Because I Want You to Be as Happy As I Am Right Now

Today we went to a Halloween party. The younger three children dressed up. Thanks to Lydia and her dress-up box, I had to spend neither money nor effort on their costumes. Megan wanted to be an angel, and Lydia had a perfect white poofy dress for it. Megan was thrilled. And then she saw that there was also a silver star wand. So Megan is a fairy. Emma is a 50's girl. She still wants me to try to put together a Kit (the American Girl Doll) costume for the school party next week, but I'm thinking that I'm going to try to talk her into staying with the 50's costume. I'm thinking that promising her that she can wear make-up might just do the trick. Sam is wearing a gallabeya--traditional Egyptian clothing--that belonged to Lydia's son. All of them are very cute, but I will confess that Sam in his costume was my greatest source of joy today. Irrational amounts of joy, really.

Kevan snapped a couple of pics of the be-costumed ones on our way out the door, and I took several pictures of all of them at the party, but wasn't really happy with how any of the pictures I took came out, so I figured I would just wait until next week to show you their costumes. I hadn't seen any that Kevan had taken...until tonight when I emptied my camera onto my computer and started looking through the pictures.

There was one shot in particular that just cannot wait until next week. I have to share it right away so that you can have an even better day than I hope you are already having.

Now my joy is complete: