In the Clouds

Max Lucado, in his book "God Thinks You're Wonderful" wrote:

"(God) could have left the world flat and gray...but He didn't.

He splashed orange in the sunrise, and cast the sky in blue...

Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers, 'Do you like it?

I did it just for you."

We get pretty nice sunsets here in Rexburg, but this one was

particularly nice. When Travis saw it through our living room

window, he said "Look! We have to go outside and take pictures!"

And so we grabbed our cameras and our coats and ran outside. We

both love photography, so we had fun taking several shots. Then

we held each other and just stared at the beauty of it. I'm so grateful

to our Heavenly Father for creating such a beautiful world for us to

live in.

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Here's to Phil

Those of you who are familiar with the history of Holloway family automobiles will appreciate and understand this simple, yet monumental milestone. Some of you may know that we were given a car by John Reed, Jenny's dad, shortly after we were married. This gem you see below is that very vehicle. Not much to look at, you may say. While that may be true, the car does run and that's really all we care about. It runs and runs and runs and keeps running and is still running 280,000 miles after it first hit the asphalt. Not bad for a 1990 Geo Prizm.
In the Holloway family, as most of you know, we try to keep our cars until the wheels fall off. And it is to all those beautiful pieces of machinery that I dedicate this post. To the first green truck, and the yellow beast that most of us learned to drive stick on, that popped out of first gear, didn't have a handle to roll the window down, and whose truck bed was rusting out... We musn't forget Big Blue, the deisel suburban that Mom and Dad traded in for $1 and still graces a lot in Blackfoot with its presence. And last but most certainly not least, good old Phil. I don't think anybody who heard Phil sing could ever forget that van. What a trooper.
I don't know how many miles we put on those cars but it was in number, not a few. So to follow the Holloway automobile legacy, we share with you our milestone moment with our beloved geo.
Here's to Phil.

On the Mend

As most of you know, I have had mono for the past 3 weeks. This, besides being a major pain, has been the main reason that there have been few posts from us lately (since I am the primary poster and haven't felt well enough to really post, or more importantly, do anything post-worthy). At any rate, I am FINALLY on the mend, with only a (very-itchy) rash left as a residue of what I now believe is one of the most evil/brutal viral diseases one can contract (aka mono). I wish it on NO ONE, and hope very much that I don't get my sweetie sick. I just wanted to let you all know that I am doing much better, and that I returned to work on Monday, so things are going pretty good for me now. Thank you all for your prayers, advice, and kind words. They were much appreciated!! And thank you Travis for taking SUCH good care of me; you have been my nurse and my angel throughout the past 3 weeks, and I LOVE YOU!!!

Pumpkin Carving Fun!

The Monday before Halloween, we had
Travis' parents, and brother Tyler, as well
as our good friends Bart and Shantyl over
for FHE. We ate mamma Holloways
delicious chili and pumpkin roll, and then
carved dad Holloways home grown pumpkins!
It was so nice to have them all over. We're glad
to have them live nearby.

Here's the gang getting started on their
pumpkin creations.



Here is Trav getting our pumpkin started. We
decided to carve our pumpkins together (which
turned out to be really nice when de-gooping came
around). I think we make a good team. =)

Our friends Bart and Shantyl working on their
pumpkin. Bart is going to school to be a dentist,
so we teased him that pumpkin carving would
be good practice for his future career.

And here are our pumpkin creations:
a happy pumpkin face (notice the
pumpkin top eye brows, tombstone
eyes, and witches hat nose. We thought
we were being pretty creative)...

A view in the dark: (they look so
much better that way!)

And a racoon in a pumpkin (this one
was NOT our design, but I thought
it was really cute so we did it).

After crafting our pumpkins, we placed
them outside our door for the trick-or-
treaters to enjoy. Pumpkins galore!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!