PJ Jonas

Tag: Video

  • The Best Part of Homeschooling

    The Best Part of Homeschooling

    The best part of homeschooling (to me) is that my children have time to explore their imaginations and be creative: I personally feel this is so much more important in their early years than sitting at a desk and learning to repeat facts.  Creativity leads to problem solving and problem solvers will always be needed.…

  • Top Ten Reasons to Like GMS

    Top Ten Reasons to Like GMS

    Several weeks ago, we worked with Dustin at Cool World Productions to put together a video in front of the green screen.  It is finished and you can see the final video!  We made a similar video specifically for Facebook. We’re all really pleased with how it came out and have already watched it about 100 times.…

  • Jonas PE Class

    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…

  • Autumn on the River

    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…

  • Who Is Scaring Whom?

    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.   

  • Barrel Racing

    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:                    …

  • YOU’RE Not Allowed…

    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…

  • 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…

  • Ocean Love

    Ocean Love

    I didn’t have my new camera when we went on vacation (bummer).  But I did manage to get some fun videos of the children riding the waves. Jim helped the younger children learn to ride waves and even got to ride some himself: Did you like Hewitt’s wipeout? The few times they weren’t in the…

  • Jade Loving the Ocean

    Jade Loving the Ocean

    Everyone absolutely adored being at the ocean. But Jade was beyond cute playing at the water’s edge. She was just so happy: So happy that she couldn’t help dancing: She keeps asking me when we’re going back!  

  • Fishing with the Crew

    Fishing with the Crew

    I grew up on an island and did all sorts of water activities – boating, water skiing, fishing, clamming, crabbing. It was great and I miss it a lot. So, when we went on vacation to the ocean, I had to take the children fishing. Since they’re still young, I didn’t want to take them…

  • Blowing Bubbles

    I never finished blogging all of our vacation photos, and the children have been asking for them, so I’m going to try to get them up. My mom had gotten all of the children bubble wands and we broke them out on a windy evening. They had so much fun with them.      …

  • Poison Ivy

    Poison Ivy

    Emery keeps getting poison ivy on his feet. We don’t know how he keeps managing to do it, but he does. We’ve washed every pair of shoes the kid owns, and he still will get it periodically. So I’ve decided to make a poison ivy soap. Jewelweed is the best plant for fighting poison ivy.…

  • Time for the Beach

    Time for the Beach

    It’s time for the beach!! First priority, suntan lotion: Once everyone is covered, it’s time to head to the ocean.  Here are a couple of shots of Colter enjoying the sand and sun: And then a shot of Colter not enjoying the sand in his face (which was his own fault for doing pushups on…

  • Good and Bad of Youngest Rule

    Good and Bad of Youngest Rule

    Jim hates long hair, especially in the summer when it’s so hot. He also hates it when the boys get scruffy looking. But haircuts would be on his list for weeks before he finally got around to them (he’s a tad bit busy). So he invoked the youngest person rule (the youngest person capable of doing…