Our Jones Family Experience

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween 2011

I love Halloween and dressing the girls up, so we always try to do as many events as possible. This year we started over a week early with Trick or Treating on Church Street in Burlington. I only heard of it the day before the event, so we didn’t have all of the make-up or hair dye, but we still went.




Trying on their costumes when we first got them

It was pretty crowded, but the girls had fun. We had to carry Malia because of the crowds, so she didn’t really understand what was going on. She probably just thought we were shopping.


She didn't like her hat

Coming out of one of the stores


After Trick or Treating

Showing off her goodies

My favorite Halloween event is Trick or Treating in the dorms at Norwich. Gideon bought a jester’s mask in Venice that he had been dying to wear. He completed the outfit, and we decided to all dress up.

We went with two other families who have little girls as well. The older girls of course knew what to do and Malia quickly figured it out. By the second or third door, Malia was pushing her way through the bigger girls and taking as much candy as she could get. By the end of the night, Malia was exhausted and she had so much candy she had to drag her bucket behind her.



Malia was not shy about getting candy at all

Hadley showing off her ghost bucket



Helping herself

All of the Jones clowns
The kids at Norwich

After Trick or Treating

We had planned on going to Billings Farm on Sunday for their autumn festival, but the early snow storm put a stop to that. Instead we spent a lazy day at home painting and carving pumpkins. Hadley had a blast, but Malia doesn’t like getting her hands dirty so she wasn’t into the finger painting.


It started out well

Crying because her hands are dirty

She was a little happier with a paint brush


Using glitter paint

Saturday we went to a pirate themed birthday party where Hadley dressed up in her pirate costume from last year. Monday morning when she woke up she announced that she wanted to be a pirate for Trick or Treating that night. She’s inherited a lot of stubbornness from Mom and Dad, so there was no changing her mind. So Halloween night we hit the neighborhood with Hadley the pirate, Malia the clown, Daddy the jester, and Mommy wearing a clown wig.


"Knocking" on the door (more like pounding)


Showing off her candy

Daddy the Jester

She calls this her "silly pirate face"

We had a lot of fun with Halloween and now I am turning my attention to Thanksgiving and Hadley is already talking about Christmas.