Happy Birthday to my favorite Texan!!!!

Happy Birthday to you Leslie, I wish I could be there to spend your birthday week as you called it yesterday. I love being your friend, I know it is a very long list and I feel blessed to be on it. I am super sorry to miss your pj party as I know it will be a total blast. Thank you for teaching me how to be a girlfriend, for teaching me to take time for friends and to love the little moments w/ my kids. You do all these things naturally and love learning from you. You also shared your love of scrapin w/ me and I love it now too. I love this journey through life that we are all on together, the Lord has blessed me in so many ways and one of them is you. Happy Birthday Les, 34 is my favorite number!!

Crosswalk buttons, sign shakers and NO MORE BUSY DAYS!!!!

Bret has become quite driven in the Idaho Potato market, he watches the weather, helps me plot the spot to sell from and now this......We cleaned out Mr. Farmer's garage full of potatoes, taking the last 50 bag to sell, I felt like the Grinch stealing Christmas as I even swapped the bag he had set aside for his family, to exchange it for a bag that was ripped. I figured he didn't need that beautiful unripped bag of spuds sitting there in his garage when I could SELL IT!!! Everyone was once again involved in this weekends sales event, our goal not nearly as exciting tho, as we only had about 30 left by Sat to sell. At one point and this will make you laugh.....Bret, Aust, Hunt, and Dakota were minding their post in front of Lowes. Bret told the boys once these last 7 bags were sold they could go home. Aust and Hunt grabbed 2 of his signs and start shaking them at the road, 2 cars pull in, next Bret tells sweet little innocent Dakota to run down the street and push the "walk" button on the stop light, then run back to the next one and press it too!!!! Bret had traffic backed up for 3 intersections!!! Ko loves his dad so much he will do anything he says and he kept up the button pushing until Bret asked him to stop!!! They sold 7 bags in 30 minutes!!! SO FUNNY! They packed up and were done, Aust and Hunt zipped over to me and grabbed my signs to shake them! We sold my last 5 bags in 30 minutes too! Jes was by far the happiest among us to see the last of the bags go, as she has spent to most time in the truck waiting for them to sell. I taught her to play checkers and she is getting pretty darn good, lots of practice. I hated to tell her today that I ordered 4 more pallets full of spuds.............$$$$$ i like it.

The Princess wedding photo!

April Sargent and Me, at the princess wedding photo booth, I think she is triing to nab my suitcase......not a chance lil sis

A Princess Wedding.....

A few weeks ago my sweet niece Jenna Andersen became Jenna Andersen Biadfrjeiworufjklw sp? tee ......She married an awesome Polish young man. I love him. She had planned her wedding since she was in 8th grade. The highlights were the formal well practiced dance in Hotel 1000 in downtown seattle, a harbor cruise, a ring ceremony for his parents to see as he is the only member of the church in his family. I was charmed by her preparedness for her big day, the love I saw in their eyes for each other and and romance of the dinner in the beautiful hotel 1000 reception area. The bride even thought of a dress up photo room for us to "play in"....thus this silly picture of me and my lil sis April :) I love you Jenna and Swavek, I have no idea how to spell your name.

Potatoes in the News..............

Excellence news on the potato front! We raise the bar this weekend, with a goal of selling 50 bags on Sat. Ya that is double our goal for last weekend, I love to set high goals,ones that scare you a bit!! We told the kids that if we met our goal we would go to dinner, something we NEVER do!! They were so excited. We divided to conquer our goal this weekend, Bret went to the Lowes parking lot and me, Brooke and Jess to the regular Toy R Us location! Bret wore his Austrialian hat and out sold me!!! He swears it was the hat. For about an hour and a half we planned to be gone and let the kids sell as Bret coaches Dakota's bball team and I wanted to watch him play. Aust took over the Lowes location , Brooke and Hunt the other. All was well until we recieved a call at the game from the POLICE!!!!! Talk about a heart stopper, no fun here. I left the game in a huge rush! Just down from were I had been selling was 3 different sets of puppies for sale, in front of Petsmart! Petsmart got annoyed and asked us all to leave. I felt so bad for Hunt and Brooke as the Police officer asked them if they had their liscense and asked them to pack up! When i arrived they were all packed up and waiting in the truck, I pulled in and saw the police a little ways away and decided to go talk to them first. They told me the dogs were actually the problem and there was another guy selling down at Lowes and wasn't having any trouble!!! Infact the police were wanting to buy some potatoes from him but didn't have any $$ w/ them!!! I ended up asking where they thought I should move to and they gave me some ideas!! Funny huh!!! We moved 2 more times only to be asked to leave each place!!! It was about 4pm and we only had about 10 bags to go, I debated on giving up on our goal and calling it quits but then why? I thought I should teach my kids that it's not always easy to reach our goals and adversity always comes to try and stop us from reaching them. We decided to join up with that cute man in the hat selling down at Lowes instead. By the time it was time for me to head to work and still have time for going out to dinner we had sold.......................47 BAGS!!!!!! Oh my!!!!!! We were so excited. That beats last sat by 14 bags! We made enough to pay off the rest of one bill we were working on and put $100 in the Christmas fund & dinner was delicious! Bret has next weekend all planned out, he has Friday off and is planning on a 2 day event! We have already checked the weather and we are gearing up for some Christmas savings.......sorry that was a loooonnnggg blog:)

DC, Virginia Beach, Oregon Coast and Christmas 2007?

Virginia Beach, VA a great place to spend a week!
We went there to visit Bret as he spent 5 LLLLOONNGGG
month doing some training at the Navy Base this
summer.



Look closely and you can see the Washington Monument!!! June 2008

Merry Late Christmas. Have you ever had good intentions of a really great Christmas card picture!?? Here is the one you were supposed to get in the mail last YEAR!!! HA!!! We will try again this year........Christmas 2007

Just before Bret left for his Virginia trip we met the Bergs in Oregon for a weekend get-a-way. Bret and I took a long walk down the beach realizing what lay ahead of us, much worry, much work, a few tears and some anticipation at his leaving me. I am totally nuts about my husband and sending him away ment not only missing his presence in my day and night but being single mommy of 5, young women's pres, working nights at the airport and learning how to do our books.....I know the Lord helped me thru this crazy time. I am soooo glad he is home.

School Pictures of the Yorgesen Clan 2008

More Fun Pix for the Fam DVD

Jessie age 5, this is her Kindergarden picture!

Hunter age 13, an 8th grader.

Dakota, age 8 he is a 2nd grader this year.

Here is Brooke and her horse Bubba...true love...

Austin age 15 and 7/8! 16 in only 3 weeks!!! He is not excited

or anything. He is a Sophmore.

Photo's for the Family DVD

Just Pedalling.............

Awesome week on the potato front!! I paid Mr. Farmer his $600 i owed him w/in 6 days of getting the spuds :) He was super impressed, and I love that. I sold the next 30 this past week and then get this yesterday I set a goal of selling 25 in one day...call me crazy, we all know that is true, but I sold 16 in my first hour and ended my day w/ selling 33 bags in 4 hours OOOHHH YYYYYAAAA!!!!! Mr. Farmer gave me his sweet truck to use for the day and then decided I could use it for the next 2 weeks. Just a little less red neck than my Mini Van and I love the look of a brand new truck w/ 30 bags of potatoes in it. He is leaving for Isreal and told me the I am helping him pay for his trip, the more I sell the longer he and his wife get to stay!!!! I am super looking forward to this week, I hope the weather holds and I can keep up the sales. Today I pay my tithing on my earnings and tomorrow I pay a wooping $700 on my debt!!! I can't wait, the coolest thing is none of that $700 was not from our regular income, we won't even miss it. Today my fast is for gratitude, I am just so thankful the Lord is helping us reach our goals, I can't thank Him enough. The book that has made us crazy over this goal is called the Total Money Make Over by Dave Ramsey. It has totally changed us, Jenna I wish we would have read this book as newly weds, I am super excited about your budget you wrote up....go get this book and read it together.....HURRY! :) Brooke is becoming quite the saleswoman, I we fight for the cars as they pull in. She made $15 off me yesterday. I am going to have watch it I see....more to come..............yum yum Idaho Potatoes.................tee