9.30.2010

{Barbies}

Mattel recently announced the release of limited-edition Barbie Dolls for the Greater SLC market. (I may or may-not find these ridiculously funny...but I love everyone!)

*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.


*Draper Barbie*

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


*Kearns Barbie*

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


*East Bench 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.


*Riverton 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 and a Hank Williams Jr. CD set. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free.


*Emigration Canyon Barbie*

This collagen injected, rhino plastic Barbie wears a leopard print outfit and drinks cosmopolitans while entertaining friends. Percocet prescriptions available as well as newly built high rise condos.


*Tooele Barbie*

This 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 Butler 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.


*The Avenues 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 Avenues Barbies and the optional Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag bumper sticker for free.


*West Valley 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 Barbie*

She's perfect in every way. We don't know where Ken is because he's always at church meetings.


Just as a little side note---A few weeks ago I was helping a cute little two-year-old boy named Lennon, and his mom at Primary's. I didn't notice but Lennon had dropped his toy and started screaming and crying his head off. His mom finished signing something and reached over to get it and it was an Edward doll. She just said he really loves the Edward doll and wonders if it's a sign of things to come.


It was really REALLY funny.

I hope this made you smile :)

-J

9.25.2010

{Das Vedding Photos}

YAY! They finally got here! I have been waiting (patiently might I add) for TEN WHOLE WEEKS for these babies. I was so excited when our photographer called me and told me they were done so I ran right over and got them. I think she did a fantastic job on our groOomal pictures so I was really excited about these. Perfection!

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Ok so this is the entire reason (ok, not entire but a huge part of) why I went with Elton Photography. When I was looking for photographer I saw this pictures and I LOVED it. I'm not sure why, must be my love for sweet trees or something. Just know I'm blowing this picture up and it's going in my living room.

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I don't know what was so funny. But Eric looks so cute in this one :)

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Doesn't he look like a giant in this one? I like it.

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Here's everyone that stayed for pictures. I love these people!

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The Daniels' side of the family. And no my sister is not older than me, but she is taller.

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The Taylor's. Everyone is so photogenic!

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This is my bf Natalie. She seriously saved me that day. Around ten thirty the night before I realized I didn't have any flowers for the temple (DUH Jocelyn, DUH) so I called Nat and she said not to worry about it, she'd take care of it. Where did she get these? I have no idea, but I was so happy to have some for pictures after the temple. Top Notch Nat!

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Here comes some more collages, hope you don't mind, I just can't help myself. Here are some little details from the reception. My flower lady was the best, she did a super great job. Short story---well two--- First, when my mother-in-law Liz and I went to the flower lady's house I was IN LOVE with her decor. She had a chair just like this and a succulent window box like this...I knew she was fabulous. I am obsessed with zebra print- no idea why.
Anyway, second- she called me one day, about a month and a half after we had placed the order for the flowers and she was panicked. She told me that the berries I wanted as a part of the centerpieces were not going to make it from South America because they were having a rough season and suggested some grasses from Georgia. I bit my tongue really hard trying not to laugh. Maybe she thought I was a bridezilla or something but I really didn't care. I had no idea she was getting the flowers from other countries. It was so nice that she was really concerned about what I wanted for the wedding. I don't know, it just made me giggle. :) Nice lady.

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The cake turned out well. I imagined the apples on the bottom a little differently but it still looks great :) A little side note--does anyone need a 'T' cake topper? I have no idea what to do with it.

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Cutting the cake. Eric and I had previously discussed not shoving the cake in each other's faces. Well...when the moment presented it's self, I took it. I didn't really shove it ALL over, just kind of on the side. He was a little miffed :)

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Here are some VERY cute kids at the reception. They all should most definitely go into modeling.
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Well there were a TON of pictures and I didn't really know what else to do with them and didn't want to bore you with talking about all of them so they are on a slide show *sorry for the dumb ads :) So feel free to turn on some tunes {I'd suggest this or a little of this} and enjoy!






-J

9.16.2010

{Bibbidi Bobbidi BACON!!}

Last Saturday we took a little trip to the exciting little town of Wendover. (Please insert eye roll here) We love Jim Gaffigan so we found a great price on tickets on KSL to see him live. It was so funny-- we laughed our heads off! All of the material was new, and he did do a little Hot-Pocket deliciousness so it was a great.


-J

9.06.2010

{Juan Mayer & Shoes}

This past week was legend-ary! Well I'm probably over exagerating, but it was a pretty good week. On Tuesday Eric and I went to the John Mayer Concert. I must confess, I have a bit of a crush on John. I know he is kind of a jerk in real life---not I really know him, but some of the things in the media make him seem like he would be---anyway, I am just in love with his music. Every morning on my way to work I generally listen to him, and he just puts me in a good mood :) Lucky for me it's dark outside when I leave and I can blast it and do some great car-dancing moves without worrying about strange looks from people at stop lights.

To start out the night, Eric and I went to Jimmy John's for some dinner. I love this place---it' SO good. >>Just a side note, there is a JJ really close to our house, but they only deliver to 1st Avenue! We live on 6th Ave, bummer. It's probably a good thing though, otherwise I'm sure we'd be eating it like twice a week or more.


(I'm so proud of myself for figuring out how to make these little collage thingies. I probably will overuse them for a while, but they're just so cool)

The concert was at Usana. I told Eric I was going to blog about this (hence my picture taking, I'm just trying to get better) so he was doing some kind of 'model pose' in these pictures of us. I don't know what this weird smile is, but we probably took like 6 pictures of us and he did this little smirk in all of them. What a weirdo :)


Finally!! A normal smile!


Owl City was opening for Johnnie-Cakes Mayer and during their performance Eric and I were playing fashion police. *more on this in a bit

Then it was John. Ah! It was so fantastic! He is so great live and I really enjoyed his little conversation in between songs. He played Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, which is definitely one of my top five favorite songs and it was amazing. This is a break up song, and it was really funny watching people really 'slow dancing' to it.

He also played Heart of Life. Every time I hear this song it makes me tear up!



So...Fashion Police. During Owl City Eric and I were having a great time people-watching and 'Tim Gunn-ing' (aka 'commenting') on some weird clothing choices. *Side note>> E and I love to watch Project Runway, hence the Tim Gunn reference. It's a very addicting show, I'm sure there will be more post on it later>> When John Mayer came out, we just kept thinking WHAT IS HE WEARING?! He had some flood pants on and a weird wind-breaker jacket. One of those ones that you see in an LL Bean Catelog on some grey-haired man that likes to fish. Anyway...I'm SO happy he brought it up in between one of his songs. He says 'this is not the fashion of a guy in a relationship. Obviously I dressed myself and I have no taste.' It was a great intro to his song Perfectly Lonely, which is about being alone. :) And it definitely gave his outfit some justification.

Our seats at Usana were on the grass so we brought one of our minky blankets and got there pretty early to get a good spot. We sat down and thought we had a pretty great view....then the people in front of us decided to have a party ON OUR BLANKET! It was making Eric really mad, so I took some pictures :) I think I have some curse in that where ever I sit at an event and isle is ALWAYS right in front of me. We started just putting our legs out to kind of block the way, but generally people just jumped or kicked us. The little party the kids were having on our blanket was pretty funny. People were actually straddling Eric's legs to be part of 'the circle'. (Why do people form circles? It's kind of a funny thing to think about) This one girl in particular was almost digging her shoes into the blanket. She had awful shoes. I'm sorry if you have shoes like this, I bet they just looked funny on her feet. Very Carol Brady. *Please notice Eric's legs, as he refused to move them at all*

Speaking of shoes......
AHH!!!!! Shape-ups shoes!! The past week at my yob I saw this lady who was wearing this great 'faux exercise' shoe....but took it to another level. She had on the shoe with some tights and a dress. Tennis shoes dress up--it was great. It really made me laugh :) I hope someday I see someone where these to work, or to church. It would really make my life.

AquaMan called...he wants his look back!
I probably should have prefaced this post by telling you I'm probably the worst person to critique any fashion. I have an afinity for cardigans and skirts these days and wish I could own everything from Anthropologie/DownEast/JCrew. And I pretty much I only wear flats and flip flops. So footwear is a mystery to me :)
More to come. xoxo
-J

8.29.2010

{October 10th cannot come fast enough!!}


I am sooooo EXCITED!! I'm a very frequent flyer to Target stores and am so excited they are opening a new one close to my house so I don't have to drive to Centerville. :) This is such a dumb post, but I'm just skipping around with excitement.
Yes...I need a life.
p.s. Eric is just as excited as I am. Just less skipping.
-J

8.22.2010

{Snatchin' your people up}

So I'm sure some of you have seen this but it's SO funny (and stuck in my head at the moment)

Ok....you have to watch this. I feel kind of bad laughing but it's just too hilarious!

Now this.

Catchy right? When I showed it to Eric he couldn't believe it was real so he looked it up and it is 100% the real deal. And you can actually buy it on itunes.

Top notch Antwon Dodson! Top notch!


-J

8.20.2010

So....

Hello blogging world...we're BACK!!!

WOW time has gone so fast and I can't believe it's the end of August already. It seems like I just wrote about the Proposal and now Eric and I have been married almost two months! It's nuts! In my head I have so many blog posts planned so hopefully I'll be able to catch up will all of them. And hopefully I will be able to blog more frequently than I have in the past...it's just a work in progress. I love reading everyone else's blogs I figure I better take my turn :)

ANYWAY....


How about some photos?


Eric and I were married on Thursday, July 1st and it was an absolutely perfect day. I couldn't have asked for anything better than to marry my best friend in the Salt Lake Temple so I can be with him forever. It was such an amazing and beautiful experience! I'm so happy family and friends could be there to share the day with us and it meant so much to see everyone that came to the reception. We are incredibly blessed with wonderful people in our lives.

I don't have the photos from the actual wedding day at the Temple and the reception yet, but I will be getting those soon from the FANTASTIC photographer and will definitely post about them too. Here are some from the 'groomals' (Eric hates that word) that were taken at Thanksgiving Point.


We were scheduled to take these pictures at the beginning of June and I was so SO excited about it. I took the day off and I had gotten my hair done and my makeup was looking great, etc. etc. and as soon as we got to The Gardens it was like a TORNADO! Seriously the weather was great the whole day up until we got there. I was REALLY upset--probably more so because I was really stressed out and still had a ton to do for the wedding and was excited to check something off my massive list. Oh and I really wanted to wear my dress :) --but luckily the photographer was able to reschedule. We ended up taking them only a week before the wedding!



(A short story on these flowers---- I didn't like them. But our photographer made them look great in this pictures. The end.)

I like big butts and I cannot lie.... :)


I really like this one :) But of course I'm biased.

I'm really excited for the pictures from the wedding to come. The reception was beautiful and I want to see all the little details!
Well there will be more posts to come so stay tuned!


-J

2.01.2010

The Proposal minus Sandra Bullock (Jocelyn's version)

I thought I'd post my side of the story, and Eric did such a good job I'm just going to add my little comments to his. I will admit I'm embarrassed at the length of time it took me to catch on that he might actually be proposing to me. So please forgive my missed signals, I assure you I do catch onto things (well most things). Enjoy...


I actually purchased the ring after having gone with Jocelyn and she approved of a ring **please look to the bottom for a pic of it. GORGEOUS!! So sparkly and perfect ** I selected but I kept her in the dark and said we would still keep looking around. I was planning on proposing before Christmas but because of technical difficulties I was unable to. I can't believe he had the ring this long and I had no idea. Maybe I just need to be more snoopy.


After about a month of trying to figure out how I was going to do it I landed on an idea that I thought was pretty good. After some more thought I tweaked the idea and made it more my own. And it was perfect!


The week that I planned on doing it I told her that we were going to go ring shopping after we had a nice dinner and suggested that we dress nice just for fun and a change of pace. (I love to dress up) She agreed and didn't seem to think anything of it. Incident of clueless Jocelyn #1


So Saturday came and I hit the ground running. I got a haircut and got prepared for the big night He looked great :) and the next thing I knew I was on my way to pick up her favorite food from the restaurant that I used to work at. I had the nervous butterflies in my stomach but I felt really good. When I picked up the food I was mauled by the people that worked their asking me why I was dressed up and then congratulating me and asking questions about how I was going to do it. Their reactions boosted my confidence.


Anyway, so I had lined the counter in my kitchen with about 30 of those little tiny candles and prepared some Jon Schmidt to listen to while we ate. I borrowed a nice table cloth from the neighbors and got out my mom's nice china and cleaned up all nice. My family helped by lighting the candles and setting the table (oh yeah, there was three more larger candles on the table). It was SO cute! Incident of clueless Jocelyn #2. I just thought he was being really romantic.


I picked her up and she looked absolutely beautiful *blushing* Aww thanks and I was so happy. We arrived at the house and when she saw the candles she said that it was way cute. It smelled like smoke a bit but it ended being ok. My favorite comment came when we sat down to eat, Eric says "well there's nothing like eatin' in the almost dark!" baha When she saw the type of salad that was on our plates she knew what was for dinner and was way excited. Baked Penne, it's SO good. As a matter of fact I could really go for some right now. hint hint ET


We enjoyed our meal and the music and just each other's company it was wonderful. When we finished we retired to the front room where I had put my acoustic guitar. Cluesless Jocelyn incident #3. But in my defense he has played for me many times before so I just thought he was serenading me before going shopping. I had prepared three songs for her that are pretty perfect in my opinion I agree I'll share what they are and some lyrics:


Here In Your Arms by Hellogoodbye


Our lips can touch

and our cheeks can brush

and our lips can touch, here.

Where you are the one the one who lies close to me,

Whispers, "Hello, I've missed you quite terrible."

I fell in love in love with you suddenly

Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms.


Yellow by Coldplay I don't know what is is about this song, but I just love it


Look at the stars

Look how they shine for you

And everything you do

Yeah, they were all yellow

Your skin

Oh yeah, your skin and bones

Turn into something beautiful

You know, you know I love you so

You know I love you so

I Won't Spend Another Night Alone by the Ataris


If I had one wish this is what it would be...

I'd ask you to spend all your time with me,

That we'd be together forever.

We'd buy a small house in south central Salt Lake

Raise lots of kids then we'd both join a gang

Just as long as we're together.


During the first song she started to cry and I almost lost a bit there. I started to cry because I love watching Eric do what he loves to do, and he's very good at playing and singing. He loves music and so do I and that makes me happy. So it was a happy kind of cry. Yellow is one of her most favorite all time songs and so she really started to cry after that. It was awesome. :)


When I finished I said, "I know that we said no gifts (for Valentine's and such since we are poor) but I got you something." In my mind I'm thinking 'oh no, what am I going to get him now.' This could probably be Clueless Jocelyn #4. So I pulled out the gift and gave it to her. It was WAY heavy. She almost immediately knew what it was for when she began unwrapping it. I bought her some scriptures and had them put "Jocelyn Renae Taylor" on them for her name when we get married. It gives me butterflies looking at it. And the scriptures were a great choice as well. Green and Shiny. By this time I had a feeling of what was coming next. It was a good 5 seconds that I wasn't clueless. While she was opening it I had grabbed the ring from behind a couch cushion and I was already on both knees and I got onto one and asked her to marry me. She said yes. It was so perfect! The way he proposed couldn't have been better and I'm so excited! July 1st!!


Awesome? I think so. And I agree. Awesome is an understatement.

This pictures doesn't do this ring justice. It's so pretty! I'm constantly looking at my hand and smiling every time.

I'm way excited for this blog too. We'll try to be better about taking pictures and stuff so stay tuned....:) And fun wedding ideas or suggestions are always welcome!

xoxo J

1.31.2010

The Proposal Minus Sandra Bullock (Eric's Side of the Story)

Ok, here goes nothing.

I actually purchased the ring after having gone with Jocelyn and she approved of a ring I selected but I kept her in the dark and said we would still keep looking around. I was planning on proposing before Christmas but because of technical difficulties I was unable to.

After about a month of trying to figure out how I was going to do it I landed on an idea that I thought was pretty good. After some more thought I tweaked the idea and made it more my own.

The week that I planned on doing it I told her that we were going to go ring shopping after we had a nice dinner and suggested that we dress nice just for fun and a change of pace. She agreed and didn't seem to think anything of it.

So Saturday came and I hit the ground running. I got a haircut and got prepared for the big night and the next thing I knew I was on my way to pick up her favorite food from the restaurant that I used to work at. I had the nervous butterflies in my stomach but I felt really good. When I picked up the food I was mauled by the people that worked their asking me why I was dressed up and then congratulating me and asking questions about how I was going to do it. Their reactions boosted my confidence.

Anyway, so I had lined the counter in my kitchen with about 30 of those little tiny candles and prepared some Jon Schmidt to listen to while we ate. I borrowed a nice table cloth from the neighbors and got out my mom's nice china and cleaned up all nice. My family helped by lighting the candles and setting the table (oh yeah, there was three more larger candles on the table).

I picked her up and she looked absolutely beautiful and I was so happy. We arrived at the house and when she saw the candles she said that it was way cute. It smelled like smoke a bit but it ended being ok. When she saw the type of salad that was on our plates she knew what was for dinner and was way excited.

We enjoyed our meal and the music and just each other's company it was wonderful. When we finished we retired to the front room where I had put my acoustic guitar. I had prepared three songs for her that are pretty perfect in my opinion I'll share what they are and some lyrics:

Here In Your Arms by Hellogoodbye

Our lips can touch
and our cheeks can brush
and our lips can touch, here.
Where you are the one the one who lies close to me,
Whispers, "Hello, I've missed you quite terrible."
I fell in love in love with you suddenly
Now there's no place else I could be but here in your arms.

Yellow by Coldplay

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
You know, you know I love you so
You know I love you so

I Won't Spend Another Night Alone by the Ataris

If I had one wish this is what it would be...
I'd ask you to spend all your time with me,
That we'd be together forever.
We'd buy a small house in south central Salt Lake
Raise lots of kids then we'd both join a gang
Just as long as we're together.

During the first song she started to cry and I almost lost a bit there. Yellow is one of her most favorite all time songs and so she really started to cry after that. It was awesome. :)

When I finished I said, "I know that we said no gifts (for Valentine's and such since we are poor) but I got you something." So I pulled out the gift and gave it to her. She almost immediately knew what it was for when she began unwrapping it. I bought her some scriptures and had them put "Jocelyn Renae Taylor" on them for her name when we get married. While she was opening it I had grabbed the ring from behind a couch cushion and I was already on both knees and I got onto one and asked her to marry me. She said yes.

Awesome? I think so.
Sorry it's so long.

Our Blog

Hello There,

This will be the Eric and Jocelyn Taylor Family blog. We got the title from the movie "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. Which I thought would suck but decided to give it a chance and loved it. It's pretty much just when someone says, "you're cute" or "I love you" you say, "me too.... but about you." Make sense? I hope so. I hope that we'll do much better at keeping up with this blog than we have our personal blogs. We will be getting married July 1st in the Salt Lake Temple.

We have made a goal to take more pictures so we are going to do that. Starting with our engagement we're hoping to take a picture every day. Here is an old one because we failed to take one on our engagement day. Sorry!