Happy Happy Birthday.

MOM!!! Happy 35!! Just kidding, we don't play those games, do we?

Happy big 5-0!!

50 of my favorite "momories" and things I'm thankful for...

-stacks of pbj under the mountain ash tree

-your hair in the early 90s

-starting my love for exercise at an early age by letting me watch "Mousercise"

-thank you for buying me the leotard to go with it

-"playing restaurant"

-protecting me and sister from "the troll"

-you coming to every. single. basketball game. even when you had to drive 6 hours.

-sitting through band concerts. oye. I owe you.

-sister

-brother

-coming to take care of me after my babies

-decorating cakes (with gg too) and fighting about it:)

-"the incident" ha.

-coming to sign me out of school so I could go watch that little movie being filmed down the street

-buying me my first ever digital camera, even though I had to take it back because I didn't have a computer......oh college life.

-letting my sleep on sister's floor for 1/2 my sixth grade year....we had so much fun.

-we always had something to color/paint/glue/cut/bead/or shrinkydink

-your hair in the early 80s.

-you are really, really tough. really tough.

-letting me help you make cookies. I know it's alot easier to do it by yourself.

-it is nearly impossible to watch a movie with you, but you make it really funny.

-watching the kids a thousand times a year (and driving for hours and hours to do it)

(from the boy)

-"she let's me build a road"

-"she makes me pizza"

-"strawberry miniwheats"

-"she has blonde hair"

-"an mole on her nose" :)

(from the girl)

-"I wike gamma"

-"she has Jet" (the cat)

-sticking with me through all my hair problems and letting me be dramatic about them

-sewing both my prom dresses

-trying to teach me how to cook before I left home.....I was a bad student in the kitchen

-being my girl scout leader

-my red shoes at Christmas.

-letting me call a hundred times in one day (although sometimes you do it too)

-the "I'm getting married at 19" conversation at JB's

-taking us to ride Billy....and then he died...

-so we rode Red. I loved that barn.

-snowballs.

-always having cocoa and donuts when we'd get our Christmas tree. (remember when you would get a REAL tree?)

-helping me enter stuff I drew/photographed/baked into the fair.

-always being the wind beneath my wings. Just kidding, just wanted to see if you were still reading.

-but I guess you were the wind beneath my wings, I would just never say it that way....weird.

-taking a picnic to Lions Park

-I guess birthing me should make this list. Thank you.

-I would have never started blogging it you didn't live so far away! Thank you for being the only one commenting all those posts at the beginning!

-trips to the library all summer long (followed by icecream afterwards!)

-Thank you for teaching me all I know about being a mother, just by being a good mother yourself.

- Sorry, early 90s hair was so good, it gets to make the list TWICE....(and why don't I have a photo of that?)

-Happy Birthday!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!