Us in a Chestnut!

This past week has been crazy busy for both Justin and I. Alvin, Wes, Mindy, Emily, Katie, and Trevor are all coming up tomorrow and staying for a few days. It would be nice to say that they are coming to see us, but they are really just coming to go hunting! Anyway, when you hardly ever get visitors, it takes a lot of planning. I'm not use to cooking for this many people, let alone, where are they all going to sleep?? Last week I made Justin help me plan a menu so I could go grocery shopping. Here is how the week played out:

SATURDAY: Justin let me splurge and I got to go to the new GINORMOUS Wal-Mart in Clarkston for groceries. I was there for almost 2 hours just taking it all in and, of course, spending lots of money.

SUNDAY: We had a HUGE wind storm that lasted all day. We had so much that we were going to get done during conference sessions, but we couldn't do any of it. Anyway, we have an extremely large chestnut tree right next to the house. It is so pretty and in the spring when it was blossoming, it was the prettiest thing ever. Then the bad stuff happens, the blossoms turn into these baseball sized bright green poky balls! They have spikes on them that hurt super bad. In the fall, the balls fall off the tree, rot, and out comes a chestnut. Needless to say, thanks to the windstorm, there were hundreds of them all over the lawn!

MONDAY: Get home from work and rake up the chestnuts so that I can mow the lawn. I wanted to get one more good mow in, even though the yard looks like a field. I wanted to cut down the weeds, pick up all the pine cones, etc. So I spent 1 hour raking up chestnuts into 6 heaping piles!

TUESDAY: Get home from work and have Justin fix the lawn mower so it will suck up the clippings into the bags. In the meantime, I got the privilege of scooping up all the chestnuts into a bucket and dumping them in the field. Finally got the lawn mower going and mowed a little piece of grass (dirt)

WEDNESDAY: Got home and it looked like it was going to rain! NO!!! I have to mow the lawn! I wasn't going to let it get me down and so I started anyway. It ended up not raining. I didn't think that grass was that long, but I had to empty the bags a lot! That's right, there are 2 bags on the lawn mower and I emptied them probably 7-8 times. I was mowing until 7 and it's dark then. Justin so graciously turn all the outside lights on so I could see. He's so thoughtful.

THURSDAY: Going to Kamiah to get more groceries. The last minute things like fresh meat and more milk. I also had to get the oil changed in my car. I'm only 500 miles over!! That's good for me!

FRIDAY: I get to stay home and clean because those guys are leaving at 3:30 in the morning and so they will be here at a fairly reasonable hour! I'm excited and just hope all goes well and that they all get animals!

P.S. I'm starting to think that nobody reads my blog because I never have any comments any more!! :(