Snails

Our little girl loves to play in the dirt and where there is dirt there are bugs. I bought her this little bug catching kit from the dollar store and it was one the greatest $1 investments I have made, besides the sidewalk chalk. She has taken every adult in her life on a bug catching walk around our circle and has come home with some pretty fun stuff; grass hoppers, spiders, box elder bugs, potato bugs and one night we found this snail. This picture is one of my absolute favorites!!

Taylor let this snail crawl all over her for hours. She was absolutely intrigued by this creature she had never seen before, in real life that is.

She was trying to figure out what those 'sings are pokin out mom'?
She ended up putting her snail in the pockets on the front of her shirt and the snail of course left it all slimy and we took her shirt off, that is why she is naked in these next photos

And then she took her new friend on a drive around the yard. One of the most entertaining nights this summer

Taylorsville Days

The last time I was in a parade was High school, until this Summer. Susan and Rex have this amazing carriage that is pulled by the beautiful Betsy and asked me and Mollie to join them. It is way more fun to be in a parade as opposed to watching them! Taylor, Mollie and I threw candy to the kids watching the parade and I'm not sure who had more fun Taylor or Mollie.

Taylor entertaining her self while Sue Sue was getting Betsy ready

And there she is, Painted hooves and all!!

After the parade we had some lunch and then headed to the carnival which is at the park just walking distance from our house. Taylor had so much fun riding all the carnie rides and we had fun watching her excited face! You could definitely tell which rides she enjoyed and which ones she could have lived with out. The giant slide has always been a fave of mine so I usually offer to take her on this one!

I was worried about this roller coaster. I really thought it would jerk her around too much and scare her, boy was I wrong! She was a little startled the first time it jerked around but the second time she just giggled and had to go on it three more times before we could leave!!
We ended the night with a huge bbq for our great friends the Millers! Brigg and Becky have their birthday about a week apart and so we invited over friends and family and BBQ'd, chatted with friends, and watched fireworks! Oh we also had a tribute to MJ that night too ;)