PJ Jonas

Category: The Jonas Life

  • Overgrown!

    Overgrown!

    We took a huge vacation this summer that began with my brother’s wedding and grew to include a trip to the beach and a tour of Virginia. When we came home, the backyard and the children’s playground was completely overgrown with weeds: So, we had to tackle it. Here’s Fletcher kinda stunned by the enormity…

  • Cousins

    Cousins

    My brother, Adam, and his family are coming for the weekend. Everybody is super excited. I’m wondering what I’m going to feed everyone because I haven’t gone food shopping. Oh well, I’ll figure something out – we won’t starve. LOL The last time the cousins were together, the older children decided to play dress up…

  • My Handiwork

    My Handiwork

    Since you were all so impressed with Brett’s sewing skills, I thought I’d show off some more of our skills. These are some examples of the hats that we’ve crocheted and sold:    Brett has also crocheted some matching hats for the American Girl dolls. I thought I had photos of them, but I can’t…

  • Sewing

    Sewing

    I got Brett a sewing machine* for Christmas. We kept trying to sit down together and go over some sewing basics. But things kept interfering. So Brett took matters into her own hands. For her first ever sewing project, she made Indigo a nightgown: Gotta love homeschooled kids and their initiative.  Pretty impressive, don’t you…

  • Once a King and Queen…

    Once a King and Queen…

    Once a King and Queen of Narnia… … Always a King and Queen. I love my children’s imagination.  

  • Giddy-up!

    Giddy-up!

    I never get over how kind people are to us.  Here’s a perfect example. The guy that we get our wood from has horses. My children adore horses and never get a chance to ride. The other day he and his wife showed up at our place on horseback (they live about five miles away)…

  • Humpty Dumpty

    Humpty Dumpty

    We do a lot of festivals. At these festivals we meet all kinds of crafters. At one show, set up behind us was a guy who carved wood with a chainsaw. It was very noisy and smelly cool. Hewitt was fascinated: Of course he didn’t have a clue who Humpty Dumpty was. So we had…

  • Dirty Chimneys

    Dirty Chimneys

    We heat our house with wood all winter.We love sitting around the fire as a family and hang out there as often as possible. It’s coming up on heating season, so we had the chimney professionally cleaned: The children thought it was really cool (anything with power tools is very cool) and pestered him with…

  • Dinner for Ten

    Dinner for Ten

    I love our family dinners. In the last six months, especially, the conversations are so much fun and we have a great time. The children always say something funny that makes us all laugh. And it’s the kind of laughter where we’re laughing with each other and not at each other. Last night was classic.…

  • Playing at Hardy Lake

    Playing at Hardy Lake

    Fall is our busy time of the year, so we always try to make sure that we take time off to have fun as a family. Last week, I packed us all up and drove to Hardy Lake (actually Jim did the driving). Hardy Lake is a 700+ acre lake about 25 miles from our…

  • I Missed You, Emery!

    Daddy, Emery and Fletcher were away for the weekend and we missed them terribly! Everyone was so excited when they came home. Daddy got hugs, Fletcher got hugs, and Emery got hugs from everybody except Indigo. From Indigo he got a full body tackle. She just clung to him and wouldn’t let go. As she…

  • And Then There Were…

    Eight. Come on, admit it. You thought I was going to say nine, didn’t you? Nope. Still just eight. LOL Aren’t they cute?  Don’t you especially love Hewitt’s orange shirt?     

  • Sisterhood

    Indigo and Jade aren’t twins. They’re 16 months apart. But Indigo is so tiny that except for her much longer hair, she and Jade could pass for twins. It doesn’t help that we all like dressing them in matching clothes: Unfortunately, Brett has gotten too big to find matching clothes with her sisters (which she…

  • Good-bye Topsail Island

    Good-bye Topsail Island

    It was so sad the last day, saying good-bye to the ocean: No. I mean it. It was sad: We got all the cousins together for a last picture: And then just my kids for a last picture with the ocean: In case you’ve ever wondered what was involved in getting that many children to…

  • Last Night at Topsail Island

    Last Night at Topsail Island

    Our last night of vacation we decided to celebrate Fletcher’s birthday. Even though it was a couple of days early, the whole family was there, so it seemed like a good idea. Fletcher certainly thought so: I think what he liked best was the Carvel ice cream cakes that we got for him: The sugar…