I remember all the years that you took dance. All the classes, dress rehearsals, recitals, back stage passes. Such wonderful memories I have. I am sad that you are not her teacher although in a way you really are. You taught her so much and she will carry all that throughout her life. I know you will be smiling down at her while she is performing and all your other students that you taught dance to.
I miss you princess!! Have a beautiful day in heaven.
I love you so much! Mom
Resurrection Day / Maura (Mom) Melissa, Happy Easter. You are celebrating the resurrection with Jesus. How awesome! I can only imagine you dancing around with your fancy hat on. I remember when we would go into a store and they had hats, you had to try so many of them on. The thing is they all looked good on you.
Have a wonderful celebration in heaven! I love you and miss you sweetie!
Mom
May you rest in Peace! / Kathy Hopkins (Stranger) I have been watching some of the trial. The story stopped me dead in my tracks and i had to read about you and see your pictures. It's such a tragedy!!! I'm so sorry that you were taken in this way and you had your whole life ahead of you!! But i have faith in God and our Justice system and i know that these guys will rot in prison for what they did!!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! / Maura (Mom)
MELISSA, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!!!! I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU LOVE BIRTHDAYS. AND JUST NOT YOURS BUT EVERYONES. WE CELEBRATE TODAY NOT ONLY YOUR BIRTHDAY, BUT THAT YOU ARE CELEBRATING IT IN HEAVEN. I KNOW IT WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR YOU AND THE ANGELS ARE DANCING A BIRTHDAY DANCE WITH YOU. I PRAY YOU SEE THE BALLOONS. YOU ARE AND FOREVER WILL BE CLOSE TO MY HEART. WE ALL HAVE SO MANY MEMORIES OF YOU AND THEY WILL GET US THROUGH UNTIL WE ARE TOGETHER AGAIN. I MISS YOU SO MUCH BUT YOU BELONGED TO GOD BEFORE HE ALLOWED ME THE AWESOME BLESSING OF HAVING YOU FOR 28 YEARS. NOT YOU ARE HOME WITH HIM. MY SCRAPBOOK OF YOU IS COMING ALONG EVEN THOUGH I DON'T HAVE YOUR EXPERTISE TO ADVISE ME ON. BUT I JUST THINK WHAT WOULD MELISSA DO? I WISH I HAD A TINY BIT OF YOUR CREATIVITY. I KNOW YOU ARE USING IT IN OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM. HAVE A BEAUTIFUL B'DAY IN HEAVEN. I LOVE YOU!!!
MOM
Birthday memories / Hope (friend) My dear Melissa, I miss you so much. On your birthday I am thinking about how we would always celebrate by smearing cake icing on our faces. Were we too old to do that? I don't think so. I wish we had one more day. We could go to the beach and sing loud and out of tune to Strawberry Wine. Our memories will live forever in my heart. Help me prepare for recital. I'll have a candy necklace in honor of your birthday. We all love you. Hope
missing you / Alisa Spivey (friend) Melissa Our birthdays are here and you are not! I miss seeing you. Jessica is so torn between dance and cheerleading , Please help her realize what a beautiful dancer she is, she misses you so much. I always saw you and her doing a dance together and now that she has matured into a young dancer that dream is gone! she has you on her myspace and says she misses you alot! Be with her in the next couple of months for recital is right around the corner. We will visit your grave soon, I have to go out of town Friday and she is so upset that we cannot go that day. We both love and Miss you Melissa! Dance a beautiful dance in heaven on your birthday and be with your mom and dad for they both miss you so............ much Love you alisa
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