4th times a charm?

Check out the dilated pupil, this was after going in and having the eye checked out.

Two Sundays ago, I was in the mother's lounge with Eli. I was trying to burp him, and talk to Laura at the same time. Eli, in true form, climbed up to standing and started jumping in my lap. As I was deep in conversation one of his flailing arms flung a fingernail into my left eye. Corneal Abrasion #4! (Kailey has gotten me three time with her fingernails, guess I need to wear safety goggles while holding babies). I excused myself from the conversation, and headed to the bathroom to assess the damage. On the way I noticed that the damaged eye was blurry, but assumed that it was because the eye was watering profusely. When I got the bathroom and dried my eye, I realized, much to my dismay that the blurriness was not due to the water. So I went back into the chapel, slipped into our pew, stepped over Joel's mom, dad, and sister (they had evacuated because of Hurricane Ike), and got to Joel to explain the problem. He was the one that reminded me that we have an opthamologist in the ward; Laura's husband, Jeff. Joel and I made our way over to Jeff, and he came out to the hall to take a look. He affirmed that it was a corneal abrasion and called in a prescription for me. I still have blurred vision in that eye, after two different kinds of prescription drops. I'm trying to give it time now to finish healing.

Flour power

Friday started out with a challenge. I was in the kitchen cleaning and Kailey and Eli were in the living room playing (so I thought). The tv was on in the background and Backyardigans were on. As I got to the end of the kitchen cleaning, I thought to my self, "I haven't heard Kailey in a while...Backyardigans is on maybe she has been engrossed in that for the past 15-20 minutes...not likely." I ran to the livingroom. Unfortunately she hadn't been watching Backyardigans.I left some groceries in the livingroom after shopping. I guess I should have cleaned the livingroom first. As you can imagine this took a very long time to clean up. Eli had even crawled over to play in it; both babies were covered in flour. There is still flour embedded deep within my wool rug. If you stomp on it hard enough, flour ever so lightly dusts the hard wood floors. If anyone has any tortillas or pie crusts that they need to roll out, come on over!

P.S. The picture above and a lot of my recent pictures came from my phone, and that's why they are low quality. Expect more low quality pictures : ) It is a lot easier to take pictures with my phone.

I'm not sure what it is about summer, but I have been terribly neglectful of my blog. I am so ashamed, I did not have one post in August! So since the last time that I posted, Eli turned six months, there was a terrible hurricane, Eli started crawling, we went to the beach, and Kailey started dance class. So here is a little time line:

Aug. 1 - Eli is 6 mo. old, weighs 18 lbs. 8 oz. and is a happy, growing boy! Also went to Chili's with some of the girls in the ward for Lisa's birthday, and headed to Barnes and Nobles afterwards for the Breaking Dawn release party (I ♥ twilight series).Aug. 2 - bought copy of Breaking Dawn
Aug. 14 - Joel went out of town for business and I headed to Lake Charles with the babies to hang out for a couple of days with Joel's parents and little sister.
Aug. 15 - When I got ready to leave to go home, Kailey asked to stay, so I let her stay in Lake Charles. I was really nervous that she would get homesick, so I called a couple of times on my way home to check and she was fine. She was so fine that she stayed until Sunday afternoon.
Aug. 30 - Left for Ferriday with Jamie and all of the babies, running from Gustav.
Aug. 31 - Eli is starting to crawl.
To Be Continued...
(I decided that I would do "to be continued" from now on because I have several drafts that I started in the past month or so, and never finished, so if I post part, I will have to go back and post the rest)

Memory Tag

1. Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. I can't wait to see what people remember.

It'll be fun! I tag all of y'all!

Chuck e Cheese?

Yesterday, Joel went to a gun show with a couple of friends. They put a stamp on his hand when he paid admission, it was a big stamp that said gun. So today in Sacrament meeting, Kailey was sitting in Joel's lap and she noticed the remnant of the gun stamp on his hand, and she looked up at him with a look of disgust and devastation and said, "Chuck e cheese?"

For those of you who might not have been to chuck e cheese lately, they stamp kids and parents with the same stamp for security. I was amazed that Kailey remembered that they stamp your hand, especially since we haven't been in about 4 months.

Since she was so devastated that Joel had supposedly gone to Chuck e cheese without her, he told her that we would go tomorrow evening.

some of my favorite pictures from my phone

I've got a few drafts started that I need to go back and complete, but for now I'm just gonna share a few of my favorite pictures from my phone.
A few days before we went to Orlando, Jamie and I traveled up to Winnsboro to visit Aunt Lisa and get me and Kailey a hair cut. This was Kailey's first haircut and she did great. We just had about an inch trimmed off of the bottom.
Clare and her baby Jezebel came and visited in May. I was so excited to meet Jezebel for the first time. She is such a cute sweet baby! Clare, you're cute and sweet too : )

One day Eli kept trying to flip out of his bouncy seat and his car seat. Earlier that day he had tried to flip out of his bouncy seat twice (I got that with the big camera). Then I turned my back for a second to open the car door and he tried to escape from his car seat. Needless to say, I strap him in to everything now.Eli loves to suck on two fingers.

Dathan, Mimi, and Kailey

Eli also loves to stick out his tongue.

This one speaks for itself.
We are dog sitting for Joel's parents this week. Kailey and Izzy were bonding earlier today on the couch. It has been kind of fun having a couple of extra dogs around.

The other Holly Bonnette

One day I recieved an email that had a reservation for a rental car, and I had not reserved a car...I immediately assumed the worse, identity theft, stolen credit card... I decided to be rational and try to get to the bottom of it. So I started by calling the rental car company and cancelling the the reservation. I tried to get some info out of the car rental people but wasn't very sucessful. Then the idea came to Joel that there might be another Holly Bonnette. So he googled my name and came up with a myspace for another Holly Bonnette in Texas, who was about my age and married to a guy named Anthony Bonnette. Luckily her profile was public so we sent her message asking if she had recently reserved a rental car. We put my email address and our phone number. Later that day we got a call from Holly. I apologized to her about the cancellation and we talked for a while about ourselves and our lives. It was very interesting. It turns out that her email address is very similar to mine so the rental car company had just entered it wrong. Since then I have gotten emails from her coworkers and have forwarded them on. We have communicated through email a few times since then.