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  • Happy Birthday, Brett

    Happy Birthday, Brett

    Brett started to write my blog tonight, but decided last minute that she couldn’t blog about her own birthday. So I’m just going to share her birthday photos: My baby girl is growing up!  

  • Grissom Air Museum

    Grissom Air Museum

    When we travel places, we always try to visit something in the area where we can learn something new. It’s the homeschoolers in us. On our trip to Pennsylvania, we had intended to take the children to tour the Hershey chocolate factory. Unfortunately, we were so sick, all we wanted to do was get home…

  • Thanksgiving Play

    Thanksgiving Play

    You’ve seen our professionally produced Happy Thanksgiving Video. Now you get to see our personal family Thanksgiving play. This play was written by my children and directed and produced by Brett all the Jonas children.  It features my children and many of their cousins. Notice that while Brett enjoys producing and directing, she does not…

  • Tangled, the Movie

    Tangled, the Movie

    We’ve had a lot of family staying with us for the Thanksgiving weekend. All together there are 17 cousins staying here. We took everybody into town today to watch Disney’s Tangled in 3D. The children were all so excited about the movie (and their glasses): I had fun getting them to pose while Jim took…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

     

  • St. Louis Arch

    St. Louis Arch

    As a homeschooling family, we always take every opportunity to explore cool educational things. My brother is stationed near St. Louis, so when we went to visit him last year, we had to visit the St. Louis Arch. The children (and Jim and I) thought it was amazing, and we were very psyched to go…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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)…