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...
View ArticleThanksgiving 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...
View ArticleGrissom 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...
View ArticleOur Thanksgiving Weekend
The following is a guest post by Brett (she had so much fun writing yesterday’s post and I have so much work to do, it was a win/win). PJ We had the best Thanksgiving ever. And don’t try to tell me...
View ArticleAlmost Christmas
We love the fact that our business is growing. But it has interfered with some of our Christmas traditions. At the very least, it has pushed many of them back from the first half of December to the...
View ArticleUlterior Motives
Everyone around here always loves Christmas. But this year, Brett, Cole, and Emery got really excited about it. Most of their gifts were very altruistic and something the receiver would really desire....
View ArticleThe Day After Christmas…
…was a Sunday. We go to a home church on the Sundays that we are free. On the day after Christmas, one of the moms planned a play that everyone had got to be a part of. Emery was Joseph and Hewitt was...
View ArticleSilly Boys
Last night, I had the following conversation: Fletcher: “Mom, who won the silverware?” Me: “What?” Fletcher: “The silverware – who won it?” Me: “Fletcher, what are you talking about?” Fletcher: “You...
View ArticleNot Our Destiny
We were driving someplace new earlier today. Fletcher noticed that something was different on Nuvi (our GPS). There was an ORANGE flag instead of a black and white checked flag to mark our destination....
View ArticleQuiet On The Set!
Today we did a lot of video filming! We filmed 2 Valentine’s Day videos, and 1 mailbag video. We have some really funny videos coming out. The Soaper Bowl should be done tonight – I can’t wait to see...
View ArticleFootprints
Since we did our handprints in the concrete at the soaproom, Mom wanted us to put our footprints on the barn’s porch. (Mom also suggested we do butt prints on the porch of the house, but Dad said no....
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Fletcher!
Fletcher turned 13 on July 12th. With that momentous event, I now have as many teenagers as I have non-teenagers. Yikes! Good thing my teenagers are all pretty awesome! Normally, we have breakfast...
View ArticleColorful Bedrooms
When they painted our bedrooms, we were that much closer to living in our bedrooms. We still needed carpet, lights, switches, trim, doors, and a whole lot more, but the rooms were very colorful. Which...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Sourdough
About a year ago, Jim and I went to San Francisco without the children. I have always loved sourdough bread, so while we were there, we purchased several loaves to bring home with us. The children...
View ArticleKids Cooking – Sourdough Pancakes
If you’ve been following this series, you know why sourdough is healthy, how to feed your starter, and how to make sourdough bread. Now it’s time to share what we do when we have too much starter. We...
View ArticleGoat Collars
We mentioned the new goat collars in the post about our goat photoshoot, but we didn’t explain why the collars all look different, and why that’s important. When we were talking about getting collars...
View ArticleAsk A Jonas – Fletcher’s Thoughts On Homeschooling
We get asked lots of questions when we’re doing farm tours, selling soap at craft fairs, or simply running errands. Since most of those answers are heard only by the person who asked, we decided to...
View ArticleAsk A Jonas – Do The Kids Like Their Unique Names?
We get asked lots of questions when we’re doing farm tours, selling soap at craft fairs, or simply running errands. Since most of those answers are heard only by the person who asked, we decided to...
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Visiting Clifty Falls State Park
A month or two ago, Mom decided that we’d never been to Clifty Falls State Park, and we had a free day, and by golly, we were going to finally go to Clifty Falls. Going to this park has been on Mom’s...
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