Jordan & Hillary: Happy Mothers Day!

Mother's Day is this weekend and it will be the first mother's day that I am away from my mom.

Things will be different this year but I will still try my best to spoil my mom!

Every girl says "my mom is my best friend" but mine SERIOUSLY is. Pinky promise!

I'm the oldest and the only girl.

My mom and I had no choice but to be bffs in our house full of boys.

Growing up, my mom was a "dance mom".

She drove me to dance everyday and traveled with me to competitions.

It was a team effort always.

This lady put my eyelashes on until I was 18.

She was Stake Young Women's President while I was in high school so we were always together for church activities. I'll never forget one of my friends was complaining that her mom held a calling with the youth. I was dumbfounded. I LOVED having my mom with me? It was around the end of high school that I figured out most moms aren't like mine.

It is an on going joke that my friends use me for my mom. If I had a dollar for every time a friend texts/tweets/instagrams my mom i'd be a rich lady.

One time my friend texted me a juicy story about her and a boy. I responded with something along the lines of "holy crap! no way!?!". My friend responds, "omg, I know. Oh BTW I already told your mom. Don't be mad".

so typical.

When it came time to decide what to do and where to go to college I knew I didn't want to leave my bff/mom. It wasn't even a thought. I couldn't leave her.. she and I are the same foundation color, who's would I steal if I didn't live with her???

So I didn't.

I spent my 4 years of college with my mom and I don't regret it for a second.

Things got real when she opened up a pre-school and asked me to be her assistant. That meant that we spent all day, everyday together.

We loved every second.

Then the time came to get married...

She and I worked side by side for 10 months planning the most perfect day.

My wedding was really my mom and my wedding (sorry, jord).

With a wedding came a marriage and with a marriage came a move.

This move was so hard. It was the first time I had ever been away from my mom.

There were many ugly tears and one really freaked out husband.

I'll be real, living away from my mom sucks. Thankfully, we have texts, calls, snapchat, twitter, insta, FaceTime, etc. I'd be lying if I said we didn't use 90% of those outlets daily...

We are managing.

Jordan knows that mom calls take priority over everything (and he secretly loves it. he likes to chime in with annoying comments ;) ).

I'm amazed how we are able to stay close so far.

We are NOT getting comfortable with this tho...

We ~~mean it when we say~~ joke that someday we will live next door to each other.

And that keeps me going and makes me happy... One of these days, when we are settled and out of school, jordan and I get to be with mom again(kinda trying to convince him that living with my parents forever is a great idea).

For now I have a trip planned almost every month for the rest of the year to see my mom.

Lucky me!

She is practically perfect in every way + she's mine!