A New Beginning

Say hello to my new and improved blog! Hopefully for the rest of my days, I will stay with this one blog and continue to blog as frequently as I can.

So, here's the deal. I have been an avid blogger for quite some time now, a little over three years now. My previous blog, Simple Pleasures, got me into the blogging hobby and became the solution for me to release all my thoughts through something I love doing most: writing. Plus, my life was and continues to be so interestingly awesome and everyone was and continues to be eager to know what was and what continues to be going on with me! Just kidding. I apologize for the repetition and huge exaggeration in that last sentence. To simply put it, my blog was a way for me to write about fun times during my college days as well as the fun, changing times after I graduated. 

I have now been a college graduate for almost a year and a half now... Don't ask me where the time has gone because I feel like I should still be in college! I miss my good ol' college social life but definitely don't and will never miss the loads of homework, tests, studying and the stress that resulted from all the piles of never-ending homework, tests and studying.

If you kept up with my previous blog, then you know I have been living the grown-up life in Salt Lake for over a year now. I have been blessed with some pretty amazing opportunities here, such as being an intern at Deseret News and writing over 90 stories that can all be viewed online and many were printed in the local newspaper. One was even printed in the national edition! I felt like somebody important when I worked there and loved every minute of working with the most talented group of people. Thanks to the opportunities I had from Deseret News, I was able to land my current job. I'm a marketing assistant at a software development agency known as Digital Trike. I've learned so much from working at this company for the last nine months. I love that I'm able to use my creativity to design, write and blog frequently. Plus I feel pretty special by being in charge of Digital Trike's social media platforms as well as the website. It's been pretty great!

"Kylie! What's all this babbling for? We get it... you have such an awesome life! Why did you start this new blog, anyways?"

Hold your horses. I'm getting there, I promise. But first, I must mention that I am so extremely happy, perhaps the happiest I have ever been in a really long, long time! And it's all because of this boy named Geoffrey. Now Geoffrey isn't your typical, ordinary guy. No siree. He happens to be my best friend, the love of my life and now, after almost seven years of dating off and on, I can officially call him MY FIANCE! I have been waiting a while to be not just engaged, but engaged to this boy. My wedding plans can now actually be planned and executed for real! Geoff and I are pretty giddy to start our life together finally and see where our journey together takes us.

Now that I have released all my energy and excitement from typing that last paragraph (because it's just so, so, SO exciting), I feel like I can now talk about why I am starting this new blog. I'm starting it for two main reasons. The first reason, as you can probably guess, is that now that I am engaged, I'm in a new stage in my life. Once I'm married, I won't just be blogging about "my" life, but about "our" life. Therefore, I feel like a new stage in life deserves a new and improved blog. The second reason is I am wanting to focus more on what I enjoy most, which not only is blogging about fun events but also about designing, recipes, photography and whatever else I decide is interesting to me. This blog will be a perfect and convenient place to store all of my interests.

Also, I am renaming my little Etsy shop "Simply Sweet As Can Be" to match this blog, and am also going to eventually start up a Facebook page as well to post my Etsy printables and advertise them. I think I've filled this one blog post with a little too much excitement, but I love it!

The name for this blog, "Simply Sweet As Can Be," is because similar to my previous blog, I believe life is full of little yet remarkable things we take for granted. The littlest things that can make us the happiest. I mean who hasn't become happy after seeing a baby smiling and laughing, or succeeding at a goal you have been working towards for a while, or biting into a scrumptious, mouth-watering warm cookie fresh from your grandma's oven?

... Side note: If you said to yourself "No, that doesn't make me happy" to to any of those items I just listed, you are banned from reading the rest of this blog post. I'm serious! Scram! Unless you have nothing else to do with your time, then I guess I give you permission to keep reading.

What I'm saying is that the little things are simply sweet as can be. Life can be wonderful if we want it to be. It's all about our attitude and how we view things. Life is also full of surprises and unexpected turns that can make life a little sweeter if we view them with a positive outlook.

I'm a constant planner, a perfectionist and someone who can't fall asleep at night until all my multiple alarms are set so I don't forget anything even though I have them all written down and hardly forget anything anyways. I dare you to say that 5 times fast! But sometimes it's nice to get out of our normal routines and enjoy life's simple and sweet little moments. All we have to do is have faith and hang on to life's crazy ride and remember that wherever we end up, there's a reason for it.

Have you seen the Mormon Message "Moments That Matter Most" by President Uchtdorf? It's been one of my favorite Mormon Messages ever since it came out over two years ago. The talk it came from has a quote that continues to impact me: "We would do well to slow down a little, focus on the significant, lift up our eyes, and truly see the things that matter most." That's the goal I'm going to try to accomplish with the blog.

I hope all my words and reasoning not only made sense, but was worth your time! I also hope you have just as much fun reading my new blog as I'm going to have writing it. I love and appreciate all of my close family and friends that would read my sometimes pointless blog posts about random ramblings and would leave sincere and meaningful comments that just put a smile on my face! Like I said, it's all about the simple and sweet little things :)