Summer Fun

July is my most favorite month ever!!! The fourth of July is my favorite holiday and my b-day just so happens to be in this fabulous month. (sorry for the picture overload)

We went up to the Highland Splash Pad for the first time today and the girls loved it!

Ava being Ariel (little mermaid) on the rocks singing

Miss Myla being Ariel on the rocks. She has to have the pose just right and will tell Ava she is not doing it right all the time.

We were invited up to our friends private lake in Salem Canyon. I just brought my little camera so my pictures aren't that great.

We got to take the girls out on a canoe and a pedal boat (Sorry I didn't get any pictures of it)


This isn't a good photo, but I wanted to remember how much Ava loved these swings. If she wasn't already on them then she was bawling for someone to push her on it.


It was so pretty up there

Ava had sand and rocks in places that I didn't think were possible!

I hate that July is already half over. What the heck it just started getting warm and now it is almost over! I am not OK with that!

'Super Capes'

Myla had to get her stitches out today. She was really scared about it and when I told my Mom she came up with the idea to make her a 'Super Cape' so she could be brave!

Of course she had to make Ava one too and she even put their initials on the back. 'M' is for Magic Myla and 'A' is for Amazing Ava.



The cape worked great and helped her to not be scared of the doctor.



Apparently you can still get tired of running around even with a 'Super Cape' on.




Thanks Mom you are the Greatest Grandma Debbie ever!!!! We love you :)

{TKO}

Ava has been loving the kittens a little (a lot) too much lately. We often find her carrying one by the neck or pulling one out from under the couch by it's tail.
The other day was my Bunco night so Chris decided to grill on the BBQ for his dinner. He went out to put the steaks on and Ava wanted to watch him so she got up on the couch to look out the window for him. It only took Chris a couple of minutes, but when he came in he saw Ava on the couch leaned up against the window. He told her to get down and that is when he noticed the kitty. It was in the crook of her elbow being held around it's neck and she had been leaning on it so she could see outside. Chris yelled at her to put it down and when she did it just fell on the couch and didn't move!!! Ava had Totally Knocked it Out!!!! By the time Chris got over to it Wally had started to move and then jumped up and ran away.
I don't know how to make her stop squishing these kittens. She is not allowed to hold them and she can only pet them if we are watching her. The second me or Chris are not paying attention she runs for the kitties and starts loving (squishing) them.

I think I might go crazy telling her to STOP SQUISHING THE KITTENS all day long!

(she doesn't mean to hurt them she just is loving them a little to much!)

Stitches

We had our first set of stitches at the Taylor household yesterday. Poor Myla was riding her princess scooter down the driveway and somehow fell off, did a front flip and landed on her face. I think the screw from her front wheel hit her at some point and that is what cut her so bad :( She got twelve stitches total. There are three inside because it was soooo deep and nine on the outside. The stitches weren't the painful part for her it was the shots to numb her that where horrible!
The nurse numbed her first and then the doctor came in to do the stitches and did two whole stitches with Myla screaming before he said I think the shots have wore off.( I mean really could you not have noticed that the second that you stuck the needle in the first time and she started screaming!) So the doctor had to do a whole bunch of more shots before she went numb.



This picture was from last night after she had come home and taken a two hour nap.

This was from this morning when it started to swell. I didn't get any pictures of it tonight but the swelling has got a lot worse.

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The next pictures are kind of gross. If you get grossed out easily don't scroll down!!!

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Chris took this picture on his phone while we were waiting for the doctor.

This was right after she was finished with her stitches

Hopefully it will heal well and she won't have too bad of a scar from it.

Proud Mommy

We could not be more proud of our little Ava Jean she decided to potty train herself yesterday!!! We thought it may be a one time deal, but she has done the deed two more times today :)

Round Em Up!

We took the girls to their first rodeo at the Lehi Round up. I love that they are finally getting old enough to make taking them places a little easier!

Jamie, Levi and Baby Trigg came up to go with us on Thursday. We sat right by the gates and the whistle was so loud poor Baby Trigg we thought he was going to go deaf!

The highlights of the rodeo for us were the motorcycles the girls are still talking about them. Myla also experienced her first public urination behind the restrooms because the line was just too long ; ) We are definitely doing this again next year!