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The Elle-est Elle face EVER.

What was the point of holidays before I had children? Take Halloween, for example. I dressed up in some lame (but also super cute) costume, went to a party, ate...candy? Think about it. Enter children. All of a sudden, Halloween becomes a magical day where your children can be whatever their sweet imaginative minds can dream up, when they walk from door to door with the most excited smiles on their faces, asking "twicka tweet?" or some other adorable variation. 

A chocolate chip cookie and a cupcake!

The night before Halloween, we had a party at church. London and Elle ran off with some of the young women to play carnival games, and two of my wonderful friends came rushing over to hold the twins. I ate approximately 7 servings of chili from the chili cookoff contest table, and sampled enough corn bread to feed a large army. Kyle took an insistent London through the Spook Alley, which was, of course, way too spooky for a four-year-old. Mormons know how to throw a party for two hundred people---we all enjoyed ourselves!

A monsoonal rainstorm blew its way into Seattle on Halloween night. Elle and the twins made it to exactly one door before the rain and cold was too much, and we headed back to the cousins' house. I was then in charge of handing out candy to all the trick-or-treaters, while London braved the weather with the help of an awesome Aunt Melissa.

This is a before and after picture of little London- and this is WITH her heavy-duty, insulated rain coat on.

This year, instead of carving pumpkins, we painted them and sprinkled them with glitter! The girls did such a great job.

I hope to look back at this Halloween and remember the 87 times I read "The Very Brave Witch", and Elle losing her mind over the matching "pokie dotchs" on her and London's faces, and the hilarious nose-guessing game we played with our friends, because Halloween with my four littles was actually pretty magical.