Utah Barbies

OK, so as a little girl, I LOVED Barbie's! I'm not kidding you. I lived and breathed Barbie, they came everywhere with me (along with all the accessories, furniture, etc) For instance, When my family went to the cabin for a couple days, i brought every Barbie item that i owned with me. I would spend weekends at my friend Raquel's house and we would play Barbie's the WHOLE weekend...the ate with us, slept with us, if we needed a "break" we would take them to the "drive-in" and watch a movie with them. Ha ha, looking back on it, i realize what an out of control 13 year old I was. And yes, I did play with them when i was that old!
Anyway, so I got an email from my fellow, former Barbie loving cousin, and I couldn't help but make a post out of it! So here you go...enjoy! (and for the record, if any of these dolls were actually real, i would buy each and every one of them!)


'Park City Barbie'
She comes with an assortment of Kate Spade Handbags, a Lexus SUV, a long-haired foreign dog named Honey and a million dollar home. Available with or without tummy tuck and face lift. Workaholic Ken sold only in conjunction with the augmented version.


'Smithfield Barbie'
The modern day homemaker Barbie is available with Ford Wind star Minivan and matching gym outfit. She gets lost easily and has no full-time occupation. Traffic jamming cell phone sold separately.


'Ogden Barbie'
This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, a Ray Lewis knife, a Chevy with dark tinted windows, and a meth Lab Kit. This model is only available after dark and must be paid for in cash (preferably small, untraceable bills) unless you are a cop, then we don't know what you are talking about.


'Bountiful Foot Hills Barbie'
This yuppie Barbie comes with your choice of BMW convertible or Hummer H2. Included are her own Starbucks cup, credit card and country club membership. Also available for this set are Shallow Ken and Private School Skipper. You won't be able to afford any of them.


'Malad (should be in Utah) Barbie'
This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too small, a NASCAR t-shirt and tweety bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has a six-pack of Bud light and a Hank Williams Jr. CD set She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullet-haired Ken's butt when she is drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free.


'St. George Barbie'
This collagen injected, rhino plastic Barbie wears a leopard print outfit and drinks cosmopolitans while entertaining friends. Percocet prescription available as well as newly built high rise condo.


'Brigham City Barbie'
This tobacco-chewing, brassy-haired Barbie has a pair of her own high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased beer-gutted Ken out of Tremonton Barbie's house. Her ensemble includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, and a see-through halter-top. Also available with a mobile home.


'Logan Barbie'
This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair, arch-less feet, hairy armpits, no makeup and Birkenstocks with white socks. She prefers that you call her Willow. She does not want or need a Ken doll, but if you purchase two Boise East End Barbies and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag bumper sticker for free.


'Tremonton Barbie'
This Barbie now comes with a stroller and 2 infant dolls. Optional accessories include a GED and bus pass. White boy Gangsta Ken and his 1979 Caddy were available, but are now very difficult to find since the addition of the infant.


'Provo / BYU Barbie'
She's perfect in every way, mainly due to the high levels of antidepressants in her system. We don't know where Ken is because he's always at church meetings.

before we were who we are.

oh man. we've had too much fun on www.yearbookyourself.com. Just take a look at Ryan and I back when we were in "high school"

"5" post

As I was looking at other peoples blogs tonight, I found a fun tag so I've decided to tag myself and Ryan, I'll put my answers first, then Ryan's. And also, anyone who feels the need/want to "tag" along (now pun intended, haha) then go ahead and post this too! It's a fun one!

What were you doing 10 years ago?
Anna: I was 10 years old, in 5th grade
Ryan: just barley had become a teenager, a way cool 13 year old!
Anna: my best friend Emily and I were the tallest girls in our class
Ryan: my best friend was my cousin Wade
Anna: I loved beanie babies.
Ryan: I played soccer, which sport I now despise.
Anna: I was positive I was going to marry Andrew Morris, and we would have all our kids names start with "A"
Ryan: I got sent home from school for getting in a fight
Anna: I had a perm
Ryan: I won the "6th grade Cedar Ridge Lunch Time Inter mural Championship"

Name 5 things on your to do list for the weekend
Anna: Vacuum the house
Ryan: go to Alex and Danielle's wedding
Anna: go grocery shopping
Ryan: pray that the 49er's will beat the New York Giants
Anna: buy tickets to Thriller for Monday night
Ryan: play my PS3
Anna: go the the Davis wedding (yes, you officially be the Davis Family when you guys read this!)
Ryan: help my wife with chores (i think he felt guilty after i told him my to do list)
Anna: clean out my car
Ryan: get some sleep (not that bad i guess...haha)

5 snacks you enjoy:
Anna: Kettle Corn
Ryan: Mt. Dew
Anna: Diet Coke (i know it's a drink, but i consider it a snack)
Ryan: Oreo's in milk
Anna: for this season, Candy Corns
Ryan:chocolate Chex Mix bars
Anna: store bought frosting from the tub
Ryan: kettle corn
Anna: Peanut Butter M&M's
Ryan: brownies and ice cream

5 things you would do if you were a billionaire:
Anna: go to a spa, for a whole entire day!
Ryan: buy a MLB team
Anna: take a vacation to some private tiny island (like the one in Breaking Dawn for you Twilight fans)
Ryan: buy my wife a Range Rover (i didn't tell him to put that)
Anna: buy a new wardrobe
Ryan: drop out of college
Anna: pay off our debts, put money away for Ryan's physical therapy school, then save the rest
Ryan: pay off debts
Anna: buy a big house and decorate with things that are not from clearance centers/sale racks
Ryan: buy a new house with a bowling alley in it

List 5 bad habits:
Anna: Popping my fingers, toes, hips, neck, back, ankles, etc....
Ryan: bite my fingernails
Anna: Speeding (it's a much better contained habit now)
Ryan: drink Mt. Dew late at night
Anna: slouching, I need to improve my posture badly.
Ryan: procrastinate doing all my homework
Anna: pulling split ends
Ryan: play too much PS3
Anna: scratching my ears with anything my nails, a bobby pin, a pen...
Ryan: crack my knuckles

List 5 places you have lived:
Anna: Ogden, Grandma's house, North Ogden, Snow Hall, Island Apartment, New Apartment (six places in two cities)
Ryan: San Jose CA, North Logan UT, MTC in Provo UT, Dallas TX, Mt Pleasant TX

5 jobs you've had:
Anna: cleaning my neighbors dental office
Ryan: painted classrooms at Sky View High School
Anna: Golden Corral
Ryan: painted USU campus housing
Anna: Pointe Theatre
Ryan: remodeled Wild Heart Western
Anna: Great Harvest
Ryan: Physical Therapy Aide
Anna: Impact Payment Solutions
Ryan: the greens mower at Logan River Golf Course

What would you like to be doing in 25 years?
Anna: (I'll be 45) I'd like to be the coolest mom on the block, and still living the newly wed happy go lucky life with my hunka burnin lovin husband!
Ryan: (I'll be 48) I'd like to own my own Physical Therapy clinic, have season tickets to a professional sports team, watch my sons play high school sports (not soccer though), have my wife still be smokin' hot. and that's it.

camera

this is how i feel.
ok. so I've had a new camera for a couple months now, and I KNOW that I'm not using it to it's full potential. It's a Canon Powershot SX100 IS. I've just spent the last hour trying to look up any helpful tips or instructions of how to use it better, but all I've done is mess up the setting terribly and now I don't know how to un-do what I've done.

So, if anyone out there (i.e. photographers...Kylie if your reading this...) knows anything that might help me out, or anyone that would be willing to save a confused girl, then feel free to go ahead and leave a comment or give me a call.

I got this camera so I could pick up a new hobby, I've always been interested in photography, but I'm getting more and more frustrated and my hobby is not developing because of it...HELP!

quarks

it's taken me awhile to get to this tag because i have been thinking it over very carefully until i had my top 6 quirks picked (there weren't many to choose from...ha!) so what this post is, is 6 of the weird quarky things i always do:

1. Things must be organized! When I get home from work all I really want to do it relax, but somehow I always find things that “have” to be picked up ASAP. For instance if there is one bowl in the sink, I end up cleaning the whole kitchen, while I’m doing that I’ll find a paper that needs to be put away in the file upstairs, so I end up re-organizing the whole file, then the room that it’s in, etc.

2. When I watch “my” shows (Grey’s Anatomy, The Biggest Loser, America’s Next Top Model) I go into a zone where I will not be disturbed, everything else in my world is put on hold for that hour, I ignore my phone, the Internet, sometimes even Ryan, poor guy, he still loves me though!

3. When we eat out at restaurants I always order something that comes with fries, and if it doesn’t come with them, then I substitute something for them. I figure that I can’t make them at home, so I might as well enjoy them while I’m out.

4. I have to wash my hair everyday. Some people can go a day or two before they wash it, but I feel like a complete slob if I don’t, I have naturally oily hair so I feel very self conscious of it if it’s not cleaned every day. (this is one of my quirks that I wish I could do without, it’s quite the nuisance.)

5. I set my alarm 10-15 minutes before i need to get up. As the alarm is going off I don’t even press the snooze, I know it will go off again 5 minutes from then, so I just lay in my comfy position listening to it until I’m awake and know that I can’t procrastinate the shower any more. Ryan hates this one, haha. (also my alarm tone is one of the most annoying songs in the world, it came with the phone I got from my friend “This is the way I live, big boys still hitting somethin’ somethin’, got my money lay low and chill…”

6. I always always always wear earrings. When I was little my parents wouldn’t let me get my ears pierced until I was 12, and I always felt so homely and boyish without them, so once I FINALLY got them pierced I subconsciously always made sure I had in earrings so I wouldn’t look like a boy, and it’s stuck with me and I still do it.


ok, so now that you know all about me and my weird ways, it's your turn! i tag anyone who wants to share their deeps dark secrets with the blogging world!

TAGGED!...about ryan

1-What is his name: Ryan Orrin Doyle

2- Where did you meet? Our friends set us up, some people I knew were on the baseball team with him/dating people on the team...

3- How long did you date before you were married? 4 months

4- How long have you been married for? 1 year

5- Who said I love you first? Ryan

6- When and where was your fist kiss? We were at his apartment on our 3rd date and we watched Pursuit of Happiness

7- Who kissed who first? He kissed me

8- Who proposed? Ryan

9-What's your favorite thing to do as a couple? we LOOOVE watching The Biggest Loser! If it is a Tuesday night at 7:00, don't bother trying to get ahold of us, we ignore all phones/doors/internet....we love it, and we will not be distracted. (those of you who have attempted getting us to do something on TBL nights know what I'm talking about) also, we love going on trips, relaxing (taking days off to hang out together), etc. oh yeah, we like baseball, just a little bit. :)

10-Do you have kids? How many? none.

11- What does he do that surprises you? my favorite surprise is when I get home from work and all his dishes from lunch are already in the dishwasher, haha! Lame, I know. But my real favorite surprises are just fun dates and nights out doing something out of our normal routine.

12- What's your favorite feature about him? hmm, I like his blue eyes. and i like his deep voice.

13- What's your favorite quality about him? I love his quick wit. It's fun to have a random conversation with him and see what kinds of comments he comes up with...it always makes for a good laugh! also, he never does things "half way" if he is going to do something, then he'll give it 110%.

14- Does he have a nickname for you? we both call each other beby. he also calls me wife, or wifey (not in a mean way though, it's cute)

15- What's his favorite color? Red to look at, Blue to wear. We've had this conversation a million times and he can never quite make up his mind.

16- What's his favorite food? barbeque chicken pizza

17-What is his favorite sport? everything, if i had to name top three, i would say #1 baseball, #2 football, #3 basketball

18- What's a hidden talent that he has? i think that everything he does is a hidden talent! haha, anytime that we both try
something new, he is SO much better at it than I am, like mini golf...everything on the WII....I don't know, those are kind of boyish things anyway, but he still is way good at them

19- How old is he? he'll be 23 on Oct. 10

20- What do you admire most about him? His patience. You might not think it, but he can take a lot before he really gets pushed over the edge, I don't have much tolerance for some things.

21-What's his favorite past time? active past time: playing baseball, lazy past time: playing Madden with Kevin, preferably on Kevins PS3

22- Who eats more? He does

23- Who is taller? He is 8 inches taller.

24- Who sings better? neither of us

25- Who is smarter? Ryan. but only cause he's still in school...haha!

26- Who does the laundry? both of us

27- Who pays the bills? we both do

28- Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you are looking at the bed then I do

29- Who mows the lawn? Ryan did, when we mowed the lawn, but now we don't have to at our new place.

30- Who cooks dinner? I do, Ryan helps if I ask him though

31- Who drives? Ryan

32- Who is more stubborn? we're a very stubborn couple. I'll leave it at that.

33- Who has more friends? Well we both share our friends

34- Who has more siblings? we each have 3

35- Who controls the T.V. remote? whichever one doesn't have the computer, haha. funny rules..I know.

36- Whose temper is worse? Ryan's temper only comes out during sports, so i never have to deal with it. So in the actual relationship I guess I have the worse temper.

37- Who does the dishes? Ryan

38- Whose parents do you see more often? We see them both pretty often, but Ryan's parents are closer, so probably them (when they aren't on the road)

Okay, now I tag Kirsten, Julie, Kristen, Natalye

new background

so ryan has been telling me for a long time now that our blog was too girly so we just changed it up a bit to be (as ryan would say) more uni-sex, so i hope you all enjoy it, we love it! have a greet week!

updates!

ok everyone, i haven't blogged in two weeks, and i just uploaded a month's worth of pictures to my computer, so i have EIGHT (yes, count them...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 88888!) updates today! so read on fellow bloggers, and ENJOY!

...random

ok so this is really random, but we saw a deer in the front yard! Ryan was out mowing his parents yard and he came into get me and was like "HURRY COME ON, COME ON!!!" it was awesome! but then a bird starting pecking at it and made it run away....wow deer can jump high and quick!

lusting after my long locks

so i just put some new music on my blog as you've probably noticed. so for about the last ten minutes i've just been listening to it and staring at my page (i know i know, how bored am i!) and so i've been staring at the picture of ryan and i on the beach (right above) and it is making me miss my long hair the more i stare it. so i had to stop staring, and start posting. so...i guess that's it. i just want my hair to grow! i'll start pulling on it now since i've gotten so desperate! haha!

my current failure

ok, so i'm not really a negative person. but lately i've been looking at blogs that are SO cute, so i decided to change mine up. little did i know that it would delete all my links to different blogs. so i've gone through my comments and added some back in, but as for those of you who have never commented on here (shame on you) i don't have your website anymore, so just comment in this and i'll make sure to add you...i promise you have not been forgotten!

four things about me

A) FOUR PLACES I GO OVER AND OVER
1 work
2. the gym
3. ryan's parents
4. my parents

B) FOUR PEOPLE WHO E-MAIL ME:(THE MOST):
1. mom
2. ryan
3. kevin
4. overstock.com, and target.com

C) FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:
1. strawberries
2. grilled anything
3. molten chocolate cake from Chilis
4. fries :)

D) FOUR PLACES IN WHICH I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. on a cruise
2. watching ryan's baseball games
3. watching ANY baseball game
4. shopping with my friends

E) FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1. Top Gun
2. Serendipity
3. 101 Dalmations
4. Clue

my husband :)

What is your Husband's full name: Ryan Orrin Doyle

How long have you been together: Been married for 7 1/2 months

How long did you date: 4 months from first date to wedding date! :)

Who eats more: probably Ryan

Who said "I love you" first: Ryan did. and when he did the only response i could come up with was "really??"

Who has more speeding tickets: me...sorry!

Who is smarter: Ryan. he doesn't even have to try i swear. he just magically gets A's, i love it!

Who is more sensitive: for sure me. i cry over everything! even commercials. pretty sure i've only seen him cry once.

Who does the laundry: we do it together. once a week. but Ryan likes to take charge and do it.

Who does the dishes: He always does all the dinner dishes, other than that, I do.

Who sleeps on the right: Ryan.

Who pays the bills: We do them together.

Who cooks dinner: Me. But Ryan helps out anytime i ask him.

Who drives when you are together: Always Ryan.

Who is more stubborn: we both are very stubborn. we don't like to give in to each other...but usually one of us caves in after awhile.

Who kissed whom first: Ryan kissed me, and i laughed because i was so giddy and happy, and then he was scared to kiss me again for a couple dates, haha! he thought i was laughing at him, i felt so bad!

Who asked out who first: he asked first.

Who proposed: Ryan did. it was SO cute! he made a photo album of all the places that meant something to us (first date, first kiss, etc.) and the last picture was of the bench we were sitting on, and he asked "do you know what this one means" and then he said "it's where i'm going to ask you to marry me" then he got down and his knee, it was ADORABLE!

What are his hobbies: baseball, baseball, and baseball. we play the WII, watch baseball, work-out, and did i mention baseball?

When did you first know you loved him: after our first date. i came home and knew i just wanted to marry him and never date anyone else again. i loved him at first sight!

What do you love most about him: I love how sweet and thoughtful he is. He shows it in his own individual way and i love it. I love it when he hugs me, one hand is behind my back, and the other holds my head against his chest. I love it when he kisses my forehead. I love it when we listen to the radio and he'll change the words of the song to make up a cute song for me. i love it when he sets the alarm 10 minutes early so we can cuddle before we get out of bed. sometimes when we are both in the kitchen, he'll all the sudden start dancing with me and singing random songs, and i love that. pretty much i love everything he does! he's prefect, and i love that!

What is his best quality: everything about him is his best quality!

wild heart western

Last Thursday, Danielle and I went with Kim (my very very favorite mother in law!) down to Baby Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center to model clothes from her store on the Valley Channel (a local channel here in Cache Valley). It was so much fun! The hosts of the show were so cute, they talked to Kim and asked her to describe what we were wearing...and it was just a really fun new experience, we had a blast!

new shoes!

don't worry everyone...the shoE problem has been solved. AND best of all, it was a buy one get one free sale where i got them, so not only did i replace my FAVORITE shoes, but i got another pair for free! and on top of that i had a gift card to that store, SO i got both pairs for $15!

i guess that suffering through my pink shoe trama turned out for the best :)

my sad shoes.

so...there's a story to this pitiful little picture of my favorite shoes. here it goes:

now, not everyone understands the attachment i have to these shoes. i got them last spring, and i wear them almost every single day. they're not only the most comfortable shoes i've ever owned, but they also matched EVERYTHING! they were white with a tan toe and just absolutely a classic "anna shoe". so since i wear them everyday, i haven't ever washed them though because obviously i'm to antsy to wear them again so they wouldn't have time to dry out....so flash-forward to this past weekend, i went home to my parents house and brought all of our laundry with me. my parents recently bought a new washer which is INTENSE! it's a front loader with tons of setting, and beepers and might as well have bells and whistles too! so anyway, since i was there for three days, i figured once all my laundry was done i might as well wash my very very very favorite shoes, since they have gained a lot of dirt on them (they weren't quite white anymore). so i put them in on the 'sanitize' setting. why not right! well, after a TWO HOUR wash, and some really really really hot and steamy water...i opened the washer. and this is what i found.

apparently there was some (and when i say some, i mean A LOT) of red dye in the sole of the shoe. so they turned pink....yeah yeah yeah, i know what you're thinking "why not still wear them, just with pink clothes or something." well i can't. the hot water shrunk them down about a whole size.

SO conclusion of my story. my favorite white 7 1/2 size shoes are now hot pink size 6 1/2 shoes. and i'm not very happy.

if you know anyone who could give my shoes a good home, let me know, until then, they'll sit on my bedroom floor and make me sad every time i see them.

embarrassed ....

so i just want all of you that check our blog to know that i'm a little upset that you all saw my horrible spelling error in the title of our web page and never told me....i've fixed it now to say "a glimpse of us"....but it has said "a GLIMPLE of us"

so to all of you who a got a good chuckle out of my mistake, i'm upset with you for not telling me!

just kidding i love you all!

A B C's about me!

A: AGE 20

B: Band listening to right now: well it's not a band, i'm actually listening to "Tiger Woods" on the WII while Ryan plays

C: Career Future: future?...i just wanna be a mom :)

D: Dad's Name: Dean

E: Easiest person to talk to: Ryan

F: Favorite song: Lollipop, by Mika

G: Gummy Bears or Worms? worms! the sour ones!

H: Hobby: cooking

I: Instruments: none, i know it's sad.

J: Job: Underwriter for Impact Loans

K: Kids: nope.

L: Longest car ride ever: well we just got home from a 13 and half hour drive from Tucson.

M: Mom's name: Julie

N: Number of boyfriends/girlfriends: um, 4 real boyfriends

O: Olives: yum!

P: Phobia: Spiders

Q: Quote: "just keep swimming, just keep swimming" - Dory on Finding Nemo.

R: Reason to smile: it's 12:30 and i'm still in my pajamas with no rush to go anywhere

S: Song you sang last: "I can't wait to see you again" by Mylie Cyrus. probably the most annoying song i've ever heard.

T: Time you wake up: on weekdays: the alarm is set for 6:50, but i don't get out of bed until around 7:10. and on weekends...whatever time my body wants to get up!

U: Unknown fact about me: i hate leaving bubbles in the sink after the dish water is drained out. i have to rinse the whole sink until it is completely empty of all bubbles and soap reminants. :)

V: Vegetable you hate: squash and chard.

W: Worst habit: scartching (or as Ryan would say...digging) in my ears.

X: X-rays you've had: arm, ankle

Y: Yummy food: chocolate molten cake from chilies

Z: Zodiac sign: Capricorn