Happy 50th Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Mom, Happy Birthday to you!! That's right today Mom would be celebrating her 50th birthday! As I was digging through all the family pictures I realized we didn't take very many pictures of Mom holding her birthday cake. However I did find one. I couldn't count the candles on the cake to see how young she was that day...and of course there was no date on the back of the picture, but I'm gonna guess and say May 2004, she would have been 45.

Mom on her 41st Birthday.

We always had fun celebrating Mom's birthday. Some years it fell on Mother's Day so we'd get the opportunity to celebrate Mother's Day and Mom's birthday on the same day. We all missed Mom yesterday on Mother's Day. We have this family tradition of going up to the mountains on Mother's Day and cooking hamburgers. Yesterday was a beautiful day and we did make it to the mountains, and as always the food was great. Even though Mom wasn't physically with us yesterday, I know she was walking along the creek with us and enjoying her Mother's Day!