PJ Jonas – Page 135 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Sugar and Spice

We had a craft show a couple of weekends ago. It was a pretty day and we had a family date after the show, so we brought everyone. After a while, Indigo got bored of coloring and asked if she could give out free soap samples. Emery set her up: She was really sweet and talked…

June 17, 2010

Crazy Inventions

All of the children are supposed to be sleeping because we have to get up wicked early tomorrow. We have a soap show (Madison Old Court Days) that is an hour away and we have to be completely set up by 9:00 am. Instead of sleeping, Colter just came into the living room so we…

May 28, 2010

Having Dinner with the Gang

Our last night at Disney, we had dinner at the Liberty Tree Tavern. They normally don’t have character dining, but since the Crystal Palace is being renovated, they moved the characters to the Liberty Tree. So we got to share our dinner with some good friends: Mom and Dad’s favorite part was that the…

May 23, 2010

The Sweet Smell of Success

People always think that because we have a soap business, we must smell good all the time. The truth is – sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t. There is a lot of hard work involved with running a family of ten and a business. And when that business involves goats, well there’s quite a bit…

May 23, 2010

Attack!

Jim and the older children were away selling soap at a Bar-B-Q Festival this weekend. I never sleep well when Jim is away, so last night I went to bed early and fell sound asleep. I woke up to being attacked!! I was kinda disoriented so I just yelled for Jim to help (he was…

May 10, 2010

Pretty Princesses

Indigo and Jade decided they wanted to be princesses today: But then it was time for lunch and my messy eaters didn’t want to stop being princesses. So Mommy had to come up with a creative solution. Enter Daddy t-shirts: But the funniest part of the day was…

May 9, 2010

Where Are All the Knives?

I’ve noticed over the past couple of weeks that the spot where all our butter knives go has been rather empty. It seemed peculiar, b/c even when all the forks and spoons were there, the knives were still missing. I finally figured out what was going on. You see, I normally buy our peanut butter…

May 7, 2010

The Hulk

I promised in this blog entry that I would post pictures of the Hulk. Brett took a bunch of photos for me. So, here it is, the Hulk in all its glory: Now, granted I’m short, but this thing is huge. When I stand up inside and put my hands above my head, my fingertips…

May 2, 2010

Kid Crib

While the goat kids are very little, we don’t let them mix with the big goats. This year, Jim created a special kid pen for them outside in the front yard using crib panels that he had scavenged. The kids loved it: It was useful for holding all sorts of kids: I do think the…

May 2, 2010

Kim Possible

This was one of the the kids’ favorite things to do at Disney: Here they are accepting their mission and Secret Agent status and receiving their Kimmunicator: They’ve been sworn in and are now officially Spies (they look it, don’t they): Getting their first assignment: Their mission is going to take…

April 23, 2010

Ohana

Our absolute favorite restaurant of our entire Disney vacation (and this is unanimous) was: It had the most amazing family buffet you can imagine. We didn’t take pictures of the food (because we were too busy eating it), but they brought around huge skewers of the tenderest food ever. My mouth is watering just…

April 22, 2010

Pool Time

Swimming is always a highlight of our Florida vacations. Here Brett is trying to explain to the girls that it is too cold for them to swim: The older children all had a great time: Hewitt put on a brave face despite the fact that he wasn’t swimming: Jade – not so brave a…

April 22, 2010

First Trip to the ER in 2010

If someone had asked me to wager who would be the first kid to need a trip to the ER, I would have guessed Jade. She’s just a menace and into everything. LOL But I would have guessed wrong. I was making dinner yesterday and asked Brett to go cut me some chives from the…

April 20, 2010

Wow, That Really Is Scary

Jim and I were in the living room talking with visitors when the boys started carrying in garbage bags of clothes and dumping them in the middle of the living room floor. What the heck?… Turns out our neighbors were generously sharing a bunch of hand-me-downs with us and were dumping them over the fence.…

April 12, 2010

Flying to Africa

We were having dinner at Boma’s restaurant one night. I was very excited about it because it was an African buffet style restaurant and I couldn’t wait to try some of the food that I’d heard about from our African friends. Boma’s is located at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, so Indigo and Jade decided they…

April 10, 2010