Mom'd be proud!!

So you're wondering about the title and why in the world I'd put these pictures on here. Let me explain.

We've had one of the busiest weeks I think I've been through in awhile. Troll figured I'd been in the kitchen for around 35 hours this week making goodies. Let me just interject here a HUGE thank-you to Sarah Miller for all the help she gave me on Tuesday making all that candy!! Anyway, I was asked to make candy, cakes and broccoli salad for the JR/SR banquet that occurred on Friday evening. As Troll is the sponsor for the JR class we were to also help with all the decorating/cooking/tear down stuff. Fun, fun. Tuesday I was in the kitchen for 12 hours making candy (of course it would have been forever more longer had Sarah not so graciously helped me). Wednesday I finished up the nine graduation plaques I had to make for our church graduates (that was allot of fun). Thursday I made the broccoli salad. Took 4 hours to chop all those veggies (thank-you to Marie Wagner for the time she was able to slip away from school to come help). Let me tell you...our house smelled like a gigantic dirty diaper. After all that chopping I worked on the cakes until it was time to go to the kids' program in the tabernacle. Oh, my!!! That was an awesome program. I was so proud of all the kids but was really proud of my own two in it. Jetta had been chattering for weeks about what she had to do in the play and we listened as she described how she was to laugh like an evil person and how she had to stand at the top of this really high ladder!! Austin told us the parts he had to play and then in passing mentioned he had to sing. I figured he meant singing with the class. I was never more surprised when I heard his voice coming across the microphone all by his lonesome. I'd had to step out with Bia who was creating a scene and didn't even know he had to sing! I could kick myself for not taking our camcorder or camera. Anyway, they did super and I wanted all who read this to know that I was one proud mama!! After that I finished the cakes. Friday consisted of finding and taking my kids to their babysitter in Allensville and going to the banquet. We got to bed that night at 1:00. Back up the next morning to make two grad cakes for a party that eve. By 3:30 Saturday afternoon I'd had it. (After all that chatter I finally get to the reason of the picture! Sorry) I went to Troll, who'd just started mowing and told him I'd rather be out there. So at 4:00 I went out and took over the mowing. I love to mow. Since our riding mower has decided to rest this summer (!) we had to borrow a push mower. Even better!! I took the mower and did that for the next almost 3 hours. Loved it. Troll took the four oldest kids and cakes and went to the grad party. You see, I'm just not a people person. After our week of almost constantly being around people.... it was more than time to spend alone. Bia enjoyed harassing the dogs, drinking out of their water bowls, running away and sliding down the slide. Now to the pictures and title of this post. My mom has always said, "You need to wear shoes when you mow." I don't like to wear shoes when I mow. Can't stand it. Never made sense to me. Seriously. If you're gonna slip and catch your foot in the mower it's gonna get chopped no matter what you're wearing or not wearing. Personally I'd rather just have chopped foot than chopped foot with shoe mixed into it! But I knew mom would be proud to see I've at least graduated to wearing flip flops when I mowed!! And the only reason being is that our grass was so high in the dog area (!) that I was afraid I'd not see those piles scattered here and there and could just see myself face first in one of them! Cause bare feet and piles are allot slipperier than flip flopped feet and piles. So the pictures are for my mom. I'm sure she'll be pleased as pie!!!
And now that I've totally bored you with this post.....I'll quit.