Halloween...Jones Style

 

 

 

Halloween was yesterday.  It's over.  For most people at least.  Not at my house though.  The Halloween decorations will probably stay up until it's time to get out the Christmas tree.  Heaven knows that the amount of candy my children received will definitely last until the new year.  (If Sadie stops stashing it in her room for after bedtime that is.)

 

 As is tradition in our family, we hit the pumpkin patch.  This year we went to Bergmann Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch.  They had inflatables, a corn maze, concession stand and of course a pumpkin patch.  The kids had a blast on the inflatables.  Then we loaded up on the hay trailer to go to the corn maze.  After a stop at the concession stand of course.

See this picture below of Sadie.  This was during "happy time" at the corn maze.  Things were great until it was time to choose whether to go left or right.  Cody, Sadie and I followed along in the back of the "Jones Group".  I say "Jones Group" because no one else wanted to be with us.  They all saw Craig, Hanah and Halie with a map running to see who could be the leader at the entrance of the maze.  There were only two options at every turn.  Left or right.  For some reason there seemed to be three different answers.  After half way through and reaching "non happy time", we turned around and came back out of the entrance.  It was time to get pumpkins and head home. 

 



This year I gave Sadie the idea to paint her pumpkin.  She was excited and spent about an hour working on it.  I was amazed.  There will be many more painting projects in her future.

 



 

Cody ended up carving his pumpkin.  He didn't understand why he had to take all of the insides out first.  It just didn't make sense to him.  I think Craig ended up finishing it.  It also took Cody two days to finishing carving his pumpkin.  He's easily distracted sometimes I guess.

 

 

And then there is Ms. Perfect.  She spent hours carving her pumpkin.  If anyone bumped the table she was out for blood.  Who knew she loved pumpkin cutting so much.

 

 

This picture of Craig speaks oh so many words.  He can't leave the kids pumpkins alone.  Every year he has to get involved some how.  He even tried to paint lines on Sadie's pumpkin.  Always a kid at Halloween.

 

 

Hanah the artist designed her own pumpkin pattern this year.  It was cute.  Simple but very good.  Especially since it was all free style.  She's taking art this year and really enjoying it.  I can't wait to take pictures and post some of her work on here.

 

 

Halloween Jones Style.  Pumpkin order is Hanah, Cody, Halie and Sadie.  We hope that everyone had a safe and happy Halloween.