finding the right balance...

image circa 2009.

One big key to a happy life is finding a healthy balance in everything we do. I am sure we are all working on being better at this, I know I sure am. I started this blog as a way to stay connected to my family back in San Diego while I attended school at the University of Utah. I rarely used it, I think I have about five posts from back then? haha

It wasn't until I got married that I really started using my blog. I thought it was such a fun way to document your life, and a way to share what we were up to for family and friends that didn't live nearby.

Sometimes I have blogged a lot, other times not so much. Usually that was reflected in what was going on in my life. I pretty much stopped blogging for two months when I was finishing my Bachelor's degree and getting ready for graduation, and recently I didn't blog much because I was searching for a second job. I feel like I have always been pretty good at prioritizing what is important. Real life needs to take priority over the blog.

While this blog started off as a personal family blog, it slowly transitioned into a representation of posts that reflected my interests. It has transitioned into many different things over the years - sometimes I feel like it is constantly changing. This doesn't necessarily bother me, it is my space for creativity, however lately I have been feeling a pull towards a more balanced, simplified lifestyle. Going back to the origins of what this blog was supposed to be all about. Maybe you noticed that last week.

I have always enjoyed style and fashion, and have truly benefited personally from exploring my personal style on my blog. I feel like I have really come to know my style, something I feel I wasn't really aware of before I started blogging. I don't plan on taking fashion related posts completely out of my blog - I mean, lets be serious here I LOVE clothes :), but I do feel like my personal style posts are something I have explored, benefited from, and that I have completed that chapter.

I want to transition back to the origins of this blog. It is supposed to be about the "crowley party" - a blog about me and my husband and our life together. I will still post and share about my interests on my blog. I just feel like right now it is a blog about my interests with a dash of my family, and I want it to be the other way around. I want the main focus of my blog to be about my family, and then have my interests and passions sprinkled in between it all.

I feel like the changes will be pretty subtle and nothing too drastic, you will just see more of me and trevor on the blog like it used to be. My blog has taken so many twists and turns over the last couple years, and I appreciate all of you who come to read the thoughts I have, and the pictures I share.

So here is to going back to where it all started. A personal lifestyle blog about me and my husband and our life. We think life should be enjoyed, and we think life should be a party! :) You can stick around if you want a taste of that.

 

roller coaster.

via pinterest.

I haven’t posted that much this week, sorry about that. Things have been a little hectic here at work, and with Trevor embarking on Finals. Every once in awhile I get into what I like to call a "blogging funk." A blogging funk is where I step back and realize there is something not aligning up the way I want it to when it comes to my blog and blogging.

I remember earlier this year I was so swamped with school before graduating that I had NO spare time. Keeping up with my blog became too much, and doing it because I "had" to took the fun out of it. So I stopped blogging for two whole months. I re-charged and came back after the stress of the end of my Bachelors Degree. I just needed that break.

This time around it isn't a break that I need, but more of a direction. This blog started out as a place for me to document about my life, the everyday even mundane things that Trevor and I do together. It was intended to be about my family and for my family. Along the way, I got sucked into the creative world that blogging can bring. Fashion, Crafts, Design, and must say, I love all of it. However... I think I have lost a bit of the true intent of this blog. I still will and want to post about fashion, and the creative things I am apart of... but I want to blog more about me and Trevor again. I really feel like that aspect of the blog has been missing for awhile, and I want to change that.

I guess you could say I feel like I am in blog limbo land right now.

Blogging can be like that, well life can be like that. You think you have a direction and you hit a high, or a low and it can leave you confused. I wouldn’t say I am confused, I know what I want to do, and I just need to implement the changes.

I have been trying to simplify my life, and I want to bring that goal into to my blog as well. So expect some changes around these parts in the near future. Nothing major, just trying to stream line all of ideas. I am excited to have some more simple organization to my blog, where I can have a better balance of all the things I love about blogging and my blog in particular.

I want to “do it all,” without losing the balance of all the things I love, without losing myself in it. So please be a little patient with me in the next week or so :) Cheers!