Melanie Pederson Pederson

I moved to North Dakota right after graduation. I then went to Iowa to go attend college for a while and ended up back in North Dakota. I attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks from 2005 to 2007 with a major in Physical Education & Exercise Science with a minor in Dietetics. I had to withdraw from school with 23 credits remaining when I was pregnant with Molly because I was so sick. Eventually, I'll go back and get my bachelor's. I met the man of my dreams & my best friend, Jamie, in 2005 and didn't realize it until over a year later. We started dating in late 2006 and were married 6-30-07 in Ponce Inlet, FL while standing in the ocean on the beach. Jamie is an Electronics Engineer and works for a well established company in Thief River Falls, MN so I followed him here.

We moved to Torrance, CA in 2015. We bought a house in Lake Elsinore, CA in 2017.

I remember being a freshman and just making the cheer team. We were wearing our uniforms to school for the first time and I was really nervous because I thought my skirt was too short. It was raining and I was running late to class. I took a short cut through the main gym, slipped on the stairs because my shoes were wet and hit my butt on every stair on the way down! And, yes, there were plenty of people around to laugh at me!