PJ Jonas – Page 129 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

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…

November 7, 2010

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…

November 6, 2010

Herb and Flower Gardens

With winter coming, it’s time to say goodbye to my herb garden til next year. One of the best parts of having a perennial herb garden is knowing it will return. Here are some photos of my herb garden with lots of weeds and live purple flowers: Here it is freshly weeded and mulched (and look,…

November 4, 2010

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…

November 4, 2010

Autumn on the River

One of the first festivals we ever sold soap at was Autumn on the River in Bethlehem, Indiana. It’s this little town right on the river filled with very friendly people. It’s our last outdoor show of the season, so sometimes the weather is nice and sometimes it’s not so nice. Fortunately, we had a…

November 2, 2010

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.

November 1, 2010

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: …

November 1, 2010

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…

October 31, 2010

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…

October 29, 2010

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…

October 28, 2010

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…

October 28, 2010

The Green Screen Clean Team

We met today with our videographer to work on our facebook video. It was the first time the children (or Jim and I for that matter) have ever worked with a green screen. It was really fun watching the children “act”. They’ve all been on camera and tv before, but it was always just doing…

October 27, 2010

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…

October 26, 2010

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…

October 24, 2010

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…

October 24, 2010