My mom is hotter than your mom!

My mom is not the typical sweet, but semi-boring mom. Oh no, my mom has a lot more flavor.

While your mom was at PTO meeting my mom was probably wearing leather and spandex and rocking out at a concert.

While your mom was cooking dinner my mom was loading us all in the car to go out. (Hmm...I wonder why I eat too much?)

While your mom was humming church hymns while doing her housework my mom was BLASTING "breakfast with the Beatles" while we did our Saturday scouring of the house.

While your mom was clipping coupons and budgeting my mom was letting us throw everything we saw in the cart, which behavior incidentally got her banned from doing the grocery shopping. That was a sad day!

While the boys thought your mom was welcoming and friendly when they came over, they thought my mom was SUPER HOT! Yes, I definitely had "that mom". I don't think I ever dated anyone who wasn't attracted to my mom.

While your mom washed your mouth with soap, my mom laughed at our dirty jokes (that we probably heard from our stepdad).

But aside from just being cool my mom also has some super admirable qualities.

She is a really hard worker. She taught me a lot about really doing whatever job you are assigned to do. She goes way above and beyond. When my parents got divorced she went to work, without a college degree or any experience to her name. She worked her butt off and I daresay that her company could not live without her.

She fought to keep us all together. It is not always easy to blend two families together and it took a long time but she was adamant that we would become ONE family.

I also really admire the way her and my dad get along. I am sure they have had their blow outs and I know they don't think the world of each other but they are always friendly to each other and supportive of us. They may not love hanging out for birthday parties, weddings, mission farewells, etc., but they keep their problems out of it.

My mom also takes really good care of us. We may even be a little bit spoiled, and sometimes we are not as grateful as we should be. But I do notice all that she does and I am grateful. She flies us to California (every other time we visit) and then spoils us rotten while we are there. And I guarantee you have NEVER seen more presents than my mom sends for Christmas. Usually about three 100 pound packages. I think she spends more on shipping than I do on all of Christmas.

And the thing I must love my mom for the most is for joining the church and not giving up on it. It is so much easier to just quit going, especially when you have 6 kids to get ready (or even just 3). But we stuck with it and learned together what it means to be Mormon.

So, I know this is a long post and you don't like my long posts Mom, but if you are still reading....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I love you and I know you don't believe it anymore but you are STILL the hot mom...easily the hottest senior citizen I know.

And as a birthday surprise Chloe finally started walking this week...I would give her her own post but I don't know if it is really brag-worthy material at 15 1/2 months.


And here are some birthday wishes from your super spoiled grandbabies.