PJ Jonas

Category: The Jonas Life

  • Pumpkins

    Pumpkins

    We were selling soap at a craft show and I saw another vendor with some really cute stuff. The only problem, was that she didn’t have enough pumpkins. So I went up and asked her, “Do you have 5 more pumpkins?” And she did: Pretty cute, don’t you think?  

  • Old Fashioned Girls

    Old Fashioned Girls

      A couple of weeks ago we went to a harvest party. Lots of the children dress up in old fashioned clothes or like cowboys and indians and such. We never get dressed up (I’m really lame when it comes to costumes). Well apparently there were some extra clothes brought because when I turned around…

  • New Shoes

    New Shoes

    I think I mentioned that we bought new shoes for the children about a month ago. They’re always so excited to get new shoes. Mostly because they play so hard that their existing shoes are completely falling apart by the time we get around to shoe shopping. Here are some of the old shoes: And…

  • The Room Fairy

    The Room Fairy

    Brett has been having a tough time lately getting Indigo and Jade to help in their room. Indi and Jade are excellent when it comes to trashing the room, but definitely lacking on the cleanup part. Always resourceful, I saw the three of them working really hard cleaning it up today. Later Jade came to…

  • Enjoying the Jumpy Things

    Enjoying the Jumpy Things

    During August, Jim saw that in honor of “National Family Night Out”, our town was hosting free food and entertainment near the town square at Greenway Park. We never turn down free food, so we finished all our soap work and headed out. We took a pretty good chunk out of their hot dog and…

  • Wood Heat

    Wood Heat

    We heat our house with wood, and we just love gathering around the fireplace as a family. We spend many happy hours together warming our feet and feeding the flames. It’s been unusually warm and just got cold enough to light the first fire of the season. The children were all rather excited: I hate…

  • Jonas PE Class

    Jonas PE Class

    As a family, we try to do squats at breakfast, pushups at lunch, and jumping jacks at dinner. Hewitt, Indigo, and Jade have trouble doing jumping jacks. They mostly just jump up and down and wave their arms around. Hewitt can actually move his feet like jumping jacks, but not his arms at the same…

  • Who Is Scaring Whom?

    Who Is Scaring Whom?

    Jade decided to scare Daddy: Then she decided to be silly: Then she went back to being scary: But you really have to watch the video to see Jim’s reaction: I love watching him play with the children. He’s such a good Daddy.   

  • Barrel Racing

    Barrel Racing

    We have several rain barrels that we use to… collect rain, of course. The only problem has been that we haven’t had any rain in two months and the barrels were just sitting there empty. So the boys decided to put them to another use:                    …

  • Football Fans

    Football Fans

    We love watching NFL football games on television. The children know most of the rules to playing football from watching these games. But they’ve never been to a live game to watch it in person. Since Charlestown High School was in the sectional tournament at home, and we didn’t have a soap show scheduled, we…

  • Rugged Terrain Ahead

    Rugged Terrain Ahead

    When we were done playing (and showing off) on the playground, we decided to take a hike. We usually do the 1.5 mile, easy trail. But we had been wanting to take the 2.3 mile, rugged trail that overlooked the Ohio River. Since it was a good day for showing off, we headed for the…

  • What Trick Can You Do?

    When my brother was here, he and his family helped us ship all our internet orders and then stopped working for the day and started playing. We went over to Charlestown State Park and the children all got to compete to see what amazing feats of strength they could perform. The first ones were kind…

  • YOU’RE Not Allowed…

    YOU’RE Not Allowed…

    The older children are allowed to use our Flip video camera to record memories. For example, Emery, on his own decided to take this video: And somebody else decided to take this one of Jade and Ginger: Indigo, unfortunately, is not old enough to use the Flip camera. She did not seem to remember that…

  • Apple Picking

    Apple Picking

    One of the best parts of Fall is going apple picking.  Our favorite apples are Fujis because they taste the best and store in our root cellar really well. It was a gorgeous day and everybody had fun hanging out waiting for the tractor ride to the Fuji apples.   Hewitt and Indigo had fun…

  • Tiger Cubs

    Tiger Cubs

    Have I ever mentioned that Colter wants to be a zoo keeper some day? He’s really excited about it. The Louisville zoo has a program, but he’s not old enough yet to participate. We also have a neighbor (scary, I know) on the next street over that has a sort of wildlife preserve where he…