YOU'RE THE JUDGE!
Their noses pressed to car windows, Kim Mobley's children marvelled at the rows of houses glowing with decorations.
Candy canes, snowmen and reindeer twinkled from spectacular garden light displays.
There were Santas and sleighs on rooftops.
Stars and snowflakes draped across the tree-lined street.
It was a neighbourhood tradition in Blackhawk Bluff, Jacksonville.
Families travelled for miles to admire the festive light display on Girvin Road.
Just like Kim and her children.
Empty silence
Only in December 2018, the mood in the car was sombre.
‘Laughter was replaced with silence,’ Kim said later.
Because someone was missing.
Iyana Sawyer, Kim's 16-year-old daughter, who'd left school at lunchtime on 19