Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Sunday was my mom's 50th birthday! They're out here visiting for a while so I'm so excited I get to spend it with her! I love my mom so much and feel so blessed to be her daughter. She is a wonderful mother and friend and I look up to her in so many ways and wish I could be more like her. We didn't get along very well in high school (which is pretty normal I think) but now I just can't get enough time with her, we have so much fun and so many laughs together! I also really enjoy our morning talks on her way to work, I always look forward to starting my day out talking to her. She is having a hard time turning 50 but she looks GREAT and is so energetic, she has nothing to be bummed about in my opinion! She is such an awesome grandma too for my boys, they are so lucky to have her in their lives!

I have so many memories of times with her but a few that stick out in my memory are sneaking cookie dough out of the bowl when she made her famous delicious cookies, her always being so sympathetic toward me when I had my many ear surgeries when I was little, and her and I really bonding when I had a hard break up in high school-she was there for me and realized how much I was hurting. More recently, she was there for me right after I delivered the twins and never left my bedside. Other people would want to go up and see the twins, go eat, or sleep or whatever but my mom was always there rubbing my legs and back, doing my hair, comforting me. She was everything I needed at that hard time and I am so grateful she was there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

We showed up to church wearing all too similar outfits! Isn't my mom SO cute!?

She liked her present from us...(a collage of the boys, who wouldn't love it!?)I could do a whole blog posting on this dang cake, this was NOT the cake I wanted or ordered but it was the best that we ended up with, stupid Baskin Robins idiots that don't speak English...arg!!!