Halloween and First Snow

I just noticed Cecil saved a few of the new pics to the computer.   My cousin Katy and her family invited a group of us over for a Pumpkin Carving.  We had yummy food and then went to work on our pumpkins.  I'm hoping we can make that into a yearly tradition.  It was a lot of fun to do together.  Halloween fun, trick or treating in the old neighborhood in our friends limo while cecil handed out candy in the new place.  Then we swapped and he took the boys house to house at the new place while I finished passing out candy.  The first snow was of course magical as always.  Lydia went to work right away on the snowman.  I'm not sure that David and M.J. were really that much help, but it was fun anyway!

Our camera got lost in Moab sometime this past summer and Cecil bought us a new one in the fall, but I haven't had the chance to learn how to really use it.  But it does have pics lots of them on it, so maybe I'll get to that soon.  In the meantime, we had many Christmas Celebrations!  We had a neighborhood party around 60 people (adults only), then we had my dad's final Williams Family Christmas Party, then the Shern Party, and finally the Williams/Shern/VonAllman Christmas Dinner.  Pia is an amazing photographer and sent some pics.  We also drove by some of the houses with lights and music. 

Neighbors

There's this old historic barn a few houses down from us. These are the residents, sometimes they play on our field.

There is beauty all around!

There is a bird sanctuary behind our home and this fall its been amazing to see all the birds migrate thru our neighborhood.

Up on the rooftop!

And in the window well! There's always something interesting happening at the Shern House!
And there's always a kid on some kind of trouble!

Jingle Bell 5k

Here we are doing another 5k!