Thankful Thursday

Today, it's only fitting that for Thankful Thursday I post about my mom on her birthday.  She passed in 2007 and I still think about her every day.  She knew how to be a MOM rather than a best friend, and still the first person I would go to for anything, good or bad.  She loved my boys more than anything and it breaks my heart that she couldn't meet my younger three.  Here are a few pictures of my beautiful mom: