Sunday, August 7, 2011

Yumz Gourmet Frozen Yogurt #2

The boys and I went out to Chicago last week for the grand opening of the our new Yumz store. (John was already there) It was so exciting and exhausting! We flew out Thursday morning at 6:00am. Yes, I said our plane left at 6:00AM! That meant that we had to be at the airport at 5, so we left at 4:30. That wasn't easy for 2 teenage boys who are used to getting up at noon! John picked us up at the airport and we went straight to the new store. We worked there until about 1:00 in the morning!

There was so much to be done. We scrubbed walls, floors, containers, loaded the fridge and freezer, got toppings organized, set up computers, dvd players, hung shelves and folded t-shirts. We were impressed with how hard our boys worked! They did a great job. We hardly broke for dinner.
me folding shirts...

On Friday we opened at 11am and all went well. Lots of people came in that first day. Annette (John's sister) came in and brought a few of her kids. It was a beautiful day out (actually it was pretty humid... but that is normal there) so we went over to Matt's house and let the kids play in the yard for a while. Tanner hadn't seen his cousins in about 4 or 5 years. So it was fun to connect again. We wish we would have had more time to go to their house and hang out! Next time for sure!


Cute Natalie


Ammon shooting some hoops


Lauren had fun cheering the boys on! She is so positive with her brothers! I was so impressed.


Tanner slamming it!


Everett, Ammon, Tanner and Natalie


Aunt Annette, Lauren and Ammon. You can see that it was pretty hot out by Ammon's red face!

The new Lake In The Hills store



Dianna and I were ready to open!





Saturday was the official grand opening. The local radio station came out and set up a booth from 2-4. They gave away Taylor Swift tickets every half hour. That brought a lot of people out! It was crazy busy.
Everyone came in and got yogurt and then got in line for tickets. I felt bad for them all because it was very hot and humid out! ugh.
The DJ.

Mitchell and I ran the registers for a while and I am happy to say that the registers all balanced out that night! I was pretty sure that I had goofed a few times. haha.

Check out all the people!

Annette came back for the grand opening and I forgot to get pictures of Kathryn and Meredith... dang!


The 2 guys that made this whole thing happen! They have worked so hard!!! A lot of nights spent on the computer and on the phone.


1 comment:

Sarchet Family said...

It all looks so good! I would love go one day. :-)