Potato Harvest 2024

About a month after school starts every year they are lucky enough to get a couple of weeks off for potato harvest.  This year, they were pretty excited about it because they didn't get to be involved last year when we were gone.  Laexin, Loa & LeGrand all worked harvest and I tried to keep the littles busy, ha ha!  And spent my days running meals to the three working.

 LeGrand drove potato truck for Gibbs, Laexin worked for Rory and Loa worked for the Johnsons. They all agreed that Harvest isn't the funnest thing in the world, but you might as well be working.  LeGrand definitely doesn't want to be a farmer, ha!  He didn't mind driving truck, just said it was super boring and some days extra hot. Loa was SO excited to get a chance to make some money and she quickly realized she HATES harvest, ha ha!  She was not a fan of the long (usually 12-14hrs) days of staring at potatoes roll down a belt, she wanted to quit after the first couple of days but I made her stick it out. She was very glad when it was over but also super excited about her pay check.  Laexin was happy that he had put in enough time to get to work different jobs than bagging and picking potatoes off a belt!  They had a day and a half of rain so harvest was extended a few days -- they were all so happy and exhausted when it was over  AND I was so happy to send the littles back to school :) 

We finally made it by to see Oma and Opas headstone

We managed a trip to the Jump Zone

AND

They littles were feeling left out that they didn't get to 'make some money' so we set up a lemonade and treat stand by the Jorgensen potato trailer out by the Y for a couple days