Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there! And especially to my mom!!!

Mom & I on a bike ride when they came to visit a few weeks ago.

I'm so thankful for my mom. She sometimes tells me things I don't want to hear & I roll my eyes and get annoyed, but at the end of the day I know she has my best interests at heart because she loves me.

When we went for our little bike ride she got ready with her beloved sweatpants, which make Karen & I laugh. We stopped to fill up her bike tires and once I finished filling them up I look back at her to see she stuck both pant legs into her socks so they wouldn't get caught in the chains, which completely makes sense, but it looked hilarious (picture balloon pants). I just laughed and she said, "What?" I love how she just doesn't care what everyone thinks.

Love you, Mom! Happy Mother's Day!

update: My mom sent me an email to thank me for this post and used LOL twice in the email. Both times included parenthesis explaining what LOL meant in that instance, since they were both different. lots of laughs and lots of love, of course.

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