Halloween

This year for Halloween Jim dressed up as Sully

Not bad, pretty close to the real thing!

Colleen dressed up as a witch

We handed out candy to the kids in the neighborhood, and Colleen loved trying to scare the kids by standing in the windown and shining a flashlight up under her chin to illuminate her green face. We even decorated our front porch, as most houses in the neighborhood seemed to have a lot of Halloween decorations!

After handing out candy we went down to the cul de sac about 4 houses down, and joined some of the neighbors in their annual tradition of setting up chairs and a fire pit and having some beers.

Then we went downtown to a Halloween party of a co-worker of Colleen's cousin.

We bought candy back in late September but went through it all, then bought another batch in Mid-October and went through most of that, so when we bought more candy in late October we had to hide it from ourselves so we would save it for the kids on Halloween night! We're glad it's finally over so we aren't tempted to eat all that candy anymore!

Walk for Owen Michael Backer

Two months ago Jim's sister Julie lost her son Owen Michael Backer at birth.  The SHARE Foundation

http://www.nationalshare.org/ supports those who lose a child during pregnancy or the first few months of life.  They had a 5k walk to support their cause last weekend in St Louis.  Since we couldn't make it there this weekend for it, we registered for the walk, got the T-Shirt which included Owen's name on it, and planned on walking the 5k here at the same time as the walk in St Louis. 

We had orignally planned on walking a 5k trail around the lake next to our house, but due to the rain we walked the subdivision because the path would have been too muddy.

We walked the surrounding streets of our neighborhood and while we walked we noticed there was the start of beautiful foliage as the leaves are just beginning to change here in the Peidmont region of NC.

Here is the entrance to our subdivision: