PJ Jonas – Page 118 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Happy Birthday, Hewitt!

Hewitt turned seven today! After over 10 years of use, our birthday crown died (and Mom hasn’t made another one yet), so the boys made Hewitt a birthday crown from his “I Can’t Walk” tracks. I thought it looked goofy, but he seemed to really like it. Greyden and Emery made him a lemon poppy…

August 14, 2011

Amazing Purple Berries

We grow a lot of berries, but one of our favorites that we grow is elderberries. Elderberries are really good for you and great for your immune system. They aren’t very sweet, so Mom puts them in smoothies and they taste really good in pancakes. (Especially if you pick out all the stems!) We like…

August 12, 2011

Helping Out

A couple months ago, Mom gave us a special treat and took us to Taco Bell for lunch. As we were leaving and loading up the Hulk, we heard a huge crashing sound. We turned around to see a beat-up car at the curb, debris littering the road, and a bunch of cars stopped. Mom told me…

August 9, 2011

Will We Make It?

Remember when I surprised everyone with a trip to the Red River Gorge? During that trip, we drove the Hulk: The Hulk is 8 feet wide by 9.5 feet high by 22 feet long. In other words, it’s huge. While we explored the Red River Gorge, we discovered the Nada Tunnel. The tunnel was cut…

August 7, 2011

Puppies, Puppies, Everywhere!

Did you know that we once got to “babysit” dogs for a few months? Yep! We took care of two Great Pyrenees dogs – Alex and Shelby. Great Pyrs are livestock guardian dogs for the goats. But we just liked to play with them. Unfortunately, they also like to roam, and our 3 acres weren’t enough…

August 6, 2011

Massage Therapy Gone Wrong

Jim has been making lots and lots of soap lately. In fact, he recently broke two records. First, he made the most soap ever in a single day on July 30th. Second, he made the most soap he’s ever made in a single month during July. That’s the good news. The bad news is that…

August 5, 2011

Indigo’s Promotion

Many of you who have been following my blog for a while, will probably remember our “youngest person rule“. Well, in keeping with the spirit of this rule, Indigo just received a promotion. She is now in charge of printing the postage for all the outgoing orders. The way it works, is that I put…

August 5, 2011

Goat Milk Stuff is Moving

Currently, Goat Milk Stuff is located on 3 acres in Charlestown, Indiana. We do it all here – raise & homeschool our 8 children, breed & milk dairy goats, and make & sell goat milk soap. When we purchased this home, we did not know that we were going to have a thriving business here.…

August 1, 2011

Chocolate!

Ms. Gretchen showed up the Monday after Easter with a bag in her hand. She opened the bag, and pulled out first one chocolate bunny and then another! She explained that the smaller one was for the girls, and the larger one was for the boys. (The egg was for Mom and Dad). Boys: (After…

July 13, 2011

My Brother Hewitt

Mom just discovered this video on the video camera. Apparently Hewitt found the video camera at some point and decided to make a video. He shares a little bit about his life. Then he talks about how many brothers and sisters he has (and our ages). Then he walks you into his room. It’s…

July 11, 2011

Happy (Late) Birthday, Emery!

I can’t believe Emery is 11. I (sorta) remember when he was born! Normally we wear a birthday crown on our birthday, but we couldn’t find it, so Emery wore this instead: Emery tried to pick Colter up instead of hugging him: He gave up: Not everyone gets…

July 8, 2011

What Happened To Your Hair?!?

We were going to go out one evening, so I got the girls ready in pretty dresses (that they picked out) and did their hair. I came in a little while later to discover this: Me: “WHAT happened to your hair?!?!?” Indigo: “We fixed it!”

July 7, 2011

Wet or Dry?

Greyden really enjoy cooking eggs for everyone for breakfast. The only problem is that some of us like our scrambled eggs “dry”. And some of us like them “wet”. So they make them twice. First Fletcher makes the “dry” eggs: Then Greyden makes the “wet” eggs: In the end, we…

July 6, 2011

Meet Greyden

When Greyden was a baby, we called him “fat and happy”. He’s outgrown the chubby part, but fortunately he’s kept the happy part. He’s an incredibly hard worker and mostly works with a big smile on his face! Get to know Greyden better and what he does at Goat Milk Stuff by watching his video.…

July 6, 2011

Dyed Eggs

We haven’t dyed Easter eggs in a long time. But this year, Mom surprised us and bought eggs for us to dye. Now, that might not sound like a big deal to some of you, but she didn’t buy just a couple of eggs. She bought 8 dozen eggs!! That was a dozen for each…

July 5, 2011